1. Aunt Carrie went to Tinity University and to the University of Texas. I wasn't around during her first marriage, so I can only associate her with Uncle Smitty. I used to spend a week during the summer with them when I was little and they lived on a farm over near Hillsboro. I remember hunting rabbits at night in the pasture while riding on the fender of their chevy coupe...my legs wrapped around the headlight that was mounted on top of the fender. I also remember one night when the three of us squeezed into the front seat of that same coupe and went to the drive-in movie. I had gotten into poison ivy that day and had not changed clothes. At the time, I was immuned, but Aunt Carrie wasn't . Poor Aunt Carrie! Sometimes, during the hot afternoons, they would take me swimming at Mountain Springs, a nice, large swimming pool not far from the farm. I can remember taking cool naps on the large screened-in back porch. Those naps were on a very comfortable swing. That swing is now on our patio and I am still able to enjoy its comfort. That is where I learned to drive a tractor. I would drive and pull a small trailer while Uncle Smitty would pick up rocks that had percolated to the surface in one of his cutlivaed fields.
They sold the farm and moved to Dallas. I was older then and my stays were shorter. Aunt Carrie never stopped talking about the time I pulled up and parked a 40 passenger school bus in front of her house. I had driven the debate team from Orange, Texas, to a tournament somewhere in North Dallas. I took that opportunity to go visis her while hte kids were debating and I was just sitting around. She said her neighbors never stopped talking about it either.
-Strain H. Armstrong-
CARRIE SMITH
Mrs Carrie Strain Anderson Smith, 95, of Dallas died March 29, 1989. Services will be held in Dallas Friday. Interment will be in Restland Cemetery in Dallas.
She was the daughter of A. H. and Allie Strain of Frost. She taught in the public school system for 40 years, and was affiliated witht he Presbyterian church.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Anderson of Lake Kiowa: one granddaughter and grandson-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Coops; a host of nieces nephews; two sisters-in-laws, Orelle Strainand Mattie Strain of Frost; three sister, Allie Strain Smith of San Angelo, Mary Strain Steveneson Thurman of Seymour, and Sammie Strain Armstrong and brother-in-law, Arnodl Armstrong, of Corsicana.
1. In his earlier days, Uncle "Smitty" did weather stripping on homes. I remember him saying that he worked down at Galveston after the big hurricane that killed so many people. He called it Gal-veston, like two words.
Uncle Smitty was my "hunting and fishing" buddy. He would take me rabbit and squirrel hunting while visiting them on the farm when I was just a small boy. He had a little dog named Chico that loved to hunt squirrels. Later, we hunted doves together at our farm out at Frost. Not only did we hunt doves, but we would fish too. The dove and fishing tank was on the back side of the pasture. The pasture was full of mesquite trees at that time. He had a brand new station wagon and we were driving through all the mesquite and you could hear them scratching down the sides. We told him we should walk bak so it wouldn't scratch his car and he replied, "hell, I didn't buy it to frame" and kep on going. When I visited with them in Dallas, we would often fish Whie Rock or Backman Lake. Backman was his favorite. Sometime in the mid fifties, he bought a new deer rifle, a 30-06. I bought, and still have his old one, a lever action 30-30. When he passed away, he left me that 30-06. I don't think I have ever killed a deer with it that I haven't thought, "this one is for you Uncle Smitty".
I remember when we were visiting once when he and daddy went down in the pasture to feed the cows. Uncle Smitty's hay hook glanced off he bale of hay and stuck deep into the calf of his leg. This was the only time I can recall that he ever went to the doctor.
Once when I was staying with them, Uncle Smitty and I drove the tractor ove to a neighbor's farm and helped him repair his windmill. We had to pull the "sucker" rods out of the pipe for some reason. They were wooden rods with metal, male and female threaded ends. I remember the warning and importance of not letting one slip and fall back down into the pipe.
