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  • Eloise Lane Articles 1-100
    • Articles 1 - 20 >
      • About Eloise Lane
      • The "White Deer" Name
      • The Log House
      • Obtaining The Land
      • The Lands Organized
      • Cattle Brands Tell Story
      • Ghosts And All . . .
      • Southern Kansas Railroad
      • Fire Guard Dam
      • When The Railroad Came
      • The Sutton RR Station
      • Post Office At Pampa
      • The Bell Family
      • J. C. Short
      • Pampa 1892-1902
      • Pampa Laid Out in 1902
      • Crystal Palace Founded
      • Gray County Organization
      • Organization - Continued
    • Articles 21 - 40 >
      • The "White Deer" Name
      • Gray County - Lefors
      • McLean - The Largest Town
      • Gouge Eye
      • The "Mother Road"
      • German Family Reunion
      • Desks From Hopkins
      • Grandview School Begins
      • The Oil Money
      • History Wall Painted
      • Boydston Or Boydstun?
      • Ontario???
      • Laketon - Early Farming
      • Laketon - Continued
      • First Couple To Marry
      • Hoover
      • Water Well Drilling
      • Kingsmills Visit Pampa
      • George Tyng Left
    • Articles 41 - 60 >
      • Tragedy In Utah
      • T.D. Hobart - Manager
      • M.K. Brown Arrives
      • Rider Livery Stable
      • The Pioneer Cottage
      • Pampa's First Doctor
      • Doctor Makes House Calls
      • A Red Cross Nurse
      • Pampa's First School
      • Hobart Went To London
      • Cemetery Began In 1904
      • First Business District
      • C.P. Buckler Arrives
      • Five Barrett Brothers
      • Influence Of The Santa Fe
      • Trains Still Roll
      • John V. Thomas - Teacher
      • Cattle-loading Center
      • Rolla J. Sailor & Arrowheads
      • A.H. Doucette Arrives
    • Articles 61 - 80 >
      • Lands Are Advertised
      • The Holland Hotel
      • Wheat Left Pampa
      • First National Bank Begins
      • Pampa News Begins
      • First Denominational Church
      • 2nd Office Of WD Lands
      • J.N. Duncan Arrives
      • Nels Walberg Sells. . .
      • Dormer Simms
      • Fourth Of July Celebrations
      • Pampa's First Cars
      • Pampa In 1907-08
      • J. S. Wynne Family Arrives
      • Gray County State Bank
      • Baptist Church Organized
      • Joe And Lizzie Bowers
      • Threatened By Prairie Fire
      • Library Began In 1907
      • J.R. Henry
    • Articles 81 - 100 >
      • Sir Gordan & Lady Cunard
      • Three Vicars Brothers
      • Dodd Grain And Produce
      • December 29, 1991
      • D.C. Davis Family
      • Long Christmas Celebration
      • First Christian Church
      • Facts About Pampa
      • Buster Brown
      • The Last Hanging
      • Bones Hooks
      • The "Red Brick" Is No More
      • The Purviances Family
      • The Dr. E. von Brunow Park
      • Boards Of 1st Headquarters
      • Mary Jane Purvis
      • Cook - Adams Addition
      • Nativity Scenes
      • Clyde Carruth
  • Eloise Lane Articles 101-200
    • Articles 101 - 120 >
      • The Mine Tragedies
      • Additions To Pampa
      • Third Family In Pampa
      • Frank Dittmeyer
      • Bricklayer Indian Jim
      • A.A. Tiemann
      • First Movies And Lights
      • Pampa Incorporated
      • Mark And Sara Fletcher
      • Annie Baker Daniels
      • Pampa's Business District
      • Birthday Tea Of 1919
      • Former Pampa Minister
      • John Mack Patton
      • The First Brass Band
      • Early Graduating Class
      • "How We Met"
      • F.P. Greever Is Assassinated
      • George Tyng's Father
    • Articles 121 - 140 >
      • L. H. and Lula Greene
      • John and Lena McKamy
      • Robert and Mary Yeager
      • "Dear Old PHS"
      • Supt. Believed in People
      • William A. and Ruth Greene
      • Jason A and Alice Poole
      • Wayside School
      • Pampa Football Begins
      • The Pampa School Building
      • Rev. C. E. Lancaster
      • Panhandle Lumber Co.
      • Will Wilks & Mora Hughey
      • An Unusual Valentine
      • Charles A. Tignor
      • O. A. Barrett
      • Poppies In Flanders Fields
      • Barnard & Williams Families
    • Articles 141 - 160 >
      • 4th of July Celebrations
      • Cuyler Street Underpass
      • The King Family
      • Kretmeier and Baer Families
      • Stephen B. Oates
      • Phebe Worley
      • Organization of Gray County
      • First Courthouse
      • Pampa Laid Out in 1902
      • Pampa in 1902
      • W. R. Kaufman
      • The Pampa Country Club
      • Living In Pampa in 1902
      • Pampa Buildings of 1902
      • May Foreman Carr
      • Scaffers - Early Residents
      • Nita Luna
      • Former Sub Debs Reminisce
      • PHS In 1932
    • Articles 161 - 180 >
      • PHS Appreciated
      • The Forth Worth and Denver
      • From Pampa to Childress
      • The Origination Of "Taps"
      • The Warners
      • J. C. Studer
      • Floyd, John and Otto
      • Our American Flag
      • Stories and Memories
      • Museum in Pampa?
      • The Franklin Farm
      • The Franklin Family
      • Beryl Wayne Vicars
      • Historian Made Cookies
      • The Pioneer Cottage
      • The Orginial Swastika
      • Library Clerk
      • Women's Clothing Store
    • Articles 181 - 200 >
      • Jon and Pat McConal
      • Whitey Walker Gang
      • How Rudolph Began
      • Gwendolen Avenue
      • Jerry Kerbow
      • Two Paintings
      • Second Part - Paintings
      • Bones Hooks
      • Original Nativity Figures
      • Why "V" Instead of "U"
      • Pampa Incorporated
      • Prairie Fires
      • Abert's "Day of Anxiety"
      • George Autry's "A Fable"
      • Girls Basketball
      • Thomas and Lard
      • Henry and Jenny Ledrick
      • C. J. Walstad
      • Ledrick and Walstads
      • Bert and Annie Lard
      • Peter Gray
      • H. H. and Kate Heiskell
      • The Story of Elsie (Lard) Hall


