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[pg. 509] ROBERT H. HYDE, M. D., who is a leading and popular member of his profession practicing at Eldorado, Jackson county, is of an old and influential Tennessee family. His grandfather was a soldier in the Mexican war and afterward a well-to-do planter of the old southern school, while the father was a physician and surgeon, serving in the latter capacity through the Civil war. Dr. R. H.  [510] Hyde was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, on the 12th of January, 1861; was reared on the home plantation and received his education, as boy and youth, in the common and high schools of his home community. At the attainment of his majority he left home and in 1883, when twenty-three years of age, commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Owens of College Grove, Tennessee, continuing his private instruction with Drs. Burns and Murphy, of Murfreesboro. This tutelage, which 'included considerable experience in connection with his preceptor's practice, covered a period of four years, and in 1887 he commenced a systematic course of lectures at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
     At his graduation from that institution, in 1890, Dr. Hyde located for practice at Holt's Corner, Marshall county, Tennessee; and remained there engaged in successful professional work for eight years. In 1900 he removed to Quanah, Texas, but after a year located in Greer county, buying a tract of land near Eldorado and putting it under cultivation, as a substantial means to support while he was engaged in the establishment of a medical and surgical practice. In 1903, convinced of the permanent growth of El.dorado, he erected a residence in that town and there established the headquarters of his practice, which had already increased to large proportions and most profitable condition, and since then has developed to the limits of his strength and abilities. In 1906 the Doctor pursued a post-graduate course in Chicago, and, with his complete office, including a good library, is conducting a medical and surgical practice which is strictly up-to-date and is bringing him most tangible results both in purse and name. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Texas Panhandle Medical Society, and, in his fraternal affiliations, is a Knight of Pythias and has reached the Scottish rite in Masonry.
     The Doctor's paternal grandfather, Hotwell B. Hyde, was a native of Tennessee, and served throughout the Mexican war. In the early years of his manhood he was a popular school teacher, and later a leading planter who, in the cultivation of his land, employed more than 100 slaves. For many years he filled the office of justice of the peace, was a member of the Primitive Baptist church, and was a man of strong and good influence in his home community. His children were Joseph, Henderson, Hotwell (father of Dr. R. H. Hyde), Samuel, Isaac W., Mary, Mattie, Sally and Emma. Hotwell Hyde received a liberal education, chose the profession of medicine as his permanent vocation, married and was engaged in a good practice when he joined the Confederacy as an army surgeon. He continued to serve in that capacity through the period of hostilities and upon his return to his Tennessee home resumed his practice in Civil life, his professional career being marked by results creditable alike to his abilities as a physician and a man of business. He amassed a good estate and retired from active work many years ago. Dr. Hotwell Hyde has reached the venerable age of eighty-two years, and his wife is still his good companion, at the age of seventy-four. She is a daughter of Joseph S. Morton, once a leading planter and slave owner of Tennessee, and, besides Mrs. Hyde, he was the father of Rosa, (unmarried); Susan, now Mrs. F. Adams; John, a farmer and old soldier; Emma, Mrs. James Pinkard, and Samuel T. Morton, who as a youth served through the Civil war, was twice wounded, afterward completed his education, and became a lawyer and county judge. The children born to Dr. and Mrs Hotwell Hyde were: Joseph, a mechanic; Robert H. of this review; Samuel, Alexander, Oscar, and Wade H., all farmers; Lucy, Mrs James Overall; Bettie, Mrs. E. Morton.
     Dr. Robert H. Hyde was married in Tennessee to Miss Ola Brittain, who was born in that state in 1873, daughter of Joseph and Betty (Reynolds) Brittain. Her parents were also born in Tennessee, her father being engaged in mercantile business and also as a lawyer and was one of the best men in the world. He has been treasurer of his home county and held other honorable offices conferred upon him by the Democracy, and yet resides at Holt's Corner, Tennessee. He is both a Mason and a Methodist in good standing, and broadly and highly influential. His wife, also a faithful Methodist, also survives. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brittain were as follows: John R., ,now a traveling salesman; William, engaged in the marble business; James T., a farmer; Mary L., Mrs. J. M. Swaim; Fanny B., Mrs. Urbane Owen; Moena, Mrs. Harris; Ola, Mrs. Dr. Hyde. Five children, two of whom are dead, have been born to the Doctor and his wife, as follows: Paul, born in 1893; Fred, [511] in 1898; and Nathan in 1906. Mrs. Hyde is a leading member of the Baptist church, useful and highly respected, and a social favorite.

