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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


Families of C. B. Barnard and Robert E. Williams Were Pioneers

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Charles Berkley Barnard (1865-1939) came from Kentucky to Texas in the late 1800s and settled temporarily in Hill County where he married Alton Virginia Fox (1869-1935). Later they moved to Henrietta, Texas, where they managed a small hotel or rooming house. After living several years in Clay County, they came to the Panhandle in the late 1890s and began to grow wheat on a farm near the town of White Deer. During the next 20 years, C. B. Barnard enlarged his farm and built a com- bination dry goods and grocery store in Pampa at 102 South Cuyler. He was among several local citizens who were instrumental in starting the first bank at Pampa. The C. B. Barnard home in Pampa was at 221 North Somerville. The children of C. B. and Alton Barnard were Thomas Harrison Barnard (1891- 1961); Anna Bell Barnard (1901-1982), who married M. A. Graham; and Eunice Barnard (1904-1988), who married B. O. Lilly. *** Robert Eugene Williams, born in 1870, and Martha "Mattie" Essary, born in 1874 in Decatur County, Tennessee, were married on Christmas Day in 1892. Their first home was at Nimrod where he farmed and operated a grocery and hardware store. With two other families, they loaded their belongings on a chartered railroad car and moved to Pampa in 1905. The three families shared a three-bedroom home until each family could build its own home.
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When they arrived, Pampa was a small village with a ten-pupil school at 513 East Francis and one water well. Water was hauled in barrels from the single com- munity well located in the 100 block of North Gillespie. Supplies came by train from Amarillo and clothing by mail order from Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Robert Williams worked as blacksmith, carpenter and contractor. Later he was elected Justice of the Peace and then served as County Judge of Gray County in 1911- 12. Both Robert and Martha Williams helped to build the First Baptist Church build- ing at 120 West Kingsmill, which was dedicated on September 12, 1915. He donated his labor to erect the concrete brick structure, and she helped to stage many ice cream suppers and bazaars. After the death of Robert Williams in 1927, Martha operated a shop in Pampa for several years before she moved to Decatur to live with her daughter, Lillian Barnard. When Martha died, at the age of 105, her body was brought to Pampa to be interred beside her husband in Fairview Cemetery.

Thomas Harrison Barnard, son of C. B. and Alton Barnard, and Lillian Williams, daughter of County Judge and Mrs. Robert Williams, were married in 1912. At that time T. H. "Harry" Barnard was working as a pharmacist at the Pampa Drug Store at 107 North Cuyler. Their home was at 420 West Kingsmill. During the 1920s, T. H. Barnard operated the Pampa Electric Company at 109 1/2 North West and raised wheat on a small farm west of Pampa. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Pampa. Lillian Barnard belonged to the First Baptist Church and the Eastern Star at Pampa. In later years she served as Worthy Matron of Texas in 1944-45. In 1931 T. H. and Lillian Barnard moved to Lubbock to operate the Blue Bon- net Laundry. They retired in the 1940s and moved to Decatur, Texas. After the death of T. H. Barnard, Lillian married Colonel Stanton Parker and moved to Fort Worth. The children of T. H. and Lillian Barnard are Wanda Stone, Pauline Greene, Ruth Collins, Aleta Burns, Marie Lilly and Berkley Barnard.

(From information sent to the White Deer Land Museum in 1981 by Wanda Stone.)

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