Margaret A. Elizabeth Wyatt was known as "Maggie". She was born in Hopkins County, Texas, near Como and Sulphur Springs, in October 1869 to James Morgan Wyatt and Eliza Mears Wyatt. Maggie had an older half-brother, Charles E. Wyatt, an older sister, Louisa Ellen Wyatt, and a younger brother, William Robert Wyatt.
In 1871, while her mother was pregnant with William, the family began a move to St. Jo, Texas, in Montague County, where her father later earned a living making shoes and boots for the local citizenry and the cowboys who drove cattle through the county on the Chisholm Trail which had opened in 1868. In Cooke County near Gainesville, Ellen's little brother was born in April 1871. It is not certain whether Eliza went into labor unexpectedly and had the baby there or whether the family had moved that far and settled for a while.
Maggie's mother died in April 1880, leaving three children in the care of her husband in St. Jo. A few months later, when Maggie was about 11, her father married a younger woman, Isabelle Amelia Coley. She was a Godly woman, who helped him rear his three children still at home and also gave birth to eight more children, three of whom did not survive. Maggie's father died in 1905, and Isabella and her children remaining at home moved to Oklahoma shortly thereafter.
Maggie grew up in St. Jo, Texas and married Thomas J. Kinder there about 1882. The couple had four daughters in St. Jo -- Bertha Inez (1885), Birdie L. (1887), Bonnie E. (1889), and Bobbie (1895). Birdie L. Kinder died as a teenager in a freak accident; she was watching a thunderstorm beside an open window in their home and was struck and killed by lightning.
Maggie's husband, Thomas J. Kinder, died in 1938 in St. Jo, Texas and she continued to live there alone for many years after his death; their home was located on North Decatur Street (Highway 82) in the country across the road from the Pioneer Cemetery. She was a feisty, independent, spirited woman and was quite able and ready to defend herself. The word was out in St. Jo that if anyone visited Maggie at night, he had better announce himself in a loud voice; otherwise, he'd be shot at with the pistol she kept beside her.
When Maggie became quite old, her little house outside St. Jo burned down and she moved to Waco, Texas to be near her two daughters, Bonnie Nichols, and Bobbie. She lived by herself in a small house near the girls but never lived with them, thus maintaining her independence as long as she lived. Maggie had a brother and sister in Waco as well -- William Robert Wyatt and Ellen Wyatt McDade.
Although Margaret died in Waco, her remains were transported back to St. Jo, Texas to be buried beside her husband's in Mountain Park Cemetery.
In 1871, while her mother was pregnant with William, the family began a move to St. Jo, Texas, in Montague County, where her father later earned a living making shoes and boots for the local citizenry and the cowboys who drove cattle through the county on the Chisholm Trail which had opened in 1868. In Cooke County near Gainesville, Ellen's little brother was born in April 1871. It is not certain whether Eliza went into labor unexpectedly and had the baby there or whether the family had moved that far and settled for a while.
Maggie's mother died in April 1880, leaving three children in the care of her husband in St. Jo. A few months later, when Maggie was about 11, her father married a younger woman, Isabelle Amelia Coley. She was a Godly woman, who helped him rear his three children still at home and also gave birth to eight more children, three of whom did not survive. Maggie's father died in 1905, and Isabella and her children remaining at home moved to Oklahoma shortly thereafter.
Maggie grew up in St. Jo, Texas and married Thomas J. Kinder there about 1882. The couple had four daughters in St. Jo -- Bertha Inez (1885), Birdie L. (1887), Bonnie E. (1889), and Bobbie (1895). Birdie L. Kinder died as a teenager in a freak accident; she was watching a thunderstorm beside an open window in their home and was struck and killed by lightning.
Maggie's husband, Thomas J. Kinder, died in 1938 in St. Jo, Texas and she continued to live there alone for many years after his death; their home was located on North Decatur Street (Highway 82) in the country across the road from the Pioneer Cemetery. She was a feisty, independent, spirited woman and was quite able and ready to defend herself. The word was out in St. Jo that if anyone visited Maggie at night, he had better announce himself in a loud voice; otherwise, he'd be shot at with the pistol she kept beside her.
When Maggie became quite old, her little house outside St. Jo burned down and she moved to Waco, Texas to be near her two daughters, Bonnie Nichols, and Bobbie. She lived by herself in a small house near the girls but never lived with them, thus maintaining her independence as long as she lived. Maggie had a brother and sister in Waco as well -- William Robert Wyatt and Ellen Wyatt McDade.
Although Margaret died in Waco, her remains were transported back to St. Jo, Texas to be buried beside her husband's in Mountain Park Cemetery.