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RICHARD M. THORP, long a popular business man and now engaged in Eldorado in the real estate, loan and insurance business, has been identified with the development of Greer and Jackson counties for the past seventeen years. Mr. Thorp was born in Saline county, Missouri, November 8, 1869, son of Thomas J. and Mary J. (Marshall) Thorp, both natives of Missouri. In his early manhood his father was a popular and successful school teacher, a fact which is recalled with deep gratitude by many of the distinguished men of the state who were his pupils. Later he became a farmer and left the field of agriculture for the field of battle, serving in General Price's army throughout the Civil war. He saw both wearing campaigns and much active service, was a prisoner for a short time, and endured all the soldier's lot with fortitude, and fought with bravery. At the close of the war he resumed his peaceful life as a farmer and a cattle raiser, becoming well known in the latter business as a feeder for the market. In 1891 he sold his farming and cattle interests and removed to Greer county, then Texas, buying large tracts of land from squatters and others, and purchasing large quantities of machinery and agricultural implements in preparation for extensive operations in wheat raising. The season of 1891 yielded an average of twenty-one bushels of wheat from 300 acres, his crop being marketed to good advantage at Quanah, Texas. He put in 700 acres the second season and on account of the drought the yield was very light, .the quality of wheat poor and the price low. With 1,000 acres under wheat for the third
season, the crop proved almost a total failure, and the outcome of the fourth season was of the same discouraging nature. After sinking a comfortable fortune in wheat raising he returned to a small farm which he still owned in Missouri, and engaged in the raising of truck until his death, four years later, in 1899. The deceased was a man of strong and sterling character, whether considered from the standpoint of practical ability or morality. He was a firm Democrat, a stanch Baptist, and widely honored. His wife makes her home with her children in Oklahoma, also being a worthy member of that faith and honored for her Christian and motherly qualities. Her children are as follows: Hattie, who died as Mrs. John Baker and left one child; William, a resident of Missouri; Thomas, of Kansas City; Jesse, also living in Missouri; Richard M., of this notice; Robert, of San Marcus, Texas; Pearl (Mrs. R. King); Edward and Wade H. Thorp.
     Richard M, Thorp is a native of Missouri, as already stated, in 1891, when he was twenty-two years of age, removing with his parents to Greer county. He remained with his father during the years of their discouraging attempts to raise wheat, in 1894 married and when the elder Mr. Thorp returned to Missouri in the following year the younger man remained in the region of his strong faith. In 1897 he filed on a quarter section of land adjoining the present site of Eldorado, which he improved and (in 1901) proved up. At first he farmed on a small scale, opening a country store on his place in 1898. Thus he continued for two years, during which period he also conducted the postoffice. The postoffice of Eldorado, established as a star route in 1889 not far from the present site of the town, finally gave the place its name. In 1900 Mr. Thorp sold a half interest in his business, and moved his headquarters half a mile south, there occupying a larger store and adding to his stock. In 1902 he disposed of his interest in the business altogether and, with a partner, opened a drug store in the town which has since grown to a comely, thriving place of 1,300 people. It has railroad communication, all lines of business are well represented, and it is a good commercial center; for all of which development Mr. Thorp should receive a large share of credit. In the fall of 1904, having established the Corner Drug Store, he erected another building for the same line of business, which was continued until 1906. In that year his affairs had assumed such shape that he gave all his time to property dealings and associated lines of business, such as money loans, insurance and transactions of a notorial nature. He is now a large dealer in both farms and town property, both on his personal account and as an agent, and he represents a line of reliable companies which insure against losses by fire, hail and tornado. He has not only developed an extensive individual enterprise, but he has employed his energy and ability in bringing enterprises to Eldorado which are of great general benefit. He has sold his original farm to a corporation which

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has erected thereon a large cement mill, which will give employment to many laborers. He also assisted in organizing the First National Bank of Eldorado with a capital of $25,000 and in which he is still a stockholder and a director, and is likewise one of the organizers of the Eldorado Grocery Company. So that although still on the sunny side of forty, Mr. Thorp may justly be called the father of Eldorado. He is a leader in the work of the Methodist church and prominent in the fraternities, being a member of the Masonic order (degree of Knight Templar and is now acting master of Eldorado Blue lodge), of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of the World. He holds office, in fact, in all of the fraternities named.
     Mr. Thorp's wife was formerly Miss Ida V. Blair, who is a Texas lady, daughter of Frank P. and Eliza (Creswell) Blair, and was for many years engaged successfully in teaching. Her father was a native of Missouri and was a saddle and harness maker at Weatherford, Texas, at the breaking out of the Civil war. In that capacity he served the Confederate army and died in Texas, an honest, capable mechanic and a member of the Methodist church. The Blair children were as follows: Sally, now Mrs. Blackburn; Lee, Mrs. J. D. Hall; Fanny, Mrs. George Adkins; Ida, wife of R. M. Thorp; and Anna, Mrs. John Scott. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Thorp are as follows: Ruby, born in 1895; Fay, who died at the age of eight years, and Frank Blair Thorp, born in 1900.

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ROLLAND D. BARNES, postmaster at Eldorrado, Jackson county, was for several years closely identified with the agricultural and civic development of this section of the state before he assumed his present service with the general government. He comes of a family of Pennsylvania pioneers, members of which migrated to Ohio and Indiana and finally to Missouri. It has been prominent in both the fields of patriotism and professional life. Rolland D. Barnes himself is a native of Moberly, Missouri, born on the 17th of January, and is a son of Able C. and Mary (Bannister) Barnes, his mother being a native of Moorefield, Ohio, and his father of Barnesville, same state. Abram Barnes, the grandfather, who married Elizabeth Wilson, was a Pennsylvanian who entered land in Belmont county, Ohio, became a pioneer husbandman of that section, and platted the town of Barnesville, which took his name in recognition of his work as its founder. As an inducement to locate the county seat there he donated land for a courthouse, jail and other public buildings, as well as for churches and schools, and started the town on its substantial development. Both he and his wife were devoted members of the Methodist church, Mr. Barnes himself being also an ardent advocate of all educational movements. This was not only his general attitude but he gave all his children a thorough education, covering the classics and liberal branches. He was a Whig in politics, but never aspired to a public career. Both Mr. and Mrs. Abram Barnes died at the town which bears the family name, at a ripe age, highly honored for their elevated and useful lives. Their children were: Elizabeth, Matilda, Ruth, James A., Milton, and Able C. (father of Rolland D.). All of the sons served in the Union army during the Civil war, and James A. became somewhat prominent in local politics, serving as county treasurer. Milton Barnes attained the rank of colonel, was a prominent lawyer of Ohio, served as its .secretary of state two terms, when President McKinley was governor of Ohio, and President Harrison later appointed him special United States attorney representing the committee which went to Alaska to settle the seal fishing difficulties with Great Britain. Milton Barnes was a citizen of Columbus, and soon after his return from Alaska became ill and died. Major McKinley, later President, attended his funeral as a member of the Masonic degree, Mystic Shrine, under whose auspices his funeral obsequies were conducted.
     Able C. Barnes, the father, was born and reared at Barnesville, received a liberal education and was a popular and able teacher of both the common branches and writing. He joined the Union army as a member of Company C, 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and although in one of his numerous engagements he received a minie ball through the body he returned to his command and served until the conclusion of the war. Upon his return to his home in Ohio he resumed his farming operations, married and later removed to a farm near Indianapolis, Indiana, upon which he resided for several years. He then located in Moberly, Missouri, and subsequently at Great Bend, Kansas, in both localities establishing his family on agricultural homesteads. At the latter place he also

