Millersview, Texas
In the 1960s my family made a trip from our little town of Waco in Central Texas out into the land of dead mesquite trees in west Texas to see family members who met once a year to celebrate Armistice Day.
At this point in my life I had no idea what Armistice Day was but knew it was important enough to get my family together way out in the middle of nowhere Texas once a year.
These trips from my hometown to a part of Texas that seemed so strange to me was interesting since we had to get off the major roads and take much smaller roads to much smaller towns in order to get to Millersview, Texas.
The town that time forgot was at the junction of Farm roads 765 and 2134, near the West Fork of Mustang Creek and twelve miles southeast of Paint Rock in Concho County and not far from Eden, Texas.
Life seemed to be slower and calmer out off the back roads of Texas than our life in Waco. To me life in Millersview was not real but my family’s family for some reason moved to that area way back when and that is where we would go for many of our weekends in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The family who lived in the Millersview had several houses in town adjacent to the school and several ranch homes out in the flat lands around Millersview. We always stayed with my Aunt Leatha and Uncle Frank who had the big house in town adjacent to the school house. I always liked that place; it was such a change from the houses in Waco.
Our families home in Millersview was your typical 1940s farm house with a barn yard, a barn with a wide variety of chickens, roosters, cows, and the like in attendance. There was a very large water tank next to the house to catch rain water, and the place had its own water well and septic tank system.
It was always a joy to drive up to the front of the house in Millersview and see that large rock fence that circled the house and barnyard, the large front porch, the large front, side and back yard, and the fact the house was located in the center of town just off the farm to market road, but due to the location there was never that much noise or traffic.
This area was so quiet, we were up at 6AM and would have long days of fun with the relatives and then turn in about 8PM and you could hear a pin drop after dark. This old house had swamp coolers to keep the place cool but most of the time we just kept the windows open and the wind blowing through kept us plenty cool and the blankets kept us warm as needed.
Waking up in the old house was fun, my Aunt always had the old time farm hand breakfast for us, I would wake up smelling biscuits cooking and bacon frying, yep those were the days of the hearty breakfast.
Living life in Millersview for a few days or a week was always fun for me, I got to do pretty much what I wanted to all by myself and I could get into some exciting stuff out and about on my own.
I should mentioned there were many family folks living in Millersview after awhile, my Aunt Ruthie and Uncle Eddie and their kids Cindy, Connie and Linda also lived there for a time, not sure how that happened, but we would go see them on the off holidays...smiles.
If you were there in those days, can you name the family members who lived in Millersview, Texas?
On the weeks the family gathered for Armistice Day we would have family members drive in from all over Texas and from other states, no hotel anywhere near and back then family stayed with family, so folks were spread out to all the farm houses and ranch homes of the family but the main event and fun took place in the back yard of my Aunt Lethas and Uncle Franks home.
No one ever talked much about why we gathered on this day once a year but they did talk about family and those who were no longer with us and what was going on with the family. We all had fun and no matter what we seemed to enjoy the experience and just being with family.
At these events we ate way too much and had fun and enjoyed life for those brief few moments in time, then the fun was over and it was time to get back to reality and get back to real life and Waco.
In the 1960s my family made a trip from our little town of Waco in Central Texas out into the land of dead mesquite trees in west Texas to see family members who met once a year to celebrate Armistice Day.
At this point in my life I had no idea what Armistice Day was but knew it was important enough to get my family together way out in the middle of nowhere Texas once a year.
These trips from my hometown to a part of Texas that seemed so strange to me was interesting since we had to get off the major roads and take much smaller roads to much smaller towns in order to get to Millersview, Texas.
The town that time forgot was at the junction of Farm roads 765 and 2134, near the West Fork of Mustang Creek and twelve miles southeast of Paint Rock in Concho County and not far from Eden, Texas.
Life seemed to be slower and calmer out off the back roads of Texas than our life in Waco. To me life in Millersview was not real but my family’s family for some reason moved to that area way back when and that is where we would go for many of our weekends in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The family who lived in the Millersview had several houses in town adjacent to the school and several ranch homes out in the flat lands around Millersview. We always stayed with my Aunt Leatha and Uncle Frank who had the big house in town adjacent to the school house. I always liked that place; it was such a change from the houses in Waco.
Our families home in Millersview was your typical 1940s farm house with a barn yard, a barn with a wide variety of chickens, roosters, cows, and the like in attendance. There was a very large water tank next to the house to catch rain water, and the place had its own water well and septic tank system.
It was always a joy to drive up to the front of the house in Millersview and see that large rock fence that circled the house and barnyard, the large front porch, the large front, side and back yard, and the fact the house was located in the center of town just off the farm to market road, but due to the location there was never that much noise or traffic.
This area was so quiet, we were up at 6AM and would have long days of fun with the relatives and then turn in about 8PM and you could hear a pin drop after dark. This old house had swamp coolers to keep the place cool but most of the time we just kept the windows open and the wind blowing through kept us plenty cool and the blankets kept us warm as needed.
Waking up in the old house was fun, my Aunt always had the old time farm hand breakfast for us, I would wake up smelling biscuits cooking and bacon frying, yep those were the days of the hearty breakfast.
Living life in Millersview for a few days or a week was always fun for me, I got to do pretty much what I wanted to all by myself and I could get into some exciting stuff out and about on my own.
I should mentioned there were many family folks living in Millersview after awhile, my Aunt Ruthie and Uncle Eddie and their kids Cindy, Connie and Linda also lived there for a time, not sure how that happened, but we would go see them on the off holidays...smiles.
If you were there in those days, can you name the family members who lived in Millersview, Texas?
On the weeks the family gathered for Armistice Day we would have family members drive in from all over Texas and from other states, no hotel anywhere near and back then family stayed with family, so folks were spread out to all the farm houses and ranch homes of the family but the main event and fun took place in the back yard of my Aunt Lethas and Uncle Franks home.
No one ever talked much about why we gathered on this day once a year but they did talk about family and those who were no longer with us and what was going on with the family. We all had fun and no matter what we seemed to enjoy the experience and just being with family.
At these events we ate way too much and had fun and enjoyed life for those brief few moments in time, then the fun was over and it was time to get back to reality and get back to real life and Waco.
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