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I found the following information below on the site New Mexico Farm and Ranch
The writing on the back is difficult to read. Even the address is not clear as it looks like “Deter,” New Mexico with a period after the “Deter,” suggesting it’s an abbreviation for a longer word. I do like how the date is written: “10-8-8,” indicating October 8, 1908.
Here’s my attempt to decipher the writing. Where I can’t make out a word, I leave a blank. I welcome comments from anyone who can assist. The writing at the very top left is partly cut off in the scan. It looks like the second line says “after 5 day if not cancelled for.”
Dear cousin Sue,
This is the house(we)(live)(here) as I think of leaving it soon. I will slip one of the pictures from Sallie as she has gone to Carizozo (sic) and I am alone today. (I)(Wish) I had this house (Red Cloud). I could not have this (nice)(Climate) there either do you not — like me — think this a nice pretty place. ____ is gone to _____ with her Pa. With best wishes to one and all I am as ever your cousin, L J Clements.
Carrizozo is correctly spelled with two “r’s” and is the nearest town of any consequence to White Oaks. It is about 12 miles to the southwest.
Sally was 20 years old when writing the postcard and about 1 year later married Author Roy Treat owner of a butcher shop in WHite Oaks NM
His great-grandfather, Joe Clements Sr., moved to New Mexico from Gonzales, Texas, around 1903 and established a farm near the thriving community of Hope. Joe’s children went looking for ranching country and put together a 150- section sheep ranch in the mountain country west of Roswell, east of the Mescalero Apache Reservation. After the death of his great-grandfather in the mid-1920s the ranch was divided three ways amongst his wife and two sons. (He states that on one of these ranches net wire fence was built-one of the first in the nation.) He remarks that Carl Adamson, second husband of his great-grandmother, was riding in the buckboard with Pat Garrett when Garrett was murdered near Organ. Treat has heard rumors through his family to the effect that Adamson may have colluded in Garrett’s murder.
In the next generation his grandmother Sally Clements, born July 19, 1888, married Arthur Roy Treat on December 25, 1909. The Treat family owned a butcher shop in White Oaks. He states that he has heard through the family, “their cattle supply for butchering were stolen cattle.” Roy and Sally had four children; his father Bill was the oldest, born October 28, 1910. (His father, soon to be ninety years old, lives at a Roswell nursing home.) Two more sons were born in 1912 and 1914 and a daughter in 1921. The sons were all ranchers in the Roswell area. A.C. Hendricks of the Flying H Ranch gave Treat’s uncle, Lloyd, three sections of land after Lloyd had worked for the Flying H Ranch for many years and this allowed Lloyd to get into the ranching business.
Treat stated that the family had owned a home in Roswell for years so that the children could attend school. His father attended Business College in Wichita, Kansas. Following graduation circa 1930, he went to work for Standard Oil Company in Albuquerque and there met his wife-to- be. In 1938 the consultant was born. The family moved back to the ranch in mid-1939 and ranched with Treat’s grandfather for a period of time before buying a ranch.
Sarah Jane “Sallie” Tennille Clements
Birth 27 Apr 1856
DeWitt County, Texas, USA
Death 18 May 1934 (aged 78)
Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, USA
Burial South Park Cemetery
Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, USA
HER Sister BELOW married a Caffall
(Nancy Parille Tennille Caffall )********************************** this One****************
1868–1903
Nancy Parille Tennille Caffall
Birth
15 Oct 1868
Death
26 Feb 1903 (aged 34)
Burial
Tarpley Cemetery
Tarpley, Bandera County, Texas, USA
“Sally Clements, born July 19, 1888, married Arthur Roy Treat on December 25, 1909. The Treat family owned a butcher shop in White Oaks. He states that he has heard through the family, “their cattle supply for butchering were stolen cattle.” Roy and Sally had four children; his father Bill was the oldest, born October 28, 1910. (His father, soon to be ninety years old, lives at a Roswell nursing home.) Two more sons were born in 1912 and 1914 and a daughter in 1921. The sons were all ranchers in the Roswell area. A.C. Hendricks of the Flying H Ranch gave Treat’s uncle, Lloyd, three sections of land after Lloyd had worked for the Flying H Ranch for many years and this allowed Lloyd to get into the ranching business.
Treat stated that the family had owned a home in Roswell for years so that the children could attend school. His father attended Business College in Wichita, Kansas. Following graduation circa 1930, he went to work for Standard Oil Company in Albuquerque and there met his wife-to- be. In 1938 the consultant was born. The family moved back to the ranch in mid-1939 and ranched with Treat’s grandfather for a period of time before buying a ranch. “