Living

Living married Joyce Colleen Johnson Joyce was born 10 Feb 1931; died 7 Dec 1980; was buried Dec 1980, Bluffton, Llano, Texas, United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

MG: Paul W Henderson

BIR,DTH,BUR: Henderson-Hallmarks 1994

Notes:

1900 BIRTH,MARRIAGE,DEATH: Izora McGinty and Mollie Long, Raymond's mother. Paul W Henderson.

1910 CENSUS: TX,Llano Co-Prec 16,Long Mtn: A/c Img 1 pg 16A,dwelling 90,94: Raymon Hallmark age 9 bn Texas (TX,TX) farm laborer, home farm, son of William J and Mollie Hallmark.

1925 DEATH: CA: William Raymond Hallmark died 28 January 1925 of a tragic train accident

NOTES: Pam & Bob - Conversation with Molly Hallmark, wife of Wm Jackson, April 1963: William Raymond, son of William Jackson and Molly, was killed by a train in California. 3 killed & 1 crippled, just died recently. At a big fishing dock in California, there were so many cars, had to park back of railroad track... there was no room to turn around, so they backed over tracks. That particular train didn't stop at this station & didn't even blow his whistle. Something hid the train from their view... when they glanced back & saw it, yelled for them to jump & cripple did. Didn't even have door open - hit the ground & train was over them. The one boy, Roy Parks, was only one to be saved... his leg was broken. Raymond's son, Raymond Herston, lived in San Antonio 1963 - Pam called & talked to him. He was called Herston after his father was killed. Mollie could not bear to call him Raymond any longer. William Raymond's wife [Zula] lives in Cherokee, Texas. Herston lives in Llano.

William married Anna Zulu Johanson 23 Oct 1922. Anna was born 29 May 1904; died 10 Oct 1968; was buried Oct 1968. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

1904 BIRTH: TX: Anna Zula Johanson born 29 May 1904, the daughter of John and Maggie Johanson

1923 MARRIAGE: TX: Anna Zula Johanson md William Raymond Hallmark 23 Oct 1922
MG: Izora McGinty, Burnet TX 1963-Zula.

1925 DEATH of husband: CA: William Raymond Hallmark died 28 January 1925 of a tragic train accident

1930 CENSUS: TX,Llano Co-Prec 2, Dist 3: A/C Img 7 pg 246, 18 Apr, Dw 58,82:
JOHANSON, John-head 52/Denmark md at 22; Maggie-wife 48/TX (TX,Ark)
md at 18; Clyde-son 17/TX; Pearl-dau 14/TX; Wayne-son 13/TX;
Duglis-son 10/TX; Dale-son 7/TX; Haswell-son 3/TX; Zula HALLMARK-
dau 25/TX (Denmark,TX) widow with 2 children: LaVern-gdau 6/TX;
Hurson-gson 4/TX; SP Graham-border 47/TX

1968 DEATH: Anna Zula Johanson died 10 October 1968

BIR,MG,DTH: Paul W Henderson

Other Events:

• AFN: 404G-5B

Notes:

1866 BIRTH: TX,Bell Co: William Andrew Jackson Hallmark born 12 January 1866
BIR,MG,CENSUS: 1880 Limestone Co TX census: Jack 16/TX; Molly Long, wife #2: Known as Jack
!BIR,MG,DTH: Paul W Henderson (0,6,8,8); tombstone-Bluffton Cem - 1951

1870 CENSUS: To get

1880 CENSUS: TX, Limestone Co,ED 92: Anc.com img 11, pg 288, 7 June,Dw 123/137: Jack Hallmark 16/TX (Al,AL), son of James and Evalin Hallmark

1886 MARRIAGE #1: TX,Llano Co: William Andrew Jackson Hallmark md Lydia Ann Parthena Collins 21 Jan 1886

1899 MARRIAGE #2: TX,Llano Co: William Andrew Jackson Hallmark md Mollie B Long 10 Aug 1899 [what was 14 Aug 1899 written in notes on William Jackson page?]