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taught district school, besides a writing class, and as township trustee and a public-spirited citizen served on the county relief committee at the time of the great grasshopper plague. After a residence of three years at Great Bend, he removed to Pleasant Hill, Missouri, and at that point, for the succeeding four years, engaged in business as a contractor and builder. He also continued in these lines at Kansas City and after pursuing a successful career in that city until 1904 bought a fruit farm in California, on which he still resides and labors with most gratifying results. Both he and his wife are thoroughly enjoying the fair results of industrious and well ordered lives, the father having reached the age of sixty-four and the mother of fifty-four. They are both worthy Methodists faithful in the work of the church, and highly honored as much for their unaffected usefulness as well as their morality. Mrs. Barnes is a daughter of William Bannister, an upright carriage maker of Ohio, an old-time Republican and a firm Methodist. He 'is the father of the following: Worthington H., who has been in the telegraph and railroad service for fifty years; James, a master mechanic in the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; William, who was also a railroad man and died at the age of twenty-two; Mary, Mrs. Able Barnes (mother of Rolland D.); and Lida, who married Charles Ball, a photographer. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Able Barnes are as follows: Mattie, yet unmarried; Charles, a contractor and builder; Rosa, unmarried; Rolland D., of this review; Katie and Bertha, unmarried; Frank, living at home with his parents; Milton, who died June 17, 1908, and was a popular and competent teacher at Santa Monica Military Academy, of California; Ruth, unmarried; Benson, a resident of California; Sadie, now Mrs. F. M. Boswell, of Los Angeles, California; Linnie, unmarried, and Russell, who also resides with his parents. All of these twelve children are members of the Methodist church, as was also Milton, mentioned above as the only' one to be taken from the large family circle.
     Rolland D. Barnes remained at home until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to Kansas City to learn the plumber's trade. After a time he removed to Galveston, Texas, where he was first employed at junior wages but was soon advanced to a master's remuneration. His three years' employment in that capacity was followed by his location at Temple, Texas, where he was manager of a plumbing establishment for five years, making all the estimates for contracts and being virtually at the head of the concern. Then returning to Kansas City he worked at his trade for a year, and in the fall of 1899 abandoned industrial life for that of agriculture, business and public service.
At the time mentioned Mr. Barnes came to Oklahoma, filed a claim near Eldorado, took the other legal steps to make his title clear, and settled upon his land for purposes of cultivation and improvement. Later he was employed as a bookkeeper and clerk in a grocery. In 1905 he had sold his farm, on which he had successfully raised grain, vegetables and water melons, as well as a few cattle and hogs. In June of 1903 he had also married; so that when he came to Eldorado he brought with him not only the means of making profitable investments, but the most necessary agent in the establishment of a permanent home. Besides being employed in the grocery line, he was bookkeeper and weighmaster at the Blue gin, prior to embarking as a real estate dealer on his own account. He soon placed on his books a large line of town lots and farm loans, and was holding the position of tax collector for Eldorado township when, on February 13, 1907, he was appointed to the postmastership. He assumed the office on the 5th of the following March. The postoffice had been established in 1889 on a star route from Quanah, Texas, to Mangum, it being then located half a mile south of the present site of Eldorado. The business of the office is now increasing rapidly, the first year under Mr. Barnes' administration showing receipts of $3,944 and postal orders amounting to $31,012. It is proposed to add two rural free delivery routes to the four rural routes and the two star routes already embraced in its circuit.
     Postmaster Barnes was married, on June 17, 1903, to Miss Letha A. Bishop, who was born at Bonham, Texas, daughter of Simpson B. and M. E. (Littlejohn) Bishop, of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her father was a carriage maker both in his native state and at Bonham, Texas, and in 1890 removed to Greer county, then under the jurisdiction of Texas, being a prosperous farmer at the time of his death in 1892. The widow and

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family remained on the original farm for a number of years, filed a half section of land elsewhere and died upon that piece of property in 1905. Mr. Bishop was a Baptist, a Mason and a worthy man; his wife was a Methodist and his faithful companion and comfort, mother of the following: Elizabeth, now Mrs. Odom; Alice, unmarried; Thursey, Mrs. DeWebb; Emma, wife of Captain T. B. Bryant; and Letha A., Mrs. Rolland D. Barnes. The Postmaster and Mrs. Barnes have had one child born to them, Malberry, born July 28, 1907. Both parents are Methodists and Mr. Barnes is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in good standing.

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W. H. PEADEN, vice-president and manager of the First National Bank of Eldorado, Jackson county, has been identified for a number of years with the progress of the agricultural, realty and financial interests of this section of the state. The institution of which he is now the active head was the first bank to be founded in the place and was organized as the State Bank of Eldorado, September 22, 1902, its original capital being $5,000 and its officers as follows: John Caloway, president, and J. H. Whiteside, cashier. It was sold in 1903, when J. A. Henry became president and S. B. Edwards, cashier, being re-organized in July of that year and in 1904, with Mr. Caloway as president and F. M. Wood as cashier. In 1905 C. T. Herring was chosen president and J. C. Haney cashier, and this management continued until the nationalization of the bank in 1906, with a capital of $25,000 and these officers: C. T. Herring, president; Herbert Farrell, cashier and J. C. Haney, vice-president. In November, 1906, Mr. Farrell resigned and L. L. Lentz was made cashier, and in February of the following year Mr. Lentz was succeeded by W. F. Thurman. In January, 1907, Mr. Haney resigned the vice-presidency and Mr. Peaden was not only elected to that office but in the following April made manager, C. C. Highsmith becoming cashier. The bank transacts a general business, and under Mr. Peaden's courteous but firm and sound management is rapidly progressing in business and reputation. According to its last financial, statement its resources were $123,054.73, embraced in the following items: loans and discounts, $72,246.10; overdrafts, $4,272.54; United States bonds and premiums, $6,573.13; banking house and _ furniture, $10,274.49; redemption fund, $325; cash and exchange, $29,363.47. The liabilities were: Capital stock, $25,000; surplus, $10,000; undivided profits, $6,317.01; circulation, $6,500; deposits, $75,237.72.
     W. H. Peaden was born in Alabama, August 22, 1874, son of H. P. and Emily C. (Ursery) Peaden, both of that state. The father was a mechanic in his earlier life, in 1885 locating in Dallas county and there following his trade, and later engaging in merchandise in Denton county. He spent his last years as a business man of Arkansas, where he died in 1897, being a Mason in good standing and a citizen of high repute. His wife came to Eldorado in 1901, dying there May 12, 1903, mother of W. H., of this review; Robert G., now a Texas liveryman; John H. and James E., both farmers of Oklahoma. W. H. Peaden was eleven years of age when the family removed from Alabama to Dallas county, Texas, where he was educated and afterward worked as a mechanic. In 1901 he located a claim at Eldorado, improved it, but sold the property and engaged in the real estate business, in which he continued profitably until 1906. He then farmed until his election as vice-president and manager of the First National Bank in 1907. He is also a stockholder in the bank, and connected with other financial interests of the town and county. In politics he is a Democrat and has served as city treasurer, school treasurer and member of the school board. He is president of the Business Men's Club of Eldorado, which has been the means of bringing the cement mill to Eldorado and otherwise advancing its interests, and in the order of Masonry has reached the degree of Shriner.
     Mr. Peaden was married in Texas to Miss Barbara A. Martin, born in Missouri September 17, 1878, to William A. and Phoebe E. (Morgan) Martin. Her father was a farmer, when he entered the service of the Federal army, continued" through the war,
and now draws a pension for his honorable wound. In ,1878 he removed to Brown county, Texas, where he opened another farm, subsequently was an agriculturist of Collin and Denton counties, and spent the years from 1902 to 1907 in Oklahoma. In the latter year he returned to Denton county, Texas, where he yet resides. The Martin children were Albert, Samuel, Jeremiah, James R, Walter L., Eliza (now Mrs. H. O. Cain), Barbara (Mrs. W. H. Peaden), Ella (Mrs. A. "B. Cain), and Hattie (Mrs. J. [515]  O. Render). The sons are all farmers. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Peaden are: Zular, born June 25, 1897; Ora, born December 12, 1899, and William, who died in infancy. Mrs. Peaden is identified with the Order of the Eastern Star, the Masonic auxiliary.

