Joseph came with his mother and siblings to Grayson County, Texas, during the Civil War. Their home was burned by the Yankees in Missouri and his father in a Union prison in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. After his father joined the family, they lived a short while in Lamar County before settling in Ladonia.
Joe B. and his wife Bettie built their home in 1895 - it is a Texas Medallion Home. They brought four little boys when they moved in. The youngest son, Maurice, was the last Haden to live in the home. When he died in 1959, leaving no will, the home was sold out of the family by the various nieces and nephews.
Joe B. married Elizabeth Echols "Bettie" Holderness, on the 4th of July, 1882, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, TX. They had been married 68 years when she died. Here is a newspaper article of their 64th Anniversary:
The Ladonia News; Friday 12 Jul 1946
Celebrated Sixty-fourth Wedding Anniversary July Fourth
The wedding of Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Haden, which occurred on the 4th of July, 1882, was celebrated in their home on Bonham street on the 64th anniversary of that far away happy event, Thursday of last week. All of their sons, excepting Charlie, who is spending the summer in Colorado, were present on the occasion. Mr. & Mrs. Haden are fortunate in that they have never lost a member of their immediate family, and grateful that all of their sons have remained citizens of their native Ladonia. They never had any daughters, but are fully compensated by the fact that Will, Charlie, and Joe Jr. have chosen for them three gracious and charming in-laws, which has doubtless kept them from feeling any sense of loss. While Maurice has been too devoted to his father and mother to ever consider a matrimonial venture, Mr. Haden and his best man, -- the late Dr. Spencer Relyea, -- drove to Sulphur Springs on the 3rd of July, and the next day on to the home of his bride, Miss Elizabeth Holderness, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. G. W. Holderness, who resided in the prosperous nearby community of Oakland in Hopkins County. Note: This is an error, G. W. Holderness was her brother - her parents were Dr. and Mrs. Robert Charles Holderness and they lived in Cumby, Hopkins Co. They were united in marriage at this beautiful country home. Mrs. Haden's close friend, Miss Janey Young, was her bride's maid and accompanied her home as a wedding guest. This was back in the good old horse-and-buggy days and Mr. Haden tells us that a hail and terrific rain storm camp up, and washed away many of the bridges and nearly prevented their trip home to Ladonia as planned.
Mr. and Mrs. Haden have always made their home in Ladonia and are held in the very highest esteem and veneration by our people and hundreds of other good friends who love them for their graciousness, their high moral and intellectual attainments, and their devotion to the codes and tradition of our beloved Southland. Mr. Haden is scholarly, a botanist, a floriculturist, a student of nature, -- hence a dreamer of beautiful dreams -- which brings him a high degree of contentment in the retirement of his well appointed home. Mrs. Haden's hobby is to make Mr. Haden, "Jodie," happy and if it is up to us to judge, we would say that the venture of their youth has succeeded beyond their fondest hope.
Congratulations, Good Friends.
The Ladonia News, Friday, February 6, 1953
J. B. Haden, Sr. Expires after Long Illness
Ladonia lost one of its oldest citizens when Joseph Benjamin Haden passed away Thursday morning, February 5, at a Commerce hospital after a long illness.
Funeral services have been set for three o-clock this afternoon (Friday) at the First Baptist Church. Interment will be in the Presbyterian Cemetery.
Haden was born July 28, 1859, near Springfield, Green County, Missouri. His family moved to Texas in 1864, having suffered hardships and reverses in Missouri due to the Civil War.
The Hadens settled first in Grayson County, a year later removing to Ben Franklin, which was then in Lamar County, now Delta County.
Mr. Haden first attended school at Giles, walking the three miles from his home each day. Like most early day schools there was only one room. It had a puncheon floor, a batten door and a stick & dirt chimney.
In 1869, the family moved to a place east of Ladonia, lated owned by the late T. H. B. Hockaday, now the Lawrence Pickard home. He then attended the Featherson School in Ladonia. In 1876, the family moved to Ladonia, where he later attended a school taught by Mr. John Clinton.
