Fun times in Millersview, Texas

Millersview, Texas

In the 1960s my parents Jack and Bea Busby would take my sister Carla and I to visit Aunt Letha and Uncle Frank at their old time farm house way out in the middle of nowhere Texas at a place called Millersview.

Getting to Millersview from Waco was no easy task and the scenery and the roads were well worn and most of the time we were the only car on the road for miles and miles. Most of the time Dad too Highways 84 to Hwy 83 and then turned onto Farm to Market Road 765E into Millersview. The return trip might be the same or for fun and a change he might take 765E back to Hwy 83 and then down to Hwy 87 but there were so many back roads and little towns we probably traveled through most of them just for a change of pace.

I am sure we also took Hwy 84 down to Hwy 190 over to Hwy 87 and up Farm to Market Road 2134, but hey they all looked the same to me. The trip took about four hours and was about 190 miles one way, talk about car butt and car sick, and getting into trouble in the back seat of our Buick Station Wagon.

I can still remember the names of the towns we drove through, McGregor, Gatesville, Goldthwaite, Early, Brownwood, Bangs, Santa Anna, Ballinger, Paint Rock, and Eden. There were times Dad would drive in one way an out another and that would add the towns of Melvin, Brady, and San Saba.

Millersview was located between Paint Rock and Eden at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 765E; 765; and 2134. Once you got to Ballinger, Brady and Eden you were on the back roads of West Texas and there was nothing but you, the road and what looked like thousands of small dead scrub brush tress (Mesquite) on both sides of the road.

Most of the time it was just us and Aunt Letha and Uncle Frank on our visits but every now and then we would be there with many other family members for a sort of Family Reunion when the family celebrated Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) which was celebrated on 11 November and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.

No idea why the Family celebrated Armistice Day the way they did, we made that get together for many years along with family members from all over the state and the U.S. yep, it was a big deal with my Mother’s side of the family.

The Armistice Day celebration was like Christmas and Thanksgiving all rolled into one event and we ate large amounts of home cooked, home baked, fire roasted, pit roasted, food of all sorts for days, Armistice Day and the day after of course.

Aunt Letha and Uncle Frank were neat, they had this large house with a large front porch situated in Millersview just off the main road next to the school and it was inside a rock wall for a fence with an attached barnyard with all the animals to go with it. Uncle Frank was what I would call a typical West Texas Rancher/Farmer while Aunt Letha was the typical or not so typical Rancher/Farmer wife.

We had such good times every time we visited Letha and Frank and of course there were other family members who also lived in or around Millersview and we would see them while there also. I am thinking we would spend weekends and even weeks on our visits there.

Later on my Aunt Ruthie and her family moved to Millersview for a time, they did not stay more than a few years, but they did moved there and had a home there and during that time we stayed with them on our visits, all in all we had grate times in Millersview, Texas.

There are many stories written by me about fun times in Millersview, Texas, you just have to find them…smiles.