Margaret A. Elizabeth Wyatt was known as "Maggie". She was born in Hopkins County, Texas, near Como and Sulphur Springs, in October 1869 to James Morgan Wyatt and Eliza Mears Wyatt. Maggie had an older half-brother, Charles E. Wyatt, an older sister, Louisa Ellen Wyatt, and a younger brother, William Robert Wyatt.
In 1871, while her mother was pregnant with William, the family began a move to St. Jo, Texas, in Montague County, where her father later earned a living making shoes and boots for the local citizenry and the cowboys who drove cattle through the county on the Chisholm Trail which had opened in 1868. In Cooke County near Gainesville, Ellen's little brother was born in April 1871. It is not certain whether Eliza went into labor unexpectedly and had the baby there or whether the family had moved that far and settled for a while.
Maggie's mother died in April 1880, leaving three children in the care of her husband in St. Jo. A few months later, when Maggie was about 11, her father married a younger woman, Isabelle Amelia Coley. She was a Godly woman, who helped him rear his three children still at home and also gave birth to eight more children, three of whom did not survive. Maggie's father died in 1905, and Isabella and her children remaining at home moved to Oklahoma shortly thereafter.
Maggie grew up in St. Jo, Texas and married Thomas J. Kinder there about 1882. The couple had four daughters in St. Jo -- Bertha Inez (1885), Birdie L. (1887), Bonnie E. (1889), and Bobbie (1895). Birdie L. Kinder died as a teenager in a freak accident; she was watching a thunderstorm beside an open window in their home and was struck and killed by lightning.
Maggie's husband, Thomas J. Kinder, died in 1938 in St. Jo, Texas and she continued to live there alone for many years after his death; their home was located on North Decatur Street (Highway 82) in the country across the road from the Pioneer Cemetery. She was a feisty, independent, spirited woman and was quite able and ready to defend herself. The word was out in St. Jo that if anyone visited Maggie at night, he had better announce himself in a loud voice; otherwise, he'd be shot at with the pistol she kept beside her.
When Maggie became quite old, her little house outside St. Jo burned down and she moved to Waco, Texas to be near her two daughters, Bonnie Nichols, and Bobbie. She lived by herself in a small house near the girls but never lived with them, thus maintaining her independence as long as she lived. Maggie had a brother and sister in Waco as well -- William Robert Wyatt and Ellen Wyatt McDade.
Although Margaret died in Waco, her remains were transported back to St. Jo, Texas to be buried beside her husband's in Mountain Park Cemetery.
In 1871, while her mother was pregnant with William, the family began a move to St. Jo, Texas, in Montague County, where her father later earned a living making shoes and boots for the local citizenry and the cowboys who drove cattle through the county on the Chisholm Trail which had opened in 1868. In Cooke County near Gainesville, Ellen's little brother was born in April 1871. It is not certain whether Eliza went into labor unexpectedly and had the baby there or whether the family had moved that far and settled for a while.
Maggie's mother died in April 1880, leaving three children in the care of her husband in St. Jo. A few months later, when Maggie was about 11, her father married a younger woman, Isabelle Amelia Coley. She was a Godly woman, who helped him rear his three children still at home and also gave birth to eight more children, three of whom did not survive. Maggie's father died in 1905, and Isabella and her children remaining at home moved to Oklahoma shortly thereafter.
Maggie grew up in St. Jo, Texas and married Thomas J. Kinder there about 1882. The couple had four daughters in St. Jo -- Bertha Inez (1885), Birdie L. (1887), Bonnie E. (1889), and Bobbie (1895). Birdie L. Kinder died as a teenager in a freak accident; she was watching a thunderstorm beside an open window in their home and was struck and killed by lightning.
Maggie's husband, Thomas J. Kinder, died in 1938 in St. Jo, Texas and she continued to live there alone for many years after his death; their home was located on North Decatur Street (Highway 82) in the country across the road from the Pioneer Cemetery. She was a feisty, independent, spirited woman and was quite able and ready to defend herself. The word was out in St. Jo that if anyone visited Maggie at night, he had better announce himself in a loud voice; otherwise, he'd be shot at with the pistol she kept beside her.
When Maggie became quite old, her little house outside St. Jo burned down and she moved to Waco, Texas to be near her two daughters, Bonnie Nichols, and Bobbie. She lived by herself in a small house near the girls but never lived with them, thus maintaining her independence as long as she lived. Maggie had a brother and sister in Waco as well -- William Robert Wyatt and Ellen Wyatt McDade.
Although Margaret died in Waco, her remains were transported back to St. Jo, Texas to be buried beside her husband's in Mountain Park Cemetery.
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