In 1880, he began working in his father's store. In September of that year his father died, leaving him to carry on the business. In later years, his health failed and as his four sons grew to maturity, they became associated with him in the dry goods and grocery business until his retirement in 1916. From that time until the latter part of 1927, the firm of J. B. Haden & Co. was conducted by his four sons.
On July 4, 1882, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Holderness of Hopkins County. She preceded him in death, having passed away in 1950.
While he was a young man, Mr. Haden became a member of the Baptist Church at Rehoboth, latter moving his membership to the First Baptist Church of Ladonia of which he was probably the oldest member, being 93 years of age last July.
He is survived by four sons, Will, Charlie, Joe and Maurice Haden of Ladonia; seven grandchildren, William & Robert Haden of Springdale, Ark., John Haden of Austin, Will Haden Jr., Dallas, Mrs. R. B. Marcom, Okmulgee, Okls., Mrs. Edward White, Galveston, and Joe Haden III, Ladonia and a sister Mrs. Joe A. Pickens, Quanah. Nine great grandchildren also survive.
Mr. Haden was a gentleman of the old school, of high ideals and integrity, whose firm belief was that a man's word should be as good as his bond.
"After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well."
Friday, Feb 13, 1953
Final Rites Held for J. B. Haden Sr.
Funeral services for J. B. Haden Sr., 93 who passed away Thusday morning, February 5, in a Commerce hospital after a lengthy illness, were held at three o'clock last Friday afternoon at the First Baptist Church. Conducting the last rites were the pastor, Rev. John Rasberry, assisted by the Rev. J. F. Murrell of Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Pallbearers were Tom Cain and Mr. Haden's five grandsons, William Charles, Robert, John, Will Jr. and Joe Haden III.
Burial was made in the Presbyterian Cemetery with Delta Funeral Home directing.
Out-of-town friends and relatives attending included, Mrs. & Mrs. S. C. Relyea [ Dr. Spencer Relyea was J. B.'s best man - must be a son.], Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Holderness, Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Duniven, Mrs. Earl Cottrell, and Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Haden Jr and Will Roy Haden of Dallas; Judge H. A. Cunningham, Mr. & Mrs. Deets Dorough, Judge Choice Moore and Mrs. Lee Morrow of Bonham, Mr. & Mrs. H. A. Spies, Leonard; Mr. Lackey Sebastian, Seagoville,; Rev. & Mrs. J. F. Murrell, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Mr. & Mrs. Tom Finley, Linden; Mrs. Hattie Threlkeld, Mrs. Vergie White, Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Moore & Mrs. Robert Ponder of Commerce; Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Scott, Cooper; Mr. Foster Bomar, Honey Grove; Mrs. Vada Pilcher, San Antonio; Mr. Pete Smith, Wolfe City; Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Haden & Ralph, and Mr. & Mrs. Robert Haden of Springdale, Arkansas; Mr. John Haden, Austin; Mrs. Edward White, Galveston; Joe Haden III, Houston; Mr. & Mrs. Waire Currin and Mrs. Virgie Thomas of Sulphur Springs.
Joe B. and his wife Bettie built their home in 1895 - it is a Texas Medallion Home. They brought four little boys when they moved in. The youngest son, Maurice, was the last Haden to live in the home. When he died in 1959, leaving no will, the home was sold out of the family by the various nieces and nephews.