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JESSE D. TINSLEY, president of the Citizens' State Bank of Blair, a leader in the ginning industry, and also prominent in the advancement of religious and educational movements, stands much in the same relation to this growing town of Jackson county as did his father, William A. Tinsley, to the city of Garland, Dallas county, Texas. The elder Tinsley was the acknowledged founder of that place, the most prosperous city in the county outside of Dallas City, and the broad usefulness of Jesse D. Tinsley's labors at Blair certainly place him in the list of the very few who may be classed as the founders of the Oklahoma town. The Tinsley family is of Irish descent and, in America, of Virginia origin, its members having generally been engaged in mechanical and agricultural vocations. After serving with Lee in Virginia, the father returned to his devastated plantation, but in 1869 sold his property, which had been partially repaired, and removed with his family into Danas county, Texas. After nearly forty years of energetic and successful labors at Garland he died there in his seventy-fifth year. The widow is still living.
     When his parents moved from his native state of Virginia, Jesse D. Tinsley was but eight years of age, his birth having occurred in Montgomery county, March 1, 1861. He had been reared on his fathers plantation, and had already obtained a good elementary education at a private school of the neighborhood. He remained with the family in Dallas county, until he was twenty years of age, assisting his father in his various interests, but in 1881 he married and for a dozen years confined his activities to farming and stock raising. Although his success was pronounced, his strong mechanical bent and ability then induced him to enter into the business of bridge building, at which he profitably continued for the succeeding eight years. He then became a general merchant at Garland, closing out an extensive business in 1904 and coming to Blair, then in Greer county. The town was then in its critical infancy, but he at once erected a cotton gin, and conducted it successfully for two seasons. Having become convinced that Blair was a coming town of southwestern Oklahoma he had purchased a tract of 160, acres of land adjoining the corporate limits of the town, and in 1906 moved his family from Texas to his new homestead. There he still resides, having erected a commodious and modern residence and made other improvements which have added to the value and attractiveness of his property. His ginning enterprise has been successful from the first, turning out 1,575 bales the first season, 2,558 bales the second; 1,856 the third (a short crop), and 2,826 bales the fourth (19078). During the season just closed Mr. Tinsley added another gin to his plant, which is now unusually complete, with boll threshing machinery and a daily capacity of sixty bales. In May, 1906, Mr. Tinsley assisted in organizing the Citizens' State Bank of Blair, with a capital of $10,000. He was elected president, with John W. Reid vice-president and H. Hancock cashier, and there has since been no change in the management. The books of the bank show $2,000 surplus and undivided profits, $24,000 deposits and $23,000 discounts and loans. A general, conservative and successful business is transacted, for which Mr. Tinsley is largely responsible. He also inaugurated and promoted to a substantial conclusion the town fair for farm products and live stock, which is held in Blair annually during two days in September, and which has already done so much for the prospects and actual development of the place. Mr. Tinsley has been a leader in the work of providing funds for the increased school accommodations of Blair; also generously contributed of his time, ability and means in the erection of the beautiful Missionary Baptist church which has just been completed. Possessed of decided mechanical and architectural talents, he made the original plans and supervised the construction of the building in every detail. The church has a membership of 140, and now has perhaps the finest house of worship in the county. Mr. Tinsley is superintendent of its Sunday school, and active in all departments of church and charitable work. He is a Royal Arch Mason (master of Blair lodge), and also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. There are, in fact, few fields of progress or development in his community in which Mr. Tinsley has not shown a masterly hand, and as he is also pleasant

