Ada was the daughter of Wilfred James Harrington and Myrtie Nella Albro.
She married 1st on January 2, 1926, Winters, Texas, to Homer E. Traylor.
She married 2nd to Ode Clark.
From the Abilene Reporter-News, June 30, 1950:
Bradshaw Telephone Operator is JP, Too
BRADSHAW – Diminutive Mrs. Homer Traylor is not only the smallest woman in Bradshaw but the busiest one.
She operates the Bradshaw telephone switchboard, is Justice of the Peace of precinct four, the Bradshaw district, takes orders for electrical appliances for a firm in a nearby town, writes a news column for a weekly newspaper and is both father and mother to her three teen-age daughters.
Weighing 85 pounds and one inch shy of five feet in height, Mrs. Traylor's neighbors call her 85 pounds of TNT. The letters in this case could stand for tenderness, nerve and tenacity, tenderness for her six children, nerve to tackle any honest job and tenacity of a bull dog when it comes to holding on.
Mr. Traylor died in 1946 and since then, Mrs. Traylor has supported her family. "We really all work together," Mrs. Traylor said modestly, referring to her two married sons, James Traylor of Clarendon and David Traylor of Moro, and her daughter, Mrs. Guy Cook of San Angelo; twin daughters Minnie and Merna, 16, and Peggy Joyce, 13, at home. There is one grandchild, Sandra, five months, daughter of the David Traylors.
Born in the Gulon community in 1906 almost within sight of her present home, Mrs. Traylor is the former Ada Nell Harrington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Harrington of Tuscola. She has never lived out of this community. Before she moved to her present home five years ago, she and Mrs. Traylor lived on a ranch five miles west of here.
Her parents operated the Bradshaw telephone switchboard from 1912 to 1929. Mrs. Traylor learned to operate the board at the age of 12, so it was nothing new to her when she took over the job here three years ago. There are about 40 telephone subscribers now, compared to the 100 when her parents had the exchange.
Pioneer residents of Bradshaw remember Mrs. Traylor best as the town's livestock herder. At the age of 12 she rode her pony over town, gathered all the milk cows together and took them to the outskirts of town to graze them and keep them out of mischief. She held the job four years.
While the cattle grazed, she was often seen sitting under a tree reading a book. She is still an avid reader and believes in self-education. For herding the cows, she charged $1 a head.
Regarding the telephone exchange work, Mrs. Traylor explained there was one open line to Winters on the Bradshaw board and two to Abilene. She places all her long-distance calls and one moment may be heard contacting a party aboard ship off the Hawaiian coast and the next talking to a man on a vessel off the eastern seaboard as she did a few weeks ago. Because Mrs. Traylor likes people, all her work is interesting to her, and she talks with the clear voice and enthusiasm of one much younger.
Serving as justice of the peace so far has been sort of hum-drum, Mrs. Traylor said. She has not united any couples in marriage but has the ceremony all memorized and ready for that service.
She barely missed having to serve at an inquest following a suicide, but the unfortunate circumstance occurred just over the line in another precinct. She has no opponent in the forthcoming election. As the late Bill Ward of Abilene was the largest justice of the peace in Texas, Mrs. Traylor thinks she can lay claim to being the smallest.
For hobbies, Mrs. Traylor works crossword and jigsaw puzzles and does problems in algebra. For exercise, she plays running games with the children. The Traylor home is full to overflowing most of the time: neighbors dropping in to chat and boys and girls of the neighborhood coming to see "what's cooking" in the Traylor kitchen.
"Our home is a madhouse, and we love it," Mrs. Traylor said.
She married 1st on January 2, 1926, Winters, Texas, to Homer E. Traylor.
She married 2nd to Ode Clark.
From the Abilene Reporter-News, June 30, 1950:
Bradshaw Telephone Operator is JP, Too
BRADSHAW – Diminutive Mrs. Homer Traylor is not only the smallest woman in Bradshaw but the busiest one.
She operates the Bradshaw telephone switchboard, is Justice of the Peace of precinct four, the Bradshaw district, takes orders for electrical appliances for a firm in a nearby town, writes a news column for a weekly newspaper and is both father and mother to her three teen-age daughters.
Weighing 85 pounds and one inch shy of five feet in height, Mrs. Traylor's neighbors call her 85 pounds of TNT. The letters in this case could stand for tenderness, nerve and tenacity, tenderness for her six children, nerve to tackle any honest job and tenacity of a bull dog when it comes to holding on.
Mr. Traylor died in 1946 and since then, Mrs. Traylor has supported her family. "We really all work together," Mrs. Traylor said modestly, referring to her two married sons, James Traylor of Clarendon and David Traylor of Moro, and her daughter, Mrs. Guy Cook of San Angelo; twin daughters Minnie and Merna, 16, and Peggy Joyce, 13, at home. There is one grandchild, Sandra, five months, daughter of the David Traylors.