Joe B. married Elizabeth Echols "Bettie" Holderness, on the 4th of July, 1882, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, TX. They had been married 68 years when she died. Here is a newspaper article of their 64th Anniversary:
The Ladonia News; Friday 12 Jul 1946
Celebrated Sixty-fourth Wedding Anniversary July Fourth
The wedding of Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Haden, which occurred on the 4th of July, 1882, was celebrated in their home on Bonham street on the 64th anniversary of that far away happy event, Thursday of last week. All of their sons, excepting Charlie, who is spending the summer in Colorado, were present on the occasion. Mr. & Mrs. Haden are fortunate in that they have never lost a member of their immediate family, and grateful that all of their sons have remained citizens of their native Ladonia. They never had any daughters, but are fully compensated by the fact that Will, Charlie, and Joe Jr. have chosen for them three gracious and charming in-laws, which has doubtless kept them from feeling any sense of loss. While Maurice has been too devoted to his father and mother to ever consider a matrimonial venture, Mr. Haden and his best man, -- the late Dr. Spencer Relyea, -- drove to Sulphur Springs on the 3rd of July, and the next day on to the home of his bride, Miss Elizabeth Holderness, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. G. W. Holderness, who resided in the prosperous nearby community of Oakland in Hopkins County. Note: This is an error, G. W. Holderness was her brother - her parents were Dr. and Mrs. Robert Charles Holderness and they lived in Cumby, Hopkins Co. They were united in marriage at this beautiful country home. Mrs. Haden's close friend, Miss Janey Young, was her bride's maid and accompanied her home as a wedding guest. This was back in the good old horse-and-buggy days and Mr. Haden tells us that a hail and terrific rain storm camp up, and washed away many of the bridges and nearly prevented their trip home to Ladonia as planned.
Mr. and Mrs. Haden have always made their home in Ladonia and are held in the very highest esteem and veneration by our people and hundreds of other good friends who love them for their graciousness, their high moral and intellectual attainments, and their devotion to the codes and tradition of our beloved Southland. Mr. Haden is scholarly, a botanist, a floriculturist, a student of nature, -- hence a dreamer of beautiful dreams -- which brings him a high degree of contentment in the retirement of his well appointed home. Mrs. Haden's hobby is to make Mr. Haden, "Jodie," happy and if it is up to us to judge, we would say that the venture of their youth has succeeded beyond their fondest hope.
Congratulations, Good Friends.
The Ladonia News, Friday, February 6, 1953
J. B. Haden, Sr. Expires after Long Illness
Ladonia lost one of its oldest citizens when Joseph Benjamin Haden passed away Thursday morning, February 5, at a Commerce hospital after a long illness.
Funeral services have been set for three o-clock this afternoon (Friday) at the First Baptist Church. Interment will be in the Presbyterian Cemetery.
Haden was born July 28, 1859, near Springfield, Green County, Missouri. His family moved to Texas in 1864, having suffered hardships and reverses in Missouri due to the Civil War.
The Hadens settled first in Grayson County, a year later removing to Ben Franklin, which was then in Lamar County, now Delta County.
Mr. Haden first attended school at Giles, walking the three miles from his home each day. Like most early day schools there was only one room. It had a puncheon floor, a batten door and a stick & dirt chimney.
In 1869, the family moved to a place east of Ladonia, lated owned by the late T. H. B. Hockaday, now the Lawrence Pickard home. He then attended the Featherson School in Ladonia. In 1876, the family moved to Ladonia, where he later attended a school taught by Mr. John Clinton.
In 1880, he began working in his father's store. In September of that year his father died, leaving him to carry on the business. In later years, his health failed and as his four sons grew to maturity, they became associated with him in the dry goods and grocery business until his retirement in 1916. From that time until the latter part of 1927, the firm of J. B. Haden & Co. was conducted by his four sons.
On July 4, 1882, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Holderness of Hopkins County. She preceded him in death, having passed away in 1950.
While he was a young man, Mr. Haden became a member of the Baptist Church at Rehoboth, latter moving his membership to the First Baptist Church of Ladonia of which he was probably the oldest member, being 93 years of age last July.
He is survived by four sons, Will, Charlie, Joe and Maurice Haden of Ladonia; seven grandchildren, William & Robert Haden of Springdale, Ark., John Haden of Austin, Will Haden Jr., Dallas, Mrs. R. B. Marcom, Okmulgee, Okls., Mrs. Edward White, Galveston, and Joe Haden III, Ladonia and a sister Mrs. Joe A. Pickens, Quanah. Nine great grandchildren also survive.