-Strain H. Armstrong-
1. Aunt Carrie went to Tinity University and to the University of Texas. I wasn't around during her first marriage, so I can only associate her with Uncle Smitty. I used to spend a week during the summer with them when I was little and they lived on a farm over near Hillsboro. I remember hunting rabbits at night in the pasture while riding on the fender of their chevy coupe...my legs wrapped around the headlight that was mounted on top of the fender. I also remember one night when the three of us squeezed into the front seat of that same coupe and went to the drive-in movie. I had gotten into poison ivy that day and had not changed clothes. At the time, I was immuned, but Aunt Carrie wasn't . Poor Aunt Carrie! Sometimes, during the hot afternoons, they would take me swimming at Mountain Springs, a nice, large swimming pool not far from the farm. I can remember taking cool naps on the large screened-in back porch. Those naps were on a very comfortable swing. That swing is now on our patio and I am still able to enjoy its comfort. That is where I learned to drive a tractor. I would drive and pull a small trailer while Uncle Smitty would pick up rocks that had percolated to the surface in one of his cutlivaed fields.
They sold the farm and moved to Dallas. I was older then and my stays were shorter. Aunt Carrie never stopped talking about the time I pulled up and parked a 40 passenger school bus in front of her house. I had driven the debate team from Orange, Texas, to a tournament somewhere in North Dallas. I took that opportunity to go visis her while hte kids were debating and I was just sitting around. She said her neighbors never stopped talking about it either.
-Strain H. Armstrong-
CARRIE SMITH
Mrs Carrie Strain Anderson Smith, 95, of Dallas died March 29, 1989. Services will be held in Dallas Friday. Interment will be in Restland Cemetery in Dallas.
She was the daughter of A. H. and Allie Strain of Frost. She taught in the public school system for 40 years, and was affiliated witht he Presbyterian church.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Anderson of Lake Kiowa: one granddaughter and grandson-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Coops; a host of nieces nephews; two sisters-in-laws, Orelle Strainand Mattie Strain of Frost; three sister, Allie Strain Smith of San Angelo, Mary Strain Steveneson Thurman of Seymour, and Sammie Strain Armstrong and brother-in-law, Arnodl Armstrong, of Corsicana.
1. Uncle Ross went to Trinity University in Waxahachie and played football. He dated Aunt Carrie before becoming attracked to Aunt Allie. When he and Aunt Allie were dating, he had a car that had his name on the sie of it. (Notice the picture) He and Aunt Allie had a building at the back of thier home in Waxahachie where they manufactured Venetian blinds, mattresses and upholstered furniture. They later bought the house next door and put in another business they called the Hobby Shop. Mark later took this over. The main thing I remember them selling in the Hobby Shop was magic tricks.
You could always count on them having the latest in electical gadgets. This is where I saw my first television. I remember the screen being very small, like eight inches or so. One day when we went up there, they had gotten magnifying glass attachment for it and the glass had horizontal colored stripes on it....thus a larger and "colored" picture.
-Strain H. Armstrong-
2. Ross was a World War I veteranSMITH
Funeral services for Ross Smith, 87, of San Angelo were last week in San Angelo with Dr. Harold Odom, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in San Angelo, officiating.
Smith was a former Waxahachie resident and was secretary of the Democratic Prty in this county. He was in the manufacturing business for many years and later he and his wife operated the Hobby Shop at Waxahachie.
Smith was born March 4, 1895, in Mt. Peak. He married the former Allie Strain Jan. 3, 19l8, in Frost.
Survivors include his wife; a son Mark Smith of San Angelo; two grandchildren; and a sister, Ms. Buce Noble of Waxahachie. (She was referred to as Bluebird)
1. Allie was a centerian who lived to be 102 years, 3 months, and 16 days.
2. From page 3 (of 4 pages) of the January 11, 1918, edition of THE STAR, Frost, Texas:
Smith - Strain
On Thursday evenig, Jan., 3 at six o'clock, Mr. Ross Smith of Waxahachie, and Miss Allie Strain were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Strain, Rev. H. M. Bennett, officiating. Only the members of the family and a few friends wer present. Immediately after the ceremony the young couple left for Corsicana, from there to Waxachachie, where they will make their future home.
