Thomas Jefferson (T.J.) Tidwell, 83, who had lived in Cedar Hill seventy-eight years died leaving 57 living descendants. A native of Alabama, Tidwell was brount to Cedar Hill when he was five. He had farmed in locations near the town since then until his retirement a number of years ago. He was Methodist. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Thuesday at the Cedar Hill Methodist Church. Burial will be in Little Bethel Cemetery nearby, one of the oldest cemeteries in North Texas. Tidwell is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Cathey Clayton, Cedar Hill; Mrs. Fronie West, Grand Prairie, and Mrs. O. C. Morris, Abilene; three sons, G.W. Tidwell, Wichita Falls; J. B. Tidwell, Dallas, and C. C. Tidwell, Cedar Hill; a brother Joe Tidwell, Cedar Hill; a sister, Mrs. Ella King, Cedar; 23 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren.
Per Dallas Morning News, February 6, 1951.
The Anderson plantation was west of Cedar Hill near Penn Farm. Patriarch Andy Anderson told Farmer Tidwell, "We ought to be able to find a sulfur mine around here". The old tenant farmer replied, "Shore, shore, I'll find you one."
West of the house the natural spring had cut a deep gully in the dark bluish shale underlying the farm site. T. J. Tidwell was up early the next morning and began his search. Along the top of the gully, he noticed some strange looking bones. He carefully removed soil and shale and found parts of a rock body skeleton with paddle shaped legs, an eighteen foot long neck and finally a vicious toothed, crocodile-like head.
Mr. Tidwell erected a tent over his finding and had a lot of visitors to see the strange skeleton. He charged them 10 cents to view it.
After Mr. Tidwell's attraction lost its drawing power, Charles Gill Morgan with a truck and a villainous tobacco pipe came from SMU to meet with Mr. Anderson and Mr. Tidwell. At the end of the day he went home with the skeleton. Later Dr. Barnum Brown of the Museum of Natural History in New York offered to swap three dinosaurs for the strange creature called Elasmosarus morgani.
Per Dallas Morning News, February 6, 1951.
The Anderson plantation was west of Cedar Hill near Penn Farm. Patriarch Andy Anderson told Farmer Tidwell, "We ought to be able to find a sulfur mine around here". The old tenant farmer replied, "Shore, shore, I'll find you one."
West of the house the natural spring had cut a deep gully in the dark bluish shale underlying the farm site. T. J. Tidwell was up early the next morning and began his search. Along the top of the gully, he noticed some strange looking bones. He carefully removed soil and shale and found parts of a rock body skeleton with paddle shaped legs, an eighteen foot long neck and finally a vicious toothed, crocodile-like head.
Mr. Tidwell erected a tent over his finding and had a lot of visitors to see the strange skeleton. He charged them 10 cents to view it.
After Mr. Tidwell's attraction lost its drawing power, Charles Gill Morgan with a truck and a villainous tobacco pipe came from SMU to meet with Mr. Anderson and Mr. Tidwell. At the end of the day he went home with the skeleton. Later Dr. Barnum Brown of the Museum of Natural History in New York offered to swap three dinosaurs for the strange creature called Elasmosarus morgani.
Thomas Jefferson (T.J.) Tidwell, 83, who had lived in Cedar Hill seventy-eight years died leaving 57 living descendants. A native of Alabama, Tidwell was brount to Cedar Hill when he was five. He had farmed in locations near the town since then until his retirement a number of years ago. He was Methodist. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Thuesday at the Cedar Hill Methodist Church. Burial will be in Little Bethel Cemetery nearby, one of the oldest cemeteries in North Texas. Tidwell is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Cathey Clayton, Cedar Hill; Mrs. Fronie West, Grand Prairie, and Mrs. O. C. Morris, Abilene; three sons, G.W. Tidwell, Wichita Falls; J. B. Tidwell, Dallas, and C. C. Tidwell, Cedar Hill; a brother Joe Tidwell, Cedar Hill; a sister, Mrs. Ella King, Cedar; 23 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren.
Per Dallas Morning News, February 6, 1951.
The Anderson plantation was west of Cedar Hill near Penn Farm. Patriarch Andy Anderson told Farmer Tidwell, "We ought to be able to find a sulfur mine around here". The old tenant farmer replied, "Shore, shore, I'll find you one."
West of the house the natural spring had cut a deep gully in the dark bluish shale underlying the farm site. T. J. Tidwell was up early the next morning and began his search. Along the top of the gully, he noticed some strange looking bones. He carefully removed soil and shale and found parts of a rock body skeleton with paddle shaped legs, an eighteen foot long neck and finally a vicious toothed, crocodile-like head.
Mr. Tidwell erected a tent over his finding and had a lot of visitors to see the strange skeleton. He charged them 10 cents to view it.
After Mr. Tidwell's attraction lost its drawing power, Charles Gill Morgan with a truck and a villainous tobacco pipe came from SMU to meet with Mr. Anderson and Mr. Tidwell. At the end of the day he went home with the skeleton. Later Dr. Barnum Brown of the Museum of Natural History in New York offered to swap three dinosaurs for the strange creature called Elasmosarus morgani.
Per Dallas Morning News, February 6, 1951.
The Anderson plantation was west of Cedar Hill near Penn Farm. Patriarch Andy Anderson told Farmer Tidwell, "We ought to be able to find a sulfur mine around here". The old tenant farmer replied, "Shore, shore, I'll find you one."
West of the house the natural spring had cut a deep gully in the dark bluish shale underlying the farm site. T. J. Tidwell was up early the next morning and began his search. Along the top of the gully, he noticed some strange looking bones. He carefully removed soil and shale and found parts of a rock body skeleton with paddle shaped legs, an eighteen foot long neck and finally a vicious toothed, crocodile-like head.
Mr. Tidwell erected a tent over his finding and had a lot of visitors to see the strange skeleton. He charged them 10 cents to view it.
After Mr. Tidwell's attraction lost its drawing power, Charles Gill Morgan with a truck and a villainous tobacco pipe came from SMU to meet with Mr. Anderson and Mr. Tidwell. At the end of the day he went home with the skeleton. Later Dr. Barnum Brown of the Museum of Natural History in New York offered to swap three dinosaurs for the strange creature called Elasmosarus morgani.
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