Alfred Eastland Battle was the husband of Caroline Liberty Stone Battle and the father of A. Edward "Ed" Battle who married Minnie Mae Standridge.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Back of Photo of Alfred Eastland Battle. The studio where this photograph was made was in Hillsboro, MS. The Stones and Battles came to Texas from Scott Co., MS.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Albert Edward "Ed" and Minnie Mae (Standridge) Battle wedding picture. He was the son of Alfred Eastland and Caroline Liberty (Stone) Battle. She was the daughter of John Wesley and Mary Caroline (Whatley) Standridge of Blevins.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

James Efford "Eff" Bowers. He was the son of James Calvin and Louella (Gooch) Bowers and grandson of Daniel and Aurillia (King) Bowers. Back of the postcard picture reads: (To) Mrs. Lella Stone - August 10,1910 - Presented to Lella from Efford Bowers" - they were first cousins.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Louis Concilio married Lena Ora Bowers of Blevins, Texas on December 11, 1921 at Waco, Texas.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Louis Concilio, husband of Lena Ora Bowers Concilio served in World War I. Here is a postcard picture of him in his uniform.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Young man on left is unidentified. Man on right is identified as Bruce Standridge. Bruce Standridge was the son of John Wesley and Mary Caroline (Whatley) Standridge. This is a tintype.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

I am inclined to think that is a picture of my mother, Lella May Bowers; but it may have been of her sister, Luna Bowers. There were pictures of both of them in my mother's album.

It is a postcard picture and was written to Mrs. Minnie Battle, Eddy, Texas and signed Your niece.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Leonard L. "Lonnie" Standridge was the son of John Wesley and Mary Caroline (Whatley) Standridge of Blevins, Falls Co., Texas.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Man sitting in a chair - wearing his hat and long boots. The identification label has fallen off of this picture - but I believe he was identified as a Standridge.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

This is a postcard picture. It is identified on the back as: Lula, Alice, Cora, Ernest, Ben Clark family.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Ben, Jack and Charley McCain. Jack McCain was the husband of Annie Standridge McCain of Blevins.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

This is a snapshot of Albert Edward Battle. It reads on the back: I forgot to show this to you when I was up there. It's good, I think.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Clois David Stone at the Cotton Palace, Waco, McLennan Co., Texas. This is a postcard picture to Mr and Mrs Edd Battle and reads: Little Clois Stone picture. (I believe this to be the handwriting of Lella May Bowers Stone).

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Rillie Ola Bowers Broome was the daughter of Robert Russell and Georgia Standridge Bowers. She was the wife of Elige Broome. They lived at Blevins, Falls Co., Texas.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Lizzie and her friends was the identification on the back of the picture. I'd guess that Lizzie is third from left. She was Mary Elizabeth Standridge who married Jesse Arrington Hay. They lived at Blevins.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Annie Standridge was the daughter of John Wesley and Mary Caroline (Whatley) Standridge. She married Jack McCain. The Standridges and McCain families lived at Blevins. Annie is buried in Blevins Cemetery but her headstone reads "Dannie" which is inaccurate.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Bruce Standridge was the son of John Wesley and Mary Caroline (Whatley) Standridge.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Leonard L. (Lonnie or Lennie) Standridge was the son of John Wesley and Mary Caroline (Whatley) Standridge.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Mary Elizabeth Standridge was the daughter of John Wesley and Mary Caroline (Whatley) Standridge. She married Jesse Arrington Hay.

Another sister, Georgia Standridge married Robert Russell Bowers. Her picture can be found in the Charley David Stone family pictures.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

This is the wedding picture of Jack and Annie Standridge McCain of Blevins, Falls Co., Texas.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

This is the wedding picture of Jesse Arrington Hay and Mary Elizabeth Standridge Hay. Gladys Leona Hay Stone was their daughter.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Mary Elizabeth and Annie Standridge with friends taking a stroll across a bridge that we believe is located somewhere in Falls County.

