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EVEN World War I Vet.
Served in France From May 1918 to June 1919.
Notes for Mayme Fern Guest Tipton by her son, Franklin Tipton: Her father named her Mary Catherine. Her mother named her Mayme Fern. She always said her name is Mary Catherine Mayme Fern Guest Tipton. Her sisters called her Fern but most people knew her as Mayme. Everyone liked her and her nieces counseled with her about their problems. She was close to the age of her nieces than her sisters and they enjoyed each other. She gre up as the daughter of a poor homesteader trying to make a living from 160 acres of sandy soil in Eastern New Mexico., Although they were poor, the homesteaders formed chruches, schools, post offices and neighbors looked after neighbors. I received a copy of the Homestead application filed by Isaac T. Guest in May 1903. He received a patent for the 160 acres of land on October 28, 1909. He received a title to the land on April 4, 1913, about 10 years from the date of application. He was 62 years old at this point, and a little later they sold the land due to his declining health and the need to pay off a loan for the dairy cattle he had purchased. Mayme wrote a book about her life. The book was divided into 2 parts. Section 1 was titled "My Early Years", Section 2 was "Looking Back to Happy Days." She begins: "In May 1903 my famiy came to Portales, New Mexico from central Texas. I was only one year old and don't remember anuything about that part of my life. My father was Ike Guest, Mother Mlly, and 14 year old sister Virgie made up the family. My older sister Willie was married and she and her husband Jim Mauldin, with his father and Mother, sister Irene all came out here when we came. They filed on claims about 20 miles northwest of Protales. Papa bought a relinquishment for a Mr. Silver. He had built a shack, a small building with a one way roof. Dug a well and put up a windmill, also had a fence around the 160 acres. Also, had planted an orchard and set out some trees for shade. Papa dug down about 4 feet tall and put a 2 way roof on it over the hole. Had a half dugout. Had room enough for 2 good rooms. They put a curtain up adcross the middle of the dugout, made it like 2 rooms instead of one. It was comfortable, cool in the summer and warm in the winter. By the way, by 1908 they had built 2 large rooms in front of their dugout. They still used the dougout as a kitchen. We had a 3 eye Bachelor stove with a drum on the first joint of the stove pitp with a damper in the pipe to control the heat. Mama did her baking tin the drum. The 4 lids of the stove gave plenty of room for cooking most any other food. The Bachelor stove was used for heat also in cold weather. Virgie married Mose Hawkins in Oct. 1907. I missed Virgie for a while, seemed lonesome without her. There was a Baptist church organized at Lacy in aobut 1910 0r 1911. A Rev. Williams was our pastor. He had a small ranch in the west part of the Floyd community. My father was song leader and Mr. Griffin was a Deacon. Later in her wirting she says, The most important part of my early life was my Father and Mother's faith and trust in God. They lived Christian lives before all. She could always see the good things around her even though they were barely surviving. She talked about the orchard being such a help to them after it started bearing fruit. They had several kinds of peaches, 3 cherry trees, and plenty of plums. They canned fruit, dried soem of the peaches, and sold the excess to neighbors in the community. She tells of the pleasure of the smell, and beauty of the blooms from the fruit trees and about sitting in the orchard and listening to the birds sing their songs. She wrote: "I had a cousin to move to Lacy about the summer of 1916. She was Kate Barton, one of Papa's nieces. She grew up in my Grandma;s home when Papa was a young man. Her mother died while she was quite young, one of Papa's sister's girl. Kate's children were mostly all grown and married except for a girl Stella and a son Evertte. Stella is 3 years older than I, and Everette was a year younger. One of Kate's girls Ella Johnston and Will lived near us for a while and a baby daughter was born while they lived there. She is Jewel Harper now. She had another sister and a brother. Most of our kinfolks lived in TExas, a cousin Albert Hurst came and filed on a claim, proved up on it and married a widow named Eliza. They lived there for several years. He was Papa's nephew. Also come nephew of Mama's came to Clovis and a niece. She is Exie Dorris Massey. Cletus Dorris was her older brother and another brother lived here for several years. I met 2 of Mama's brother, Uncle Joe Dorris and Uncle John Dorris after I was grown and married. Uncle John was the father of cousins that lived in Clovis. Marriage notes for Mayme Guest and Frank Tipton: Mayme Tipton wrote, "I met Frank for the first time in the early spring of 1920. He was home on a visit. Mama sent me to see Mrs. Sauthers (Frank's mother) about something for her. Mrs. Southers introduced me to Frank. He was ready to go to town. He stayed a few minutes and left. When she introduced me she meant to Miss but it sounded like she said Mrs. She got onto him for leaving like that later. Frank told her that she said Mrs. and he was not interested in talking to a married woman." Later in 1920 they had a big Thanksgiving dinner at the Sothers-Tipton household and the Guests were invited. There was a band playing on the court house square in Portales and all the young people went there. They had their firs date when he asked her to goto a show with him. He went back to his job in the Texas panhandle. They corresponded by mail. They probably saw each other periodically when he came home, but not often. He was able to come home after the first of the year in 1922 and they did something every day. They had planned to get married in the spring but decided to go aheah and marry on Janl. 14, 1922. They went to live on the Yellow House Ranch where he was a cowboy.
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EVEN U. S. Air Force, Captain
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OCCU Owener, Operated, Coal Mine
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EVEN World War II Vet. U. S. Air Force, Captain