in the South Carolina Greenville Battalion-Co. A Infantry
Schleicher County Treasurer
pension no. 46502
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MR. P. H. MCCORMICK
By Albert Martin
Mr. P. H. McCormick was born in 1845 in South Carolina. When the war between the States began he joined the Confederate army and fought under General Lee until the surrender at Appomatox [sic]. Mr. McCormick said that before he came here there was no turf on the ground. The "gramma" grass grew to be about eighteen' inches high, and when a prairie fire got started it burned until it ran out of grass or trees to burn. He said that he had been told that long before he came to Schleicher there were mesquite trees of great size in the county. Once a fire started and raged for days. When the fire had gone the trees were gone too and the trees which we have in the county now have grown since that time. The first residence in Eldorado was where the post office now stands and about the first business house was directly across the street from the Midway Service Station. When a school house was added it was a typical "Little Red School House" of one room, in which school was taught from Monday until Friday dances held on Saturday night and church services on Sunday, or at least one Sunday in three or four months.
There was only one well and windmill between Sonora and Eldorado where sheepmen could water their sheep when going through, and all the freighting had to be done with wagon trains, the supplies being hauled out from San Angelo. The Eldorado post office was a box nailed on a mesquite tree so that the stage driver could reach the mail on his way through from San Angelo to Sonora or to Del Rio. There were many deer and antelope in some parts of the country then and also lots of wild turkeys when a big acron crop drew them up from the rivers.
Mr. McCormick came to Schleicher County in 1901 and has lived here ever since. He was the manager of the first gin in Eldorado and for many years continued in the gin business. He has seen the country develop and change so much in the last twenty-five years that it does not look like the same land. Mr. McCormick has three sons and one daughter still living in Schleicher County and one son, Bev McCormick, who lost his life in France during the World War. Mr. McCormick was the second county tax assessor in Schleicher County. This office is now held by his son, Don McCormick.
[From "Schleicher County, or, Eighty Years of Development in Southwest Texas", pub. 1930,
Schleicher County Treasurer
pension no. 46502
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MR. P. H. MCCORMICK
By Albert Martin
Mr. P. H. McCormick was born in 1845 in South Carolina. When the war between the States began he joined the Confederate army and fought under General Lee until the surrender at Appomatox [sic]. Mr. McCormick said that before he came here there was no turf on the ground. The "gramma" grass grew to be about eighteen' inches high, and when a prairie fire got started it burned until it ran out of grass or trees to burn. He said that he had been told that long before he came to Schleicher there were mesquite trees of great size in the county. Once a fire started and raged for days. When the fire had gone the trees were gone too and the trees which we have in the county now have grown since that time. The first residence in Eldorado was where the post office now stands and about the first business house was directly across the street from the Midway Service Station. When a school house was added it was a typical "Little Red School House" of one room, in which school was taught from Monday until Friday dances held on Saturday night and church services on Sunday, or at least one Sunday in three or four months.
There was only one well and windmill between Sonora and Eldorado where sheepmen could water their sheep when going through, and all the freighting had to be done with wagon trains, the supplies being hauled out from San Angelo. The Eldorado post office was a box nailed on a mesquite tree so that the stage driver could reach the mail on his way through from San Angelo to Sonora or to Del Rio. There were many deer and antelope in some parts of the country then and also lots of wild turkeys when a big acron crop drew them up from the rivers.
Mr. McCormick came to Schleicher County in 1901 and has lived here ever since. He was the manager of the first gin in Eldorado and for many years continued in the gin business. He has seen the country develop and change so much in the last twenty-five years that it does not look like the same land. Mr. McCormick has three sons and one daughter still living in Schleicher County and one son, Bev McCormick, who lost his life in France during the World War. Mr. McCormick was the second county tax assessor in Schleicher County. This office is now held by his son, Don McCormick.
