Notes:

Lloyd is the son Mary Skinner, b. Texas & Mark Hits, born MS.

Buried:
Plot 930 -7, Wichita Co., Texas.

Lloyd married Clara Mae SITTON in 1935 in Ward Co., State of Texas. Clara (daughter of Andrew JACKson SITTON, Sr. and Emily ADELIA BANKS) was born on 4 Sep 1910 in Pyote, Ward County, State of Texas; died on 7 Oct 1971 in San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas; was buried on 9 Oct 1971 in Pyote Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. 1925 Mar 31 - The Little Knight & Ladies Club , Our Motto, Kindest our armor, courtesy our shield:
Peyote, Texas, My Dear Cinderella: Please excuse me for not writing lately, but I had nothing to write about. I hope to be a Duchess soon, but I just have 8 members & find it hard to get the other tow. I am in the 9th grade at school. Countess Clara Sitton, Age 14.
P.S. lease all some more of the members to write to me.
Ref: Dallas Morning News, Texas, published 1925 Apr 13.

. 1925 May 12, Dear Cinderella: I think most of us members of the Little Knights & Ladie Cluv are in favor of the regular writers organization. I am there are may who write several personal letters a week, anyway. Hope some more of the members will write to me. I am a Duchess, Clara Sitton.

. 1925 Jun 22 - Dear Cinderella: I saw the rules of the Regular Writers club in the Sunday club columns & would like to belong to it. Is it organized already or to be organized soon: Hoping to hear from some more of the Members. I am Duchess, Clara Sitton.

. 1925 Jul 05 - Dallas Morning News, Letters from young readers
Pyote Texas, June 22 1925
Dear Cinderella, I saw the rules of the Regular Writers Club in the Sunday club columns & would like to belong to it. Is it organized already or to be organized soon? Hope to hear from some more of the members, I am a Duchess.
Clara Sitton, (Age 14.)

. Texas Dept. of Health, Death Certificate # 69217
Clara Mae Hitt
Resided 647 Hammond Ave., San Antonio, TX. Widow. Retired secretary for Austin, TX Police Dept.
Cause of death given as peritonitis due to perforated colon diverticulum & left lung carcinoma. - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: Clara May Sitton

Died:
647 Hammon Ave., Widow.

Buried:
COD: Peritonitis due to perforated colon diverticulum and left lung carcinoma.

Notes:

WARD COUNTY TX: BIRTHS 1917-1918 from Draft Registration Cards
Andrew Jackson Sitton, b 7 Jan 1882 Res. Ward Co.

. 1908 December 22 - he married Adelia Banks, daughter of W. W. & Ida Banks. They became the parents of 6 daughters & one son.

. 1909 July 21 - Dallas Morning News
Pyote Organizes a Commercial Club
Special to the News.
Pyote, Tex, July 20 - A commercial club was organized at Pyote for the purpose of advertising the town & tributary country. Officers elected: H L Johnston, president, A J Sitton, secretary. The club will hold regular weekly meetings.

. 1910 Apr 03 - Forth Worth Star-Telegram
Prominent Men At Congress Here, will discuss Problem of Importance to the State.
Dry farming & irrigation are 2 of the subjects on Program.
When the Texas Conservation Congress convenes in Fort Worth, Tuesday, some of the most prominent men in Texas will assemble to discuss problems of all interest to the state. ... Gov. T M Campbell ... About 1,000 delegates have been appointed by county judges, commercial clubs & different organizations over the state. In the reception room of the Board of Trade a wooden frame 16x16 feet is being erected. This frame is to contain a monster map of Texas, which was used at the St. Louis Exposition. The frame will slanted as the Board of Trade reception room is only 14 feet in height.
Ward County, A. J. Sitton, Pyote.

. 1912 Feb 7 - Pyote, A J Sitton, who has been secretary of the Pyote Commercial Club has been secretary of the club since its organization 3 years ago, was continued [elected] as secretary.
Dallas Morning News. Texas.

. 1915 Sep 12- WWII Registration Card Andrew Jackson Sitton, born 7 Jan 1882, Residing, Pyote, Texas.

. 1916 Dec 1924 - Fort Work Star-Telegram
Real Estate For Exchange, Equity in 6 lots in Evans-Pearson Westwood addition for automobile or other trade of equal value. A J Sitton, Pyote, Texas.

