From FIRST 100 YEARS NOLAN COUNTY TEXAS, Page 283, published in 1985 by the Nolan County Genealogical Society (no longer in print, transcribed with permission):
L.L. MEDLOCK
A very unusual thing about Mr. and Mrs. L.L. Medlock, who first came west at the turn of the century, was that they were college people.
Landrum Leslie Medlock was born and reared in Norcross, Georgia. He had finished Atlanta School of Pharmacy two years before coming "west". At that time many young people were hunting for greener pastures, new adventures or their fortunes in the virgin lands of West Texas.
Perhaps on the same train, but a few years before, a young merchant from Cosuth, Mississippi, was coming west for the same reason. William Franklin Jones had lost his first wife (mother of his five children) and had married the fiery red-head Mattie Carmack. All these he left in Mississippi until he could establish a new business and find a home for them. He settled in Roscoe.
L.L. Medlock settled in Sweetwater, where he went into the drug business with Mr. Maniss. He bought and sold much property, mostly farmland, in Nolan County during his early years in Sweetwater.
He moved to Roscoe and went into the drug business with a Mr. Hopkins. A short time later, he bought out Mr. Hopkins and became a very progressive business man. He sold the first ice cream cone in Nolan County. He installed the freezer and made the ice cream in the store. The L.L. Medlock Drug Store became home base for his many business ventures, which included farming, feed store, cotton gin and cotton buying.
During his first years in Roscoe, he met and fell in love with the second daughter of W.F. Jones. Amy Isabella was a lovely young student at Polytechnic College in Fort Worth and talented pianist. They were married at the Jones home on Cypress Street in 1909.
Through the years, the W.F. Jones store prospered. He sold everything from ladies hats to coal. W.F. (as he was called) bought lands in the Wastella area and helped organize the first bank in Roscoe. He served as president for a time. He was a charter member of the Methodist church and never missed a "Sunday service".
The Jones family had grown by four more children. They were:
Edgar (who worked in the store)
Ethel (Mrs. Jack Whorton)
Amy (Mrs. L.L. Medlock)
Margaret (governess for the H.L. Kurth children of Lufkin) Willie (Mrs. E.A. Shepperd of Abilene).
His second set of children included:
Eugenia (Mrs. Malone Thomas of California)
Frank and Harvey (both had long careers with a major aircraft company in Fort Worth)
Bascom (who died a young man).
When the Medlocks were married, they went to Atlanta by train to meet the M.C. Medlock family, one brother and five sisters. Wedding presents for the young couple to take west with them are now prized heirlooms of the Medlock children.
The Medlock children are:
* Frances Ruth (who died at 2-1/2 years of age)
* Landrum (who took over his father's business following World War II and married Sally Eakin of Sweetwater, who still lives in Roscoe following his death i February 1984)
* Dorothy (wife of the late Dr. Bruce H. Johnson, who still lives in Loraine)
* Annie Jo (wife of school administrator Gilbert Parish of Corpus Christi).
The big yellow house into which the Medlocks moved shortly after their return from their Georgia honeymoon was a busy, lively place. Its eight rooms, with 11' ceilings, were heated with coal stoves. The four 8' windows in the parlor had handmade lace curtains and "extended" window shades. The ready-made ones were simply too short!
All four children were born in this house. Dorothy and Annie Jo were married there in the parlor. This parlor, the dining room and kitchen were scenes of many parties and social affairs, also dates. There was always room for one more (or a dozen for that matter).
We had fun, but we worked also. Our father brought a team of horses and a plow into town from a farm so we could work a 15-acre cotton patch near our house. The three of us did all the work, planting, hoeing and picking in the fall. We had milk cows to furnish milk for the drug store soda fountain. Milk shakes (especially chocolate) were very popular. Besides other home chores, we walked 1-1/2 miles across town to school, taking our lunch in a paper bag.
During the Christmas holidays, we worked in the store. Medlock Drug carried a nice line of gifts (cut glass) and toys. Auto tires and paint were also sold there. We hated to work at Christmas because we had to miss some parties. Our father usually compensated by allowing us to take the car and go to the New Year's dance on the roof garden of the Bluebonnet Hotel in Sweetwater. Dad died in 1938.
