Blue By You Ranch - Maude Green Blue

Let me introduce myself; I am Alfred Scott Hash/Grieshaber/ Grandson of Maud Green Blue. I had the opportunity to live with my grandparents 1939 till the summer of 1949. I did receive a lot of first hand genealogy from them during this period. I had just completed my freshman year in high school when I went to California. My Grandfather was sixty seven and my grandmother was fifty seven in 1939.

I will attempt to transcribe, verbatim, Maude's hand written autobiography. Writing this will not be easy for I will attempt to copy this in her words and spelling. The original was done on a "25 cent tablet" and when the paper ran out so did the biography.

Autobiography Of Maud M. Green Blue

Written 1958
Dear Bobbie
I have made a lot of mistakes in spelling but I guess you figer it out if you wanto - know my thing elce maby when the weather gets cooler I can write that you can make out the letters then maby you can make out the words You look at this when you are 75 and see how you do I will be 75 pritty soon You have worked hired but you had it btter thin I had with 8 no lites no gass well by by Mother I love my children

J.W. & Maude Blue 1957
at Gordon, TX Centennial

                       Sept 14 1883
    Maud May Green was born in Rising Star State Ala
When I was 3 years old we moved to Tenn Disburg lived ther untill I was 8 then we came to Texas palo pinto Co I had 3 sisters and 4 Brothers
John Green mirried Nannie McCoye
Emmer Green -------- Will Spence then Mattie Needham
Maggie Green-------- O S Pinick
Enoch Green --------- Mabel some one
Bill or Willem Green- Vada Willie
Lee Green------------- Tom Greeson
Jess Green maried Luise Mathison.
4 of us decesed 2 boys and 2 girls.
My father wa Levi Green. Born 1848 in No krliner died Aug 18, 1892. Mother was Rebecia Tucker born Dec 25, 1851 lived in Tenn died Sip 13, 1921    - 70
Father Blue was born Aug 18, 1846 Born in Arkensaw came to texas when he was 11 and Died in Palo pinto Co.in1936. His name was Moses Henry Blue Mother Blue was a Mayo. Sidney Saphronia she was borned in texas, this is the Blue children of father Blue
John Walter Blue born

Born Jan 28, 1873 in Palo Pinto texas , born in Gordon
Will Blue was born in Palo Pinto in Gordon nov 21, 1868 married Maggie Willimans
Ida Mathison Blue born Mar 25 1875 in Palo Pinto
J F Blue born Jan 10 1879
Robert Henry born may 16 1881 in Palo Pinto
Dovie Blue born May 26, 1889 living 1 girl 2 boys
Dovie Frank JW Blue

Jack Tinks Boye
Nedra & Alinne Bobbies girls, the Fulfords
Emma Mays children
Elton, Yauvone, Virl, Judson, Scottie, Larnce, Norce, Edward, Dawrn.
8 grate grand children
When Sister Lee was born My aunt Carline dads sister was out our haus and we children was at her hous when she came home she brought us kid a lot of muskdines tha shure or good tha look like a big blue grape but tha grow wild dad had two sisters

Maude Green Blue

and 8 Brothers I guess tha ar all dead Mother had 2 Brothers & 8 sisters tha ar all Dead but one Brother his name is Ben Tucker.
When I was just a kid 5 and till I wa 8 dad had a sawmill and a cotton gin we children Enock and Bill and my self played at the mill he had a big pond at the mill and it was full of fish we would fish and play in the saw dust it was nice and cleen we liked to feed the big oxin that tha worked to the log wagions the steers was

big ones some of them would waght 14 to 1800 Mother had a big bunch of gees some times they would chase us one time tha tore a new Red flannel dress of me and left blue spots all over my legs. We liked to play on the big logs that tha halled to make lumber out of we was glad when dad mad a big halling of lumber to town he always got us kids good things to eight. We did not hafto buy apples grand father Tucker had a big apple