If you can ID these friends or if you know anything about this bridge or where it is located, please contact Lindsay Hale Boyd.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Bessie Battle Standridge was the daughter of Alfred Eastland and Caroline Liberty Stone Battle. She married Bruce Standridge.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Friends - Velma Stone, daughter of Robert David Stone, Lonita Hairston, Lena Bowers, daughter of Robert Russell and Georgia Standridge Bowers and Gladys Hay, daughter of Jesse Arrington and Mary Elizabeth Standridge Hay. I do not recognize this house but probably was in Blevins.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

This is a wedding picture of Leonard L. (Lonnie or Lennie) and Alice (Rumbo) Standridge.

Gladys Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Ben and Cora Bowers Taylor married in Bell County but later lived in Falls County at Blevins. Then later they moved to Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.

Bowers-Stone Families

Lena Stone Criswell

Jewel Walthall and Luna Bowers. Jewel Walthall was the sister of Drew Walthall who married Luna Bowers. This house in background was the of Luna's mother, Georgia Standridge Bowers at Blevins.

Bowers-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Baby Clarence Battle, son of Albert Edward "Ed" and Minnie Mae (Standridge) Battle.

Gladys Leona Hay Stone

Lena Stone Criswell

Left to right back:
Abbie Dora Stone, teacher, behind her unknown, Floy (Horton) Bowers (with bonnet), Audie (Gilliland) Stone, Edd (Hairston) Litteral and Lella (Bowers) Stone.

Left to right front:
Geneva Stone, Herbert Stone, Sybil Bowers and Ron Cumbee Litteral.

Bowers-Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Sister of E. Pearl Laws. I do not have her name.

Gladys Leona Hay Stone

Lena Stone Criswell

Gladys Leona Hay, daughter of Jesse Arrington and Mary Elizabeth Standridge Hay.

Gladys Leona Hay Stone Collection

Lena Stone Criswell

Odessa Pass & Dallas seated lower left.

In the far right - standing is Sybil Bowers and just in front of her is her sister, Jean Frances Bowers, daughters of Efford and Floy (Gooch) Bowers of Blevins.

Ken Gates

Other ID's: Lena Stone Criswell

April 1907 newspaper article on Charles "Uncle Charlie" Campbell.

Another newspaper article dated January 17, 1905 submitted by Bill Fox

Lena Stone Criswell

Bill Fox

Harvey Hairston in uniform. The notation on the back of the postcard picture reads "Harvey the one that went to France." He was killed during World War I.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Submitted by Lena Stone Criswell

Harvey Hairston in open casket.

Permission granted from next of kin, Wayne Rainwater to post.

Harvey Hairston was born 12/22/1895 and died at Camp Travis 1/10/1918 not related to a war injury.

Ken Gates

Harvey Hairston casket (closed) on front porch with all his flowers.

Permission granted from next of kin, Wayne Rainwater to post.

Harvey Hairston was born 12/22/1895 and died at Camp Travis 1/10/1918 not related to a war injury.

Ken Gates

L to R:
Cretys Smith, Rillie (Parham) Smith, Mary Jane (Bowers) Parham and Aurillia (King) Bowers.

Allissa Smith Haire

Robert Pass and John Christie.

Ken Gates

Newspaper articles about R. E. L. Pass Eye Kicked Out By Mule.

February 6, Year Unknown.

R. E. L. Pass Eye Kicked

Man Kicked In Head By A Mule Loses Right Eye

Ken Gates

Flagpole given by the Dan Mundinger Family of Baytown, Texas in 2000 to Blevins Cemetery.

Ken Gates

Identification of three grave sites.

2002

Ken Gates

At the Oleander Cemetery in Galveston, Galveston Co., Texas on May 4, 2002, a kinsman and member of the Blevins Cemetery Association, Robert Fielding Rubel, spoke during the dedication of a Confederate States Army Monument at the previously unmarked grave of Private Fielden L. Ruble.

Ken Gates

J. W. Pratt (in Sweater) and Harvey Pace. Man on far left unknown. This church was built for the residents of Blevins as a community non-denominational church. Visiting ministers filled the pulpit on certain Sundays of the month. No one else in picture can be identified.

If you can ID anyone else, please contact Lindsay Hale Boyd or Lena .

Lena Stone Criswell

Headstone picture of Daniel & Aurillia (King) Bowers. They are buried in Blevins Cemetery, Falls Co., Texas.

Ken Gates

Headstone picture of Stith Alfred & Mary Jane (Bowers) Parham. They are buried in Blevins Cemetery, Falls Co., Texas.

