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Doctor iunt, my honored father, was the physician; Gabriel Conroe,
the blacksmith; George Singer, the' merchant, and a dozen families of
farmers constituted the earliest plains settlement, named Estacado, from
the Spanish name for the plains, the Llano Estacado.
Soon a little white church was built in the midst of the settlement,
and here, one sunny July day, before the floor had been laid, a little
congregation sat on the sleepers and in a simple service of songs, prayers,
and talks dedicated the building to God as his House.
f Before its erection, an older sister of mine, Miss EmTM:a Hunt, now
Mrs. A. A. Annon, of Denver, Colorado, had followed the family *estward.
She came to Colorado, Texas, the new terminus of the new Texas and Pacific
Railroad, and was triumphantly brought by freight wagon one hundred and
thirty miles north to the Colony by my older brother. Soon she opened a
little school in a dug-out. Here a handful of us received our first
steps in learning. Here, one day, a huge buffalo stuck his head in the
doorway, and gazed in wonder at our little group as we sat paralysed
with fright, arid suddenly becoming frightened himself, dashed away across
the prairie to join a herd of his wandering kind.
Estacado became the county seat of Crosby County and to the count
for Judicial purposes were attached thirteen others, including Lubbock.
An amusing aftermath is that a later survey, now the boundary line, places
more than half the town site in Lubbock County. I am not sure but that
the first court house was over the lina, but it was Crosby then and will
historically continue so to the end of time. Judge G. .. Swink, of Dallas,
was judge; Paris Cox, Clerkj and Felix Franklin, Sheriff.
Among those original. settlers =as the Underhill family---Uncle Harvey
Underhill, his wife Aunt Anna, his sons, Andrew and John, and his daugh-
ters, Rmma and Lint. There were also several families of relatives of
Pcris.Cox, including his father and mother, Uncle Gideon and Aunt Asenath,
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Hunt, James Winford. [The Old Quaker Colony: First Settlement on Staked Plains of Texas], text, 1925/1934; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth744323/m1/3/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McMurry University Library.