Denton County

Pictured is my grandfather – this photo of him was taken around 1900 in Texas. My grandmother Grace Brown married James Curtis Allen on October 3, 1904, in Denton County, Texas. At the time of his death the family was living in Clearwater, Florida. James died in 1913. After the death of her husband, she with her three small caught a steam ship from Tampa, Florida to Galveston, Texas. Once arriving in Galveston she caught a train to West Texas where she and her three children visited with her late husband's relatives. Once widowed, Grace returned to Kansas and for a period of time she and her three children lived with her mother Ann Agrelius (who was the widow of Archie Brown). Ann resided at 915 North Street, Hutchinson, Kansas. To earn a living and to support her three minor children Grace had build & opened a rooming house in Pratt. While the new house was being build my Dad along with his two sisters, Marguerite and Maureen, would dig up buried Indian arrowheads.... A childhood treasure!