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From Alvis & Aurelia Hibbard: George Andrew was always playing pranks. He once chased kids out of a field dressed as a tramp. He would go to Jacksonville, Texas about 8 miles from home dressed as a tramp and tell stories to gangs. He once went to Carrie Slider's house (his son Levi's mother-in-law) after Levi and Nora were married and asked for something to eat. She took him in and fixed him something and after he began eating she recognized him. She was going to take it back, but he said "You fixed it, so I'm going to eat it."
At age 9 he was living with Loran's brother Levi Hibbard in 1870 at Ft.Bend County, Texas. He left home at age 14. He appeared on the 1900 US Census Texas taken 27 June 1900 Precinct 3 #373, Grimes County, Texas. He and Amy Josephine "Josie" Jumper were members as of 26 May 1905 in the Woodmen of the World Life Ins. Society, Lodge #2286, Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas. They had moved from Grimes County, Texas (family, cattle and furniture) by train. The train cars were put on a side track at Larissa Street and during the trip, Levi, the oldest son, took care of the cattle in the cattle car. He was a builder, farmer and carpenter.
Legal Record 12 May 1954 Cherokee County, Texas:
THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF CHEROKEE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: WHEREAS it is understood and agreed that the undersigned persons are the owners of a certain 93 acre tract of land, more or less, being a part of the David Reynolds 320 acre tract Survey, and situated about five miles southeast from the town of Jacksonville, Texas, and being the same land described in the deed from John T. Hunt to G.A. Hibbard dated August 30, 1913, and recorded in Volume 59 Page 474 of the Deed Records of Cherokee County, Texas and all being the same land described in the deed from Mrs. G.A. Hibbard to J.D. Fulton dated November 8, 1947 and recorded in Vol 311 Page 29 of the Deed Records of Cherokee County, Texas, to which deed and their respective recordations, reference is here made for all legal purposes and, WHEREAS, it is understood and agreed that J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton, are the owners of an undivided 15/28 interest in and to the surface rights in said 93 acre tract and it also being understood and agreed that said J. D. Fulton and Mary Fulton will be and are entitled to the North 15/28 of said 93 acre tract and are entitled to the improvements located thereon and the undersigned persons agree to execute, acknowledge and deliver a deed to the said J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton, conveying to them all of their right, title and interest in said North 15/28 of said tract; the said J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton agree to execute acknowledge and deliver a deed to the undersigned persons conveying the South 13/28 of said 93 acre tract and by such deeds, the said J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton, shall be the owners of the North 15/28 of said tract and the other undersigned persons shall be the owners of the South 13/28 of said tract. It is also understood and agreed that by virtue of the executions of a mineral deed from J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton to Ida Brittain dated May 12, 1954, which conveyed an undivided 13/28 interest in all of the oil, gas and other minerals in said 93 acre tract, each of the children of G.A. Hibbard and Mrs. G.A. Hibbard became the owner of an undivided 1/28 interest in the mineral fee, with the children of Jack Hibbard, together acquiring a 1/28 interest in the mineral fee with their mother, Lexie Hibbard, acquiring a life estate in a 1/3 of said 1/28 interest. After the execution of said mineral deed, each of the children of the said G.A. Hibbard owned an undivided 1/14 interest in the oil, gas and other minerals in said 93 acre tract. In this connection, it is understood and agreed that when the first lease is executed covering 93 acre tract, the said J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton, will be entitled to 15/28 of the bonus money paid at the time of the execution of said lease, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the above mentioned mineral deed. It is also understood and agreed that if any of the undersigned wants to sell his interest in said property, the said J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton, shall have the right and option to purchase said interest on the same terms and conditions as given by any prospective purchaser. If the said J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton, do not exercise their right and option to purchase said interest, then the other undersigned persons shall have the right, either individually or as a group, to purchase said interest on the same terms and conditions as given by any prospective purchaser. It is further understood and agreed that the said J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton, shall have the right to use the surface of said 93 acre tract until such time as there is a partition thereof as above provided and until such partition, said J.D. Fulton and wife, Mary Fulton, agree to pay the taxes becoming due on said property.