Thinking of growing up in Roscoe, I remember some lines from a Roscoe High School song, "on the plains that crown the west, stands our Roscoe High School, shining gold like ripened grain."
Memories of my childhood in Roscoe will always "shine gold like ripened grain."
Submitted by Dorothy Medlock Johnson
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DALLAS COUNTY DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Landrum Leslie Medlock
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 11 Oct 1938
Event Place: Methodist Hospital, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Brain tumor (unspecified), respiratory failure, giant cell sarcoma of left knee
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Age: 59 yrs 1 mo 10 days
Birth Date: 01 Sep 1879
Birthplace: Georgia
Father's Name: M C Medlock
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Annie Steel
Mother's Birthplace: Ga.
Occupation: Pharmacist
Residence: Roscoe, Texas
Burial/Removal: Roscoe, Texas
Date: 11 Oct 1938
Informant: L.L. Medlock, Jr.
Certificate Number: 44968
GS Film number: 2117823
Digital Folder Number: 005144929
Image Number: 03536
"Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3M7-2YN : accessed 02 Sep 2013), Landrum Leslie Medlock, 1938.
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L.L. MEDLOCK
A very unusual thing about Mr. and Mrs. L.L. Medlock, who first came west at the turn of the century, was that they were college people.
Landrum Leslie Medlock was born and reared in Norcross, Georgia. He had finished Atlanta School of Pharmacy two years before coming "west". At that time many young people were hunting for greener pastures, new adventures or their fortunes in the virgin lands of West Texas.
Perhaps on the same train, but a few years before, a young merchant from Cosuth, Mississippi, was coming west for the same reason. William Franklin Jones had lost his first wife (mother of his five children) and had married the fiery red-head Mattie Carmack. All these he left in Mississippi until he could establish a new business and find a home for them. He settled in Roscoe.
L.L. Medlock settled in Sweetwater, where he went into the drug business with Mr. Maniss. He bought and sold much property, mostly farmland, in Nolan County during his early years in Sweetwater.
He moved to Roscoe and went into the drug business with a Mr. Hopkins. A short time later, he bought out Mr. Hopkins and became a very progressive business man. He sold the first ice cream cone in Nolan County. He installed the freezer and made the ice cream in the store. The L.L. Medlock Drug Store became home base for his many business ventures, which included farming, feed store, cotton gin and cotton buying.
During his first years in Roscoe, he met and fell in love with the second daughter of W.F. Jones. Amy Isabella was a lovely young student at Polytechnic College in Fort Worth and talented pianist. They were married at the Jones home on Cypress Street in 1909.
Through the years, the W.F. Jones store prospered. He sold everything from ladies hats to coal. W.F. (as he was called) bought lands in the Wastella area and helped organize the first bank in Roscoe. He served as president for a time. He was a charter member of the Methodist church and never missed a "Sunday service".
The Jones family had grown by four more children. They were:
Edgar (who worked in the store)
Ethel (Mrs. Jack Whorton)
Amy (Mrs. L.L. Medlock)
Margaret (governess for the H.L. Kurth children of Lufkin) Willie (Mrs. E.A. Shepperd of Abilene).
His second set of children included:
Eugenia (Mrs. Malone Thomas of California)
Frank and Harvey (both had long careers with a major aircraft company in Fort Worth)
Bascom (who died a young man).
When the Medlocks were married, they went to Atlanta by train to meet the M.C. Medlock family, one brother and five sisters. Wedding presents for the young couple to take west with them are now prized heirlooms of the Medlock children.
The Medlock children are:
* Frances Ruth (who died at 2-1/2 years of age)
* Landrum (who took over his father's business following World War II and married Sally Eakin of Sweetwater, who still lives in Roscoe following his death i February 1984)
* Dorothy (wife of the late Dr. Bruce H. Johnson, who still lives in Loraine)
* Annie Jo (wife of school administrator Gilbert Parish of Corpus Christi).
The big yellow house into which the Medlocks moved shortly after their return from their Georgia honeymoon was a busy, lively place. Its eight rooms, with 11' ceilings, were heated with coal stoves. The four 8' windows in the parlor had handmade lace curtains and "extended" window shades. The ready-made ones were simply too short!
