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We stepped back 100 yearsthis week.Martin Merrill of El Paso, Fort Davis and Marfa gave the museum wonderful papers from his mother’s things.Mrs. George Merrill had been given many of these papers byAlice Jack Shipman (Mrs. Oscar Shipman). Mrs. Shipman was the daughter of Capt. Pat Dolan of Fort Davis. She was a wonderful historian.Much of this material from Mrs. Merrill is orders to orcorrespondence with Humphrisand Company from 1890 to 1893. They include such names and signatures as: W.W. Bogel, W.R. Ridley, Chispa, TX; J.T. Cline, Mrs. G.W. Withrow, A. McGehee, J.C. McKinney, L.D. Oden, Chas. Buehler,Sam Schwing, Viet Hernandez, Pat Dolan, Belle Bunton, Otto Newman, R.R. Ellison, W.W. Wilcox, Bell Alarcon,General Merchandise, Valentine; J.J. Hess Brothers, Dealers in Dry Goods and Family Groceries, Marathon, TX; T.A. Childers; John Scanlon; P.H. Pruett; Severiana Rodriguez.The letterhead Office of Murphy and Co., Dealers in General Merchandise, Post Office: Allamoore, El Paso Co.,Texas. Camp Schryver, TX 189.A letterhead for Office of Humphris and Co., Dealers in General Merchandise, Forwarding and Commission,Marfa, Texas, 7-26, 1892. John Humphris, Chas. S. Murphy, James Walker.Office of Walker Co., John Humphris, Chas. S. Murphy, James Walker, General Merchandise, Ranch Supplies, Hardware, Wagons, etc., Newman Springs, TX, Agosto1893.At the end of a letter to Humphris and Company fromFred Witte, June 3, 1990, Canyou sell those panther hides we killed them at sheep camp that’s five we’ve killed out there. They keep continually killing sheep everything O.K., so far.In 1899, Chas. Buehler, Shafter, Bakery and dealers in I Confectionery, Fruits, Canned Goods, etc. ordered ten barrels of XXX beer from Humphris Co. Marfa.Another store in Shafter, W. *Keesey and Company 1890, W. 1 Keesey B. Gleim. vMany, many more bits of 100 Fyear old history. ?In a Nov. 4, 1938, Fort Davis 5 Dispatch a detailed writeup about the life of Mrs. Mattie !! Belle Anderson, great ,grandmother of Martin Merrill. ,e Briefly:Mattie Belle Gaither was born ^ in Columbia, Kentucky, April 29, 1851. The family moved to P Missouri in 1855 or 1856 and I settled at Barrett Station about L 17 miles from St. Louis, whereMattie Belle attended HighSchool. During the war between the states they lived in
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Marfa Independent and Big Bend Sentinel
Marfa, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 03, 1991
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