Ina Mae Russell

Notes:

Copied from the Facebook Group, Farm Road 1-From one end to the other, written by Ronald Barlow:

Happy 100th Birthday, Mammaw!

One Hundred years ago today, on January 27, 1916, Ina Mae Russell (1916-2001) was born at home in LaMerle, Texas, near the Santa Fe Railroad about halfway between Pineland and Bronson.

Her parents were Creed Thomas Russell (1888-1925) and Lora Lee Warner Russell Forse (1894-1983).

Creed worked at the sawmill in LaMerle, that belonged to J.R. Harris and R.W. Henry, for a few years, before moving the family to Jasper, so he could work for the Texas Highway Department constructing Highway 8.

Ina Mae attended school at Plainview, Jasper and Bronson.

She was nine years old, when her father was shot in Jasper on November 1, 1925.
Creed Russell died four days later, leaving Lora a widow, with five children between the ages of three months and eleven years.

Lora Russell moved the family back to Bronson, where her family could help with survival.

Three years after Creed Russell's murder, when her mother married W.C. "Bill" Forse, of the Plainview Community, in 1929, her teacher, Charlie Forse, became her stepbrother.

Six years later, the family was complete with the birth of LaNell.
Her siblings were:
C.L. Russell (1914-1974)
Ina Mae Russell Barlow (1916-2001)
Wilson Roy "Billy" Russell (1918-1961)
Erma Moselle Russell Foster (1921-1972)
Leva Isabelle "Belle" Russell McLemore (1925-2007)
LaNell Forse Crow Bragg (1934-2015)

Ina Mae married Adron Horace "Dick" Barlow (1907-1987) on July 14, 1932.
Ina Mae was 16 and Dick was 24.

For the next 55 years, she was never away from his side for more than a day or two, except for the years during World War II, when Dick worked at the shipyard in Orange, and Ina Mae stayed at Pineland so the kids could stay in school.

Even then, Dick made it home on weekends.

Ina Mae was a professional Homemaker.
She had to be.

In their 55 years of marriage, she and Pappaw lived in at least ten different homes.

Ina Mae often said that "when the rapture comes, I will probably be in the middle of moving" and all their worldly possessions would be left in a ditch somewhere along the way.

She gave birth to Lamar Barlow at home, just east of Strickland Crossing on March 24, 1933.

Seventeen months later, Lora Beth was born at their next home, just southwest of Strickland Crossing on August 24, 1934.

Two years later, Wendall Joe (my Daddy) was born at their next home, in the Slip-Up-N-Hitch Community between Strickland Crossing and Plainview, near the Lott Cemetery, on September 1, 1936.

Two-and-a-half years later, Mary Virginia was born in their first home near Bear Creek, northwest of Pineland on March 22, 1939.

In less than six years, Ina Mae had set up home in four different places, while bearing four children.

That was the end of the children...but not the moving.

Just a year or two later the "Stagner House" at Bear Creek burned down.

They moved into a smaller sharecropper house next door, which I was raised in, and my mother still lives in.

Dick added on to the house to accommodate the family of six.

Ina Mae had a milk cow, chickens, and a garden, as well as a growing herd of beef cattle to tend to, as Dick farmed cotton and cut railroad ties.

With his crosscut saw, kerosene sling bottle, axe, broad axe, iron wedge, gluts, and wooden gauge, Dick could work circles around most men, turning out more crossties than anybody around.

They had no running water, no electricity, no telephone, no inside plumbing, no refrigerator...not even an icebox.

Ina Mae had a wood cook stove, kerosene lamps, a flatiron, a mud fireplace, an outhouse, a smokehouse and a corn crib.

Dick butchered his own hogs and the family bunked sweet potatoes, shelled peas and beans, shucked corn, cut okra, pulled squash, cucumbers and watermelons...and never went hungry.

Ina Mae canned pork sausage, vegetables, fruit, chow-chow, pickles, jelly and preserves.

Store-bought "Light Bread" was a rare treat, so Ina Mae made biscuits and cornbread every day.

Temple Lumber Company's sawmill whistle in Pineland could clearly be heard from 2-3 miles away and served as the Barlow's and other farm folks signal for lunch.