Born in the Gulon community in 1906 almost within sight of her present home, Mrs. Traylor is the former Ada Nell Harrington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Harrington of Tuscola. She has never lived out of this community. Before she moved to her present home five years ago, she and Mrs. Traylor lived on a ranch five miles west of here.
Her parents operated the Bradshaw telephone switchboard from 1912 to 1929. Mrs. Traylor learned to operate the board at the age of 12, so it was nothing new to her when she took over the job here three years ago. There are about 40 telephone subscribers now, compared to the 100 when her parents had the exchange.
Pioneer residents of Bradshaw remember Mrs. Traylor best as the town's livestock herder. At the age of 12 she rode her pony over town, gathered all the milk cows together and took them to the outskirts of town to graze them and keep them out of mischief. She held the job four years.
While the cattle grazed, she was often seen sitting under a tree reading a book. She is still an avid reader and believes in self-education. For herding the cows, she charged $1 a head.
Regarding the telephone exchange work, Mrs. Traylor explained there was one open line to Winters on the Bradshaw board and two to Abilene. She places all her long-distance calls and one moment may be heard contacting a party aboard ship off the Hawaiian coast and the next talking to a man on a vessel off the eastern seaboard as she did a few weeks ago. Because Mrs. Traylor likes people, all her work is interesting to her, and she talks with the clear voice and enthusiasm of one much younger.
Serving as justice of the peace so far has been sort of hum-drum, Mrs. Traylor said. She has not united any couples in marriage but has the ceremony all memorized and ready for that service.
She barely missed having to serve at an inquest following a suicide, but the unfortunate circumstance occurred just over the line in another precinct. She has no opponent in the forthcoming election. As the late Bill Ward of Abilene was the largest justice of the peace in Texas, Mrs. Traylor thinks she can lay claim to being the smallest.
For hobbies, Mrs. Traylor works crossword and jigsaw puzzles and does problems in algebra. For exercise, she plays running games with the children. The Traylor home is full to overflowing most of the time: neighbors dropping in to chat and boys and girls of the neighborhood coming to see "what's cooking" in the Traylor kitchen.
"Our home is a madhouse, and we love it," Mrs. Traylor said.
Ada was the daughter of Wilfred James Harrington and Myrtie Nella Albro.
She married 1st on January 2, 1926, Winters, Texas, to Homer E. Traylor.
She married 2nd to Ode Clark.
From the Abilene Reporter-News, June 30, 1950:
Bradshaw Telephone Operator is JP, Too
BRADSHAW – Diminutive Mrs. Homer Traylor is not only the smallest woman in Bradshaw but the busiest one.
She operates the Bradshaw telephone switchboard, is Justice of the Peace of precinct four, the Bradshaw district, takes orders for electrical appliances for a firm in a nearby town, writes a news column for a weekly newspaper and is both father and mother to her three teen-age daughters.
Weighing 85 pounds and one inch shy of five feet in height, Mrs. Traylor's neighbors call her 85 pounds of TNT. The letters in this case could stand for tenderness, nerve and tenacity, tenderness for her six children, nerve to tackle any honest job and tenacity of a bull dog when it comes to holding on.
Mr. Traylor died in 1946 and since then, Mrs. Traylor has supported her family. "We really all work together," Mrs. Traylor said modestly, referring to her two married sons, James Traylor of Clarendon and David Traylor of Moro, and her daughter, Mrs. Guy Cook of San Angelo; twin daughters Minnie and Merna, 16, and Peggy Joyce, 13, at home. There is one grandchild, Sandra, five months, daughter of the David Traylors.
Born in the Gulon community in 1906 almost within sight of her present home, Mrs. Traylor is the former Ada Nell Harrington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Harrington of Tuscola. She has never lived out of this community. Before she moved to her present home five years ago, she and Mrs. Traylor lived on a ranch five miles west of here.
Her parents operated the Bradshaw telephone switchboard from 1912 to 1929. Mrs. Traylor learned to operate the board at the age of 12, so it was nothing new to her when she took over the job here three years ago. There are about 40 telephone subscribers now, compared to the 100 when her parents had the exchange.
Pioneer residents of Bradshaw remember Mrs. Traylor best as the town's livestock herder. At the age of 12 she rode her pony over town, gathered all the milk cows together and took them to the outskirts of town to graze them and keep them out of mischief. She held the job four years.
While the cattle grazed, she was often seen sitting under a tree reading a book. She is still an avid reader and believes in self-education. For herding the cows, she charged $1 a head.
