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| Martha and I going over the family history on the ranch |
Today was a day genealogists dream of! We drove to the Womack Ranch and met with the ranch manager, who opened the gates to let us in to see the home site where our g-g grandparents, Abraham James Womack and Rebecca Jane Franklin originally settled in 1852. The cabin they built is where our great grandfather James Cornelius Womack would have grown up. He and his brother George had ranches on adjoining land, and that is where my grandmother would have been raised.
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| Womack homestead |
The Womack Ranch was sold out of the family for the first time since 1852 when JC Womack (grandson of James Cornelius) died in 2012. It stretches for nearly 1,000 acres in the piney woods east of Apple Springs. There are large open meadows for the herds of cattle. The Womacks were all cattlemen.
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A bull standing guard
To access the log cabin, we had to walk across the field where several huge bulls were grazing. Martha has had cattle on her ranch and assured us they were no problem..... |
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| Another bull checking us out |
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| The original 1852 cabin |
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| We made it! |
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| Original logs but new chinking! |
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| Door inside the cabin- it had been modernized so no neat pictures inside. |
Doug, the ranch manager, was feeding the cattle that morning, so when he blew the horn of his pickup they all came running!
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| I thought this one was cute- she was obviously from the brahman bull we had seen yesterday! |
Lunch at the Mar Teres Tea Room
Martha had a friend of a friend who owned a tea room just outside of Lufkin so we stopped by there for lunch. There was a convention of Pentecostal women in town and all of the hotels were fully booked- as was the tea room. However- when the owner met Martha, she set us up a lovely little table on the porch. We think it was the best seat in the house! The food was delicious, too!
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| Martha and the owner of the tea room |
Wow...You got inside the original cabin! Too bad it had been remodeled, but how COOL you got to be there! And the stump of that big old tree...I bet it could tell us a few tales. Tea looks lovely!
ReplyDeleteI'll spare you the details, but I just now got in to your blog. I absolutely looooove reading it!! What a rich heritage and great documentary! I especially enjoyed the scenery and the old log cabin. Wish I could be a little mouse in the corner of your camper and take it all in myself. But since that's not possible, thanks for sharing this way!!
ReplyDeleteLove all the photo history, Janice! You were much braver than I would have been with the bulls!
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