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and companionable his influence is strong, genial and uplifting.
     The paternal grandparents of Jesse D. Tinsley were John W. and Mahala (Gheeter) Tinsley, natives of the Old Dominion. The grandfather was a planter in his earlier life, and later a millwright. Both were Primitive Baptists, their children becoming Missionary Baptists. Their family consisted of eight children—John W., Jr., Jesse D., Allison, William A., Mary A., Fanny G., Bettie and Lee. William A., the fourth child, who became the father of Jesse D., was born, reared and married in Farmington, Virginia. He was a prosperous planter until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted as a Confederate soldier, and served as adjutant on the staff of the immortal Robert E. Lee. After the war closed he returned to his plantation, and in 1869, having partially recuperated his shattered estate, he sold all his possessions and moved his family and homestead to Dallas county, Texas. Buying land at what is now the town of Garland, he engaged for a number of years in farming, when he platted the town by that name, and engaged in the sale of lots and the general development of the enterprise. He himself erected a store and engaged in the hardware and implement business, but after two years of a growing trade a fire destroyed his building, and thereafter he gave his entire time to the development of his real estate and of the town in general. The result was to make it second in importance to Dallas City, as a commercial and residence center of the county. He gave $10,000 toward the bonus by which the railroad was induced to enter the town, and in every other way evinced his faith in the advancement of Garland. In politics, he was a strong Democrat, but never sought personal advancement in this field. He was a Mason in, good standing, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a stanch supporter of the Missionary Baptist church. Remarkably energetic and practical, he was at the same time high above all resort to trickery or dishonorable methods, being an able, moral! and Christian citizen. He died at Garland on the 10th of February, 1908, at the age of seventy-four years. His wife, who survives at the age of sixty-eight, is a daughter of John N. Whitlock, a native of Virginia, a soldier of the war of 1812, an old-time planter, a worthy Methodist and a highly honored citizen. He died in the Old Dominion, his widow spending her last years in Texas. Their children were Mary, Frank, James, Elizabeth, Ellen and Margaret (mother of Jesse D. Tinsley). The children born to Mr. and Mrs. William A. Tinsley were: John W., a farmer of Kaufman county, Texas; James F., a leading ginner of Dallas county, that state; Jesse D.; Neoma, now Mrs. Jacobs; William, a stockman of Hamilton county, Texas; Marion L., who died at the age of twelve years; Culpreina, Mrs. Lathridge; Ben E., a ginner of Olustee, Oklahoma; Luvenia, Mrs. Nesbitt, and Tipton, who died at the age of nineteen years.
     The wife of Jesse D. Tinsley was known in maidenhood as Nancy A. Williams. She was born in Texas in 1860, a daughter of John H. and Mary A. (Fastor) Williams, both parents being natives of Kentucky. When young the former came with his parents to Texas, developed into a successful stock man, returned to Kentucky and married the choice of his youth, and later continued his prospering operations in the Lone Star state. He joined the service of the Confederacy, and was killed in battle while
a brave soldier of the Army of the Tennessee. The widow kept the household together, reared the children to honorable ways, and in the course of years married for her second husband, F. Coomer, a farmer. By her first marriage she became the mother of Virginia, afterward Mrs. J. A. Ketchum, and Nancy A., wife of Jesse D. Tinsley, the children by her second union being William, Hugh, Anna, John, Charles and Ida. This mother was a worthy Missionary Baptist, and died in Texas in 1902. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse D. Tinsley are as follows: Dora, now Mrs. Lee Moore, whose husband is a ginner; Marcus, who married a Miss Cox, of Granite, Greer county, Oklahoma, and is a druggist of that place; Lula, who married W. Scott, a merchant of Garland, Texas; Willie, who is the wife of Ira Allen, a Jackson county farmer; and Leslie, Heber, Edgar, Dudley and Edna B., all at home. The last named is the cherished "baby" of the family, born on the 6th of August, 1903. All the children have been reared in the faith of the Missionary Baptist church, the older ones being regular members of the denomination.

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[516]  FRANK R. WILDMAN, who built the first house on the site of the flourishing town of Blair, Jackson county, and has been continuously and prominently identified with [517] the development of the place, is a citizen of broad and successful enterprises which have had a strong influence on the progress of southwestern Oklahoma. He is a native of Canada, born on the 18th of October, 1864, and was trained to agricultural pursuits in the Dominion. When nineteen years of age he left the family homestead and made his first agricultural venture in the United States as a Dakota farmer. Later he removed to Winfield, Kansas, and after a time migrated still further to the west, but within the limits of that state. He located a homestead, improved a farm and in 1889 married. A few more years of successful farming followed, when he sold his property and engaged in merchandise at Ashland, Kansas. In 1896 he established a similar business at Purcell, Indian territory, disposing of his store two years later in order to enter the ginning business at Lexington, now in Cleveland county, Oklahoma. At the death of his wife in March, 1899, he closed out all his interests there and located at the old town of Mountain View, where he erected the pioneer cotton gin. After conducting this for a year he became interested in the town site of Gotebo, where he organized the first brick company, in which he still holds his interests. In other ways he assisted in the promotion of the town, and also organized a company to prospect the Wichita mountains for mines. The result was the founding of three developing companies, in all of which he is interested-the name of one being the Wildman Gold Standard Mining Company, and of another, the Corporation Mining Company. In 1900, Mr. Wildman transferred his residence to Granite, Greer county, where he erected another gin, conducted it successfully for one season, and then engaged in real estate dealings and the development of the town. He dealt extensively not only in city property but in farm lands, became a large factor in the cotton trade, and in 1901 followed the survey of the Orient Railroad and located on the broad prairie where now stands the thriving town of Blair. After building the first house on its site, he assisted in the organization of a townsite company, his co-workers being Messrs. Zin and Stanhaukee. These gentlemen bought the lard which was deeded to the railroad company, and that corporation platted the town site, named the place in honor with one of its officials and commenced the sale of lots to settlers. The Mr. Blair who gave his name to the town was at one time a leading cattle rancher of the Cherokee strip. Thus the place really owes its existence to the energy and enterprise of Mr. Wildman.
      The first train over the Orient railroad entered Blair in February 1903, and since that time the town has had a remarkable growth. In the center of a rich cotton and agricultural country, with even better transportation facilities in the future than it now enjoys, its prospects are fine. At present it has an enterprising population of 5,000 people, and gins more than 4,000 bales of cotton every season. The town is incorporated; has two good banks, two hotels, a fine graded school, four churches, two lumber yards, two cotton gins, and a number of flourishing stores.
     Mr. Wildman built the first gin at Blair, equipping, it with modern machinery and making it in every respect an up-to-date plant. He also started gins at Martha, Warren and Lugert and still owns a half interest in all four plants. He has also constructed one hundred and thirty miles of telephone lines in and around Blair, thus bringing it into close touch with a large area of productive country and increasing its importance as a commercial center. In 1906, he assisted in the organization of the Blair State Bank, with a capital of $10,000, of which he was elected vice president. He has since sold his interests both in the telephone and bank properties. He has also dealt largely in town property and farm lands, and. is the owner of a magnificent farm of one hundred and sixty acres adjoining the town site. It occupies an elevated and advantageous site, and is improved by a commodious residence and large and convenient farm buildings. He was the first to introduce alfalfa in this neighborhood, which he finds a great crop for the raising of hogs and other stock. This feature of his agricultural operations he closely supervises himself. Certain portions of the farm he rents for the cultivation of other crops, which are diversified and therefore continuously profitable. In 1908, he platted Wildman's addition to Blair, which is being rapidly sold and developed. To add to Mr. Wildman's long list of good works in the development of Blair and southwestern Oklahoma, it should be noted that he assisted in the organization of the Oklahoma, Texas and Gulf Railroad, about to be constructed from Hope, Arkansas, to Texola,

