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Welch Genealogy
by William R. Welch

Olive Elizabeth Welch ¹ ² ² ² ³ ⁴ ⁵

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Birth:	18 Feb 1894 in Proctor, Robeson Co., NC ¹ ² ³ ⁵
Death:	24 Apr 1959 in Stamford, Jones Co, TX ² ² ⁴
Sex:	F
Father:	William Welch b. Feb 1895 in North Carolina, North Carolina
Mother:	Louise Elizabeth Bradshaw b. 21 Jan 1863 in Hazel Creek, Macon Co., NC

Burial: Willow Cemetery, Haskell, Haskell Co, TX ²

Residence: 1920 Justice Precinct 3, Haskell, Texas ³ ²

Residence: 1910 Weinert, Haskell, Texas ⁵ ²

Residence: 1930 Precinct 1, Haskell, Texas ¹ ²

Spouses & Children

William Arthur Montgomery (Husband) b. 1892 in Texas
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Marriage:	20 DEC 1914 in Haskell, Haskell Co, TX
Children:
Evelyn Beryl Montgomery b. 25 Jul 1916 in Haskell Co, TX; Born at home

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Individual:
[DavidAlexanderWelch.Sr.FTW]

See notes concerning Welches under the notes of Cynthia Ellen Welch Reed, sister to Olive.

Olive was a school teacher and principal. She was Beryl's teacher for the first 3 years of her daughter's schooling.

She was known for the tamales she made, for the crocheted items for baby showers in the community, and for being generally artistic. Each month the County Agent would come to the community, teaching a new craft. Miss Ollie embraced glass etching, metal tooling, and leather tooling. She had a complete set of leatherworking tools, using them to make wallets, belts, purses, etc., with leather purchased at Tandy's in Ft. Worth. She also wrote poetry, producing a new poem for each wedding, new baby, or anniversary in the Paint Creek Community, located in Haskell Co., TX. She had a poem published in 1942.

This was a compilation of Christmas Traditions written by granddaughter, Elizabeth Cathey Maxson in 2002 about the events that occurred around the holidays at her grandparents' home:

I remember fondly the Christmas celebrations at my maternal grandparents' home. They were farmers in west Texas, so they never had a lot of money, but at Christmas, my grandfather would go down to the pasture, cut down a cedar tree and bring it home to be decorated with popcorn strings and construction paper chains. I do remember they had about 10 electric bubble lights, that would "boil" once they got warm, and that were fascinating to watch. There were a few special Christmas balls made of glass, twisted metal icicles, and, of course, the foil tinsel carefully hung on each branch. My grandmother filled in the spaces of the giant 10-ft. tree with balloons and candy canes, which she gave to children from the community who visited their home. The most fun was on Christmas Eve, when we opened all the family gifts, waiting for Santa to come the next morning. My grandmother would shop all year long, wrap the packages immediately, and then put them under the tree, thinking she would remember which package belonged to which family member. She didn't! I might open one that belonged to my father, and he might open one that was my grandfather's, etc. It brought a whole new meaning to "gift exchange" and was so much fun.

Another tradition from the same grandmother was to say "Christmas Eve gift" to everyone she met on Dec. 24th. Supposedly, if you said it before the other person did, they had to give you a gift. Although we never actually exchanged gifts with it, we had a lot of fun "stealing" someone else's Christmas Eve gift. In fact, I still do it today, and have taught several family members and friends about this old tradition. I cannot find how it originated, and have met only two other people who have ever heard of it.

The other tradition was that same grandmother's favorite Christmas dessert......purple cows. A purple cow is a wonderfully tart and sweet concoction made from the best vanilla ice cream with Welch's (my grandmother's maiden name was Welch, so it had to be Welch's) grape juice poured over, as in a float. My mother says they had those even before they had a electricity and a refrigerator. Apparently, on Saturday, they would bring 100 lbs. of ice home from town. My grandfather dug a deep pit on the north side of the house out on the farm, which he lined with burlap and boards. The ice would last until about Thursday. When they were going to have ice cream, they would also purchase dry ice to keep it frozen. Mother says she remembers having purple cows before she and Daddy married, and that was 1938. Mother and I carried on the tradition this year by having purple cows as our Christmas Eve dessert. They were just as good as they ever were.

Sources

Title: 1930 United States Federal Census
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;
Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2002.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fiftee
nth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930.T626, 2,667 rolls. Precinct 1, Haskell, Texas, ED 3, roll 2354, page , image 604.0.
Title: DavidAlexanderWelch.Sr.FTW
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: Mar 4, 2008
Title: 1920 United States Federal Census
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;
Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the followin
g NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 on roll 323 (Chicago City.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1920.T625, 2,076 rolls. Justice Precinct 3, Haskell, Texas, ED , roll , page , image 449.
Title: Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;
Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006.Original data - Texas Department of Health. Texas Death Indexes, 1903-2000
. Austin, TX, USA: Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit.
Title: 1910 United States Federal Census
Author: Ancestry.com
Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;
Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the followin
g NARA web page: NARA.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1910.T624, 1,178 rolls. Weinert, Haskell, Texas, ED , roll T624_1562, part , page .

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