Mr. Haden was a gentleman of the old school, of high ideals and integrity, whose firm belief was that a man's word should be as good as his bond.
"After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well."
Friday, Feb 13, 1953
Final Rites Held for J. B. Haden Sr.
Funeral services for J. B. Haden Sr., 93 who passed away Thusday morning, February 5, in a Commerce hospital after a lengthy illness, were held at three o'clock last Friday afternoon at the First Baptist Church. Conducting the last rites were the pastor, Rev. John Rasberry, assisted by the Rev. J. F. Murrell of Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Pallbearers were Tom Cain and Mr. Haden's five grandsons, William Charles, Robert, John, Will Jr. and Joe Haden III.
Burial was made in the Presbyterian Cemetery with Delta Funeral Home directing.
Out-of-town friends and relatives attending included, Mrs. & Mrs. S. C. Relyea [ Dr. Spencer Relyea was J. B.'s best man - must be a son.], Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Holderness, Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Duniven, Mrs. Earl Cottrell, and Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Haden Jr and Will Roy Haden of Dallas; Judge H. A. Cunningham, Mr. & Mrs. Deets Dorough, Judge Choice Moore and Mrs. Lee Morrow of Bonham, Mr. & Mrs. H. A. Spies, Leonard; Mr. Lackey Sebastian, Seagoville,; Rev. & Mrs. J. F. Murrell, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Mr. & Mrs. Tom Finley, Linden; Mrs. Hattie Threlkeld, Mrs. Vergie White, Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Moore & Mrs. Robert Ponder of Commerce; Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Scott, Cooper; Mr. Foster Bomar, Honey Grove; Mrs. Vada Pilcher, San Antonio; Mr. Pete Smith, Wolfe City; Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Haden & Ralph, and Mr. & Mrs. Robert Haden of Springdale, Arkansas; Mr. John Haden, Austin; Mrs. Edward White, Galveston; Joe Haden III, Houston; Mr. & Mrs. Waire Currin and Mrs. Virgie Thomas of Sulphur Springs.
Joseph came with his mother and siblings to Grayson County, Texas, during the Civil War. Their home was burned by the Yankees in Missouri and his father in a Union prison in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. After his father joined the family, they lived a short while in Lamar County before settling in Ladonia.
Joe B. and his wife Bettie built their home in 1895 - it is a Texas Medallion Home. They brought four little boys when they moved in. The youngest son, Maurice, was the last Haden to live in the home. When he died in 1959, leaving no will, the home was sold out of the family by the various nieces and nephews.
Joe B. married Elizabeth Echols "Bettie" Holderness, on the 4th of July, 1882, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, TX. They had been married 68 years when she died. Here is a newspaper article of their 64th Anniversary:
The Ladonia News; Friday 12 Jul 1946
Celebrated Sixty-fourth Wedding Anniversary July Fourth
The wedding of Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Haden, which occurred on the 4th of July, 1882, was celebrated in their home on Bonham street on the 64th anniversary of that far away happy event, Thursday of last week. All of their sons, excepting Charlie, who is spending the summer in Colorado, were present on the occasion. Mr. & Mrs. Haden are fortunate in that they have never lost a member of their immediate family, and grateful that all of their sons have remained citizens of their native Ladonia. They never had any daughters, but are fully compensated by the fact that Will, Charlie, and Joe Jr. have chosen for them three gracious and charming in-laws, which has doubtless kept them from feeling any sense of loss. While Maurice has been too devoted to his father and mother to ever consider a matrimonial venture, Mr. Haden and his best man, -- the late Dr. Spencer Relyea, -- drove to Sulphur Springs on the 3rd of July, and the next day on to the home of his bride, Miss Elizabeth Holderness, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. G. W. Holderness, who resided in the prosperous nearby community of Oakland in Hopkins County. Note: This is an error, G. W. Holderness was her brother - her parents were Dr. and Mrs. Robert Charles Holderness and they lived in Cumby, Hopkins Co. They were united in marriage at this beautiful country home. Mrs. Haden's close friend, Miss Janey Young, was her bride's maid and accompanied her home as a wedding guest. This was back in the good old horse-and-buggy days and Mr. Haden tells us that a hail and terrific rain storm camp up, and washed away many of the bridges and nearly prevented their trip home to Ladonia as planned.