Charles A. Tignor - Early Day Employee of White Deer Lands

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Charles A. Tignor, born March 7, 1875, rode into the city of Panhandle, Texas, in March 1894. He worked at different places in Gray County until about 1899 when he was employed by George Tyng, manager of the White Deer Lands. In 1902 Tyng released him from his job because he refused to vote in an election according to Tyng’s wishes. Tignor was rehired when T. D. Hobart became manager of the White Deer Land Company in 1903. Tignor's duties included showing the land to prospective buyers and keeping the fences in good condition. Each spring he took a group of men out on the land to build and repair fences and windmills. He bought the supplies for the group and employed the camp cook who for several years was Fred Sloan. Charles A. Tignor and Mittie Farrington were married on November 15, 1911. Mittie, born November 22, 1879, was the daughter of James Clark Farrington and Margaret Poindexter Farrington who came to Gray County in 1901 and settled east of Pampa. J. C. "Pap" Farrington had a great interest in raising wheat which he did successfully. He was proud of the beautiful flowers and shrubs in his yard. He was interested in others and made frequent calls to help his neighbors.
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Farrington School (1912-1943) was named in his honor. In 1917 Tignor resigned from the White Deer Land Company and moved onto his own ranch and farm where he raised cattle and wheat. He owned Section 21 of Block 3, I. & G. N. Survey. Tignor continued his close relationship with Hobart and regarded him as though Hobart was his own father. Just before his last illness in 1935, Hobart told Mittie to "keep the telephone line in order because I like to talk to Tignor." Charles and Mittie Tignor were good citizens and came regularly to help with the elections held at Baker Elementary for Precinct 2. Mittie, who had been a history teacher in the Pampa schools before her marriage, taught the Tignor daughters, Margaret and Beryl, at home until they were ready for high school. When the superintendent expressed doubt that the girls could do the required work, Mittie requested that they take entrance tests. Not only did the girls pass the tests with high scores but they did better work than most of the other students while they attended Pampa High School. Margaret Tignor married Ray Robbins, who at the time was a band director in the Pampa school system. Beryl Tignor married Lt. Col. Walter L. Carrs, Air Attache' Embassy of the U. S., The Hague, Netherlands. Mittie Tignor, who was a charter member of Pampa Genealogical Society and a member of First Church of Christ Scientists, died on January 15, 1965, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ray Robbins, in Borger. Charles A. Tignor, a life member of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, died on January 31, 1970, at the Four Seasons Nursing Home in Amarillo.



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