. Died at Sunset Haven Nursing Home, 2 Year stay. Cause of death Hypostatic pneumonia, due to acute pyelonephritis and severe arteriosclerosis.

. 1918 Mar 8 - Maxwell Truck. Boquor Motor Co. Southwestern Distributors, Dealers: A J Sitton, Pyote, Texas.
Ref: El Pasco Herald Newspaper.

. 1928 Feb 19 - Fort Worth, Texas. Oil Town is Looking for C. of C. Secretary for its chamber of Commerce. A J Sitton postmaster, was elected President. A year ago Pyote was just a wide place in the road, & now due to the oil activity, it isa town of more than 4,000 inhabitants. It has been decided to put a $150,00 road bond issue to a vote to improve the highway leading into the Winkler County oilfield. Peyote also boasts a 100 room hotel.

. 1929 Apr 5 - At a meeting of business men here steps ere taken to correct the residence shortage at Pyote. It was decided to organize an investment company to erect a number of residences, losing less than $1,500. A J Sitton treasurer.

. 1935 JULY 18 - Ripleys Believe It or Not, [Carton drawing of] Catfish for 4 legs, caught by A J Sitton, Pyote, Texas.
Ref: Oregonian Newspaper, Portland, Oregon. and Repository Newspaper, Canton, Ohio.

. 1939 Feb 13 - School book figures on Murders, Editor, herald Post:
In view of the discussions pro & con relative to the death penalty, I wish to call attention to a chart given on page 91 of Book 3, Exploring New Fields, a 7th grade book taught in the public schools of Texas & endorsed by the State Board of Education. this chart gives the number of murders per 100,000 in each state. An examination of this record shows that there are several ties as many murders committed intros states having the death penalty as intros that do not. Wisconsin, a non-death penalty state has 1.1 per 100,000. Texas, a death penalty state has 18.2 more than 16 times as many. Michigan the tightest of the non-death penalty states as 3.3 & Alabama, the high-test of the death penalty states has 34.5.
If the death penalty is necessary to prevent murder than will some death penalty advocate explain these figures. Signed Pyote, Texas, A.J. Sitton.
. 1939 Dec 12 - SideBar Remarks, by E M Pooley. Pecos Bill that tough old cyclone buster who was written up i the America Mercury this month & some of whose exploits were mentioned her a few days ao, arouses mixed emotions. A J Sitton of Pyote holds him in contempt, but Joe Evans recognized Pecos Bill as quite a top hand & goes him one better. "The Pecos Bill mentioned in Side Bar Remarks wa well known in this section, Mr Sitton writes. He located at Wink during the early part of the oil boom, but was son run out of town for being a jelly bean. Well bet Bro. Sitton helped to the running, too. …such years as those folks, are why people sometimes say you can't believe everything you read in the papers. But if anybody in these her parts thinks he can beat Bro. Sitton or Bro. Evans at stretching the trough, well, have at it, I'ill take the risk of printing same.
. 1941 Apr 4 -It appears that Adolf [Hilter] in starting into the Balkan country has about the same trouble that Wm. Allen White said what was the matter with Kansas: he started out to raise all & produced an over supply. We note that Matsuoka asks that the leaders of the belligerent countries et together at a peace conference. If Adolf & Churchill get together in the same room I could have the same desire to see it that a try had in trying 2 men for participating in a fracas in Oklahoma in an early day. the evidence showed that one participant had a shotgun, a pitchfork, a butcher knife & an ax, while his opponent had a rifle, six shooter, a hatchet & crowbar. The jury, after hearing the evidence treated & immediately returned with averdict: We the jury would have given $5 to have seen the fight. A J Sitton, Pyote.
. 1943 Mar 10 [Abbreviated version] By A J Sitton the Encyclopedia authorities of 20 years ago we find Finland was Fascist before Italy or Germany. Finland secured its independence from Russia in 1917. Baron Mannerheim, of the Finnish Army was dissatisfied the The Social Democratic part & called upon Germany for air to overthrowing the govt.
. 1943 May 3 - Re Millonaire Relief Bill now before congress. …I lost everything in the 1929 crash & have been trying to stage a comeback since that time. All my profits except living expenses were applied on debts of many years standing so the tax money was had to raise, yet I have gladly paid the tax. Wha is the the interest of the country is to may interest.
. 1943 Oct 19 - Some Advice for Preachers, by A J Sitton. a preacher in Memphis before commencing his Sunday services made this announcement: Borhters & Sisters, I am now abut to pass the collection plate. Before doing so, I wish to state there is a brother in the audience who is paying too much attention to atoner man's wife, & unless there is a $5 bill in the plate when it returns, I am going to mention his name. when the plate returned it contained 19 $5 bills & one $2 bill with a note attached, Will pay you the balance Saturday. Pyote, Texas.
. 1944 Jan 24, A J Sitton, article about Franco & Spain.
. 1945 Jan 1, A J Sitton article about Polish officials on the Czechoslovak Frontier on Sept 28, 1938.
Ref: El Paso Herald Post Newspaper, Texas.