[From "Schleicher County, or, Eighty Years of Development in Southwest Texas", pub. 1930,
in the South Carolina Greenville Battalion-Co. A Infantry
Schleicher County Treasurer
pension no. 46502
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MR. P. H. MCCORMICK
By Albert Martin
Mr. P. H. McCormick was born in 1845 in South Carolina. When the war between the States began he joined the Confederate army and fought under General Lee until the surrender at Appomatox [sic]. Mr. McCormick said that before he came here there was no turf on the ground. The "gramma" grass grew to be about eighteen' inches high, and when a prairie fire got started it burned until it ran out of grass or trees to burn. He said that he had been told that long before he came to Schleicher there were mesquite trees of great size in the county. Once a fire started and raged for days. When the fire had gone the trees were gone too and the trees which we have in the county now have grown since that time. The first residence in Eldorado was where the post office now stands and about the first business house was directly across the street from the Midway Service Station. When a school house was added it was a typical "Little Red School House" of one room, in which school was taught from Monday until Friday dances held on Saturday night and church services on Sunday, or at least one Sunday in three or four months.
There was only one well and windmill between Sonora and Eldorado where sheepmen could water their sheep when going through, and all the freighting had to be done with wagon trains, the supplies being hauled out from San Angelo. The Eldorado post office was a box nailed on a mesquite tree so that the stage driver could reach the mail on his way through from San Angelo to Sonora or to Del Rio. There were many deer and antelope in some parts of the country then and also lots of wild turkeys when a big acron crop drew them up from the rivers.
Mr. McCormick came to Schleicher County in 1901 and has lived here ever since. He was the manager of the first gin in Eldorado and for many years continued in the gin business. He has seen the country develop and change so much in the last twenty-five years that it does not look like the same land. Mr. McCormick has three sons and one daughter still living in Schleicher County and one son, Bev McCormick, who lost his life in France during the World War. Mr. McCormick was the second county tax assessor in Schleicher County. This office is now held by his son, Don McCormick.
[From "Schleicher County, or, Eighty Years of Development in Southwest Texas", pub. 1930,
Schleicher County Treasurer
pension no. 46502
~
MR. P. H. MCCORMICK
By Albert Martin
Mr. P. H. McCormick was born in 1845 in South Carolina. When the war between the States began he joined the Confederate army and fought under General Lee until the surrender at Appomatox [sic]. Mr. McCormick said that before he came here there was no turf on the ground. The "gramma" grass grew to be about eighteen' inches high, and when a prairie fire got started it burned until it ran out of grass or trees to burn. He said that he had been told that long before he came to Schleicher there were mesquite trees of great size in the county. Once a fire started and raged for days. When the fire had gone the trees were gone too and the trees which we have in the county now have grown since that time. The first residence in Eldorado was where the post office now stands and about the first business house was directly across the street from the Midway Service Station. When a school house was added it was a typical "Little Red School House" of one room, in which school was taught from Monday until Friday dances held on Saturday night and church services on Sunday, or at least one Sunday in three or four months.
There was only one well and windmill between Sonora and Eldorado where sheepmen could water their sheep when going through, and all the freighting had to be done with wagon trains, the supplies being hauled out from San Angelo. The Eldorado post office was a box nailed on a mesquite tree so that the stage driver could reach the mail on his way through from San Angelo to Sonora or to Del Rio. There were many deer and antelope in some parts of the country then and also lots of wild turkeys when a big acron crop drew them up from the rivers.
Mr. McCormick came to Schleicher County in 1901 and has lived here ever since. He was the manager of the first gin in Eldorado and for many years continued in the gin business. He has seen the country develop and change so much in the last twenty-five years that it does not look like the same land. Mr. McCormick has three sons and one daughter still living in Schleicher County and one son, Bev McCormick, who lost his life in France during the World War. Mr. McCormick was the second county tax assessor in Schleicher County. This office is now held by his son, Don McCormick.
[From "Schleicher County, or, Eighty Years of Development in Southwest Texas", pub. 1930,
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