OBITUARIES: Pioneer Obituary, Lydia Jane Burnett, Fremont County, Iowa Copyright c) May 2001 by Terry Girardot. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legalrepresentative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ********************************************************************* FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR PIONEER GLAZIER WOMAN Lydia Jane Burnett Born 11 Aug 1850 - Parrotsville, , Tennessee Died 07 Sept 1946 - Glazier, , Texas Funeral services for Mrs. Jane Eubank, 96, were held Tuesday at the First Christian Church in Canadian with the Rev. Troy A. Plank, pastor, officiating. Mrs. Eubank died Saturday at her home in Glazier.Lydia Jane Burnett, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B. S. Burnett, was born August 11, 1850 at Parrottsville, Tennessee, just across the river from Asheville, North Carolina. Her great-great grandfather, who settled on the banks of the Tennessee, was given a land grant by the King of England which included five miles of land on each side of the river. Later, this was divided and given to the children. Each son received a mile of land and a negro woman. When Jane was eighteen she and her parents moved to Iowa. There she married the village postmaster [of Hamburg], Mr. [George Washington] Farmer. Following his death, which left her with two little girls, now Mrs. Eva Black of Higgins and Mrs. F. A. Glenn of Tyler, she moved with her parents to south Texas. It was there she met and married Henry Eubank, who was sheriff of McCulloch County, Texas, for three terms. They came to the Panhandle in 1881, being induced to do so by the ardent persuasion of Mr. Eubank’s brother, Dee and his partner, Tom Connell, then cattlemen in No Man’s Land where grass was free and plentiful. Then the only means of travel in this section was by foot or horse. They came in two covered wagons drawn by four horses. Mrs. Black remembers that one of the horses was balky and each night in camp it became necessary to devise some plan to get the balky horse started. Once, Mr. Eubank even built a fire under him. Tom Eubank was then two years old and Will was a baby of three months. They pre-empted land along Wolf Creek, living in a shanty and dug-out. The lumber for their first house was freighted from Dodge City, Kansas, over two hundred miles away. Mrs. Eubank, a lover of flowers and fruit, at once ordered trees from a northern nursery. Despite the derision, she had an acre plowed, and she, herself, set out the nursery stock. It is said that every tree grew and in a few years her family and others were enjoying tree-ripened fruit. Only recently did the last apple tree of the orchard succumb. The little family grew. H. C., better known as Hank, was born in Mobeetie, where the family resided for a short time. Mrs. Freeman, Loda, was born in Canadian, where Mrs. Eubank conducted a hotel. Dee and Louise were born on the ranch at Wolf Creek. There was another child, a daughter, who died in infancy. The popularity and esteem in which the family was held may be gauged by the fact that Mr. Eubank became county judge of Ochiltree County. Later, when Glazier gave promise of becoming a city, the family built a residence there. Judge Eubank died in 1917 and is buried in the cemetery at Old Ochiltree. A year later, to a day, their son, Will, died in Miles City, Montana. About ten years ago, Mrs. Eubank suffered a stroke which left her a wheelchair patient. Her son, Tom, with assistance from other relatives, took care of his mother and while it kept him at home, he was accustomed to that for previous to his mother’s becoming inactive, he was her assistant in conducting the Glazier Hotel. Before that, they owned and operated the Cottage Hotel. This was a two-story, picturesque building, used as home, hotel and eating house. Perhaps no building has more comfortably housed more pioneers, especially freighters, cowboys, and cattlemen. When Mrs. Eubank needed greater care, her older daughter, Mrs. Freeman, took her to Canadian and gave her every care possible, keeping a practical nurse with her all the time. When the Freeman family moved to the country, the younger daughter, Louise, herself a registered nurse, moved the mother to Wichita, Kansas. Mrs. Eubank remained there for six months, but longed to be back in her old home, so Louise gave up her position and they returned to Glazier. It was then that Mr. and Mrs. Carl Freeman declared that if Babe, the affectionate name attached to the younger daughter, were willing to give her time to the mother’s care, they should at least have a modern house in which to live. So the Freemans, giving the nurse the privilege of planning the house, built for Louise and Mrs. Eubank the beautiful cottage in which Mrs. Eubank spent her last years. The building was erected on the old home site, where the Cottage Hotel had for so many years been their home. A lawn was planted and flowers which Mrs. Eubank loved so well, soon surrounded the cottage, while a few of the old trees still gave shade. It was in this shade that a barbecue dinner was served on Mrs. Eubank’s ninety-sixth birthday, August 11, this year. Survivors include her children: Mrs. F. A. Glenn of Tyler, Mrs. Eva Black of Higgins, H. C. (Hank) Eubank of Canjilo, New Mexico; Mrs. C. C. Freeman of Canadian, Tom, Dee and Louise Eubank of Glazier: her grandchildren, Mrs. Nina House of Higgins, Mrs. Bruce Graham of Higgins, Bus Freeman of Canadian, Duncan Glenn of Florida, and Mrs. L. A. Esson of Brooks, Oregon; great-grandchildren, Lieutenant Commander William Hiram House of the United States Navy, Captain Robert House of the United States Army, Carl Hodges Freeman, Jerry Ann Graham and Charlene Freeman.