JW & Maude Blue

orched on the land wher new dipo tran staton of Memphis was built on my grand dads apple orched. When I was a little girl 8 we came to Texas I thought this was a auffell place the wolves howled at night and evry few days we would smell one of thoes polcats tha did not have them in Tenn and we thought the mountons was huges things. When we went to school in Mingus the worst Bear spots in the state and is getting wors every day we had ben wher little over a year Daddy

got killed by a hors I still thank that was the sadest day of my life. Sister Emma was married when dadie died. Sister Maggie got married. Enock soon went out on his one John got Married then Bill soon went out on his one and that left Me Lee Jess that was quite small Mother tryed to hold us to gether she did 2 years So I got married and Enock taken Mother Lee Jess for 2 year then he went up in Okla got married than I and Mr Blue moved Mother and Lee Jess in with us

10 that was large enuff to work but soon Lee got married Jess went to the Armey and when he got out he went out on his one. Mother lived with us in all 11 years I never heard her and Mr Blue have a cross word she was the sweest Mother iny one could have I wish I was just as good as she was. Well we worked hird but was happy We rased 7 lovly children I worked hard to give them the best. Was happy to do it I picked 300 pounds of cotton the day I was 40. All of the

11 was in the field picking that day some times I feel like I have have ben a complete faluer but when I see the nice children and grand children I thank maby not. Well we would get a few cattle on hand and thank we was gonto do good somthing would happen Dr Bills or a long dry spell would come Mr Blue cared the brand T- and mine was -T We worked out of Odessa We worked for J Keer We filed on 4 sexctron of land and worked

12 worked for Mr J Keer he had 17 sexctons of land and had 7 wells we hadto take care of. He had a big herd of white face cattle we had to roundups 2 times year and Mr Keer Branded me a nice yearling heffer ever time we had a roundup We was ther 4 years so I had a pritty little bunch when we left Mr Blue bought a few head when we first went out ther so when we sold out and left we had 52 head to geather well I didint know wher the -T went on the place I guess When tha worked the cattle I

13 cooked for 20 to 31 men and a lot of the men Rancher would drive ther hureds throw goning to Moninhans tha would pen ther cattle ther at our pens Some times tha would have 1000 ar 1500 what a balling would take place. I had 3 children when we went out ther and had one born out ther when she was born I hadent had a Dr for 2 years we lived 33 miles from town and we did not have a Dr when she wes born when she was 6 Months old

14 I waied 99 pounds I waid 100 3 when we was married. When we moved from Odessa we moved to Blueflat 6 miles of Gordon. We moved to a farm Bought 1 cow and calf she was a milk cow and we got one from our nabour to milk tha was good ones so one night it came up a bad rain and some auffell liting it struck the barn and lit it on fire it killed the two cows and tha fell rite under the lader that went up in the loft I hurd

16 the loud clap a thunder I jumped up looked out could see a blaze of fire in the loft yelled at Blue grabed to pales of water ran to the barn I had to walk a cross thoes cows to get to the ladder I cared thoes to up and came down for some more and it had rained so hired that I could dip the water up out of the lot but we put it out I dident have on iny thing but my gown My hair was plated in 2 plats

17 and hung way down pass my knees tha shure was wet could ring water out of them. Well we bought 2 heffers and one of them had twns the next year and tha both was heaffers and we bored 2 more milk cows then bought 2 so we soon had a little start a gain we lived at Blue flat 10 years there moved to Scrry Co. Mr Blue and the children went throw in covered wagon. droved the horses throw some of the children rode some of the horses we

18 we shiped the hous hold goods chickens and hogs the baby and I rode the train so we could be ther when the car was unloded we got out ther Brothers Bob Blue went with the car well Bob and my self worked just as hired as we could to get the hous cleaned up befor the girls got ther we had to put in new windows scrub ever flors the chicken hous was full of blue bugs we shiped 6 big fat white hogs we had to build a pen for them.