All four children were born in this house. Dorothy and Annie Jo were married there in the parlor. This parlor, the dining room and kitchen were scenes of many parties and social affairs, also dates. There was always room for one more (or a dozen for that matter).
We had fun, but we worked also. Our father brought a team of horses and a plow into town from a farm so we could work a 15-acre cotton patch near our house. The three of us did all the work, planting, hoeing and picking in the fall. We had milk cows to furnish milk for the drug store soda fountain. Milk shakes (especially chocolate) were very popular. Besides other home chores, we walked 1-1/2 miles across town to school, taking our lunch in a paper bag.
During the Christmas holidays, we worked in the store. Medlock Drug carried a nice line of gifts (cut glass) and toys. Auto tires and paint were also sold there. We hated to work at Christmas because we had to miss some parties. Our father usually compensated by allowing us to take the car and go to the New Year's dance on the roof garden of the Bluebonnet Hotel in Sweetwater. Dad died in 1938.
Thinking of growing up in Roscoe, I remember some lines from a Roscoe High School song, "on the plains that crown the west, stands our Roscoe High School, shining gold like ripened grain."
Memories of my childhood in Roscoe will always "shine gold like ripened grain."
Submitted by Dorothy Medlock Johnson
* * * * * *
DALLAS COUNTY DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Landrum Leslie Medlock
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 11 Oct 1938
Event Place: Methodist Hospital, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Brain tumor (unspecified), respiratory failure, giant cell sarcoma of left knee
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Age: 59 yrs 1 mo 10 days
Birth Date: 01 Sep 1879
Birthplace: Georgia
Father's Name: M C Medlock
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Annie Steel
Mother's Birthplace: Ga.
Occupation: Pharmacist
Residence: Roscoe, Texas
Burial/Removal: Roscoe, Texas
Date: 11 Oct 1938
Informant: L.L. Medlock, Jr.
Certificate Number: 44968
GS Film number: 2117823
Digital Folder Number: 005144929
Image Number: 03536
"Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3M7-2YN : accessed 02 Sep 2013), Landrum Leslie Medlock, 1938.
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From FIRST 100 YEARS NOLAN COUNTY TEXAS, Page 283, published in 1985 by the Nolan County Genealogical Society (no longer in print, transcribed with permission):
L.L. MEDLOCK
A very unusual thing about Mr. and Mrs. L.L. Medlock, who first came west at the turn of the century, was that they were college people.
Landrum Leslie Medlock was born and reared in Norcross, Georgia. He had finished Atlanta School of Pharmacy two years before coming "west". At that time many young people were hunting for greener pastures, new adventures or their fortunes in the virgin lands of West Texas.
Perhaps on the same train, but a few years before, a young merchant from Cosuth, Mississippi, was coming west for the same reason. William Franklin Jones had lost his first wife (mother of his five children) and had married the fiery red-head Mattie Carmack. All these he left in Mississippi until he could establish a new business and find a home for them. He settled in Roscoe.
L.L. Medlock settled in Sweetwater, where he went into the drug business with Mr. Maniss. He bought and sold much property, mostly farmland, in Nolan County during his early years in Sweetwater.
He moved to Roscoe and went into the drug business with a Mr. Hopkins. A short time later, he bought out Mr. Hopkins and became a very progressive business man. He sold the first ice cream cone in Nolan County. He installed the freezer and made the ice cream in the store. The L.L. Medlock Drug Store became home base for his many business ventures, which included farming, feed store, cotton gin and cotton buying.
During his first years in Roscoe, he met and fell in love with the second daughter of W.F. Jones. Amy Isabella was a lovely young student at Polytechnic College in Fort Worth and talented pianist. They were married at the Jones home on Cypress Street in 1909.
Through the years, the W.F. Jones store prospered. He sold everything from ladies hats to coal. W.F. (as he was called) bought lands in the Wastella area and helped organize the first bank in Roscoe. He served as president for a time. He was a charter member of the Methodist church and never missed a "Sunday service".
The Jones family had grown by four more children. They were:
Edgar (who worked in the store)
Ethel (Mrs. Jack Whorton)
Amy (Mrs. L.L. Medlock)
Margaret (governess for the H.L. Kurth children of Lufkin) Willie (Mrs. E.A. Shepperd of Abilene).