1900 CENSUS: TX,Llano Co: June, Dw 206,206:
HALLMARK, William J 34/TX born Jan 1866 (TX,TX) md 0yrs, own farm-farmer;
Mary B 23/TX born Jul 1876 (AL,AL)md-no occupation; William B [R?]
11/12-TX bn May 1900; Piercen D 13/TX bn Apr 1887; David N 10/TX
bn Sept 1889; Effie 7/TX bn May 1893.

1910 CENSUS: TX,Llano Co-Prec 16,Long Mtn: A/c Img 1 pg 16A,dwelling 90,94:
HALLMARK, William J-head 44/TX (US,US) md 2nd X-10yrs, gen farmer-
own farm; Mollie-wife 34/TX (US,US) md 2nd X-10yrs 2/2 children
living, farm labor-home farm; Raymon-son 9/TX (TX,TX) farm
laborer, home farm; Lillian R-dau 7/TX, no occ; Rue A Long-
mother-in-law 59/TX (US,US) widow 4/5 children living, no occ.

1919 HISTORY: TX,Llano Co: Jack retired from the farm and rented out the land.

1920-1940 CENSUS: To get

1951 DEATH: TX Llano Co-Valley Springs: William Andrew Jackson Hallmark died 17 November 1951; buried Bluffton, Llano Co Texas
Leatha Richardson: 17 Nov 1952.

NOTES: Molly 1962: "Jack was md to Athena Collins (sis to Hettie Jane-md to Linzy Dee Hallmark). Molly Long md Wm Jackson (Jack) 10 Aug 1899. Valley Springs his home. Izora's letter 31 Jan 1965: Wm Jackson bn Bastrop Co TX. Fam group sheet from Leatha Richardson (memory of James Isaac Hallmark, dated 20 Jan 1977: 12 Jan 1865 as birth.
Wife called Thenia, Athene. Wm Andrew Jackson on Ancestral File, 1966 on tombstone and 1951 dd on tombstone.
"Jack" lived in Broncho, Texas
April 13, 1963 visit with Molly and Izora McGinty [first child of Jacob Newton, who was 3rd child of James Minett Hallmark. Visited at home of Lindsay Allen Jackson Hallmark and as visited gravesites with them-Llano County.
Mollie is the second wife of William Jackson. She quilted 37 quilts while living 7 years before Lake Buchanon was moved. When the 8 brothers got together, they needed lots of quilts. Jack and Mollie retired from the farm in 1919. They thought they had done their part, so they quit and rented out the land. Near Buchanon, they were told to get out... not asked to, told to. One farm had 85 acres and the other 45 acres and were along the river. They had Pecan timber near the river. 1917 was the dry year and 1918 was pitiful. In 1919 they had a bumper crop so quit.
William Jackson, called Jack, would keep the seed. He gave half the cotton to Piercen and David [2 oldest of Jack and Athena]. Mollie worked in the fields, dropping corn and cotton by hand. When started failing, gave the business to Mollie. After quitting put $4000 in the bank for when it might fail, and when Jack failed, she did all she could with what they had. Never had to worry. Jack put away on Sunday, but enough to pay for funeral expenses, etc. Has money in war bonds to help her when sick. When he was out in the field, Mollie took him a drink and said, "let me see if I can turn the plow to break the land." She couldn't hold the plow out, would let go... it was too deep; chopped cotton, gathered corn and threw in wagon.
Mollie's mother was cold, so heated a rock and put it in her bed. Mollie wore wool socks and sleeps between blankets only, no sheets. Her mother lived with her for a few years. Would start about 3pm to fix her bed. Molly now understands why - it was something to do.
Jack and Mollie had a span of mules which they kept on the lot all of the time - mules want to run away when hook them up. They were throwing corn one day, holding the mules -thought they would not want to go after 2/3 wagon was full, so hooked them up and off they went... hit a tree and turned the whole wagon over. Had to work hard at Jack's. Our mules, "Tom and Mike" took off one day... chased them. Both Jack and Molly tried to hold them and both kids in the back popped up to see the chase. They hit a tree and stopped. Lillian, Piercen and Raymond hit their heads. Raymond cut a place on his head, but all he was worried about was if they were going to go to Jake's. Lillian wasn't more than 6 years old and awful sick from it. The mules always ran when they were out, because always locked up when not working. Finally sold them to Tom Clendennen. He really broke them by whipping them. Jack didn't whip them, but they didn't get out in the pasture for a year at a time. We fed them hay or corn and when we needed them, they were anxious to get out and work.
Jack and Molly bought a place right in front of the school in Tow. We lived there for 8 years. We lot the place on the Llano side before they moved the lake. Kept the kids and sent them to school. Some people lived too far from school to come, so Molly kept them - sometimes for 3 yrs. Kept Dee's and Hett's [Lindsay and Hettie] children 3yrs or so. Kept Piercen's boy, and Oscar, Lindsay's boy, and girl 2 1/2, Amy for 2yrs. Cricket didn't want to go to school. The first of the year was free and the second semester, they had to pay. One of the girls called Molly and said, "I guess I can't go to school because Daddy wouldn't have the money to pay the tuition." Molly told her to come and stay with her, and she paid for it.
Jack and Molly moved from Burnett to Valley Springs and had an old wood stove and drew water with a bucket. She sold her washer and did washing by hand. She didn't have any place to keep her machine in Burnett and one day the kids said why not sell it. She gave it away and now they ask why she did it. Jack and Molly lived in the house where Gladys [Vonnie's wife, 6th child of Jacob Newton] lives now.
Molly tried driving a car once - asked Jack if she could, so she got in and drove it almost into a tree, and that was the last of her driving.
When Lake Buchanon flooded, they had to move 600 or more graves. Pennington Cemetery has 12-15 Hallmarks buried there... James Minett too and 2 babies by first wife... 6 children. [we only have 7 names of Hallmarks buried there where are the others? babies, children?] So many people didn't want them to move the cemetery... wanted to put a cement wall around it, but this wouldn't work. The Hallmarks asked to have the bodies moved right away.
People were paid too little for the land that was taken. The Hallmarks were living along the river, and the state just came and took it. It had a huge Pecan orchard [45 acres]... had all the fish they wanted to eat... can't catch any there now. Caught some as big as 60-75 pounds, some by hand [Jack]... one hung from the shoulder to the ground... could see it in the water and as the water cleared, just reached in under the gills and pulled it out. Jack liked his cold fish... cooked up first, then put it in flour sacks and eat it cold. Molly got tired of it. "I just couldn't take it." Catfish is good cold.
Lake Buchanon... had to move 6 cemeteries when building the dam. Bought new boxes for each body. Some bodies were there many years and had to be scooped up... darkened dirt... and put in casket.
Jack lived in Valley Springs before moved to Burnett.

