This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01C10EC2.99AED260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01C10EC2.99AED260 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="More on the Chan Helton .eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="More on the Chan Helton .eml" From: "carols" <carols@pldi.net> To: <MO-MARIES-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: More on the Chan Helton Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:59:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-7" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 >From Amarillo Daily News - October 13, 1971 PETITE PIONEER FROM MISSOURI NOTCHES 94TH BIRTHDAY FRIDAY... Dora B. Helton was happily settled on her husband's Missouri River farm and expecting her seventh child when her brother-in-law's persistent letters +ACI-got us stirred up about moving to Texas.+ACI- This was 60 years ago. Persuaded that the Texas Panhandle held new opportunities Chan and Dora Helton packed up their belongings and children and took the train to Canadian, Texas. For there they rode by wagon to their new farm in the Zyback Community where Mrs. Helton had her seventh child two weeks later. The story of their prosperous life there is intertwined with development of the community and its eventual split into the two of Allison and Briscoe. The petite pioneer who was born Oct 15, 1877 in Dixon Mo will celebrate her 94th birthday on Friday. Orphaned at 12, the former Dora Riddle went to live on her Uncle George Cain's farm at Dixon, where she later met Thomas Chanley Helton, one of her uncle's hired hands. When they began dating, they went +ACI-to church, to town and to dances - whatever there was doing that was decent to go to+ACI-. She was 18 and he was 21 when they were married in November 1895 at her uncle's home. A year later Mr. Helton cut down timber and fashioned the couple's first home of their own. Mrs. Helton recalled their early furnishings as +ACI-two bedsteads, one dresser, a stand table, a big cookstove and a dish tray. We had an extension (dining) table, and it was a good one, too.+ACI- The couple's farm was near the Gasconade River and Mrs. Helton carried water from a spring to do the washing. When the Helton's arrived May 1, 1911, in Zyback, located 18 miles northeast of Wheeler, the community had about 150 persons. Mr. Helton was raised Hogs, cattle, corn and maize conducted most of his business in Miami and Canadian, including transporting his hogs by wagon the 30 miles to Canadian, Tx. Mr. Helton traded for a half section of land across the road from his brother C.W., and eventually acquired about 6,000 acres spread over Wheeler, Helphill, Ochiltree and Hansford counties and land west of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mr. Helton's business interest included rent houses and a blacksmith shop. They gave an acre of land to the Zyback school and were members of the Methodist Church. ------=_NextPart_000_0041_01C10EC2.99AED260--