Witness our hands this the 12th day of May, 1954.
Kitty Anderson; Russell Anderson; Mary Fulton; J.D. Fulton; Florence H. Grimes; Charlie Grimes; Levi Hibbard; D. Hibbard; John Hibbard; Bowie Hibbard; Fred Campbell; H.V. Shaw; Peggy Shaw; Lessie Eugene Hibbard; Ida Brittain; Demma Shoemaker; Charlie Shoemaker; Bessie J. Campbell; Jack Wallace Hibbard; Carl D. Hibbard
THE STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF CHEROKEE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That we, IDA BRITTIAN, a widow, JOE HIBBARD, CHARLIE GRIMES and wife, FLORENCE GRIMES, BOWIE HIBBARD, DEMMA SHOEMAKER and husband, CHARLIE SHOEMAKER , BESSIE J. CAMPBELL and husband FRED CAMPBELL, DEE HIBBARD, JOHN HIBBARD, LEVI HIBBARD, KITTY ANDERSON and husband RUSSELL ANDERSON, GEORGE HIBBARD, LESSIE EUGENE HIBBARD, LEXIE HIBBARD, a widow, REGENIA GIBBS and husband LAWRENCE GIBBS, JACK WALLACE HIBBARD, CARL D. HIBBARD, ARDEN RAY HIBBARD, PEGGY SHAW and husband, H.V. SHAW, of the County and State shown in our respective acknowledgments, have made, constituted and appointed, any by these presents to take, constitute and appoint MARY FULTON and husband, J.D. FULTON of Cherokee County, Texas, our true and lawful attorney, for us and in our names, place and stead to execute oil, gas and mineral leases on a ninety three (93) acre tract, more or less, located in the David Reynolds 320 acre survey and situated about five miles southwest from the town of Jacksonville, in Cherokee County, Texas, and being the same land described in the deed from John T. Hunt to G.A. Hibbard, dated August 30, 1913, and recorded in Volume 59, Page 474 of the Deed Records of Cherokee County, Texas and also being the same land described in the deed from Mrs. G.A. Hibbard to J.D. Fulton dated November 8, 1947, and recorded in Vol 311 Page 29 of the Deed Records of Cherokee County, Texas, to which deeds and their respective recordations, reference is here made for all legal purposes; to sell any of the minerals and/or royalty in the above described property and to deal with the oil, gas and minerals in the above described property in any way as to them may seem proper. Hereby giving and authorizing my said attorneys to do and perform all and every act the thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about and concerning the oil, gas and other minerals on the above described property, as fully, to all intents and purposes as we might or could do if personally present, giving and granting also unto our said attorneys full power to substitute one or more attorney or attorneys under them, my said attorneys, in or concerning the premises or any part thereof, and the same at their pleasure to revoke, hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever our said attorneys or their substitutes shall and my do by virtue hereof in the premises; and we agree and represent to those dealing with our said attorneys in fact or their substitute or substitutes that this power of attorney may be voluntarily revoked alone by revocation entered of record in the office of the County Clerk of Cherokee County, Texas. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this the 12th day of May 1954.
Dee Hibbard; John Hibbard; Levi Hibbard; Kitty Anderson; Russell Anderson; George Hibbard; Lessie Eugene Hibbard; Lexie Hibbard; Regenia Gibbs, Lawrence Gibbs; Arden Ray Hibbard; Peggy Shaw; Ida Brittain; Joe Hibbard; Charlie Grimes; Florence Grimes; Bowie Hibbard; Demma Shoemaker; Charlie Shoem aker; Bessie J. Campbell; Fred Campbell; Jack Wallace Hibbard; Carl D. Hibbard; H.V. Shaw.
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