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Franklin Arthur Judd

6 Nov 1897 – 2 Mar 1987

Birth6 Nov 1897
Death2 Mar 1987
CemeteryStratford Cemetery
Stratford , Sherman County , Texas , USA
Added byBob Fleming on 22 Apr 2007
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19035587

Bio

Franklin Arthur Judd was born in Redfield, Bourbon Co., KS. According to his parents, Elias Wampler and Ollie May Welker Judd, Frank was born 6 Nov 1897. When he got older, the government said he was born in 1896. When you asked him a question like "How old were you when you got married?" he'd say, "Well, I thought I was 17 but the government said I was 18." He grew up in Nebraska from around age 3 to age 13, close to Chimney Rock. The government made a canon and wanted to try it out. They trained it on Chimney Rock, when it hit the rock 70 feet of the top fell off. He began drawing when he was a kid. After he was grown, he took up painting and did some nice pictures. He painted a picture of the homestead dugout of his wife's parents and theirs as well.' Frank most memorable Christmas was when he was a little guy. He and his cousins got a stick horse & a little horn. They "galloped their horses through the house tooting their horns" until their parents finally made them go outside to play. Elias Judd's health wasn't good, and they thought he would feel better in California, so when Frank was 13 they loaded up and left Nebraska. The went to Hooker, OK to visit the relatives there before going on. After spending some time there, Elias felt so much better they stayed in that area. Frank had met the girl of his dreams in the year 1914 when he went to meet some neighbors. (They all lived West of Hooker, OK & East of Campo, CO. probably they were in the OK Panhandle.) When he first laid eyes on her, she was 13 years old sitting on her mother's lap. When Mary Margaret "Maggie" Hubbard was 15 and Frank was 17, he set out one day to see her. They took a buggy ride and he proposed. As they chatted about their love and their future, the horses just kept walking. When they looked up and realized where they were, they were almost to Hugoton, KS. Frank had to really whip those horses to make them cover that same country back to get Maggie home in time. Frank and Maggie lived in a dugout about 8 mi NW of Texhoma. Their first three children, Arthur Edwin, Albert Leroy, and Mildred Louise were born there. Their last child, Robert Elias, was born after they moved to Stratford, but he only lived a couple of months. When Elias Judd moved to Stratford, they bought 1/2 section 9 miles east of town. His son Frank traded his 1/4 section 8 mi NW of Texhoma for the other 1/2 section there. Later Frank bought Elias' 1/2 and Elias moved to Texhoma. It took Frank 22 years to pay for that. Frank was one of the few men who didn't borrow money for groceries in the winter during the depression. He farmed in the summer but trapped and hunted during the winter. He always said he made enough from his furs that he could buy a year's supply of groceries and put in a crop. Frank enjoyed traveling & was always ready for a trip. When his grandson married, they borrowed his car for their honeymoon since neither of theirs were terribly trustworthy. Frank stood on the porch of the Church & looked down at his car being decorated. He said, "Look what they're doing to my car & I don't even get to go!" Frank and Maggie worked together when they were young. Frank had severe headaches, so later Maggie would take some handwork with her and go with him wherever he went to make sure he got back home alright. In 1964, Maggie passed from this life. Frank, whose health hadn't been all that great, lived another 23 years. He eventually moved in with his daughter, Mildred and Paul Aduddell. During the last year he moved to the Coldwater Manor where he died 3 March 1987.

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