Wagon Wheels keep on turning living at home
Comanche country settlers built a self reliant life with home grown food. They milled grain locally, dried fruits on rooftops, canned with self sealing lids, and used pressure cookers and freezers. They kept orchards, vineyards, beehives, and sorghum mills while sharing syrup and fresh dairy among neighbors.
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Jewell Dukes Huddleston
Comanche
Dent
General Mercantile Store
Montomorency
Memories of a Texas farmstead before modern conveniences
In Comanche Texas, a bygone rural scene recalls ice boxes with top ice, stone milk cracks, and wooden boxes for cream and butter. The narrator describes duck egg gathering, goose and guineas guarding nests, fattening hogs and beeves, lard rendering, sausage making, pecan storage, and preparations as autumn rains set in for winter.
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Concord
Carmen
Moore's
Genealogy plea traces Richard Kiser in Comanche County history
A reader seeks help tracing Richard Kiser who arrived in Comanche County around 1850. He served as private in Thomas C. Frost's Texas Mounted Rangers 1857 58 and in Capt James Cunninghams Detachment Minute Men Company D. He was named to Comanche County's first grand jury and may have been born in Arkansas. Contact Mrs W W Anderson at Box 1442 Del Rio Texas 78840.
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Richard Kiser
Comanche
Comanche County
Thomas C. Frost
Company of
Texas Mounted Rangers
James Cunningham
Minute Men
Arkansas
Richar Kiser
Card of Thanks for Ottis Fields Family
The family expresses heartfelt thanks for flowers memorials sympathy cards food and comforting prayers. Mrs. Ottis Fields and children appreciate the many friends who helped during their sorrow.
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Ottis Fields
Visitors from Iowa Visit Comanche Family
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Culpepper and daughter Melissa of Atalissa Iowa vacation in Comanche visiting Floyd Culpeppers and relatives. Melissa stays for a longer visit and will be accompanied home by the Culpeppers.
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Jerry Culpepper
Melissa
Atalissa
Iowa
Comanche
Floyd Culpeppers
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W. W. Anderson
del Rio
M. L. Green
Garth Priddy
Comanche Independent School District
Gandy's Dairies
Gold
Comanche County 4-H Adult Leaders Association
Ite
Lake Proctor
Parks and Wildlife
Billy Works
Jack Butler
Robert Diggerstaff
Springtown
Billy
Mac’s Fabrics
E. Oak
Heartland
General Automotive Service
the Financial Leader
Tolue
POST
Kidde
BUG
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