Ken Gates

Blevins Cemetery After Restoration

1991

Ken Gates

Headstone picture of Charlie & Pauline Clark. They are buried in Blevins Cemetery, Falls Co., Texas.

Ken Gates

Grave of Stith Alfred Parham taken Nov. 22, 1938. He is buried in Blevins Cemetery, Falls Co., Texas.

Ken Gates

Headstone picture of the children of Charles & Sarah Pauline Clark. They are buried in Blevins Cemetery, Falls Co., Texas

Ken Gates

Headstone picture of the infants born to B. R. & Priscilla Eleanor (Clark) Parham.

Ken Gates

Headstone picture of John S. Clark. He is buried in Blevins Cemetery, Falls Co., Texas

Ken Gates

Martha "Mattie" (Bowers) Caldwell, daughter and eldest child of Daniel and Aurillia King Bowers, was born in March 1849 in Mississippi and died in March 1913. She is buried at Old Volvo Cemetery located near Sparks, South of Temple, Bell County, Texas.

The inscription on her headstone reads:

Her Happy Soul has Winged its Way to One
Pure and Eternal Day
Volo Cemetery, Bell County, Texas

She was married to J. Young Caldwell, of Bell County, son of James M. and Elizabeth E. Woods Caldwell. He was born September 6, 1846 in Alabama and died February 17, 1927 - buried at Blevins Cemetery, Falls Co., Texas.

Ken Gates

Info from Lena Stone Criswell

This was at a cemetery meeting in 1991.

Julia Whatley pictured on the right is "Miss Blevins Cemetery".

Note: Julia is also the wonderful person that did the Blevins Cemetery Survey. -kc

Ken Gates

This is a picture of the horse drawn wagon that carried Clois Stone at his funeral. He was born and raised in Blevins, Falls County, Texas, and is buried in Gatesville, Coryell County, Texas.

Ken Gates

This picture was made on October 24, 1993 by Clois D. Stone. The marker is located near the entrance gate. The headstones lying face down are the original headstones for Robert Russell Bowers and Georgia Standridge Bowers. They were replaced with flat stones. Julia Whatley saved the old stones and preserved them for future generations of the Bowers family who may never have seen them standing. We are grateful to her.

Lena Stone Criswell

This is the building that was used for the office for the old Blevins Gin. It was sold to Charley D. Stone and moved to his farm to be used as housing for a laboring family on the farm.

The picture was made in December of 1989. The building has since collapsed and the C. D. Stone farm has been sold.

Lena Stone Criswell

Chum Parham as a young man.

Ken Gates

Witt Pass as a young man.

Ken Gates

Man standing on threshing machine.

This picture was taken abt. 1915.

If you can ID this man, please let Lindsay Hale Boyd know.

Odessa Pass Baylor Collection

Submitted by Ken Gates

Man standing by threshing machine.

This picture was taken abt. 1915.

If you can ID this man, please let Lindsay Hale Boyd know.

Odessa Pass Baylor Collection

Submitted by Ken Gates

Men unloading wagons into threshing machine. Women and children are gathered on and by sacks of the grain that has already been harvested.

This picture was taken abt. 1915.

Odessa Pass Baylor Collection

Submitted by Ken Gates

Witt Randolph Pass and Carrie Elizabeth (Bruce) Pass.

They were married on November 7, 1916.

Witt Randolph Pass was born September 8, 1894 and died September 8, 1966 and buried at Greathouse Cemetery in Bell County.

Carrie Elizabeth (Bruce) Pass was born Oct. 30, 1898.

They were the parents of Odessa Pass Baylor.

This picture was taken maybe on their wedding.

Odessa Pass Baylor Collection

Submitted by Ken Gates

This is part of a diary written by Carrie Elizabeth (Bruce) Pass.

She was the wife of Witt Randolph Pass.

Odessa Pass Baylor Collection

Submitted by Ken Gates

Carrie Elizabeth (Bruce) Pass, wife of Witt Randolph Pass.

Odessa Pass Baylor Collection

Submitted by Ken Gates

These are some farm animals on the Witt and Carrie Pass Farm. There are a few people that have never been on a farm before and this just show a little of what it was like for them to live. These pictures were taken before 1920.

