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Alexander Steven Eubanks

Photo: Alexander Stephen Eubanks with wife, Josie, and children, Jimmy, Issac, Ollie. 


SECOND GENERATION

Alexander Steven Eubanks was born 28 February 1866 to James and Ann 
(Rowe-Pitts)Eubanks in Greene County, Arkansas. 

Alexander lived with his parents in Greene County until the death 
of his 
mother shortly after his birth.

1870 AR, Greene Co., living with father and step-mother, listed as Alexander, age 5, male, born AR.

He moved with his father to Randolph County, Arkansas, where his father 
married Cynthia A. Compton maiden name unknown) in 1869. 

1870 AR, Randolph Co., Dwelling 167, Family 172
Eubanks, James  70     M     Farmer 500/300     SC
     Synthia A  47     F     Keeping House      NC
Compton, S.A.   17     F                        AR
     Amelia J   15     F                        AR
     John       13     M                        AR
     James      10     M                        AR
     Lewis       8     M                        AR
Eubanks, Alex    5     M                        AR

Alexander married Josephine "Josie" Hicks. She was born 15 May 1867, 
the daughter of Jackson Marrion Hicks Sr. and Elizabeth Caroline 
Hopper. (Elizabeth later married Alexander Stephen's half-brother, 
John Buck Eubanks.) They moved to Bronte, Coke County, Texas. They had 
three children, James, Ollie, and Isaac Newton Eubanks. 

Alexander died 9 February 1930 and is buried in the town cemetery in 
Bronte. Josie died 13 August 1954.

Alexander and Josie's son, W.O. Eubanks, remembered his family in 
a letter he wrote in 1838 to Annie McAuley, of Maverick, Texas. 
W. O. Eubanks was born in Comanche County in 1887.  His father, Alex 
Eubanks moved with his family to Coke County in 1889,  and settled on a 
ranch near Robert Lee. 

"I was so young when I started riding  that I can't remember just 
how old I was.  My father always  had plenty of saddle horses on his 
ranch and of course it  was natural that I learn to ride purty young. 

"We done most of our work, rounding up, when I was a kid on the O'Daniel 
ranch. All the neighboring ranches would throw in together and have 
one big round-up. They'd always round  up in the fall and spring. 

"I can remember the first big round-up I helped with on the O'Daniel's 
ranch.  I was ten or twelve years old. All the  ranchers got 
together and made J. R. Smith the wagon boss. There was about 4,000 
head to be rounded up.  They brought them together on the old round-up 
ground west of the river. I helped to hold the herd while the older 
ones rounded up and did the cutting, branding, and all the harder work.  
They'd usually  pick the very best riders to hold the cuts, as they were 
pretty  hard to hold away from the main herd. 
 
"I was helpin' to drive three hundred steers to a northern  market 
once. We was camped near Blackwell when they went loco and stampeded on 
us. We had penned the stuff in a small enclosure on a ranch. Around ten 
o'clock one of the boys unsaddled his pony out near the cattle pen, 
and not thinking, threw his chaps on something. In doing that, he 
made a sudden  noise which frightened some of the steers. The whole 
herd  started running and in just a moment they broke through the fence 
like it wasn't there, and they were gone. They ran several miles before 
we could ride in front of them and get them started to milling. 

"There was a good many horse ranchers in this country when I was young. 
My father raised horses for saddle use. He used to take them East and 
trade 'em for cattle.  Brother and I did nearly all the breakin' of 
the horses. We'd ride 'em when they were two year olds and then sell or 
trade them. 

"[??] and I took a small bunch of cattle to Sweetwater for Lee Richards 
when I was about fifteen years old.  Mr. Richards had told us to try to 
get 'em up there at a certain time. But they got tired and finally got so 
slow we couldn't get 'em to move. 

"We found an old worn wash tub by the side of the road. I  picked it 
up, rode at the herd and banged it as hard as I could.  Well, the old 
pokeys left out.  They ran and ran and got so scattered that it 
took us about three hours to get 'em together again. 

"Dessa Calloway was the best lady rider I ever knew.  She could ride 
horses and work cattle like a man.  She could ride broncs or anything.  
She learned to ride on her father's ranch. 

"Henry Alsup was the best all 'round rider and bronc buster I ever knew.  
He could ride 'em forwards, backwards, upside down or any old way. He was 
one good horseman. I've seen him ride lots of broncs. He broke some horses 
for my father and showed me the works some, too. 

"How quickly times change things. When I was a small boy I could walk out 
in the pasture anywhere and pick up sets of buffalo horns.  Carcasses 
covered the hillsides everywhere. There were deer, wild turkeys, and 
panthers in the rougher section of the county." 
REFERENCE:-  W. O. Eubanks, Bronte, Texas. Interviewed September 13, 1938.

Photo: Charles Posey Eubanks and Alexander Steven Eubanks

Children of Alexander Steven Eubanks

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