1. Ross Jr. was a veteran of Worl War II.
2. He served under the command of General George W. Patton as a weatherman and attained the rank of Captain.
3. Another of his duties was to censor the letters being sent home by the soldiers.
1. Uncle Johnnie was working in the Citizens State Bank of Frost when that terrible tornado struck on May 6, 1930. Everyone that was in the bank got into the vault to escape the strom. As he was getting into the vault, he heard someone yell that the funnel was going over the Strain home. When the storm had passed, everyone came out of the vault and looked around at the damage that had been done. Uncle Johnnie was said to have remarked that everyone in town must be dead. Twenty three people did die that day, but the funnel had skipped over the Strain home, only doing damage to some of the outbuildings. (Grandaddy and Grandmother Strain each held a door on the West side of the house and watched the funnel go over.)
By: Strain H. Armstrong2. Corsidana Daily Sun, February 26, 1989
J. B. Strain, 88, a Frost native, died Friday at his home. Service will be at 3:30 PM Sunday at the Corley Funeral Chapel. The Revs. J. O. Lawler and Robert Easterling will officate. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery.
He was a retired farmer and banker.
Survivors include one son, Harvey Strain, of Corsicana: one grandson, Johatha Alex Strain of Corsicana, four sister, Carrie Strain Anderson Smith, of Whitesboro, Allie Strain Smith, of San Angelo, Mary Strain Stevenson Thurman, of Seymour, Sammie Strain Arnold Armstrong, of Corsicana; tow sisters-in-law, Mattie Strain and Orell Strain, both of Frost; and two brother-in-law, B. L. Moore, of Irence, and Aldine Moore of Frost.
1. Strain H. Armstrong reports that his Aunt Lucile graduated from Baylor University.
2 She was a retired English Teacher and had taught at Quanah, Frost, Herderson Junior College and Jacksonville Junior College.
3. During their marriage, she and Johnnie lived in Frost, Dallas, and Corsicana, Texas.
4. She died at Navarro Memorial Hospital at age 76.
5. Service was held on Saturday at 2:00 PM, at the Corley Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. B. F. Risinger officiating, and nephews serving as pallbearers.
6. She was a native of Frost and had lived in Corsicana for 14-years.
7. She was a member of the First Baptist Church.
1. Jimmie died unexpectedly at his home in Frost at 1:30 PM, December 30, after suffering an apparent heart attack. He had not been ill and his sudden death was a shock to his family, friends, and the community at large.
2. His funeral was held at 10:00 AM, January 1, in Frost United Methodist Church with pastor Wesley Howard, Jr. officating. Ched Patterson was organist. Interment was in Frost Cemetery.
3. Casket Bearers were Kenneth Logon, James Brown, Jerry Sam Soctt, Harvey Ross, Roy Sanders, Peter Sharp, J. O. Williams and Joe Brown. Mc Cormick funeral Service was in charge.
4. He was a landowner and farmer, and member of the Presbyterian Church.
1. Mattie was a long time teacher and resident of Frost.
2. She died at age 92 in Parkerville Manor of DeSoto, Texas.
3. Funeral arraingments were by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home of Blooming Grove.
1. Strain H. Armstrong gives the following report: "Uncle Steve and Aunt Mary were married in Corsicana, TX, in 1927 and moved to Presoctt, Arizona where he worked for a variety store. Sometime after Nita was born in 1929, they moved back to Frost and he worked for Grandaddy Strain for awhile. Bill was born in 1930. They later moved to Electra, TX where he and Aunt Mary both managed the Ben Franklin Variety Store. In 1956, they left Electra and moved to Hobart, OK., where they started their own store called Stevenson's Variety Store.
2. B. L. Stevenson served in World Warr II.
3. He was a very active member in the Lion's Club.
4. His funeral service was held at 10:00 AM in the Frost Methodist Church, ith the Rev. Wesley Howard officiating, and burial at the Frost Cemetery. Arrangements were made with Bradley Funeral Home in Frost.
1. Mary Stevenson Thurman, 87, of Seymour, Texas, died Thursday, Jun 9, 1994, with services held at 10:00 AM at the First United Methodist Church in Frost, Texas. Dr. David Ray officiated and burial was in Frost Cemetery under the arrangement of the Seymour Funeral Home.