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Beckham county, Oklahoma, through a promising coal country. Mr. Wildman is the very best type of a western man, for while carefully and successfully guarding and developing his own interests he has taken the initiative in the founding of permanent communities and has himself been a strong element in their growth. He was first married to Miss Mary Campbell, a native of Delphos, Ohio, and a daughter of W. S. Campbell, who removed thither to Kansas, and thence to Washington, where he yet resides engaged in his life-long occupation of farming. The children of the Campbell family were Edward, Mary (Mrs. Wildman), Cory, Robert and Willie. One child was born to the first marriage of Mr. Wildman, Carrie, April 19, 1890. This wife and mother died at Purcell, then Indian territory, on the 14th of March, 1898, a member of the Presbyterian church and a faithful Christian woman. In 1901, Mr. Wildman married Miss Luella Williams, the ceremony occurring at Blair. She is a native of Texas, born in 1880, a daughter of Elisha and Emma (Cook) Williams, the parents being also natives of that state. Mr. Williams is a civil engineer and surveyor of land and honorable standing, has filled the office of county surveyor for several terms, and is now developing his mining interests in the Wichita mountains, Kiowa county. For many years he has been a leader in the work of the Methodist Episcopal church, having during a large portion of the time occupied the local pulpit. The family are all members of that denomination, and he is also a worthy member of the Masonic fraternity. The children born into this household were Alma, now Mrs. Charles White; Luella, Mrs. Frank R. Wildman; Glenn, a farmer; and Oscar, Ethor, Charles and Raymond, all living at home. Mr. Wildman's last marriage has been blessed, by the birth of the following: Mazella, born in 19.04, and Ouida, born in 1906. Mr. Wildman is a Democratic voter, but has never taken the trouble to enter politics, provided he could have snatched the necessary time from his manifold duties and responsibilities. Fraternally, he is a Woodman of the World.
     William Wildman, the father, was a native of England, in which he remained until he twenty-one years of age, when he came to Canada, engaged in farming, married Jane Wells, and established a comfortable homestead upon which he died in 1900. There the widow yet survives. She was born in the Dominion, daughter of William Wells, an Englishman who came to Canada at an -early day, farmed successfully for a number of years, and spent the last years of his life in Michigan, dying when eighty years of age. His children were: William, who died as a Union soldier in the Civil war; Robert, a Canadian farmer; Jane, Mrs. William Wildman; and Agnes, Mrs. Hottby, a resident of Kansas. Fifteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. William Wildman, and, what is very remarkable, ten of this number are still alive. In the order of their birth they follow: Albert, a mechanic of Cleveland, Ohio; Marmaduke, an Oklahoma farmer; Maggie, now Mrs. William Kite, of Canada; Frank R., of this review; Agnes, Mrs. William Pace, living in Missouri; John, a grain dealer of Carnegie, Oklahoma; George, who died young; Mary, now Mrs. R. Carbon; Richard, a farmer of New Mexico; William, who also died young; Edward, who is conducting the old homestead in Canada; Minnie and Edith (twins)-the former of whom became Mrs. Thomas Brady and the latter, Mrs. Yates, of Mountain View, Oklahoma, where both lost their lives by fire; Nellie, Mrs. W. Spencer, and Ethel, who died at the age of sixteen years.

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ALBERT D. SMITH, vice-president of the First National Bank of Olustee, as well as one of the most practical and successful farmers in his section of Oklahoma, is prominently identified with the interests of Jackson county.
     Mr. Smith was born in the beautiful city of Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 8, 1847. He was reared to the pursuits common to a farmer of the northland and educated in the common schools there. He is the son of Truman L. and Lucretia (King) Smith, both of whom were natives of New York state. They were united in marriage in Wisconsin, where he homesteaded land and improved a good farm. Later, he sold and removed to La Crosse county, that state, where he purchased other lands and again made the necessary improvements for carrying on successful agriculture. From there he moved to Minnesota, purchased a farm and remained there a number of years and in 1880, sold and in seeking a southern home, finally located in Tarrant county, Texas, later going to Wilbarger county and from there to Oklahoma, where he died in 1895, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. He

