Father, J M Crawford born in Kentucky
Informant, Mrs. Vera Ullom, Dumas, Texas
Mother of Altus Man Dies in Texas
Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Sunday at Stratford, Texas, for Mrs. A. J. Raines, 94, mother of J. R. Raines of Altus, who died Saturday at her home in Dumas, Texas, after an illness of several months.
Mrs. Raines had made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Ullum at Dumas.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ullum and Mrs. D. E. Powell of Oklahoma City; one son, J. R. Raines; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Attending the rites from Altus will be Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Raines and Mr. and Mrs. Findley Raines and family.
—The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Oklahoma), Sunday, June 20, 1948, p. 1
Message: Here is a nice write up about Amanda if you want to add to her bio.
Amanda Jane Crawford was born in 1853 and was only two years old when she and her parents moved to Flower Mound, Texas (Denton County) in 1855. Amanda grew up there and, in 1873, married John M. Raines. They had six children together. Amanda Jane would be just another name on a list of early settlers were it not for the fact that, when she was six years old, she was stricken with polio and was never able to walk or use her feet again.
Amanda Jane was a farmer's daughter, so it might seem that not being able to walk would be an insurmountable barrier. That didn't stop Amanda Jane. While still young, she learned to do housework on her hands and knees, doing her share of the work required to keep a frontier farm running. She literally scooted across the floor as she worked. She went to school via a specially built box that was hitched to a pony. She drove herself. Amanda Jane grew up that way and nobody paid any special attention to her. In fact, after she died, nobody spoke of her disability or could even much recall it. She was a beautiful, lively young woman, such that John M. Raines married her, deciding that it didn't matter that she had no use of her legs and feet
Amanda Jane kept working. She made her family's clothing after disconnecting the treadle on her sewing machine so that she operate it with one hand while guiding the cloth with the other. She drove her six children wherever they needed to go in her buggy or wagon, which she was an expert at driving. She did her share of community work and volunteer work for her church, too.
Amanda Jane lived to be 95 years old, outliving three of her children. In the newspaper obituary that accompanied her death, her surviving children marveled at the full life she'd managed to lead despite the challenges she endured. And they mentioned something she'd done on her fiftieth birthday, 45 years before. It was on that day, after 50 years of scooting around on the floor, that Amanda Jane Crawford Raines became the proud owner of a new wheel chair.
You know, I visit these old cemeteries and I often wonder how many Amanda Janes lie under the stones, how many great stories like hers are there waiting to be told, if only somebody knew them. Amanda Jane's grave is one of some 2,100 in the Stratford cemetery. The storyteller in me grieves to think how much gets lost when somebody passes away and how much forgotten history lies just beneath my feet.
Informant, Mrs. Vera Ullom, Dumas, Texas
Mother of Altus Man Dies in Texas
Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Sunday at Stratford, Texas, for Mrs. A. J. Raines, 94, mother of J. R. Raines of Altus, who died Saturday at her home in Dumas, Texas, after an illness of several months.
Mrs. Raines had made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Ullum at Dumas.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ullum and Mrs. D. E. Powell of Oklahoma City; one son, J. R. Raines; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Attending the rites from Altus will be Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Raines and Mr. and Mrs. Findley Raines and family.
—The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Oklahoma), Sunday, June 20, 1948, p. 1
Message: Here is a nice write up about Amanda if you want to add to her bio.
Amanda Jane Crawford was born in 1853 and was only two years old when she and her parents moved to Flower Mound, Texas (Denton County) in 1855. Amanda grew up there and, in 1873, married John M. Raines. They had six children together. Amanda Jane would be just another name on a list of early settlers were it not for the fact that, when she was six years old, she was stricken with polio and was never able to walk or use her feet again.
Amanda Jane was a farmer's daughter, so it might seem that not being able to walk would be an insurmountable barrier. That didn't stop Amanda Jane. While still young, she learned to do housework on her hands and knees, doing her share of the work required to keep a frontier farm running. She literally scooted across the floor as she worked. She went to school via a specially built box that was hitched to a pony. She drove herself. Amanda Jane grew up that way and nobody paid any special attention to her. In fact, after she died, nobody spoke of her disability or could even much recall it. She was a beautiful, lively young woman, such that John M. Raines married her, deciding that it didn't matter that she had no use of her legs and feet
Amanda Jane kept working. She made her family's clothing after disconnecting the treadle on her sewing machine so that she operate it with one hand while guiding the cloth with the other. She drove her six children wherever they needed to go in her buggy or wagon, which she was an expert at driving. She did her share of community work and volunteer work for her church, too.
Amanda Jane lived to be 95 years old, outliving three of her children. In the newspaper obituary that accompanied her death, her surviving children marveled at the full life she'd managed to lead despite the challenges she endured. And they mentioned something she'd done on her fiftieth birthday, 45 years before. It was on that day, after 50 years of scooting around on the floor, that Amanda Jane Crawford Raines became the proud owner of a new wheel chair.
You know, I visit these old cemeteries and I often wonder how many Amanda Janes lie under the stones, how many great stories like hers are there waiting to be told, if only somebody knew them. Amanda Jane's grave is one of some 2,100 in the Stratford cemetery. The storyteller in me grieves to think how much gets lost when somebody passes away and how much forgotten history lies just beneath my feet.