19 and clean the yards the family was 6 days comming throw well all that winter and erly spring we had some of the worst sand storms but the wind quited down in May and we made a good crop came out pritty good when the weather got warm in june the bed bugs came out well we hadto pull all of the paper off the walls and fumagate for thas bugs I got 5 pounds of sulpher and ½ galons of wood alcohol and

20 I pored the sulphers in a 5 gal can and pored the alcohol over it shut the dores and left the hous that night we did not have iny bugs nr My Mic when we opened the doors that night the Mic was laying all over the place. We rased good crops out ther some times we would have in 300 acars in cotton and me and the children picked all of it we lived 5 years ther then then we moved to mexico. Potales Mexico just stayed one year. Came

21 Back worked for Mr Hinkson on his ranch for $75 a month and sent three children to Strawn to school in a model T ford and saved a little money when we sold out in mexico we got a place at Lypan 300 arars but we never did live onit we sold it and bought a home in Gordon our home is just in the sity limets 21 acars we moved when in 1929 the children got married left us we have ben a lone the most of our time last 23 years. When we had ben married allmost 2 years we bought 160

22 acars of land at loncamp it was raw land well we got to tents had one for the living room and bed room and the outher one for the kitchen and dinnig Boom had dirt flowers we lived that way untill we put in land and made 2 crops then we bought an old barn from Mrs Love it had a lot of good lumber in it we built us a 2 room hous the nabors healped us to reck the barn and build us a hous we just had money to put a flower in one room but we

23 wer happy to be in a hous Well Father Blue had a old mare with a yong colt she was down and could not get up so he said if I could get hre up I could have her well I got her up but I will bet I carried 6 barls of watter to her and up a hill well she got up the colt mad a nice hors well I got the mare fat and pop traded her off for a bull. Well when we moved to lone camp we hadto have watter so Mr Blue had a well drelled

24 then he gave the man My Bull for part of the payso this went a nuther -T . Well the Colt made a lovely horse. Mr Blue had a little span of white mules. Well one day he traded My horse and his Mules for 2 big cliedyale horses tha could eight a tub fell of corn at a time Well we sold that place Moved up on Lake Crick we planted 24 acars of cotton and made 30 bales of cotton and got 8 cents a pound for it well that year we

26 moved to Odessa we had bought a little farm Rinted it out had 7 or 8 cows and a Bool we just left the cows on the place the rinters did not have iny cows so we paid Father Blue 700 down on the place the next fall Father Blue went back to Gordon and soild the place and sent us the deeds to sign I told Mr Blue I would not Sine the deeds untill we was shur we would get 700 out of it well he pressed untill I Sined so he wanted the Money to buy some more cows well Father

27 Blue sold our cows with the place and we did not get one thin dime when Father Blue had his new hous bilted Mr Blue hawled off the lumber with our team 33 miles not one cent did he get pay us then he had a well drilled and his money was down wher at Gordon so he ask Mr Blue just to give him a check All we got back was the check after it had ben cashed I still have it. When we lived in Odessa the wood was very scace so some times

28 I had to cook with cow chips I shure did not like that but I stayed with it for 4 years one time we went after a barl of water 4 miles a little cloud came up befor we got ther and it came a hail storm. So Mr Blue turned the barrul down in the wagon put the children in it and jumped out unhooked the horses from the wagon gave me the lines to hold and he crawael under the wagon left Me siting in the spring seat holding the horses

29 I shure was black and Blue from the hail but I did not let the horses get away. I stay ed out ther 14 months one time that I did go to town and at one time it was 14 teen monthes that it did not rain a nuth to run off the hous Well I was glad when Bert olde enuth to start to school so we came back to Palopinto lived on a farm it was hired work then we did not have electer light nr gass come in from the field from picking up pecans

30 well I had to take the ashes out of the stove go get chips make a fire and get supper they lit the lame some times it would not have iny oil in it hafto fill it then clean the globe and I would be so tired could hardly go after supper get the children to bed cleen the dishes maby hafto patch some or work some button hoels but I was happy but the death angle came in and made us all very sad he taking one of the twins tha was

31 pryde and joye of our home. Then a short time later Mother passed a way Mr Blues Mother got kild By a car in 1912 And My father got killed by a horse My father had one arm off he was a school teacher Me Blues Mother had one foot and part of her leg of Mother got her leg shot off My father got his arm cut off with a sargum mill when he was quite young But he could use iny tuwol carping towel Mother Blue could do most iny