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was an uncompromising Democrat and held many local offices of both honor and trust, while residing in Wisconsin, where he represented his district in the state legislature, also filled many county positions, including member of the board of supervisors. He was an honored member of the Masonic fraternity and stood high in each section of the country is [in] which he cast his lot. His faithful wife survived him and found a comfortable home with her son, the subject of this notice. She died at a ripe old age, seventy-two, in 1903, being a consistent member of the Baptist church for a long term of years. Their children were as follows: Harriet, died young; Albert D., of this notice; Louisa M., Mrs. J. D. Howe; Lewis C., of the state of Washington, a retired farmer; Harriet C, Mrs. T. D. Montgomery; Ella D., Mrs. R. King; Lindsey, died young; Adelia, Mrs. S. D. Colby; George B., died at the age of seventeen; Ida, died young.
     Albert D. Smith, who was a native of Wisconsin, accompanied his parents to Minnesota and continued to reside with his parents until 1869, when he returned to Wisconsin and married and settled on a farm, remained until 1876, when he moved to Texas and located in Tarrant county, bought land which he improved and cultivated successfully until 1886, when he sold and moved to Wilbarger county and there claimed a "school section" which he improved and stocked. In 1887, desiring to reap some of the rewards of the great West, he moved to Montana; going overland with a drove of stock. He settled in Missoula county and engaged in extensive stock farming, which he followed until 1890, then closed out and moved to Puget Sound, Washington. He was employed there by a large lumber company, with whom he remained for six years, after which he united with others, and engaged in logging for the same firm. In the autumn of 1897, he saw visions of higher prosperity in Oklahoma, to which territory he immigrated and located where he still resides, one mile from the business center of Olustee. He has been a successful prospector from the lakes on the north to the Gulf on the south and the Pacific slope as well. After making money in all of these places, he has concluded that to make money easy and enjoy life correctly, one needs to be content with what is afforded by the excellences, of Oklahoma. He purchased an interest in a half section of land under the old Texas laws in 1888. He had made small improvements, including fencing and two hundred acres of breaking. Later, he filed on a quarter section and his mother filed on the other quarter adjoining. There he remained the legal time and proved up on both quarters, the half section now being all well improved and very valuable. He now possesses two hundred and eighty acres under a good state of cultivation, he having the credit of being the best farmer in the county. His farm is divided up and provided with tenant houses and all that tends to make a farm home-like and desirable to occupy. He is public spirited and charitable and is doing his full share towards the upbuilding of this his permanent home. He aided in organizing the First National Bank of Olustee and was elected its vice president, which position he still fills ably and well. With his brains and money, he assisted in the development of the great oil interests of Oklahoma; also aided in the erection of four church buildings; gave of time and means to secure the railroad, besides a score and more public enterprises which he has promoted and fostered. Really, the oft abused term "self-made" man may be used in its true sense in this instance, for he has forged out his large holdings himself, by his hard work and broad-minded business principles.
     In civic society affairs, he is numbered among the worthy members of the Odd Fellow and Knights of Pythias. Of his marriage and children, it should be recorded that Mr. Smith was united in wedlock in Wisconsin, to Miss Lucy Thompson, born in Canada and reared in Wisconsin, a daughter of Ralph Thompson, a farmer, who moved to Wisconsin and followed this occupation successfully. Later he removed to Kansas and died at Topeka. He was a member of the Baptist church and stood high in his community, being a Free Mason in good standing. His children were: Hattie, deceased; Thomas, of Topeka, a deputy U. S. marshal twelve years and city marshal for some time; Lucy, Mrs. Smith; Benjamin, died in young manhood. The mother died at Topeka, Kansas, and was a consistent Baptist in church affiliations.
     Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of children as follows: Hattie B., Mrs. R. C Stevens, of Bellingham, Washington; Etta M., Mrs. W. Baker, of Olustee. In church faith, Mrs. Smith is a member of the Baptist denomination.

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[519]  JOHN W. EDWARDS, president of the First National Bank of Olustee, Oklahoma, and a  [520]    promoter of the town's best interests, is a native of Missouri, born February 24, 1868, and reared on a farm, receiving a good common school education at the district schools of Missouri. He also attended a private Normal school, at Stanbury, in his native state, completing his education in a business sense, at that most thoroughly excellent institution -Bryant's Business College, St. Louis, Missouri. He then taught school seven years in Missouri and Oklahoma.
     Mr. Edwards is the son of John J. and Zerelda (Coxen) Edwards, both born and reared in Boone county, Missouri, where they were united in marriage and settled down to farm life and continued successful agriculturists a number of years there. He was a sympathizer with the southern Confederacy, but took no active part in the Civil conflict from 1861 to 1865. Politically, he was a Democrat, and later in life affiliated with the Greenback party. He remained in Missouri until 1891, then removed to Oklahoma, locating in Greer county, where he and other members of the family located homesteads. He claimed his near Hollis. He brought a good sum of money with him and was preparing to become an extensive farmer, but the great drought set in and continued for about four years and before he secured a good crop his means had been exhausted and hence he was compelled to remain in the dry territory and struggle hard for the support of his family until 1896, when the seasons changed for the better and he was successful at crop producing thereafter. He made what he had lost, and added to his fortune, and is now leading a quiet, retired life, reaping where he had early sown and struggled against the elements.
     Politically, he votes with the Democratic party and has filled numerous offices, including that of county commissioner. Both he and his wife. who has ever been his faithful helpmate, are devoted members of the Christain church. Their children, who do honor to their name are: C. W., in the realty business at Olustee; John W., of this notice; Samuel B., mayor and prominent realty man of Hereford, Texas; Hattie, Mrs. John W. Scott, of Hollis, Oklahoma; Mary F., Mrs. Whisenant, who died, without issue; Nelly, Mrs. Scott; Floyd A., in the real estate business; Rosa and Lena, single.
     John W. Edwards remained at home with his parents until he had obtained a good education, after which he engaged as a teacher in Missouri and went to Oklahoma with his parents. There he resumed teaching. In 1893, with a partner, he embarked in the grocery business, coupling with it feed, in Texas, the firm name being Goodwin & Edwards, who operated only a year. In 1892, he had married at Olustee and after his experience in the grocery trade, he moved to Olustee and settled clown on a farm, which later became the townsite of Olustee. He continued farming there until the spring of 1895, when he moved to Iowa and engaged in farming and also conducted a store, continuing to successfully operate for three years, during which time the Olustee farm came into his wife's possession and in 1899, he returned to that point, which was then only known by the name of the postoffice there. He there resumed farming and stock raising and in 1903, when the Frisco railroad was being built, he helped form a townsite company and platted the town of Olustee, he being made the exclusive agent for the sale of the lots and through his activity, the town has taken on its present goodly proportions. In 1905 the East Side addition was platted and in 1906, the "B" addition was made. The place now has a population of over one thousand; has two banks, a graded school system, churches and the usual amount of stores and shops. The town opening was the commencement of his real estate transactions, which have since been marked by so much success. Since that day he has assisted hundreds of families to find good homes for themselves. He formed the Realty Company of Edwards Brothers & Beach, adopted an immigration system from several of the northern states and had special tourist cars, every thirty days for one hundred homeseekers. In this way the firm was enabled to sell much land. Mr. Edwards continued until other private interests demanded his time, and he then sold out his interest, and is now following private speculation and looking after his general property interests. In August, 1902, he helped organize and charter of the first bank of Olustee, a state banking house, with a ten thousand dollar capital. The president was C. G. James, while Mr. Edwards was made its cashier, with D. T. H. Harden, vice-president. Two years later the bank was re-organized and the capital increased to fifteen thousand dollars, with Mr. Edwards as its president and J. M. Norton, cashier. In July, 1906, the bank was nationalized, with a capital of twenty-five