His second set of children included:
Eugenia (Mrs. Malone Thomas of California)
Frank and Harvey (both had long careers with a major aircraft company in Fort Worth)
Bascom (who died a young man).
When the Medlocks were married, they went to Atlanta by train to meet the M.C. Medlock family, one brother and five sisters. Wedding presents for the young couple to take west with them are now prized heirlooms of the Medlock children.
The Medlock children are:
* Frances Ruth (who died at 2-1/2 years of age)
* Landrum (who took over his father's business following World War II and married Sally Eakin of Sweetwater, who still lives in Roscoe following his death i February 1984)
* Dorothy (wife of the late Dr. Bruce H. Johnson, who still lives in Loraine)
* Annie Jo (wife of school administrator Gilbert Parish of Corpus Christi).
The big yellow house into which the Medlocks moved shortly after their return from their Georgia honeymoon was a busy, lively place. Its eight rooms, with 11' ceilings, were heated with coal stoves. The four 8' windows in the parlor had handmade lace curtains and "extended" window shades. The ready-made ones were simply too short!
All four children were born in this house. Dorothy and Annie Jo were married there in the parlor. This parlor, the dining room and kitchen were scenes of many parties and social affairs, also dates. There was always room for one more (or a dozen for that matter).
We had fun, but we worked also. Our father brought a team of horses and a plow into town from a farm so we could work a 15-acre cotton patch near our house. The three of us did all the work, planting, hoeing and picking in the fall. We had milk cows to furnish milk for the drug store soda fountain. Milk shakes (especially chocolate) were very popular. Besides other home chores, we walked 1-1/2 miles across town to school, taking our lunch in a paper bag.
During the Christmas holidays, we worked in the store. Medlock Drug carried a nice line of gifts (cut glass) and toys. Auto tires and paint were also sold there. We hated to work at Christmas because we had to miss some parties. Our father usually compensated by allowing us to take the car and go to the New Year's dance on the roof garden of the Bluebonnet Hotel in Sweetwater. Dad died in 1938.
Thinking of growing up in Roscoe, I remember some lines from a Roscoe High School song, "on the plains that crown the west, stands our Roscoe High School, shining gold like ripened grain."
Memories of my childhood in Roscoe will always "shine gold like ripened grain."
Submitted by Dorothy Medlock Johnson
* * * * * *
DALLAS COUNTY DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Landrum Leslie Medlock
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 11 Oct 1938
Event Place: Methodist Hospital, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Brain tumor (unspecified), respiratory failure, giant cell sarcoma of left knee
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Age: 59 yrs 1 mo 10 days
Birth Date: 01 Sep 1879
Birthplace: Georgia
Father's Name: M C Medlock
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Annie Steel
Mother's Birthplace: Ga.
Occupation: Pharmacist
Residence: Roscoe, Texas
Burial/Removal: Roscoe, Texas
Date: 11 Oct 1938
Informant: L.L. Medlock, Jr.
Certificate Number: 44968
GS Film number: 2117823
Digital Folder Number: 005144929
Image Number: 03536
"Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3M7-2YN : accessed 02 Sep 2013), Landrum Leslie Medlock, 1938.
* * * * * *
L.L. MEDLOCK
A very unusual thing about Mr. and Mrs. L.L. Medlock, who first came west at the turn of the century, was that they were college people.
Landrum Leslie Medlock was born and reared in Norcross, Georgia. He had finished Atlanta School of Pharmacy two years before coming "west". At that time many young people were hunting for greener pastures, new adventures or their fortunes in the virgin lands of West Texas.
Perhaps on the same train, but a few years before, a young merchant from Cosuth, Mississippi, was coming west for the same reason. William Franklin Jones had lost his first wife (mother of his five children) and had married the fiery red-head Mattie Carmack. All these he left in Mississippi until he could establish a new business and find a home for them. He settled in Roscoe.
L.L. Medlock settled in Sweetwater, where he went into the drug business with Mr. Maniss. He bought and sold much property, mostly farmland, in Nolan County during his early years in Sweetwater.