Mr. and Mrs. Haden have always made their home in Ladonia and are held in the very highest esteem and veneration by our people and hundreds of other good friends who love them for their graciousness, their high moral and intellectual attainments, and their devotion to the codes and tradition of our beloved Southland. Mr. Haden is scholarly, a botanist, a floriculturist, a student of nature, -- hence a dreamer of beautiful dreams -- which brings him a high degree of contentment in the retirement of his well appointed home. Mrs. Haden's hobby is to make Mr. Haden, "Jodie," happy and if it is up to us to judge, we would say that the venture of their youth has succeeded beyond their fondest hope.
Congratulations, Good Friends.
The Ladonia News, Friday, February 6, 1953
J. B. Haden, Sr. Expires after Long Illness
Ladonia lost one of its oldest citizens when Joseph Benjamin Haden passed away Thursday morning, February 5, at a Commerce hospital after a long illness.
Funeral services have been set for three o-clock this afternoon (Friday) at the First Baptist Church. Interment will be in the Presbyterian Cemetery.
Haden was born July 28, 1859, near Springfield, Green County, Missouri. His family moved to Texas in 1864, having suffered hardships and reverses in Missouri due to the Civil War.
The Hadens settled first in Grayson County, a year later removing to Ben Franklin, which was then in Lamar County, now Delta County.
Mr. Haden first attended school at Giles, walking the three miles from his home each day. Like most early day schools there was only one room. It had a puncheon floor, a batten door and a stick & dirt chimney.
In 1869, the family moved to a place east of Ladonia, lated owned by the late T. H. B. Hockaday, now the Lawrence Pickard home. He then attended the Featherson School in Ladonia. In 1876, the family moved to Ladonia, where he later attended a school taught by Mr. John Clinton.
In 1880, he began working in his father's store. In September of that year his father died, leaving him to carry on the business. In later years, his health failed and as his four sons grew to maturity, they became associated with him in the dry goods and grocery business until his retirement in 1916. From that time until the latter part of 1927, the firm of J. B. Haden & Co. was conducted by his four sons.
On July 4, 1882, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Holderness of Hopkins County. She preceded him in death, having passed away in 1950.
While he was a young man, Mr. Haden became a member of the Baptist Church at Rehoboth, latter moving his membership to the First Baptist Church of Ladonia of which he was probably the oldest member, being 93 years of age last July.
He is survived by four sons, Will, Charlie, Joe and Maurice Haden of Ladonia; seven grandchildren, William & Robert Haden of Springdale, Ark., John Haden of Austin, Will Haden Jr., Dallas, Mrs. R. B. Marcom, Okmulgee, Okls., Mrs. Edward White, Galveston, and Joe Haden III, Ladonia and a sister Mrs. Joe A. Pickens, Quanah. Nine great grandchildren also survive.
Mr. Haden was a gentleman of the old school, of high ideals and integrity, whose firm belief was that a man's word should be as good as his bond.
"After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well."
Friday, Feb 13, 1953
Final Rites Held for J. B. Haden Sr.
Funeral services for J. B. Haden Sr., 93 who passed away Thusday morning, February 5, in a Commerce hospital after a lengthy illness, were held at three o'clock last Friday afternoon at the First Baptist Church. Conducting the last rites were the pastor, Rev. John Rasberry, assisted by the Rev. J. F. Murrell of Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Pallbearers were Tom Cain and Mr. Haden's five grandsons, William Charles, Robert, John, Will Jr. and Joe Haden III.
Burial was made in the Presbyterian Cemetery with Delta Funeral Home directing.
