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Henry Green Harvey

31 Dec 1887 – 3 Nov 1974

Birth31 Dec 1887
Death3 Nov 1974
CemeteryMuleshoe Memorial Park Cemetery
Muleshoe , Bailey County , Texas , USA
Added byMrs. J on 25 Apr 2011
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52732616

Bio

From Tales & Trails of Bailey County, the First 70 Years, Taylor Publishing Co, Dallas, TX 1988 Henry G. and Maud Harvey visited her family at Spur in the summer of 1922. While there, they learned that some of the ranchland of Bailey County was going under the plow. H. G. Harvey, J. H. Johnson, and J. W. Odom drove to the area for an on-site visit, and to inquire about its farming potential. One motivating factor was the annual threat of the boll worm to cotton production in the Texas Blacklands. H. G. Harvey and J. H. Johnson made a down payment on a block of land and prepared to move their families from Ellis County as soon as the crop could be harvested. The Harveys moved family, furniture, equipment and livestock by train, arriving at the Sudan depot December 12, 1922, and continued by wagon to the Baileyboro community. The registration of Clara, Lois, Roger and Clark at the one-room, one-teacher school increased the enrollment ot thirteen pupils. The teacher was Miss Edith Kropff. Lismon was in school at Austin, and Freda was only nine months old. Rudolph was born in 1925. The lifestyle of the pioneer required that all members of the family share in crop and food production and household chores. Within a year, several new families had moved into the Baileyboro community and a church group began to meet in the school house. As school enrollment increased, basketball and baseball became school and community activities. One exciting even was the landing of an airplane near the school ground. It had a second seat for carrying one or two passengers. Students who could afford it took a ride at $1.00 each which included one circle overhead. This broke up school for the rest of the day. In later years Lismon married Ruby Lee King of Lubbock. They farmed in the Stegall and Muleshoe communities. Clara married Claude Coffman, a farmer in the Baileyboro community, later retiring at Muleshoe. Lois entered the field of elementary teaching. She married Wilson Witherspoon. They combined teaching and farming vocations in the Longview and Muleshoe communities. Roger married Anna Lee Riley of Perryton, a college classmate. They served as educators in several West Texas communities. Clark served in the US Navy where he met his wife to be, Carol Johnson of Cocoa, Florida. They had teaching careers in elementary schools and at Texas Tech University of Lubbock. Freda married Jim Shuttlesworth of Sudan, who later enetered in the Army Air Force. They completed their college degrees and taught in the Phillips school near Borger. Rudolph also spent a part of WWII in the US Navy aboard an aircraft carrier where he saw considerable combat duty in the Pacific. He and his wife Fredda Condo of Crawford, Oklahoma, had teaching careers at Amherst and Canadian. The first two landmarks in the Baileyboro community were the Blackshear Grocery Store and Post Office, and of course, the one-room schoolhouse. The rural environment provides an excellent testing ground for young people to develop into good adults. Many became leaders in business, agriculture, education, and ministry as they spread out into other areas and communities. (Submitted by Lois Witherspoon)

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