Lula Emma Hines (b. April 13, 1886, d. February 18, 1968)
Lula Emma Hines (daughter of John Henry Hines and Louisiana Virginia Carter) was born April 13, 1886 in Carter, Pontatoc, Indian Territory, and died February 18, 1968 in Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas. She married Samuel Lewis Dixon on October 30, 1901 in St. Louis, Pottowattomie, Indian Territory.
Notes for Lula Emma Hines: Sam had to drop out of the fourth grade in Tecumseh because there was not enough money to buy textbooks. He lived with his sister Sarah Ellen and her husband, John Woody. Sam helped with farming and traveled with harvest crews. Sam played the fiddle and while at a barn dance celebrating the end of the harvest, he met Lula Ema Hines. He told his brother-in-law that she was the girl he was going to marry. One year later he entered into a conspiracy with a friend to keep Lula so busy that they would crowd out the attentions of her then present beau. After that, he courted Lula one year and they were married on October 30, 1901. Sam owned two horses and Lula owned a side saddle. So, Sam borrowed a buggy to ride to the preacher's house for the wedding. Sam and Lula leased a farm, had one team, a wagon and one cow. He borrowed one hundred dollars on his crop and bought all the necessary furniture, dishes, groceries, supplies, wedding suit, marriage license, etc. He farmed there for three years.
In 1905 Sam moved his wife and two daughters, Bertha Mae and Lily Pear, to Beaver County, Oklahoma near Guymon, which is now in Texas County. He moved his family in two covered wagons. Here he filled on a homestead of 160 acres in the "Two circle Pasture" territory. To supplement his income, he did carpentry work, blacksmithing and went through Kansas with the harvest crews. They raised broom corn and lived in a half-dugout located thirty-seven miles from town. Sam dug one of the first water wells in the area by tying his lariat rope to Lula's quilting frames and lashing them to post hole diggers. The well was thirty feet deep. Marvin and Rhea were born on this homestead.
After a terrible blizzard in 1912, in which they lost all of their cattle and almost their own lives, they sold their land for $1,000 and moved to Hemphill County, Texas. They forded streams and crossed the Canadian River in their two covered wagons. they rented a farm where Oleta was born. They then moved to a farm near Allison, Texas where Myrl was born. They then bought a 320 acre farm for $5,280 to be paid off in twenty years. This was their last home and is where Wilda was born. Marvin lives of the home farm and raises registered hogs and has served as County Commissioner of Hemphill County. Bertha Mae, the eldest child, married Ewell Steen and they had no children. They raised thirteen foster children. Ewell was a mechanic and Betha was postmistress of Briscoe for several years. They reside in Clarendon. Lily married Pat Terry and she and her infant son died in childbirth before Christmas 1928.
More About Lula Emma Hines: Burial: February 18, 1968, Washita Cemetery.
More About Lula Emma Hines and Samuel Lewis Dixon: Marriage: October 30, 1901, St. Louis, Pottowattomie, Indian Territory.
Children of Lula Emma Hines and Samuel Lewis Dixon are:
Lula Emma Hines (b. April 13, 1886, d. February 18, 1968)
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