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View Tree for Norberta SouthardNorberta Southard (b. June 06, 1891, d. June 15, 1973)

Norberta Southard (daughter of John Montgomery Southard and Priciala Lujan)1 was born June 06, 1891 in Terlingua, Brewster Co, Texas1, and died June 15, 1973 in El Paso, Texas1. She married William Mack Waters on April 01, 1915 in Terlingua, Brewster Co, Texas1, son of Ellen.

 Includes NotesNotes for Norberta Southard:
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THERE WAS AN ELDERLY COUPLE THAT USED TO LIVE AROUND THE BIG BEND OF TEXAS SOME TIME AROUND THE EARLY 1900's. ONCE A MONTH THIS COUPLE WOULD GO TO THE TRADING POST TO PURCHASE GROCERIES AND OTHER STAPLES AND THEY WOULD ALWAYS PAY IN GOLD COINS.
NO ONE COULD EVER FIGURE OUT WHERE THE COUPLE GOT THE COINS BUT IT WAS EVIDENT THAT THE COINS WERE OLD.

ONE DAY NORBERTA, A VERY YOUNG GIRL AT THE TIME, HAPPENED TO BE AT THE TRADING POST WHEN THIS ELDERLY COUPLE HAD COME TO GET SOME GROCERIES. ACCORDING TO NORBERTA THIS COUPLE WERE REALLY UP IN AGE AND COULD BARELY GET AROUND ANYMORE. SHE WOULD ALWAYS TALK TO THE COUPLE AND SEEMED TO BE REALLY LIKED BY THIS COUPLE AND THE SENTIMENT WAS MUTUAL.

WELL THIS DAY THE COUPLE ASKED HER TO GO WITH THEM TO THERE LITTLE HOVEL. THEY TOLD HER THAT THEY WANTED TO SHOW HER SOMETHING. NOW THIS COUPLE LIVED SOME WHERE AROUND TERLINGUA CREEK IN A TYPICAL INDIAN HOVEL OF STICKS AND BRUSH. AS THEY WERE WALKING THE COUPLE TOLD HER THAT THEY WERE GETTING TOO OLD AND BEFORE THEY DIED THEY WANTED TO SHARE A SECRET WITH HER.

THEY TOOK HER TO A HIDDEN CAVE COVERED WITH BRUSH, ONCE INSIDE THEY SHOWED HER A CACHE OF OLD SPANISH GOLD. THEY TOLD HER THAT ONCE THEY DIED SHE WAS TO BRING HER PARENTS TO THE CACHE WHERE THEY COULD SHARE THE MONEY.

TIME WENT ON AND WHEN THE OLD COUPLE DIED SHE TOLD HER PARENTS THE STORY AND TOLD THEM SHE WAS GOING TO SHOW THEM WHERE IT WAS. WELL NEEDLESS TO SAY AFTER MUCH SEARCHING SHE COULD NOT FIND THE CAVE. THEY LOOKED AND LOOKED BUT TO NO AVAIL, SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER WHERE THE CAVE WITH ALL THE GOLD WAS.

More About Norberta Southard:
Burial: June 18, 1973, Alpine, Texas.1

More About Norberta Southard and William Mack Waters:
Marriage: April 01, 1915, Terlingua, Brewster Co, Texas.1

Children of Norberta Southard and William Mack Waters are:
  1. +Hazel Waters, b. January 17, 1917, Mariposa, Brewster Co, Texas1, d. June 12, 1974, Midland, Texas1.
  2. +Alice Waters, b. April 17, 1919, Mariposa , Brewster Co, Texas1, d. March 19, 2000, Plano, Texas1.
  3. +Mack Orin Waters, b. September 10, 1920, Mariposa, Brewster Co, Texas1, d. June 21, 1991, Alpine, BrewsterCo, Texas1.
  4. +Frank Edward Waters, b. April 02, 1922, Mariposa, Brewster Co, Texas1, d. January 08, 1997, El Paso, Texas1.
  5. +Betty Waters, b. May 29, 1924, Terlingua, Brewster Co, Texas1, d. November 20, 2000, El Paso, Texas1.
  6. James Eugene Waters, b. June 08, 1928, Terlingua, Brewster Co, Texas1, d. June 08, 1941, Terlingua, Brewster Co, Texas1.
  7. +Virginia Waters.
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