Life was simple...and good.

The Great Depression had very little impact on folks that lived off the land and had nothing in the bank.

During World War II, when Dick went off to work in the shipyard, Ina Mae and the kids moved into the "Conner House," a mile-or-so up the road, closer to the highway, to be closer to town with no man in the house.

Ina Mae never learned to drive and never wanted to.

Dick, as all Barlow men seem to be, was fascinated by cars and anything mechanical.

About 1945, they got electricity, and hung one bare light bulb in each room of the house, with a pull switch.

Soon after, Ina Mae had a refrigerator and an electric iron, which really changed her life.

In 1946, Dick and Arvil White bought a sawmill and set it up on a pice of land on the east side of US 96, a mile-or-so north of Pineland, where Pat Bradberry now lives.

Soon after, with lumber cut at his sawmill, Dick built a new three bedroom home and moved the family in next door to the sawmill.

Marie Beauchamp McBride now lives in this house.

Besides the sawmill, Dick sold used cars in front of the home, did carpentry work, bought and sold real estate, ran beef cattle on Bear Creek, and worked on everyone else's cars.

Ina Mae and Dick were instrumental in moving Martin Chapel Church from the Martin Cemetery, near Bear Creek, to a new location on the highway, where they renamed it Bethel Chapel Missionary Baptist Church.

They were both baptized in Allen's Pond near their home on 96.

Bethel Chapel had "preaching" only twice a month, but had it on both Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Sunday School was conducted every Sunday.

In 1954 or 1955, Dick built a combination service station/grocery store between his mother's home and the Garage he had with L.P. Knight and Ivy Jacks.

Ina Mae and Dick ran the store for several years before selling it to Dick's brother, Boob Barlow.

The kids all graduated from Pineland High School between 1951 and 1958.

In about 1962, they sold everything and moved to Arkansas.

Ina married Adron Horace "Dick" Barlow on 14 Jul 1932. Adron (son of William Washington Barlow and Lizzie Elmira Morris) was born on 3 Sep 1907 in Texas; died on 23 Dec 1987; was buried in Bethel Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Creed Lamar Barlow was born on 24 Mar 1933 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 26 Jun 2018 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Brookeland Cemetery, Brookeland, Sabine County, Texas.
2. Living
3. Wendall Joe Barlow was born on 1 Sep 1936 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 24 Oct 2013 in Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Bethel Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas.
4. Living

Creed married Lora Lee Warner. Lora (daughter of Dud Ernest "Dudley" Warner and Sarah Candis Cousins) was born on 25 Jul 1894 in Texas; died on 2 Aug 1983 in Pineland, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Springs Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Ronald Barlow, in his "Farm Road 1" column in the May 16, 2018 issue of the Sabine Conty Reporter, page 10, wrote "Horace Homer Forse (1892-1970) lived on Charlie Forse Raod, about 1/2 miile east of railroad. Pless married Addie Sofronia Impson Forse (1896-1985) and is buried in Palinview Cemetery. Horace was a brother to William Charley "Bill" Forse, who married my great-grandmother, Lora Lee Warner Russell, after her husband was murdered in 1920, and his wife died in 1927."

Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JF3Q-BHG
name: Dud Ernest Warner
death date: 20 Sep 1937
death place: Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas
gender: Male
race:
death age: 65 years 11 months 15 days
estimated birth date:
birth date: 05 Oct 1871
birthplace: San Augustin, Texas
marital status: Married
spouse's name: Candis Warner
father's name: John Warner
father's birthplace: Ga.
mother's name: Julia Belste (Beloti)
mother's birthplace: Mississippi
occupation: Farming
place of residence: Bronson, Texas
cemetery:
burial place: Bronson, Texas
burial date: 21 Sep 1937
additional relatives:
film number: 2117298
digital film number: 4166735
image number: 2408
reference number: P 2431 CN 46597
Collection: Dud Ernest Warner, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"