William married Mary Belle Long 10 Aug 1899, Llano, Texas, United States. Mary was born 11 Jul 1876, Llano, Texas, United States; died 27 Aug 1965, Brownwood, Brown, Texas, United States; was buried Aug 1965, Blluffton Cemetry, Llano, Texas. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: S1RX-9N

Notes:

1876 BIRTH: TX,Llano Co: Mary Belle [Mollied born 11 July 1876
Birth and Marriage: Visit with Mollie herself in 1963, Burnet, TX, also given us by Izora McGinty. known as Mollie
BIR,MG,DTH: Paul W Henderson.

1899 MARRIAGE: Jack married Mollie B Long 10 Aug 1899, lived at Valley Springs, TX.

1910 CENSUS: TX,Llano Co-Prec 16,Long Mtn: A/c Img 1 pg 16A,dwelling 90,94: Mollie Hallmark age 34, bn Texas (US,US) md 2nd time, 10yrs, 2/2 children living, wife of William J Hallmark.
Mother living with them: Rue A Long-mother-in-law age 59, born Texas (US,US) widow, 4/5 children living, no occupation, mother of Mollie Hallmark

1965 DEATH: TX,Brown Co-Brownwood: Mollie B Long Hallmark died 27 August 1965

NOTES: When we visited with Mollie she used some words that were used in her area: clum [climb], rot down yonder [right], rot so sorry, ah [o], sure nuff, owl [a], rot purty. For school benches, they had logs cut in half, with wooden legs... no desks.
Notes written on Mollie's space: [Joiner?] Justice of the Peace, Llano County. Mary B