A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Julia Rosa Hibbs
According to "Faus Genealogical Data" her parents were Samuel Robert Hibbs and Laura [sic] Bell Luke.
From https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~piercescga/genealogy/pdffiles/rubefaus.PDF:
I, Julia Hibbs (Faus) McManus was born September 20, 1911 in Beaver County Oklahoma. My parents were Robert and Lura Luke Hibbs. My father Rob Hibbs was born in Kansas and came to Beaver County with his parents in 1883. His father was an ox-team freighter for the Army from Dodge City to Tascosa, Texas and Miami, Texas. Beaver Okla. was half-way. Papa first saw the Mulock State Station, northwest of Hansford where the road crossed the Palo Duro Creek, about 1886, on a freighting trip with his father. He went to work as a chore boy on a ranch in Hansford County in 1890, they bought their supplies at Farwell east of where Gruver is now. Papa filed on land in Beaver County, Oklahoma in the early 1900's. He came back to Hansford (County) with Irv Steele and helped the Steeles locate there. Lura Luke came to Hansford County in 1906 with her parents Eathen Allen Luke and Luke [sic]. E.A. Luke was a civil engineer, he got a contract to build a bridge[,] the first in Hansford County, on the Palo Duro Creek at Old Hansford. He later joined with Tom and Charley Crowley to form the Alamo Irrigation Ditch Company and built two dams on the Palo Duro Creek; one at Mulock and one on the Crowly [sic] Ranch (the Huff Wright Place). He also built a bridge on the J.I. Steele Ranch and many fireplaces and brick chimneys[.] Lura Luke went to Beaver, Oklahoma to visit her brother and met and married Robert Hibbs in 1908. Rob Hibbs got a letter from J.I. Steele telling him of the Mulock place and some surrounding land that was for sale. He came to Hansford County and bought the Mulock place and four sections in Hansford and four sections of a-joining land in Ochiltree County. Our neighbors were: Simmons, O'Loughlins, Andrews, Steeles, and the Powers to the south. Bertrands, McMurry, Newcomb, Crowleys,James, Burks, and Lukes to the north and west. My sister Ruth (Reardon) and brother Lawrence Hibbs were born at the old Mulock Place. We attended school at New Hope which was held in the church (Huff's Chapel) as the old sod at New Hope School-house was unsafe by that time. They later built a new schoolhouse on the site of the old sod Newcomb Place. I married Ruben Paul Faus in February 1930 and moved to Spearman where we raised our family except for the war years in Amarillo. They are: Rosa Amelia (Steele) 12/21/30; Harry Elmer, 9/14/32; Jaunita Lois (Pierce), 12/15/33; Bertha Ileen (Willison) 11/5/35; Ruby Joyce (Saltnes) 5/5/ 37; Phyllis Inez (Mann) 7/5/44. Homer McManus was born in Brownwood, Texas, grew up in Slaton, his father was an Engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad. Homer went to work for the railroad when he finished high school in 1926, he transferred to Amarillo in 1929 but left during the depression for lack of seniority. He came to work in the oilfield in 1956. Homer and I married in Perryton in 1960 and lived in South Texas some years. And have lived in Amarillo since 1977.
By Julia Hibbs McManus from: Hansford County History Vol 1 1980 page 211
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