His FindAGrave memorial page is linked to his parents and four siblings, and also has a photo.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1910 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, JP 4
Enumerated 28 Apr 1910
SD 2 ED 141 Sheet 7B
136-145
Warner, Dudley Head M W 38 m1 16 Tx Tn Miss Farmer
Warner, Candis S Wf W F 33 m1 16 6/6 Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Lara L Dtr F W 15 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Warner, Eula S Dtr F W 13 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Warner, Madie J Dtr F W 10 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Milton E Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Clara L Dtr F W 4 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Byron W Son M W 2 S Tx Tx Tx

1920 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, JP 4
Enumerated 30 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 179 Sheet 9A
154-159
Warner, Dudley Head M W 48 M Tx La Tn Farmer
Warner, Candis Wf W F 43 M Tx Tx Tx
Warner, E Ula Dtr F W 23 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer
Warner, Clara F W 15 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Byron W Son M W 12 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Orem Son M W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, D. S. Son M W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Wilbur Son M W 4 S Tx Tx Tx
Warner, Dudley S Uncle M W 78 M La SC Miss Farm Laborer
Warner, Bell Aunt F W 78 M Tn Tn Tn

Dud married Sarah Candis Cousins about 1894. Sarah (daughter of William Daniel Cousins and Mary Frances Woods) was born on 23 Nov 1876 in Newton County, Texas; died on 5 Jun 1953 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Springs Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name: Sarah Candis Warner
Death Date: 05 Jun 1953
Death Place: Bronson, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: white
Death Age: 76 years 7 months 12 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 23 Nov 1876
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: William D. Cousins
Father's Birthplace: Texas
Mother's Name: Francis Woods
Mother's Birthplace: Texas
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Bronson, Sabine, Texas
Cemetery: Magnolia Springs
Burial Place: San Augustine, Co., Texas
Burial Date: 07 Jun 1953
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2113985
Digital Film Number: 4165744
Image Number: 280
Reference Number: 53093
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Notes:

Shown as William Daniel Cousins by his granddaughter, Joye Cousins Turner. The transcription of the Little Flock Cemetery shows him instead as William Dalton Cousins. The book, "Glimpses of Newton County History." also refers to him as William Daniel.

Virgie Speights writes that he was one of the teachers at the one-room log school in Rosevine. (Speights, p. 77).



(Research):

Census Listings:

1880 Census
Texas, Newton County, Pr. 2
Enumerated Jun 1880
Page 24B SD 1 ED 56
218-218
Cousins, William W M 26 Farmer
Cousins, Mary W F 23 Wife Keeping House
Cousins, Robert W M 5 S
Cousins, Sarah W F 3 Dtr
Cousins, Marion W M 1 Son

1900 Census
Texas, Coryell County, JP 2
Enumerated 2 and 4 Jun 1900
SD 263 SE 41 Sheets 2A and 2B Stamped 59
25-26
Cousins, W. D. Head W M Nov 1855 44 m 26 Tx Va Miss Day Laborer
Cousins, Mary F. Wife W F Jun 1866 (sic) 33 (sic) M 26 11/10 Tx Tx Miss
Cousins, Roy Son W M Jan 1881 19 S Tx Tx Tx Day Laborer
Cousins, Clara Dtr W F Jan 1883 17 S Tx Tx Tx
Cousins, Nora Dtr W F Mar 1885 15 S Tx Tx Tx
Cousins, Ida Dtr W F May 1887 13 S Tx Tx Tx
Cousins, Livie Dtr W F Mar 1890 11 S Tx Tx Tx
Cousins, Carrie Dtr W F Aug 1893 6 S Tx Tx Tx
Cousins, Artie Dtr W F July 1894 5 S Tx Tx Tx
Cousins, Troy Son W M Dec 1898 2 S Tx Tx Tx

1920 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP 6
Enumerated 2 Jan 1920
SD 326 SD 173 Sheet 1A
6-6
Cousins, William D Head M W 65 M Tx Tn Miss Farmer
Cousins, Mary F Wf F W62 M Tx Miss Miss
Cousins, William D Son M W 17 S Tx Tx Tx Farm Laborer Home Farm

William married Mary Frances Woods on 5 Feb 1874 in Newton County, Texas. Mary (daughter of Francis Marion Woods and Eliza Louisa C. M. Irwin) was born on 4 Jun 1857 in Newton County, Texas; died on 6 Dec 1925 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Little Flock Baptist Church Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]