Ora Alice Belle Potter Soules was the oldest daughter and second of the six children of Marion Potter and Georgia Ann Johnson. She was born on November 10, 1892 in the "Honeymoon House" her father had built on Potter land near Mesquite, Texas for her mother in 1889. She attended Mesquite schools as a child. At the age of eighteen she married twenty-year-old Connie Jarrett Soules on June 29, 1910. Connie and Ora lived at the corner of Hickory Tree Lane and Potter Lane. They were the parents of Hattie Mae Soules, b. 25 Mar 1911, Jimmie Marion Soules, b. 4 Nov 1914, and Connie Jarrett "C.J." Soules, Jr., b. 9 Jul 1917. They were members of the Primitive Baptist church.
Ora hosted the family get-togethers on Sunday afternoons. She was a good cook. Fried chicken, fluffy mashed potatoes and hot biscuits were the usual fare for family dinners. I remember standing by Aunt Ora's elbow in the kitchen watching her roll out the dough to make biscuits. As a child I had a "thing" for raw dough. I waited patiently until Aunt Ora had cut the biscuits and re-rolled the excess dough to cut some more. If the scraps of that raw dough were real small, she would let me have a bite or two. One of my biggest thrills of my young life was when she allowed me to cut the biscuits out and place them on the oiled baking pan myself.
As I grew older I became interested in the Potter family history. Aunt Ora and my dad, her brother Virgil, took me to the nearby cemeteries to point out the graves of our ancestors and relatives and tell me the tales of the early ancestors. I'll never forget the night in 1967 when she showed me her scrapbook of obituaries and let my dad take it along with the family Bible and the old family pictures to make copies for me. In 1974 at the request of Stella Bryant, a member of the Mesquite and Genealogical Scoiety, Aunt Ora allowed her to take the book to make copies for the Mesquite Library. Mrs. Nalleen Womach, Librarian, sent the pages out to be put into a handbound book and named it "Family Album" by Ora (Potter) Soules. The Mesquite Daily News of August 22, 1974 had a lengthly article about our "Family Album" along with a picture of L. N. Johnson, president of the Mesquite Historical & Genealogical Society, thanking Aunt Ora for her presentation of our pioneer family records to the library.
Aunt Ora died November 1, 1983 at the age of 90 years, 11 months and 22 days on the land that her grandparents, Absalom and Lydia (Marks) Potter, had settled in the 1850s. She is buried in the Mesquite Cemetery in Mesquite, Dallas County, Texas.
Ora hosted the family get-togethers on Sunday afternoons. She was a good cook. Fried chicken, fluffy mashed potatoes and hot biscuits were the usual fare for family dinners. I remember standing by Aunt Ora's elbow in the kitchen watching her roll out the dough to make biscuits. As a child I had a "thing" for raw dough. I waited patiently until Aunt Ora had cut the biscuits and re-rolled the excess dough to cut some more. If the scraps of that raw dough were real small, she would let me have a bite or two. One of my biggest thrills of my young life was when she allowed me to cut the biscuits out and place them on the oiled baking pan myself.
As I grew older I became interested in the Potter family history. Aunt Ora and my dad, her brother Virgil, took me to the nearby cemeteries to point out the graves of our ancestors and relatives and tell me the tales of the early ancestors. I'll never forget the night in 1967 when she showed me her scrapbook of obituaries and let my dad take it along with the family Bible and the old family pictures to make copies for me. In 1974 at the request of Stella Bryant, a member of the Mesquite and Genealogical Scoiety, Aunt Ora allowed her to take the book to make copies for the Mesquite Library. Mrs. Nalleen Womach, Librarian, sent the pages out to be put into a handbound book and named it "Family Album" by Ora (Potter) Soules. The Mesquite Daily News of August 22, 1974 had a lengthly article about our "Family Album" along with a picture of L. N. Johnson, president of the Mesquite Historical & Genealogical Society, thanking Aunt Ora for her presentation of our pioneer family records to the library.
Aunt Ora died November 1, 1983 at the age of 90 years, 11 months and 22 days on the land that her grandparents, Absalom and Lydia (Marks) Potter, had settled in the 1850s. She is buried in the Mesquite Cemetery in Mesquite, Dallas County, Texas.
