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Stricklin Family William
Harrison Stricklin (1841-1918) and Pherabe Elizabeth Medlin (1851-1931)
moved to Grayson County, Texas from Hunt County, Texas at the same time
as their sons did. Both are buried in Georgetown Cemetery, Pottsboro, Grayson County, Texas.
The 1908 Sanborn Fire Map shows 1306 W. Woodard street to be a vacant lot. The western end of town was still developing then. The only two houses on the south side of the street in the 1300 block were 1300 and 1310. Walter Stricklin and his family at 1310 W. Woodward Street. Walter's older brother, William Albert Stricklin (1873-1963) and his his family lived at 1300 W. Woodward street. Frances Cordelia Cobb had always said she wouldn't marry until she was 20 years of age. But at the age of 19, her hand was sought in marriage by two suitors. While busily working on her trousseau in preparation for marriage to one of the suitors and completing her beautiful white wedding dress, she realized that William Albert Stricklin - the other suitor - was the man she loved. After hiding all her clothes in the orchard, William Albert picked them up while Delia left the house and met him. William and Delia Cobb slipped off and married on Sunday morning, July 8, 1893 in Kingston, Texas, because her father objected to the marriage due to the fact that William had rheumatism. After their marriage, the couple moved to Whitesboro in Grayson County, Texas, where William operated a book store. He later entered the railway postal service for 14 years and they lived in Greenville and Denison. The 1909 Denison City Directory doesn't list a house at 1306 W. Woodward street; according to the Sunday Gazetteer, canvassing for the 1909 City Directory was still underway at the end of January 1909. The copyright on the 1909 City Directory is June 14, 1909. The 1910 U.S. Census for the 1300 block of West Woodward street was conducted on April 18, 1910, which lists a family living at 1306 W. Woodward street. The house built at 1306 was probably built in 1909 but no earlier than February of that year and no later than April 18, 1910. The next Sanborn Map, drawn in 1914, also shows a house at 1306, between 1300 and 1310. After the house at 1306 W. Woodard Street was built, Walter moved his family into the new house next door to his residence 1310 West Woodard street. They were likely the first occupants of the house. The head of the household in 1910 census was Walter James Stricklin (1883-1921), a 27-year-old Railway Mail Service clerk from Tennessee. His wife, Nancy Jane "Nannie" Smallwood Stricklin (1888-1976), was born in Mississippi. They married in Grayson County in 1905.  By
1910 they had two sons - Darwin Bennett (1907-1990) and Walter Delore
(1908-1952). A daughter, Louise, was born in 1912 and youngest
son, Tobe Eugene, was born in 1916.  Back row: Darwin, Walter Front row: Louise, Tobe ca1918 When he began working for the
Railway Mail Service in 1906 as a substitute clerk, he lived in
Whitesboro, Grayson County, Texas. The following year he was appointed
a regular clerk on the Denison to Houston run. He moved to Denison
that same year. Mr. Stricklin sorted on the fly as trains hauled him and the mail between Denison and Houston. The 1910 census shows that both William and Walter Stricklin owned their homes. The Miller family that succeeded Walter Stricklin's family at 1310 West Woodward were renters; it may be that Walter owned both 1906 and 1910 West Woodward street. Mr. Miller, like his neighbor Walter, was a Railway Mail Service clerk. City directories show that J. Maurice Daniels and his wife, Roberta, lived at 1306 W. Woodard Street in 1959. Maurice was a civilian employee at Perrin Air Force Base; they were still living at the same address in 1962. William Albert Stricklin left Denison before the 1913 City Directory was compiled. His World War II draft registration shows him living in Hunt County, Texas, where the Stricklins had lived before moving to Grayson County. He left the railway work and returned to Greenville, Hunt County, where he was associated with his brother in the Stricklin Motor Company, agency for Oakland cars. In 1919 he had settled in Durant, Oklahoma, where he joined Delia's brother operating the Cobb Stricklin Motor Company. He died in 1963 and is buried in Highland Cemetery. Walter Stricklin was still living at 1306 W. Woodard Street when he registered for the draft in September 1918. Two years later, the census listed him and his family living in Dallas, Texas. He died there November 23, 1921 at the age of 38; cause of death was "septicemia", a condition commonly known as "sepsis". He left a 33-year-old widow with four children, all under the age of 15. Nancy shipped her husband's body back to Denison to be buried in Fairview Cemetery, possibly because they had a baby boy buried there; the child had been born on Christmas Eve 1915 and died the same day at their home. Their youngest son, Tobe, was also buried in Fairview Cemetery in 1997. His gravestone is a double stone with his wife, Barbara Bobbie Stricklin, who may not be buried there. After Walter's death, Nancy and the children remained in Dallas, where she eventually remarried. Her second husband, Warren Taylor McLain, died in 1945 and was buried in Dallas. After Nancy died in Los Angeles, California in 1976, her body was shipped back to Dallas to be buried beside her second husband. The 1921 Denison City Directory shows that Dr. John A. Roberson and wife, Jessie B., lived in the house at 1306 W. Woodard Street.  Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |