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| Threadgill, John T. 204472 |
| Birth: 12/16/1848 Death: 11/18/1925 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: Highland (2 BACK NE) |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025) |
| Notes Information from "A History of Texas & Texans," Volume 4, 1914, page 2025, by Frank White Johnson, Eugene Campbell Barker, Ernest William Winkler, Chicago American Historical Society, contributed by Sue and Lawrence Dale, sdale@suddenlink.net:: John T. Threadgill, who recently moved to the town of Deport from his farm in the vicinity of the place, has been identified with the community adjacent to this village since 1896, and with Red River county since 1880. He is a fine example of independence and modest thrift after a period of dependence covering a generous part of his married life, and the story of his rise in fortunes is but another chapter out of the general compliment paid to the black land section of Texas the wealth it brings to those who will cultivate its acquaintance assiduously and husband its luxurious growths. Mr. Threadgill came hither from Henderson county, Tennessee, where his birth occurred, in the vicinity of Lexington, on December 16, 1848. He is the son of Allen J. Threadgill, who passed his life at the blacksmith's forge and in the business of farming at Crucipher, that county, and died there in 1888, when he was something like sixty-five years of age. The father was born in North Carolina and came from the laboring classes. He contributed little to the public weal save his excellent citizenship, which is a quality of which too much may not be said in praise. As a boy, Allen J. Threadgill accompanied his father to Tennessee from North Carolina, and the elder Threadgill spent much of his time in business activities in Lexington. He was a major in the militia in his early days, and a man of some education and much usefulness in his county. He was one of the few Masons in the country in his time and was prominent in the order and active in his membership in the Methodist church. He died when he was about seventy-five years old. His first wife was a Miss West, who bore him the following children: Elizabeth, who died as Mrs. Wadley; Whit, who spent his life in Arkansas; Mrs. Sallie Brewer, who died in Tennessee; Allen J., who became the father of the Deport citizen; Julia, who died unmarried; Eveline, who married Mr. Kingery, and Clinton, who spent his life in Tennessee. Allen J. Threadgill was a loyal citizen, surrounded by warring elements in Henderson county, but he maintained his position in that region while the war raged, . and came out with honor and dignity, despite his position. He early married Mary A. Cawthon, a daughter of John B. Cawthon, a Methodist minister, who came out of North Carolina, and whose wife was a Miss Elizabeth Holtom. Mrs. Threadgill died in October, 1904, the mother of six children, as follows: John T., of this review; Alice E., who died as the wife of W. H. Fesmire, in Tennessee; Laura Ann, who married James MeDaniel and resides in Tennessee, where also reside Allen W., Joseph and Mattie. John T. Threadgill was a youth attending the work on his father's farm while the war of the Rebellion was being waged. He entertained Union sentiments, in harmony with his father and grandfather. Such education as he received came to him in the school at Crucipher, and he reached his majority while yet sharing in the shelter of the parental roof. He married in 1870, and in that year, when he was twenty-two years old, set out upon an independent career. In beginning their wedded life. Mr. and Mrs. Threadgill each possessed a horse and a cow, and the customary feather bed and a bureau were a part of their first possessions. Although his industry was ably supplemented by that of his faithful and willing young wife, the ten years that they passed in diligent attention to the soil of their native state, little return rewarded their labors save a bare living, and they came to Texas without possessing sufficient capital to make them owners of the smallest kind of a farm. They made the trip by train, stopping at Detroit to pay a visit to Mrs. Threadgill's brother, who made his home there, and soon after established their home upon a tract of land that they were able to arrange for the purchase of. The story of the sixteen years spent upon that farm is one of practically unrewarded effort, for it is a fact that more lean years than fat ones fell to their lot and portion. The result was that they finally decided to become renters upon the much vaunted black land of the state, having become sufficiently acquainted with the sandy soil after sixteen years of disappointment. Accordingly they moved into the Deport community, rented a farm just east of the town, and settled down to work. Mr. Threadgill avers that the four years he worked that black dirt farm brought him more actual money than he had ever before possessed, and he straightway acted upon the suggestion that his good judgment prompted and bought a farm of his own. This place, his first real home in Texas, lies three miles east of Deport, and comprised originally one hundred and fifty-nine acres, with what might be termed frontier improvements. Corn and cotton raising has solved the problems of finance for Mr. Threadgill, and, with his own labor, he has marketed cotton below four cents a pound and yet made some money. The cultivation of his farm with its added acreage and the vast changes that have been brought about by the erection of substantial and even costly buildings, has been the dream and the accomplishment of Mr. Threadgill. His seven room residence, with its four galleries, his fine barns and sheds, his seed house and buggy shed, all point to a climax of a successful career and suggest eloquently the contrast between the first sixteen years of his Texas farming experience and the last period of a similar duration. Mr. Threadgill has sold cotton at less than four cents, as has been stated, and as high as $14.90 a hundred; he has produced his own meat and other stuff that he required for family use, and he has learned the way to independence in the truest sense of the word. His change from one location to another has put him in the class of farmers who hold shares in banks and other fiduciary concerns, and he is financially interested in the First State Bank of Deport and in the Western Casualty and Guaranty Company of Dallas. In December, 1912, Mr. Threadgill had so far advanced in the scale of prosperity that he felt justified in withdrawing from his active farm interests, and left the farm to take a residence in Deport, where he is now located and here he takes an important part in the civic life of the town. He is a member of the Methodist church and a trustee of its official body. His fraternal interests are represented by his membership in the Masonic order, of which he has been a member for some time and in which he has a whole-souled and intelligent interest. On September 8, 1870, Mr. Threadgill married Miss Elizabeth C. Brooks, a daughter of Aaron S. and Nancy (Russell) Brooks. The father of Mrs. Threadgill was born in Tennessee and his wife in North Carolina, and they became the parents of eight children, named as follows: Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Threadgill: Jerry, who died single; Sena, married to George E. Turner; William; George; Harriet, the wife of W. G. Thomas; Wesley, a resident of Oklahoma, and James, of Red River county. William, George and Mrs. Turner are all residing in Lamar county. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Threadgill reared a fine family of nine children, all of whom have come to occupy useful places in life. They are as follows: Dora, the wife of William Handley; Mary, who married Guff Slayden; Nannie married Eliza Green Morgan; Bessie, now Mrs. Charles Gifford; Newton, who married Nora Martin, of Wichita Falls, Texas; Allen, who married Rosa Davis. All of the above reside in Red River county. Joe married Susie Davis, and they live in Gurley, Alabama; Claud, a farmer of Red River county, who married Annie Talley; Marshall, the youngest born, is the only one of the nine who still clings to the family home. Double marker with Betty Threadgill. Masonic symbol on marker. Near Lillie A. Grant and Elijah Green Morgan. |