. 1947 Oct 24 - Austin Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the Ward Co. district Court in its conviction of half S Haigh of burglary & a sense of 2 years confinement. Haigh was invited of burglarizing the store of A J Sitton in Pyote on Jan 1 1946, in the course of the burglary, stilton shot Haigh, while another person escaped. Haight contended he had not entered the store by force, as the door hd been closed, it was necessary to shove it open to obtain entrance. the court ruled it was not necessary that the door or lock be broken open to constitute forcible entry.
Ref: Odessa American Newspaper., Texas.

. 1948 Jan 5- By A J Sitton. Jude J D Kugle, Pyote farmer, lawyer & oil producer owns extensive farming interests in the Big Valley south of Pyote, noted that artesian water had been struck in a number of wells over a distance of about 9 miles & decide to make a test of the water. Oil drillers were not interested in water & cased off the flow in search of oil. After a number of heartbreaking accidents, Judge Kyle finally struck a sea of water at 1160 feet that estimates indicate will irrigate more than 80 Acres. Four other tests are scheduled. Pyote.
Ref: El Paso Herald Post Newspaper.

. 1955 Jul 3 - Letters from readers: Truman Baiters. We trust Truman baiters & isolationist took note of how the Reds at San Francisco tried to keep Truman from speaking to the conference. Truman & Acheson have been pet haters of the Reds since the Truman Doctrine stopped them from overrunning Europe. They also stopped them in Korea as long as they were in office. A J Sitton, Pyote, Texas.

. 1959 Feb 10 - Letters from readers: TEXAS PEYOTE TEA IS POTENT DRINK
In your issue of Jan 27 you have a writeup of Pyote. The name originally was spelled Peyote, but when the post office was established in 1907 the department spelled it Pyote & established the office. Came here from North Texas in Mary 1907.
I am familiar with the social actions of the Kiowa-Comanche Indians, as I are up in that country. They used the shrub by boiling it into a tea & drinking it. It gave them great endurance when they went on the warpath. After the Comanches were moved to the reservation in Oklahoma they sent a delegation to the Rio Grande to gather a supply of the shrub for use in their sun & rain dances.
I have heard it report that during one of their celebrations a jack ravin that the been chased all over Western Oklahoma by predatory animals slipped up to one of the pots & drank several swings of the peyote tea. Immediately he decided to wreak menage on his tormentors. In a short time he cleans up on 3 wildcats, 2 coyotes & one lobo wolf. When last seen he was chasing a mountain lion down Beaver creek at a mile a minute. This stuff was potent. A J Sitton, Pyote Texas.
Ref: Dallas Morning News.

. 1961 Apr 2, Mayor A J Sitton is unopposed in his bid for another term. Ref: Odessa Am. News.
Note: Many other political newspaper articles are not recorded here. P J Ahlberg.
. Uncle Jack (John Sitton Lucas) told me that Worttie had stolen money from the post office. AJ Sitton took the blame for it so she would not have to go to jail. Worttie was his wife's sister. Eventually, he did get a pardon from Roosevelt.  I have not verified this story yet.
Ref: Lucas Family Tree, by cindlyluc1, date 2018.
. 1936 Sep 24 - Franklin D Roosevelt, President of USA, Andrew J Sitton was convicted in US District of Texas on an indictment charging the embelsament of Post office funds, sentenced to imprisonment for 3 years in US Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, fined $5469.19. Pardoned.

