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Marriage: Children:
  1. Jesse William James: Birth: 26 FEB 1904 in Locke, OK, Oklahoma Territory. Death: 16 APR 1993 in La Junta, Otero Co., CO

  2. Walter Peleg James: Birth: 2 SEP 1907 in Altus, Jackson Co., OK. Death: 2 NOV 1955 in Boise City, Cimarron Co., OK

  3. Andy Albert James: Birth: 22 JAN 1910 in Altus, Jackson Co., OK. Death: 31 MAY 2001 in Elkhart, Morton Co., KS

  4. John Tom James: Birth: 16 SEP 1912 in Sampsel, Cimarron Co., OK. Death: 8 JAN 1989 in Eads, Kiowa Co., CO

  5. Frank Cole James: Birth: 4 DEC 1914 in Garlington, Cimarron Co., OK. Death: 27 MAR 2003 in Woodward, Woodward Co., OK

  6. Joe Bob James: Birth: 6 JAN 1917 in Garlington, Cimarron Co., OK. Death: 26 DEC 1990 in Boise City, Cimarron Co., OK

  7. Newton Sidney James: Birth: 12 JUL 1919 in Garlington, Cimarron Co., OK. Death: 14 JUN 1991 in Amarillo, Potter Co., TX

  8. Fannie Sue James: Birth: 9 NOV 1921 in Garlington, Cimarron Co., OK. Death: 25 FEB 1973 in Mt. Pleasant, Texas

  9. Person Not Viewable

  10. Louis Taylor James: Birth: 4 APR 1925 in Stratford, Sherman Co., TX. Death: 27 DEC 1991 in La Junta, Otero Co., CO


Sources
1. Title:   Lois James Garner
2. Source:   Tree #2174.

Notes
a. Note:   7th son of the 7th son. Walter Peleg James as written by Lois Garner in 1971 for "God, Grass & Grit, History of Sherman County Trade Area" Walter Peleg James was born in the Choctaw Nation (Oklahoma Territory) Nov. 15, 1878 and died in Stratford Dec. 7, 1935. Survivors were his wife, eight sons and two daughters. He married Mettie Ivie Taylor Oct. 31, 1902 in Mangum, Okla. She was born June 8, 1884 in Newborn, Tenn. Walter and his mother came to Dalhart in 1901 by train. There they rented a team and hack, went to Texline and filed on land northeast of Dalhart. They dug a half-dugout, added one room and eventually a nice sized house with running water in the kitchen and bath, which contained only a tub. Coal was used for heat and cooking, and coal oil for lights. Mettie's first trip to the new ranch was by train in 1903. They stayed at Altus in the winters, and each spring drove the cattle to Dalhart. Once when the Canadian was raging, Mettie drove the buggy across with Walter and his brother, Andy, horseback on either side to catch her if she went under. Not a drop of rain fell from April until August 1910, so the cowboys were busy fighting prairie fires set by lightning. The James' first contact with Stratford was in 1910 when they shipped a herd of steers from there after the two-day drive into town. The following year Mettie rented an upstairs apartment from Mrs. Frank Watson in Stratford to send Jesse to school. His teacher was Miss Birdie Taylor. Christmas they took a train to Conlen, where Walter met them with a buggy for the ride home. The snows started the terrible blizzard of 1911-12. They were unable to return to Stratford, so, as was repeated many times, the child was taught by his mother. The cowboys would seem exhausted after a day of skinning dead cattle, but after a big meal they'd sit up laughing and talking until late. They invented their own entertainment, and did lots of inventing at their camps. They were quite selective in their fellow-cowboys and had ways of culling out the bad ones. One morning at North Camp, Ernesto DeShaso poured sassafras oil down an obnoxious one's back as he sat drinking coffee. It was twenty-two miles to Stratford, but he ran it in four hours! There were freight wagons coming and going every week bringing salt and cake. So even though sugar was bought by the hundred pounds, and canned goods by the case, groceries were not difficult to get. In 1922 the James' bought the old Blackburn house and once again moved into the friendly town of Stratford. All the children attended Stratford schools and the Baptist Church. Mrs. Lester Taylor taught all except one in Sunday School. Walter was happiest working with cattle and cattlemen. Mettie was busy filling the five gallon crocks with kraut or chow-chow, the fall butchering with the lard rendering, meat curing and soap making. She never learned to drive, but when Walter gave her a Studebaker in 1916, she followed the book and taught Jesse to drive, and from then on she had her drivers. Their closest friends and neighbors were the Dick McDaniels, Judge Hunters, W.T. Martins, and J.T. Browns. Dr. Norvell was the family doctor and Mrs. Hunter the town nurse. The Missionary Society was Mettie's social life and Walter served on the school board. Although Mettie resides in Boise City, her heart is in Stratford. Son, Newt, now lives on the home place near Kerrick. His two children, Louis Frank and Mary Catherine, are the only second generation to graduate from there.


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