Llano County, TX - Bios:  Draper Family

Saturday, August 14, 1999



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Draper family 



Temple Daily Telegram 4 February 1937



99 Year Old Llano County Woman Helped Make History



Mrs. Clarintha Draper, believed to be the oldest person and longest resident of this section, 

passed her 99th birthday at the home of her son, M. L. Draper Sr., at Pontotoc, near here. 

She has been closely associated with the history of this section for more then sixty-six years.

Mrs. Draper was born 6 January 1836 near Nashville, Tennessee, coming to Texas with her family 

when three. The family first settled in what was later Fannin county.



She worked with her husband, George Washington Draper, several years at cattle raising. 

Draper enlisted in the Confederate army, was captured by union forces and held prisoner until 

the close of the war. Meanwhile his wife became stranded in Arkansas, and after union solders 

burned her possessions, she set out on horseback for Texas, carrying her 4 year old son behind 

her and a two year old daughter in front.



She endured great hardships before reaching Texas where her husband, whom she believed dead, 

joined her about a year later. The couple settled in old Fort Burnet 1867, subsequently moving 

to Pontotoc section of Llano county. Draper died in 1884.



In addition to household tasks essential to rearing ten children, Mrs. Draper after her 

husband's death helped herd cattle, riding the open range alongside the men. She is in good 

health and was active until recently.

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