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Submitted: 10/16/19 • Approved: 10/17/19 • Last Updated: 10/20/19 • R214956-G214955-S3
Carlene Jane
Dec 26, 1911 - Feb 19, 2008
Father: James D. (Jim or JD) Spray
Mother: Nora Bell Flippen
Owen Jasper
Aug 1, 1907 - Jan 24, 1974
Owen Webb was born to Frank and Maggie Webb August 1, 1907, near Gatesville, Texas. The Webb family came to Stonewall County in 1911 and bought a farm five miles south of Peacock. This place has been owned by the Webbs since that date. Mr. Webb died when Owen was seven years old, leaving his mother with eight children to raise.
Carlene Spray was born near Fox Oklahoma December 26, 1911, to Jim and Nora Spray. Mr Spray bought a Model T Ford truck in the spring of 1921. He loaded all his belongings including his wife and eight children into his new truck and joined a train of five or more trucks and headed west. The men worked at this and that as they traveled through New Mexico and Arizona and on into California.
After working a number of years in California the Spray family headed to Texas settling on a farm near Hamilton. In 1928 Mr. Spray moved his family to Stonewall County near the Double Mountains where he farmed until his death.
Owen and Carlene soon met and later married July 18, 1931. Most of their courting was done strolling paths that led to the mountains. A certain big rock on the north side of the east mountain was their resting place. It was on this rock that Owen got Carlene's consent to become his wife. Their love for rocks became a great part of their lives.
As time passed Owen and Carlene worked hard, side by side, getting a start in life on their farm near the Double Mountains. After many years of farming and ranching they moved into Aspermont so they would near their church, their friends and loved ones; they could visit and be visited.
This was truly a Christian couple. When the hours of church services were on, if the church of their choice as not available they sought fellowship with others for they loved churches of all nenominations and the people therein.
Once settle firmly among their friends and loved ones, Owen and Carlene released their love for antiques and rocks in a short span of five years, their home was filled and overflowing with antique furniture and their yard took on the appearance of a park. Rock were brought in from almost every hill in Stonewall County and tons of petrified wood from many counties east were used to make some of the most beautiful arrangements in their rock gardens. People passing through town, whether from Texas or out of state, often dropped by to view the unusual things at the Webb place.
Their home was not blessed with children, yet tis couple had a full life working together, playing together, praying together and worshipping together. Owen left Carlene January 24, 1974 to go to the Great Beyond. Carlene carries on remarkably well. Keeping her home, her yard and the acreage surrounding her house is no small task. She finds time though most every day to visit someone sick, someone in the Nursing Home, or some of her friends. I her her say so often, "I LOVE PEOPLE!"
As told to Belle W Boyles by Carlene Webb
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When Carlene Jane Spray was born on December 23, 1911, in Oklahoma, her father, James, was 32, and her mother, Nora, was 22. She married Owen Jasper Webb on July 18, 1931, in Stonewall, Texas. She died on February 19, 2008, in North Richland Hills, Texas, at the age of 96, and was buried in Peacock, Texas.
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Contributed on 10/16/19 by hawkinsdonna48
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