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Dell Hibbard

Henry Adelbert "Dell" Hibbard, son of R.P. and M.R. Hibbard, moved to Texas in 1876 with his parents and three brothers.
His brothers :
Charles M. Hibbard, a tinner by trade and had a successful business in Denison
Walter S. Hibbard, owner of Denison Grocer Company
Fred P. Hibbard, in partnership with his brother, Walter; he passed away in 1900

Dell, known as Henry A. Hibbard for most of his life, was a proprietor of a retail grocery establishment in Denison.

The 1891 Denison City Directory lists both Dell Hibbard and Henry A. Hibbard as clerks at Hibbard Bros. Dell Hibbard is shown rooming with a Katy freight conductor named George McChesney. McChesney lived at 622 W. Gandy, next door to Walter S. Hibbard at 624. Henry A. Hibbard is shown residing at 629 W. Woodard, which was also the address of another brother, Charles M. Hibbard. Dell may have lived at both addresses during the same year, giving his name as "Henry A."

Dell married married Mollie Curry (1865-1918) in 1892; she died in 1918 and is buried at Fairview Cemetery, suggesting that she may have been a victim of flu or pneumonia. Dell (Henry) then married Winona "Nona" Glasgow, the sister of Laura Glasgow Cain and Lila Lillian Glasgow Ansley. Henry and Nona were probably married sometime in 1919 as they were already wed by the 1920 Census enumeration date of January 14.

Winona "Nona" Glasgow was the daughter of Mrs. C. (Levisa) Spurlin as listed in Mrs. Spurlin's 1941 obituary.

(NOTE: Levisa married J.H. Glasgow, c1860, and married C. Spurlin twenty years later, 1880.)

The children are all listed that year with last names of Spurlin, but their father was Mr. Glasgow.The Spurlin family was enumerated in Arkansas on June 4, 1880. Depending on when Crawford Spurlin and Levisa married, Frank could have been the son of either of her husbands. Crawford Spurlin is listed as a tanner in 1880. In the 1890s he was a bootmaker/shoemaker in Denison.

The 1901-1902 Denison City Directory lists H. Adelbert Hibbard as a salesman for Hibbard Bros.; and his home was located at 514 N. Houston Avenue.

Dell and Nona lived in Ft. Worth during the 1930s. By the time he died in 1955, he had moved from Fort Worth to Dallas. After his death, Nona shipped his body back to Denison for burial in Fairview Cemetery; Nona was the informant on his death certificate, which gives his middle name as "Delbert." He is also listed among the burials in Fairview as "Henry Delbert Hibbard".
Nona herself is not buried with Henry Delbert in Fairview. She stayed in Dallas, where she died in 1964