Out-of-town friends and relatives attending included, Mrs. & Mrs. S. C. Relyea [ Dr. Spencer Relyea was J. B.'s best man - must be a son.], Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Holderness, Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Duniven, Mrs. Earl Cottrell, and Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Haden Jr and Will Roy Haden of Dallas; Judge H. A. Cunningham, Mr. & Mrs. Deets Dorough, Judge Choice Moore and Mrs. Lee Morrow of Bonham, Mr. & Mrs. H. A. Spies, Leonard; Mr. Lackey Sebastian, Seagoville,; Rev. & Mrs. J. F. Murrell, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Mr. & Mrs. Tom Finley, Linden; Mrs. Hattie Threlkeld, Mrs. Vergie White, Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Moore & Mrs. Robert Ponder of Commerce; Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Scott, Cooper; Mr. Foster Bomar, Honey Grove; Mrs. Vada Pilcher, San Antonio; Mr. Pete Smith, Wolfe City; Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Haden & Ralph, and Mr. & Mrs. Robert Haden of Springdale, Arkansas; Mr. John Haden, Austin; Mrs. Edward White, Galveston; Joe Haden III, Houston; Mr. & Mrs. Waire Currin and Mrs. Virgie Thomas of Sulphur Springs.
Joe B. and his wife Bettie built their home in 1895 - it is a Texas Medallion Home. They brought four little boys when they moved in. The youngest son, Maurice, was the last Haden to live in the home. When he died in 1959, leaving no will, the home was sold out of the family by the various nieces and nephews.
Joe B. married Elizabeth Echols "Bettie" Holderness, on the 4th of July, 1882, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, TX. They had been married 68 years when she died. Here is a newspaper article of their 64th Anniversary:
The Ladonia News; Friday 12 Jul 1946
Celebrated Sixty-fourth Wedding Anniversary July Fourth
The wedding of Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Haden, which occurred on the 4th of July, 1882, was celebrated in their home on Bonham street on the 64th anniversary of that far away happy event, Thursday of last week. All of their sons, excepting Charlie, who is spending the summer in Colorado, were present on the occasion. Mr. & Mrs. Haden are fortunate in that they have never lost a member of their immediate family, and grateful that all of their sons have remained citizens of their native Ladonia. They never had any daughters, but are fully compensated by the fact that Will, Charlie, and Joe Jr. have chosen for them three gracious and charming in-laws, which has doubtless kept them from feeling any sense of loss. While Maurice has been too devoted to his father and mother to ever consider a matrimonial venture, Mr. Haden and his best man, -- the late Dr. Spencer Relyea, -- drove to Sulphur Springs on the 3rd of July, and the next day on to the home of his bride, Miss Elizabeth Holderness, daughter of Dr. & Mrs. G. W. Holderness, who resided in the prosperous nearby community of Oakland in Hopkins County. Note: This is an error, G. W. Holderness was her brother - her parents were Dr. and Mrs. Robert Charles Holderness and they lived in Cumby, Hopkins Co. They were united in marriage at this beautiful country home. Mrs. Haden's close friend, Miss Janey Young, was her bride's maid and accompanied her home as a wedding guest. This was back in the good old horse-and-buggy days and Mr. Haden tells us that a hail and terrific rain storm camp up, and washed away many of the bridges and nearly prevented their trip home to Ladonia as planned.
Mr. and Mrs. Haden have always made their home in Ladonia and are held in the very highest esteem and veneration by our people and hundreds of other good friends who love them for their graciousness, their high moral and intellectual attainments, and their devotion to the codes and tradition of our beloved Southland. Mr. Haden is scholarly, a botanist, a floriculturist, a student of nature, -- hence a dreamer of beautiful dreams -- which brings him a high degree of contentment in the retirement of his well appointed home. Mrs. Haden's hobby is to make Mr. Haden, "Jodie," happy and if it is up to us to judge, we would say that the venture of their youth has succeeded beyond their fondest hope.
Congratulations, Good Friends.
The Ladonia News, Friday, February 6, 1953
J. B. Haden, Sr. Expires after Long Illness
Ladonia lost one of its oldest citizens when Joseph Benjamin Haden passed away Thursday morning, February 5, at a Commerce hospital after a long illness.