Ora Alice Belle Potter Soules was the oldest daughter and second of the six children of Marion Potter and Georgia Ann Johnson. She was born on November 10, 1892 in the "Honeymoon House" her father had built on Potter land near Mesquite, Texas for her mother in 1889. She attended Mesquite schools as a child. At the age of eighteen she married twenty-year-old Connie Jarrett Soules on June 29, 1910. Connie and Ora lived at the corner of Hickory Tree Lane and Potter Lane. They were the parents of Hattie Mae Soules, b. 25 Mar 1911, Jimmie Marion Soules, b. 4 Nov 1914, and Connie Jarrett "C.J." Soules, Jr., b. 9 Jul 1917. They were members of the Primitive Baptist church.
Ora hosted the family get-togethers on Sunday afternoons. She was a good cook. Fried chicken, fluffy mashed potatoes and hot biscuits were the usual fare for family dinners. I remember standing by Aunt Ora's elbow in the kitchen watching her roll out the dough to make biscuits. As a child I had a "thing" for raw dough. I waited patiently until Aunt Ora had cut the biscuits and re-rolled the excess dough to cut some more. If the scraps of that raw dough were real small, she would let me have a bite or two. One of my biggest thrills of my young life was when she allowed me to cut the biscuits out and place them on the oiled baking pan myself.
As I grew older I became interested in the Potter family history. Aunt Ora and my dad, her brother Virgil, took me to the nearby cemeteries to point out the graves of our ancestors and relatives and tell me the tales of the early ancestors. I'll never forget the night in 1967 when she showed me her scrapbook of obituaries and let my dad take it along with the family Bible and the old family pictures to make copies for me. In 1974 at the request of Stella Bryant, a member of the Mesquite and Genealogical Scoiety, Aunt Ora allowed her to take the book to make copies for the Mesquite Library. Mrs. Nalleen Womach, Librarian, sent the pages out to be put into a handbound book and named it "Family Album" by Ora (Potter) Soules. The Mesquite Daily News of August 22, 1974 had a lengthly article about our "Family Album" along with a picture of L. N. Johnson, president of the Mesquite Historical & Genealogical Society, thanking Aunt Ora for her presentation of our pioneer family records to the library.
Aunt Ora died November 1, 1983 at the age of 90 years, 11 months and 22 days on the land that her grandparents, Absalom and Lydia (Marks) Potter, had settled in the 1850s. She is buried in the Mesquite Cemetery in Mesquite, Dallas County, Texas.
Ora hosted the family get-togethers on Sunday afternoons. She was a good cook. Fried chicken, fluffy mashed potatoes and hot biscuits were the usual fare for family dinners. I remember standing by Aunt Ora's elbow in the kitchen watching her roll out the dough to make biscuits. As a child I had a "thing" for raw dough. I waited patiently until Aunt Ora had cut the biscuits and re-rolled the excess dough to cut some more. If the scraps of that raw dough were real small, she would let me have a bite or two. One of my biggest thrills of my young life was when she allowed me to cut the biscuits out and place them on the oiled baking pan myself.
As I grew older I became interested in the Potter family history. Aunt Ora and my dad, her brother Virgil, took me to the nearby cemeteries to point out the graves of our ancestors and relatives and tell me the tales of the early ancestors. I'll never forget the night in 1967 when she showed me her scrapbook of obituaries and let my dad take it along with the family Bible and the old family pictures to make copies for me. In 1974 at the request of Stella Bryant, a member of the Mesquite and Genealogical Scoiety, Aunt Ora allowed her to take the book to make copies for the Mesquite Library. Mrs. Nalleen Womach, Librarian, sent the pages out to be put into a handbound book and named it "Family Album" by Ora (Potter) Soules. The Mesquite Daily News of August 22, 1974 had a lengthly article about our "Family Album" along with a picture of L. N. Johnson, president of the Mesquite Historical & Genealogical Society, thanking Aunt Ora for her presentation of our pioneer family records to the library.
Aunt Ora died November 1, 1983 at the age of 90 years, 11 months and 22 days on the land that her grandparents, Absalom and Lydia (Marks) Potter, had settled in the 1850s. She is buried in the Mesquite Cemetery in Mesquite, Dallas County, Texas.
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