32 thing I taught a Sunday school class for 10 years I am glad that I have some girls that teaches I joined the Babis church 54 years a go never have wanted to turn back Mr Blue has ben a member for 60 years We enjoye goning to church I have seen all of my children baptised but one father Blue was a ranchman all most of his life he had a lot of horses and cows was lazy H well we dont have any cows at present

33 we still have the old cow bell I dont know how old it is The men and ladys should be very happy this day tha press a button have lite and have fire to cook with can do most iny thing with gassleen tha press a button have out a big washing. 45 and 50 years ago we had to use a old pot to heat the water and drage up wood to make a fire then put the clothes in a wash tub and take a old rub board and rub the dirt out

34 of a 100 150 peces you are tired and most of us had to hang the close on a ware fince and watch them to kep the cows from eighting them up thank the lord for gass and oil and for the men that made things that made life so easy I am kinfolks of John D Rockey fellow but his welth did not make lite the first 45 years of our life was pritty hired but we was happy but the last 12 years has ben pritty good prase the lord we could live and

35 not work so hired. I started going with Mr Blue when I was 17 and married him when we had ben goning to gether for one year. We Married out at Lake Creek at a preachers hous then we went home wher we was gonto live he had the hous all redy when we got out ther the wasent iny one to meet us but to big hounds dogs one of them was named Rid and the outher one Maney the next day we went to Palo pinto to a dinner that was the first time

36 I had met his Mother and father and the nex day we went to the cotton patch to pick cotton we had a nice 2 horse buggy so he Mr Blue traded it for a new wagon we lived 8 miles from town so when we went to town we would drive 16 miles Mr Blue was a cow Boye he had a grate out dore life he went to west texas just when he was a boye he hureded cattle when ther was not iny finces he would help Drive Big hurds to the shipping yard some

37 times to Cansas he would ride Bronks I guess did ever thing that cowboyes did thoes days one time he was helping drive a heard throw and was riding pritty fast and his horse stteped in a dog hole and fell and Broke the horses neck and bunge Mr Blue up and he had to ride the chuck wagon in he worked at lubbic when ther was iny torun much had a little old plank cort house we have a picture of it one time he was riding the rainch and found

38 a Big Bob cat he roped it and he shure had a hired time turning him a go Thank he Run throw the Brush and draged him to death one time he was after a cow on the mountian and his hors fell with him and he could not see for a weack But he was a good cow hand if iny of the foalks in the conty wanted a wild cow caught tha would come for Mr Blue he never was sick much But he had a lot of reck with the horses one

39 Brok his leg stept in a hole and fell with him he rode and worked with cattle untill was74 he 85 at this time 1958. He gets a round good Drives his car when he quit riding he waight 148. Now he is up to 175. When we was goning to gether be for we was married we would go to squar Dances and some times Dance most all nite and pick cotton all day the next day he shure was a good Dancer he was 28 I was 17 but we had a lot of fun he didnent smoke nr he did not drink never has smoked

40 when he was a lad he Drove the mail hack from mineral wells to Palo pinto and at that time ther was not iny Bridg a cross the Brases River and it would get up big some times he Mr Blue went to school in Palo pinto when he was a child the outher day we went to Palopintos old Settlers Reunen and he got a prise for Bening the oldest borned in the conty when we was living at lone camp in the tent we had 2 big black dogs one was named big dug and the outher one was named little dug one

41 nig ht a mountian line and tha had a fight Mr Blue and his Brother frank jumped up and ran out wher tha was and he the line ran Jumped over the fince and the big dug Ran trou the fince and tore split his tail open we had to take him to the wood pile and cut it off and the line got all most one half of his ear we had a collar on the little dug and a trace chane tied to that so we tied him close to the tent and the next night

41 (again) the line came back and the dogs got in a fight with him and and we ran out ther tha all wran the little dug got a loose and tha ran and barked untill tha got out of hearing next morning the big dog was home but the little one was not ther so we wated for him but he did not com so late in the even we hured him holling up on a mountaion so Mr Blue and frank and the other dog went after him the chan had wraped a round