Funeral services have been set for three o-clock this afternoon (Friday) at the First Baptist Church. Interment will be in the Presbyterian Cemetery.
Haden was born July 28, 1859, near Springfield, Green County, Missouri. His family moved to Texas in 1864, having suffered hardships and reverses in Missouri due to the Civil War.
The Hadens settled first in Grayson County, a year later removing to Ben Franklin, which was then in Lamar County, now Delta County.
Mr. Haden first attended school at Giles, walking the three miles from his home each day. Like most early day schools there was only one room. It had a puncheon floor, a batten door and a stick & dirt chimney.
In 1869, the family moved to a place east of Ladonia, lated owned by the late T. H. B. Hockaday, now the Lawrence Pickard home. He then attended the Featherson School in Ladonia. In 1876, the family moved to Ladonia, where he later attended a school taught by Mr. John Clinton.
In 1880, he began working in his father's store. In September of that year his father died, leaving him to carry on the business. In later years, his health failed and as his four sons grew to maturity, they became associated with him in the dry goods and grocery business until his retirement in 1916. From that time until the latter part of 1927, the firm of J. B. Haden & Co. was conducted by his four sons.
On July 4, 1882, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Holderness of Hopkins County. She preceded him in death, having passed away in 1950.
While he was a young man, Mr. Haden became a member of the Baptist Church at Rehoboth, latter moving his membership to the First Baptist Church of Ladonia of which he was probably the oldest member, being 93 years of age last July.
He is survived by four sons, Will, Charlie, Joe and Maurice Haden of Ladonia; seven grandchildren, William & Robert Haden of Springdale, Ark., John Haden of Austin, Will Haden Jr., Dallas, Mrs. R. B. Marcom, Okmulgee, Okls., Mrs. Edward White, Galveston, and Joe Haden III, Ladonia and a sister Mrs. Joe A. Pickens, Quanah. Nine great grandchildren also survive.
Mr. Haden was a gentleman of the old school, of high ideals and integrity, whose firm belief was that a man's word should be as good as his bond.
"After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well."
Friday, Feb 13, 1953
Final Rites Held for J. B. Haden Sr.
Funeral services for J. B. Haden Sr., 93 who passed away Thusday morning, February 5, in a Commerce hospital after a lengthy illness, were held at three o'clock last Friday afternoon at the First Baptist Church. Conducting the last rites were the pastor, Rev. John Rasberry, assisted by the Rev. J. F. Murrell of Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Pallbearers were Tom Cain and Mr. Haden's five grandsons, William Charles, Robert, John, Will Jr. and Joe Haden III.
Burial was made in the Presbyterian Cemetery with Delta Funeral Home directing.
Out-of-town friends and relatives attending included, Mrs. & Mrs. S. C. Relyea [ Dr. Spencer Relyea was J. B.'s best man - must be a son.], Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Holderness, Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Duniven, Mrs. Earl Cottrell, and Mr. & Mrs. W. F. Haden Jr and Will Roy Haden of Dallas; Judge H. A. Cunningham, Mr. & Mrs. Deets Dorough, Judge Choice Moore and Mrs. Lee Morrow of Bonham, Mr. & Mrs. H. A. Spies, Leonard; Mr. Lackey Sebastian, Seagoville,; Rev. & Mrs. J. F. Murrell, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Mr. & Mrs. Tom Finley, Linden; Mrs. Hattie Threlkeld, Mrs. Vergie White, Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Moore & Mrs. Robert Ponder of Commerce; Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Scott, Cooper; Mr. Foster Bomar, Honey Grove; Mrs. Vada Pilcher, San Antonio; Mr. Pete Smith, Wolfe City; Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Haden & Ralph, and Mr. & Mrs. Robert Haden of Springdale, Arkansas; Mr. John Haden, Austin; Mrs. Edward White, Galveston; Joe Haden III, Houston; Mr. & Mrs. Waire Currin and Mrs. Virgie Thomas of Sulphur Springs.
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