Some Pass Farm Chickens

A Bashful Cow

Carrie Pass with her Pigs

Odessa Pass Baylor Collection

Submitted by Ken Gates

A young Witt Pass with some sort of building (maybe homes?) in the background.

Odessa Pass Baylor Collection

Submitted by Ken Gates

James Calvin Bowers was born December 15, 1856 in Lafayette Co., MS. He came to Texas with his wife, parents and other Bowers/Parham families. He married Louella E. Gooch while still in MS. They had seven children who lived to adulthood. He died on June 25, 1939. Both "Jim" and Louella Bowers are buried in the Blevins Cemetery.

Nancy J. Nance

Left to right:
Lena O. Bowers, Elige Broome and Rillie Bowers. This picture was made at the of Georgia (Standridge) Bowers at Blevins.

Clois Effard Broome

Rillie (Bowers) Broome with their baby daughter, Novaleen; Elige Broome with their son, James Robert. The picture was made at the of Georgia (Standridge) Bowers, mother of Rillie.

Picture made February 5, 1930.

Clois Effard Broome

Seated:
Georgia (Standridge) Bowers with her birthday cake. Children standing: LtoR: Rillie Broome, Lena Concilio, Lella Stone, Grady "Bud" Bowers and niece Luna Mae (Battle) Pace.

Clois Effard Broome

L to R:
Floy (Horton) Bowers, wife of James Efford Bowers, Rillie (Bowers) Broome, wife of Elige Broome and Ola (Bowers) Jacques, wife of Randon Jacques at Broome Open House.

January 6, 1955.

Clois Effard Broome

Rillie Ola (Bowers) and husband Elige Broome. The portrait in the background is of Elige Broome as a young man. Rillie was the daughter of Robert Russell and Georgia (Standridge) Bowers.

Clois Effard Broome

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wood Stone 50th Wedding Anniversary.

September 13, 1919
September 13, 1969

Ken Gates

Daniel Bowers
Deed Trust
Morrison Davidson & Co.
Filed May 12, 1872
Recorded May 13, 1872

Researched by Glenn and Lena (Stone) Criswell

Submitted by Ken Gates

Odessa Johnson.

This picture was taken in Temple, Texas.

Odessa Pass Baylor Collection

Submitted by Ken Gates

Deer Creek Bridge west of Blevins on Belfalls Road.

This picture of Deer Creek Bridge was taken by Clois D. Stone on July 22, 1990.

Dale Barron tells us that the new bridge over Deer Creek is all concrete now and is very new. Looking in either direction (North or South) from this new bridge the road is straight and does not have a curve in it as the picture that Clois took.

Lena Stone Criswell

Newspaper Article

Stories to tell: Deer Creek Bridge holds 100 years of Falls County History.

Page 1

Page 2

The picture in the newspaper article was taken from the south side of the bridge, looking back towards the Courtney/Huber place).

The old iron bridge was removed several years back and replaced with this concrete bridge.

You will notice in photo, that the concrete bridge has no type of railings. It was some time after I took this picture before they came back and put some small railings along the side. I still think this bridge is much more unsafe than the old one. It would not be too hard to drive off the side of this one.

The photo of the new bridge is standing on the north side of the bridge, looking south (towards Belfalls).

Robert L. Haddock

Location of Bow River is unknown. The man and children in the background were unidentified.

The women are: (left to right)
Villa (Bowers) Reneau
Vada (Bowers) McCord
Floy (Horton) Bowers
Ola (Bowers) Jacquez

Nancy Nance

Identified as follows:
Floy (Horton) Bowers, Alice (Clark) Bowers
Vada (Bowers) McCord
Sibyl Bowers, (daughter of Eff and Floy (Horton) Bowers)
Fernnie (may be Tennie - wife of William Fletcher Bowers)
Ola (Bowers) Jacquez
Rillie (Parham) Smith
Melba Bowers
Eunice Bowers (daughters of Otho and Alice (Clark) Bowers)

Nancy Nance

By number:
1. J. C. (James Calvin "Jim") Bowers
2. Ola (Bowers) Jacquez
3. Eff (James Efford) Bowers
4. Russell (Robert Russell) Bowers
5. Villa (Bowers) Reneau
6. Newman Bowers
7. Vada (Bowers) McCord

The picture was developed by the Owl Company - Waco, Texas

Nancy Nance