He moved to Roscoe and went into the drug business with a Mr. Hopkins. A short time later, he bought out Mr. Hopkins and became a very progressive business man. He sold the first ice cream cone in Nolan County. He installed the freezer and made the ice cream in the store. The L.L. Medlock Drug Store became home base for his many business ventures, which included farming, feed store, cotton gin and cotton buying.
During his first years in Roscoe, he met and fell in love with the second daughter of W.F. Jones. Amy Isabella was a lovely young student at Polytechnic College in Fort Worth and talented pianist. They were married at the Jones home on Cypress Street in 1909.
Through the years, the W.F. Jones store prospered. He sold everything from ladies hats to coal. W.F. (as he was called) bought lands in the Wastella area and helped organize the first bank in Roscoe. He served as president for a time. He was a charter member of the Methodist church and never missed a "Sunday service".
The Jones family had grown by four more children. They were:
Edgar (who worked in the store)
Ethel (Mrs. Jack Whorton)
Amy (Mrs. L.L. Medlock)
Margaret (governess for the H.L. Kurth children of Lufkin) Willie (Mrs. E.A. Shepperd of Abilene).
His second set of children included:
Eugenia (Mrs. Malone Thomas of California)
Frank and Harvey (both had long careers with a major aircraft company in Fort Worth)
Bascom (who died a young man).
When the Medlocks were married, they went to Atlanta by train to meet the M.C. Medlock family, one brother and five sisters. Wedding presents for the young couple to take west with them are now prized heirlooms of the Medlock children.
The Medlock children are:
* Frances Ruth (who died at 2-1/2 years of age)
* Landrum (who took over his father's business following World War II and married Sally Eakin of Sweetwater, who still lives in Roscoe following his death i February 1984)
* Dorothy (wife of the late Dr. Bruce H. Johnson, who still lives in Loraine)
* Annie Jo (wife of school administrator Gilbert Parish of Corpus Christi).
The big yellow house into which the Medlocks moved shortly after their return from their Georgia honeymoon was a busy, lively place. Its eight rooms, with 11' ceilings, were heated with coal stoves. The four 8' windows in the parlor had handmade lace curtains and "extended" window shades. The ready-made ones were simply too short!
All four children were born in this house. Dorothy and Annie Jo were married there in the parlor. This parlor, the dining room and kitchen were scenes of many parties and social affairs, also dates. There was always room for one more (or a dozen for that matter).
We had fun, but we worked also. Our father brought a team of horses and a plow into town from a farm so we could work a 15-acre cotton patch near our house. The three of us did all the work, planting, hoeing and picking in the fall. We had milk cows to furnish milk for the drug store soda fountain. Milk shakes (especially chocolate) were very popular. Besides other home chores, we walked 1-1/2 miles across town to school, taking our lunch in a paper bag.
During the Christmas holidays, we worked in the store. Medlock Drug carried a nice line of gifts (cut glass) and toys. Auto tires and paint were also sold there. We hated to work at Christmas because we had to miss some parties. Our father usually compensated by allowing us to take the car and go to the New Year's dance on the roof garden of the Bluebonnet Hotel in Sweetwater. Dad died in 1938.
Thinking of growing up in Roscoe, I remember some lines from a Roscoe High School song, "on the plains that crown the west, stands our Roscoe High School, shining gold like ripened grain."
Memories of my childhood in Roscoe will always "shine gold like ripened grain."
Submitted by Dorothy Medlock Johnson
* * * * * *
DALLAS COUNTY DEATH CERTIFICATE
Name: Landrum Leslie Medlock
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 11 Oct 1938
Event Place: Methodist Hospital, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Brain tumor (unspecified), respiratory failure, giant cell sarcoma of left knee
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Age: 59 yrs 1 mo 10 days
Birth Date: 01 Sep 1879
Birthplace: Georgia
Father's Name: M C Medlock
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Annie Steel
Mother's Birthplace: Ga.
Occupation: Pharmacist
Residence: Roscoe, Texas
Burial/Removal: Roscoe, Texas
Date: 11 Oct 1938
Informant: L.L. Medlock, Jr.
Certificate Number: 44968
GS Film number: 2117823
Digital Folder Number: 005144929
Image Number: 03536
"Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3M7-2YN : accessed 02 Sep 2013), Landrum Leslie Medlock, 1938.
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