. 1973 Mar 4 - Services for Andrew Jackson stilton Sr., 1, a longtime Pyote resident who died about 4:39 PM. t
Thursday in an el Paso nursing home after a long illness, were 3P =M Sat. in Pyote Baptist Church. burial Pyote Cemetery. Born Jan 7 1882 in St. Joe Ark., Sitton has been a merchant in Pyote.
Surviors include a son A J Sitton, Jr. of Fort Stockton, 5 Daughters Mrs Ida Ludas, Mrs Fay Kleban & Mrs Virginia Fisk, all of El Paso, Mrs. Frances Turner of Austin & Mrs Hazel Strickland of Phoenix, Ariz.; a brother, Fitz Sitton of Pyote; 22 grandchildren & 14 great grandchildren.
Ref: Odessa Am. News.
.Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Died:
Aged 91, COD: Hypostatic pneumonia, Acute peel neuritis & Arteriosclerosis. Lane.

Buried:
"Dad", Aged 91.

Andrew married Emily ADELIA BANKS on 22 Dec 1908 in Barstow, Ward Co., Texas. Emily was born on 8 Oct 1883 in Clarksville, Red River Co., Texas; died on 30 Nov 1969 in El Paso, El Paso Co., Texas; was buried in Pyote Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Adelia Banks is the daughter of Ida May English, born 1856 Clarksville, Red River Co., Texas
& Wm. Wooten Banks, born 1853 Holly Springs, Marshall Co., Mississippi. - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: Delia Banks.

Died:
COD: pneumonia 5 days.

Notes:

Parents supporter of Abraham Lincoln & driven out of Alabama because of their antislavery stance. Moved to Illinois then Missouri until after the Civil War & then to Arkansas.

Twenty-five years in Pyote, Texas:
. 1870 Texas Co., MO., Upton Twp., page 486B. (SITTEN)

. 1850 Nov 15 Census, Walker Co., Alabama, Twp. 12, p308:
James Sutton, 22, 1850 Alabama, Farmer
Sarah R Sutton, 22, 1828 Georgia
George W Sutton, 2, 1848 Alabama
CiceroS Sutton, 2 months, Alabama.

Census 1860 - Winston Co., AL. Twp. 12, Range 9, page 1223B.
Census 1870 - Plum Valley, Texas Co., Upton Missouri: Sitten

. 1880 Census Arkansas, Searcy District 175 St. Joe
G W Sitton, 32y. / b 1848 Alabama, father b. Alabama, Mother Geo. Rozene Sitton 34, wife, Sarah Sitton 13, Willis M Sitton 10, N B R Sitton 8, M M J Sitton 5, C H Sitton 2.
Census 1910 - Ward, Texas, 2 J-PCT, Cicero F Sitton1850 Alabama White Male

Census 1920, Pyote, Texas
Cicero S Sitton, 68y, Alabama, father b Georgia, mother b Georgia, labour, on steam railroad;
Caroline Sitton, 65y b. Canada, parents b England;
Noah G Sitton, 39y, b Arkansas Blacksmith, Own shop.
Fitzhugh L Sitton, 21y, b , Oklahoma Chauffeur, United Mail Service.

Cicero S Sitton was a member of the Mason. (Blacksmith)

. 1899 Jun 29 - A postoffice has been established at Crowe, Roger Mills County, OK. with Cicero S Sitton as postmaster.
Ref: Minor Capital News, Dallas Texas.

. 1902 Jan 18 - Coriscana, Texas - the building occupied by Sitton 's grocery store, on North Beaton Street caught fire early Friday morning & Mark Lane was suffocated by the smoke which filled the second floor. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp.
Ref: Waxahachie Daily Light Newspaper, Texas.

. 1907 Cicero S. Sitton & his sons opened a store, a 3 day barbecue was held, & most of the town lots were sold. A school petition was circulated at the barbecue, & later a one-room school building was constructed.

The Sitton Mercantile safe may be found in the Pyote Museum. (2006).
Pyote began as a siding & telegraph station constructed when the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. laid rails from Fort Worth westward toward El Paso in 1881. Even with access to a steam railway, the site initially known as Pyote Tank did not develop economically for a quarter century.
Then in 1906 local ranch owners sold 200 Acres alongside the railroad to Pyote Town Development Co. The next year, Cicero Silas Sitton, came to the proposed new town & opened its first store. In the meantime the town site Co. hosted a 3 day barbecue, during which time it began selling town lots to prospective residents & businessmen. In time Pyote grew into a local ranch supply center with a hotel, restaurant, lumber yard, barbershop, school, & post office...In 2000 town possessed only one building still standing amid the ruins & foundations of dozens of others.
Ref: More Ghost Towns of Texas, By T. Lindsay Baker.