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thousand dollars, Mr. Edwards being elected president and A. D. Smith, vice-president and J. M. Norton, cashier. Business has prospered under the new bank's management and today its liabilities and resources amount to $104,000. It is accounted as one of the best and firmest financial institutions within the southwestern country.
     Mr. Edwards was married in 1892, to Miss Nettie Bloker, born in Iowa, in 1875. She is the daughter of Benjamin and Olessa (Morris) Bloker, both of New York state and early settlers in Iowa, where the father was a successful farmer. In 1889 he moved to Greer county, then included in the domain of the state of Texas, but now in Jackson county, Oklahoma. He claimed the land where now stands Olustee, as a homestead and remained there until 1893, when he returned to Iowa, soon after which he was taken ill, and died the same year. He had created a good estate and was a soldier in the Union cause during the Civil war days. Politically, he was a Republican and in church relations was of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. His widow lives in Iowa. Their children were: George, an Iowa farmer; Charles, of the same occupation in Iowa; Alice, Mrs. McIntire, of Olustee; June, Mrs. Rugg, of Olustee; Nettie, wife of Mr. Edwards; John, of Canada. Mrs. Edwards possesses rare business ability; is liberally educated and has been a great assistant for her husband in his many business affairs, for a number of years being his assistant cashier in the banking business. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have the following children: Vivian, born 1893; June, born 1895; Gladys, born 1898.

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ISAAC W. SATTERFIELD, vice president of the Farmers' National Bank, of Olustee, and an early settler of Greer county, Texas, has materially assisted in the development of that county and the town of which he is now an honored resident. He was born in Tennessee, December 19, 1854, and reared to farm pursuits. He acquired a good education at the schools of his native county. He is the son of Joseph and Lucinda (Elliott) Satterfield, both born in Tennessee, in which state they were married and settled down to farm pursuits. He became a prominent farmer and slave owner. He was also the manager of a large force of men for an extensive firm, conducting a rolling mill and other factory enterprises. While he took no active part in the Civil war, yet his sympathies were with the southern Confederacy. In church affairs, he was connected with the Christian denomination, and belonged to the Masonic fraternity. He always remained in Tennessee and died in that state. After his death his widow removed to Texas and purchased a farm in Ellis county, where she died in 1898, a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Their children were as follows: R. E.; a farmer of Texas; George W., prominent as a physician, in Ellis county, Texas; Anna, died aged seventeen years, unmarried; Samuel S., a realty dealer; James B., a merchant; Isaac W.; Florence, died unmarried; Blanche, Mrs. Williams; Kate M., Mrs. Dr. Winn. By a previous marriage the father had three children: William, died in the southern army; Charles C., served through the Civil war and became a physician of note; Mary, died unmarried.
     Isaac W. Satterfield moved with the family to Texas, and later engaged in the sheep business and farming and, in 1886, was united in marriage in Hamilton county, Texas. In 1888 he moved to Greer county, Texas (now Jackson county, Oklahoma), locating on a section of land, which he improved and farmed successfully until the supreme court ruling, in 1896, set off Greer county into Oklahoma. Under this ruling, he took a quarter section homestead and bought another tract of the same size. This land is adjoining the town plat of Olustee, which at the date of his going there had not been established. He has sold off a portion of his land, still having a hundred and eighty acres. Much of his land was surveyed into lots and sold off at one hundred dollars an acre, which sum he refuses to take for the balance. Up to 1892 he farmed with much success, but the following three years were dry years and he suffered for lack of rain. He has been a successful swine raiser and makes a specialty of Poland China stock and registered Jersey cattle. In order to aid in securing the railroad, he donated thirty lots. He continued on his farm, of which two hundred acres were under the plow, until 1897, then moved to Olustee, where he still resides. He was one of the organizers of the Town Site Company, but later withdrew and bought and sold lots, improved and unimproved. He was liberal in donating lots for the churches of the following denominations to build edifices upon: Methodist, Christian and Presbyterian. For the last few years he has retired and speculates in differ-

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ent things, privately. He owns a neat, commodious residence of modern style of architecture. He is a keen promoter of every enterprise for the upbuilding of his town and surrounding country. Among other enterprises with which he has connected himself may be named a half interest in the Williams Mercantile Business, with which he was associated for two years, and which he sold in July, 1907. He assisted in the formation of the Farmers' National Bank, held stock, and is its vice president. This financial concern has a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars. They carry on a general banking business and have total resources to the amount of over one hundred and nine thousand dollars, while their liabilities, for the same amount, are made up largely of the capital stock and surplus. This is one of the solid financial concerns in Oklahoma.
Mr. Satterfield has made his own way through life, through his exceptionally good business management. In politics he votes with the Democratic party, and in church relations is connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, he being present steward of his district and was honored by being sent as a delegate to the laymen's conference, at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is a York Rite Arch Mason and has filled all the offices of the blue lodge.
     Mr. Satterfield was married to Miss Mary B. Martin, born at Bryan, Texas, November 5, 1870, a daughter of George W. and Rowena (Reed) Martin. The mother was born in Texas and the father in Tennessee, from which state he enlisted in the ranks of the Confederate army, while yet a young man, serving until the Civil war ended, after which he went to Texas and, in 1869, was married and located at Bryan, where he engaged in the real estate business. After a number of years successfully operating thus, he sold and moved to Hamilton, Texas, and resumed the same line of business, continuing until his death, in 1877. Politically he was a Democrat and served as a justice of the peace at Bryan. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity. His widow later married J. D. Wood, of Georgia, a prominent farmer. She now resides in Texas. She was highly educated and accomplished, being- a descendant of a wealthy southern family of Mississippi, and the great-granddaughter of Hon. T. B. Reed, the Democratic U. S. senator of Mississippi. She belongs to the Pilgrim church. To the Martin marriage union were born: Mary B., wife of the subject; Edgar, died aged eighteen years; Rose B., Mrs. J. M. Julian, who died November 29, 1893, leaving one child; Kenneth, who died aged twenty-seven years, unmarried. By the mother's last marriage were born: Hattie, Mrs. John Fifer, of New Mexico; and Carrie, unmarried.