Thomas Bland KELLOW

September 3, 1853-January 31, 1935

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Thomas B. Kellow Died at the Home of Daughter Here

Thomas Bland Kellow, 81, died Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.B. Elliston. A resident of Hereford for many years, the deceased came to Canyon six months ago to live at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J.B. Elliston.

The funeral was held at the Christian Church Friday afternoon conducted by Rev. Roy Snodgrass, pastor of the Amarillo Christian Church. Interment was in the Hereford cemetery under the direction of the Griggs-Thompson Funeral Home. Pall bearers were: Claude Rickett, Nester Gass, E.B. Posey, John Patton, Frank Gyles and Alex Thompson, all of Hereford.

Surviving are three children: Mrs. J.B. Elliston of Canyon, Mrs. Fred Spaeth of Dallas and A.P. Mauk of Irving, Texas.

(Published in The Canyon News, Volume Number XXXVIII, Number 17, Canyon, Texas, Thursday, February 7, 1935, Page 7)
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Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Thomas Bland Kellow
Death Date: 18 Jan 1935
Death County: Randall
Certificate: 4289

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KELLOW, T.B.
Early Truck Farmer
T. B. Kellow returned to Duncanville , Tex. , telling his family there of the wonderful country he had seen when he had come to Hereford in September 1901. The following May, 1902, he loaded his possessions, including a buggy with fringe on the top, onto an immigrant car and headed for Deaf Smith County .

The family came on the passenger train. Fifteen-year-old Fannie Bob peered eagerly out the train windows as they pulled into Hereford. She was not so favorably impressed at first. Rain was pelting down as they got off the train and rode up the muddy Dewey Avenue to Tygrett Hotel. Here and there were stores with wooden fronts connected by irregular board walks. They spent the night with the Pierce Family then went to the farm three miles north on Twenty-Five mile Avenue.

Remembering the wagon loads of apples and peaches he had seen being sold on the Hereford streets at 50 cents per bushel the previous fall, Kellow decided to try his hand at farming. He had been postmaster and owned a general mercantile store in Duncanville .

He was among the area farmers who won blue ribbons at the state fair in 1909. He had proved that the rich Deaf Smith County soil, irrigated from a windmill, would produce beans, tomatoes, onions, peppers, radishes, cabbage, berries, applies, peaches, pearseven celery, which he blanched and sold to local stores.

Livestock and chicken raised on the farm supplemented the vegetable diet, and he added and occasional plover or curlew from a near-by lake to the menu.

Kitty Kellow (Mrs. Katherine Rice) remembers seeing hundreds of cattle stampede out the Avenue. She also remembers ice skating on the lake which is now Dameron Park .
Mrs. Rice lives at Fort Worth , Tex. ; her son is the Rev. Frank Glenn Elliott, First Christian Church, Huntsville , Tex. She has a step-daughter, Mrs. Ethel Rice Renz, Jersey City , N. J.
Fannie Kellow was married to J. Byrle Elliston.

Thomas B. Kellow was born Sept. 3, 1853 in Tennessee . He was married to Ella Miles Mauk in Duncanville , Tex. Besides Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Elliston, they had a daughter, Edna, who is deceased. A step-son, A. P. Mauk, filed on land between Texico and Clovis . He died in 1937. T. B. Kellow died at Canyon in 1935.

(A History of Deaf Smith County, by Bessie Patterson, 1964

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