. 1910 Nov 21 - Kermit, Taxas will soon have telephone connection with the T & P Railroad at Pyote; the line now owned by Sitton Mercantile company, of that place & some citizens of Duval, is to be extended to Kermit. It is said that the Sitton Mercantile company of Pyote, will soon begin the erection of a large business house at Kermit.
Ref: El Pasco Herald Newspaper, Texas.

Census 1930 Pyote Texas.
- Cicero Sitton, Head aged 79, /b 1851, married age 20, Blacksmith.
Caroline P Sitton, 76y, B. Canada, married age 17, Landed 1860 [correct date: 1856]
G Noah Sitton, 50y, single, b Arkansa. - - -

Birth:
TX Death Cert. Born Wukuorin?, ALA.

Died:
b. Winston, AL. COD: Asthma, cardiac compensation.

Buried:

Cicero married Caroline PATTERSON on 6 Aug 1871 in Upton Twp., Texas Co., Missouri. Caroline (daughter of Richard PATTERSON and Mary Ann CATCHPOLE) was born on 10 Mar 1854 in Belwood, Garafraxa West Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 25 Aug 1939 in Pyote, Ward County, State of Texas; was buried in Pyote Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Richard Patterson was farming in Belwood, GARAFRAXA TWP., as originally Henry Catchpole had been. By 1839 Henry Catchpole & family were one of the early pioneers to relocate to the new growing City of Guelph, in Wellington County. It is possible that Mary Ann could have gone to be near her mother for the birth of her children, but her place of living & growing up would have been Belwood. Also Douglas, as Belwood was then named, remains a small farming place, so people would give the name of the nearby thriving City of Guelph as their living location. - PJA 2011.

. Misses Caroline & sister Sarah Patterson both married in 1871, 6 months after the death of her father. Sister Elizabeth Patterson had married in 1869.

. Texas Death Cerficate: Caroline Sitton, Pyote, Texas
Born March 10 1854, Aged 85y 5m 15d, wife of C S Sitton. Born Guelph, Ontario, d/o Richard Paterson of King Lin, England, & Miss Ketch Poal, b London, England,
Cause of Death: Carcinoma of stomach, onset about Oct 1937, & senility.
Original homesteader of Pyote, Texas.

. After his marriage, Cicero followed the blacksmith's trade until 1876, when he moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he followed his trade for about a year. Moving then to Searcy County, Arkansas, he worked at his forge until 1885. While in Arkansas, he shod the horse of Jesse James. Then he returned to Texas & embarked in agriculture, locating first in Wilbarger County & later in Baylor County. Going in 1897 to what was then Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, he crossed the Red River 13 times.

When he first arrived in Oklahoma Territory, he & his family lived in a dugout. This was where his son Fitzhugh was born. One time when he needed food for his family, he ran into Judge Roy Bean (the law west of the Pecos). The Judge offered him a half a beef if he would butcher it. Later he found out the beef didn't belong to the Judge & he could have been hanged.
He took a prominent part in the development of Elk City, & served as its first postmaster, living a mile & a half away. Returning to Texas in 1901, Cicero Silas, associated with his son Ransom, entered into the mercantile business at Afton, Dickens County, under the firm name of R. L. Sitton & Co. Selling out his interest in the firm in 1907, he moved to Pyote, Texas. His wife said she was not moving again, so he erected the first house in the new town.

. Census 1870 Jul 17 Missouri, Caroline Patterson 16 y /b 1854, home, Born Canada, Parents foreign.

. State of Missouri, County of Texas. This is to certify that I solemnized the rite of matrimony between Circero S Sitton & Miss Caroline Patters, the 6 day of August AD 1871. Signed Joseph Motdeau.

. 1880 Census, Saint Joe, Searcy, Arkansas
C S Sitton, Age 2, born 1851 Alabama, Blacksmith, Married, Father b. Alabama, Mother b. Georgia.
. Caroline, age 25, b 1855 Canada, wife, Parents both b England
James R Sitton, age 8 / b 1872 Missouri, son
R L Sitton, Age 5 / 1875, Missouri, son
G N Sitton, Age 10 /b 1879, Arkansas, son.