Father, J M Crawford born in Kentucky
Informant, Mrs. Vera Ullom, Dumas, Texas
Mother of Altus Man Dies in Texas
Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Sunday at Stratford, Texas, for Mrs. A. J. Raines, 94, mother of J. R. Raines of Altus, who died Saturday at her home in Dumas, Texas, after an illness of several months.
Mrs. Raines had made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Ullum at Dumas.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ullum and Mrs. D. E. Powell of Oklahoma City; one son, J. R. Raines; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Attending the rites from Altus will be Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Raines and Mr. and Mrs. Findley Raines and family.
—The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Oklahoma), Sunday, June 20, 1948, p. 1
Message: Here is a nice write up about Amanda if you want to add to her bio.
Amanda Jane Crawford was born in 1853 and was only two years old when she and her parents moved to Flower Mound, Texas (Denton County) in 1855. Amanda grew up there and, in 1873, married John M. Raines. They had six children together. Amanda Jane would be just another name on a list of early settlers were it not for the fact that, when she was six years old, she was stricken with polio and was never able to walk or use her feet again.
Amanda Jane was a farmer's daughter, so it might seem that not being able to walk would be an insurmountable barrier. That didn't stop Amanda Jane. While still young, she learned to do housework on her hands and knees, doing her share of the work required to keep a frontier farm running. She literally scooted across the floor as she worked. She went to school via a specially built box that was hitched to a pony. She drove herself. Amanda Jane grew up that way and nobody paid any special attention to her. In fact, after she died, nobody spoke of her disability or could even much recall it. She was a beautiful, lively young woman, such that John M. Raines married her, deciding that it didn't matter that she had no use of her legs and feet
Amanda Jane kept working. She made her family's clothing after disconnecting the treadle on her sewing machine so that she operate it with one hand while guiding the cloth with the other. She drove her six children wherever they needed to go in her buggy or wagon, which she was an expert at driving. She did her share of community work and volunteer work for her church, too.
Amanda Jane lived to be 95 years old, outliving three of her children. In the newspaper obituary that accompanied her death, her surviving children marveled at the full life she'd managed to lead despite the challenges she endured. And they mentioned something she'd done on her fiftieth birthday, 45 years before. It was on that day, after 50 years of scooting around on the floor, that Amanda Jane Crawford Raines became the proud owner of a new wheel chair.
You know, I visit these old cemeteries and I often wonder how many Amanda Janes lie under the stones, how many great stories like hers are there waiting to be told, if only somebody knew them. Amanda Jane's grave is one of some 2,100 in the Stratford cemetery. The storyteller in me grieves to think how much gets lost when somebody passes away and how much forgotten history lies just beneath my feet.
Informant, Mrs. Vera Ullom, Dumas, Texas
Mother of Altus Man Dies in Texas
Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. Sunday at Stratford, Texas, for Mrs. A. J. Raines, 94, mother of J. R. Raines of Altus, who died Saturday at her home in Dumas, Texas, after an illness of several months.
Mrs. Raines had made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Ullum at Dumas.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ullum and Mrs. D. E. Powell of Oklahoma City; one son, J. R. Raines; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Attending the rites from Altus will be Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Raines and Mr. and Mrs. Findley Raines and family.
—The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Oklahoma), Sunday, June 20, 1948, p. 1
Message: Here is a nice write up about Amanda if you want to add to her bio.
Amanda Jane Crawford was born in 1853 and was only two years old when she and her parents moved to Flower Mound, Texas (Denton County) in 1855. Amanda grew up there and, in 1873, married John M. Raines. They had six children together. Amanda Jane would be just another name on a list of early settlers were it not for the fact that, when she was six years old, she was stricken with polio and was never able to walk or use her feet again.
Amanda Jane was a farmer's daughter, so it might seem that not being able to walk would be an insurmountable barrier. That didn't stop Amanda Jane. While still young, she learned to do housework on her hands and knees, doing her share of the work required to keep a frontier farm running. She literally scooted across the floor as she worked. She went to school via a specially built box that was hitched to a pony. She drove herself. Amanda Jane grew up that way and nobody paid any special attention to her. In fact, after she died, nobody spoke of her disability or could even much recall it. She was a beautiful, lively young woman, such that John M. Raines married her, deciding that it didn't matter that she had no use of her legs and feet
Amanda Jane kept working. She made her family's clothing after disconnecting the treadle on her sewing machine so that she operate it with one hand while guiding the cloth with the other. She drove her six children wherever they needed to go in her buggy or wagon, which she was an expert at driving. She did her share of community work and volunteer work for her church, too.
Amanda Jane lived to be 95 years old, outliving three of her children. In the newspaper obituary that accompanied her death, her surviving children marveled at the full life she'd managed to lead despite the challenges she endured. And they mentioned something she'd done on her fiftieth birthday, 45 years before. It was on that day, after 50 years of scooting around on the floor, that Amanda Jane Crawford Raines became the proud owner of a new wheel chair.
You know, I visit these old cemeteries and I often wonder how many Amanda Janes lie under the stones, how many great stories like hers are there waiting to be told, if only somebody knew them. Amanda Jane's grave is one of some 2,100 in the Stratford cemetery. The storyteller in me grieves to think how much gets lost when somebody passes away and how much forgotten history lies just beneath my feet.
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