Regarding the telephone exchange work, Mrs. Traylor explained there was one open line to Winters on the Bradshaw board and two to Abilene. She places all her long-distance calls and one moment may be heard contacting a party aboard ship off the Hawaiian coast and the next talking to a man on a vessel off the eastern seaboard as she did a few weeks ago. Because Mrs. Traylor likes people, all her work is interesting to her, and she talks with the clear voice and enthusiasm of one much younger.
Serving as justice of the peace so far has been sort of hum-drum, Mrs. Traylor said. She has not united any couples in marriage but has the ceremony all memorized and ready for that service.
She barely missed having to serve at an inquest following a suicide, but the unfortunate circumstance occurred just over the line in another precinct. She has no opponent in the forthcoming election. As the late Bill Ward of Abilene was the largest justice of the peace in Texas, Mrs. Traylor thinks she can lay claim to being the smallest.
For hobbies, Mrs. Traylor works crossword and jigsaw puzzles and does problems in algebra. For exercise, she plays running games with the children. The Traylor home is full to overflowing most of the time: neighbors dropping in to chat and boys and girls of the neighborhood coming to see "what's cooking" in the Traylor kitchen.
"Our home is a madhouse, and we love it," Mrs. Traylor said.
She married 1st on January 2, 1926, Winters, Texas, to Homer E. Traylor.
She married 2nd to Ode Clark.
From the Abilene Reporter-News, June 30, 1950:
Bradshaw Telephone Operator is JP, Too
BRADSHAW – Diminutive Mrs. Homer Traylor is not only the smallest woman in Bradshaw but the busiest one.
She operates the Bradshaw telephone switchboard, is Justice of the Peace of precinct four, the Bradshaw district, takes orders for electrical appliances for a firm in a nearby town, writes a news column for a weekly newspaper and is both father and mother to her three teen-age daughters.
Weighing 85 pounds and one inch shy of five feet in height, Mrs. Traylor's neighbors call her 85 pounds of TNT. The letters in this case could stand for tenderness, nerve and tenacity, tenderness for her six children, nerve to tackle any honest job and tenacity of a bull dog when it comes to holding on.
Mr. Traylor died in 1946 and since then, Mrs. Traylor has supported her family. "We really all work together," Mrs. Traylor said modestly, referring to her two married sons, James Traylor of Clarendon and David Traylor of Moro, and her daughter, Mrs. Guy Cook of San Angelo; twin daughters Minnie and Merna, 16, and Peggy Joyce, 13, at home. There is one grandchild, Sandra, five months, daughter of the David Traylors.
Born in the Gulon community in 1906 almost within sight of her present home, Mrs. Traylor is the former Ada Nell Harrington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Harrington of Tuscola. She has never lived out of this community. Before she moved to her present home five years ago, she and Mrs. Traylor lived on a ranch five miles west of here.
Her parents operated the Bradshaw telephone switchboard from 1912 to 1929. Mrs. Traylor learned to operate the board at the age of 12, so it was nothing new to her when she took over the job here three years ago. There are about 40 telephone subscribers now, compared to the 100 when her parents had the exchange.
Pioneer residents of Bradshaw remember Mrs. Traylor best as the town's livestock herder. At the age of 12 she rode her pony over town, gathered all the milk cows together and took them to the outskirts of town to graze them and keep them out of mischief. She held the job four years.
While the cattle grazed, she was often seen sitting under a tree reading a book. She is still an avid reader and believes in self-education. For herding the cows, she charged $1 a head.
Regarding the telephone exchange work, Mrs. Traylor explained there was one open line to Winters on the Bradshaw board and two to Abilene. She places all her long-distance calls and one moment may be heard contacting a party aboard ship off the Hawaiian coast and the next talking to a man on a vessel off the eastern seaboard as she did a few weeks ago. Because Mrs. Traylor likes people, all her work is interesting to her, and she talks with the clear voice and enthusiasm of one much younger.
Serving as justice of the peace so far has been sort of hum-drum, Mrs. Traylor said. She has not united any couples in marriage but has the ceremony all memorized and ready for that service.
She barely missed having to serve at an inquest following a suicide, but the unfortunate circumstance occurred just over the line in another precinct. She has no opponent in the forthcoming election. As the late Bill Ward of Abilene was the largest justice of the peace in Texas, Mrs. Traylor thinks she can lay claim to being the smallest.
For hobbies, Mrs. Traylor works crossword and jigsaw puzzles and does problems in algebra. For exercise, she plays running games with the children. The Traylor home is full to overflowing most of the time: neighbors dropping in to chat and boys and girls of the neighborhood coming to see "what's cooking" in the Traylor kitchen.
"Our home is a madhouse, and we love it," Mrs. Traylor said.
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