42 a tree and he could not get a loose he had run untill that chane was brite as a silver dollar we did not have iny way fasing the tent door so we lited a lantern and set in the door when the dogs and lion was having ther fight the cows all got out and Ran a way one had on the old cow bell she shure did make it ring But we was happy just laught a bout it. We had to go 11 miles to town in a wagon and thoes to dogs would follow the wagon and

43 would whip evry dog on the road we had a Big old Yellow cat he was a big thang to be a cat his name was tom we just had 4 chairs one of them was a rocker when tom came in if iny one was sitting in the rocker he would cry untill he got the Rocker When Bert was Born the nabors said poor old tom.
When the first trin came throw Gordon Mr Blue and his Brother Will was out at the Rail Road track Mr Blue was 8 or 9 years old Well the first tran came throu in 1881

44 the grass bures was knee high he said the tran whisled and him and Will ran just as hired as the could throw thoes grass - bar footed Just scared to death and all the cows run to.
Father Blue went into the armey when he was 17 he lived in Palopinto at that time when he got out in VA tha turned him loose just one suit of clothes one par of shoes a hors and a shot gun he started for home he Rode the horse untill it gave out then he had to take it on foot

45 he walked untill the gun to heavy he throw it a way he would stop and beg for somphing to eight he walked untill he wore his shoes out came in home bar footed did not have iny thing they did not have iny trains nr Busses that day father Blue lived wher when the Indens was wher he had a pritty hired time with them tha would steal his horses kill his cows when him and Mother Blue was married the lived in a one room log caben with a dirt flowers she was a lovely Mother

46 My grand Father Green lived to be 100 6 years old tha lived in log caben cooked on a fire place Grand father built it of clay he wraped a egg in a wet cloth evry morning and roasted it and had it for his Brakfast. My grand father Tucker was to large to go to war he waighted 353. Lbs he had a flower Mill and was a shoe cobbler he loned Davie Crocket 300 and 50 Dollars and he gave grand dad a note but never did pay him the paper money was not iny good after

47 the war. Shure did have them in a bad fix for money My Grand mother and her healp made ther one clothes tha made the thread then made the cloth that she made the clothes out of. I am so glad that young folks do not hafto work so hired thes days My grand father had slaves be for the war when tha was freed tha did not want to go a way I did not get to go to school much for I hadto healp make a liven we had to plant our cotton and corn by

48 hand and had to geather it some times it would be late in the fall befor we got thru and if iny one had to stay home to do hous work or healp with the sick it would be Maude May so when I am 74 soon will be 75 have a lot of folks to write to and dont know how to spell if I knew how to spell I would write a book. I never vote only when I get a chance to vote a gents Beer and Whiskey I am so glad that My family dont drink that Filthey stuff

49 well I am happy that I have a Rill nice Family no criples all normal and good workers.
When I was 32 I had a very serce opration Sat befor Ester but that did not get me down for long that fall I picked cotton all fall and picked up pecans we had something like a 100 trees tha sold for 8 and 10 cents per pound im 40 I had to have a goiter cut out of my throat to or three Drs. Said I could not live but I came out with flying collors by one of my in laws helping

50 me that was Vern schell god bless his hart shure did all he could all of the children did Bobbie and Bert healped like little solders. In 41 I was sick 3 or 4 Drs said I could not live but wher I am I had My throat oprated on a gan lived on goat milk for 6 months got up and was doing pritty good but a few years later one of my kidneys stoped working and I had to have it cut out but I whiped that but had to put up a fight. I have had

51 7 Oprations in all. We lost our first Baby she was Borned in sept 12 1902 She is Burred in lake creek grave yard My father & mother is Burred in the Old Gordon Grave yard Our grave yard lot is in the new grave yerd at Gordon Father Blue and Mother Blue is in the new Grave Yard at Gordon. Ther is miney things that I can thank of but you see I cant hardly write By By Mother Blue
Maude May Blue Green

JW & Maude Blue

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