Alternate Spelling: Carolyne. Her father Richard Patterson spelled her name as Caroline. - PJA

. 1910 Apr 25 Census, Pyote Justice Precinct, Ward Co., Texas
Sitton Caroline, Age 56, married 39y =1871, 6 of 14 children still living, both parents b. England.
also present, Cicero S Sitton, George N, Monroe, May, & Fitzhugh L Sitton.
Andrew J Sitton & wife Adelia; Ranson L Sitton & wife Pink, dau. alma & son Cicero. & brother-in-law, Frank Squares Age 11,

. 1930 Apr 3 Census Pyote City, Ward Co. Texas
Carolyn P Sitton, wife, 72/b1854 at 17 years old /1871 in Canada English, parents both English, *Landed 1860 Missouri.
Note: Her father Richard Patterson signed papers indicating he was already in Houston, Texas County, Missouri by *June 1856. Caroline would have been only seven at that time. - PJ Ahlberg.

. 1936 - The 82 widowed Caroline is called upon to deliver a neighbor's baby because the baby won't wait for the doctor.
Ref: Granddaughter, Jewell Moreland Scot, 1995.

. 1995 GRANDMA SITTON DOES IT ONE LAST TIME
The view from the second & top floor of the square, red brick school was a panorama of my world, the town of Pyote - the town where I was born & lived until I was t13 years old, the town my grandparents helped found in 1907. Behind the school was the lonesome black highway, running off to Wink, through the mesquite, red sand & greasewood. The same common black highway led into “town”- the sparse business section at the intersection with the Bankhead Highway. It did not touch me that this colorful highway ran from the Atlantic to California; my world was in view.
In 1936, I knew every struggling family left adrift in Pyote & could locate their simple houses from my perch. Only a few houses were located on the broad, graded, dirt streets, laid out in perfect squares by some long ago ambitious politician.  Most houses were at the end of trailing ruts of roads. I could see my house & the well-worn trail leading to it from the school. Across the way from my house was Aunt Pink & Uncle Rance’s house with its tangle of barbed wire fences & wooden gates. Beyond it, & through their pasture, was the neat home of my friend, Almira Lewis.
At another angle from my house, down a rutted road, there is Aunt Aurie & Uncle Fitz’s large square house built on two-foot posts, with a neat crawl space hide-away underneath. Grandma’s new house is beside them, built so she could be close to Uncle Fitz, now that she is alone & 82 years old. My friend Betty Elsner & her family live in grandma’s old home, one of the first built in the town & located just off the highway, on one of the wide, graded bare streets.
The sky is clear, blue & clean; the air is fresh & scented with greasewood. Immediately across the wide, graded bare street from the school is a row of 2 room houses, built sparsely, close, & painted green in a town of unpainted wood. The oil field workers line up to squash their growing families into these 2 room houses.
My classmate, Nell Lakey, lives in one of these refuges with her brother, father & pregnant mother. He is a driller; consequently, he drives a large shiny, new car.
As is the practice at noon, we students wait for class to recommence standing, staring out the open windows in the study hall. We see Nell’s father get in his shiny, new car, throwing rocks as he tears off. We watch the car sling toward town, but then it makes a sharp left turn going toward my house, then a right that leads nowhere but to Uncle Fitz’s & Grandma’s houses. He abandons the car at an odd angle, climbs through the barbed wire fence & runs to Grandma’s house. In just a few minutes, he hurries Grandma out, in her bonnet, but still tying on her clean, white apron. He opens the gate, puts her in the car, & retraces his route to his two-room home in our close view. Grandma climbs out of the car & scurries into Nell’s house. 
The reason for the unfurling drama dawns on us. Nell gets excited. “Mother is having her baby! Mother is having her baby."
The bell interrupts our drama & we drag off to class. At the end of the school day, we wait at the one-rail school boundary fence while Nell runs across the wide, graded dirt road & comes back immediately to tell us she has a new sister & Grandma Sitton delivered her because she could’t wait for the doctor from Pecos.    
 - by Jewell Scott, Memories of Pyote, USgenwebsites, org. - - -

Birth:
- 1870 Census, Upton Twp., DOB 1854

Died:
COD: Carcinoma of stomach since 10.1937. Aged 85y 5m 15d.

Buried:
Short thick grey tombstone reads: 1854 - 1939