Jones Co., TX - Biography - A.D. Woodson *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** The Jones County Observer Friday, October 20, 1939 A.D. Woodson, who landed in Jones county, at Anson, on September 28th, 1887, was in town Monday and subscribed for the Observer. Mr. Woodson stated that he came by train to Abilene, where his uncle, J.M. Woodson, met the family and conveyed them by covered wagon to the present Woodson home on California creek near Avoca. Mr. Woodson was a lad of 16 years at the time. His father was G.E. Woodson who lived in Jones county for 17 years returning to Lee Summit, MO, after the death of his wife, Mrs. Barthine Woodson, who is buried at Old Spring Creek cemetery, When G.E. Woodson died at Lee Summit, MO in July of 1928, A.D. Woodson went up to Lee Summitt and brought the body back and burial was made in Old Spring Creek cemetery beside his wife. A.D. Woodson paid his first poll tax in 1892 at Anson. He has never missed paying his poll tax and all of them have been paid at Anson. When he read the account of the death of William McDonald Bowyer in the Observer he recalled the facts about the location of the post office at the time Mr. Bowyer was postmaster. According to Mr. Woodson, the Anson post office was then located where Mell BarkleyÕs John Deere Implement house is now. It was about a 14 x 28 foot boxed building with 6x6 timbers placed at each corner to keep the building from blowing over. Mr. Woodson and Dick Stovall ran the two 50 saw stands and the crude press of the only gin then located in Jones county. Mr. Woodson related that the lint cotton had to be picked up from the floor by hand and placed in the press and tromped before the press would handle it. Ten bales a day was a big run then, according to Mr. Woodson. There was not an open public road in the county at the time. Mr. Woodson stated that people were more sociable and neighborly then and life was more enjoyable.