| i. | JOHN ALVIE2 PAUTSKY , SR., b. June 24, 1880; d. February 07, 1954, Valley View, Texas; m. (1) GRACIE COBB, August 02, 1900; m. (2) SALLIE BELL COBB, February 17, 1910, Ravia, Johnston Co., Oklahoma. |
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Notes for JOHN ALVIE PAUTSKY , SR.: Helen Pautsky Brown, daughter: "Worked on the King ranch when he was a teen. He helped drive cattle north to be shipped to Kansas City and St. Louis. He even took a couple of trips up the Chisholm Trail with a herd. He told some funny stories about the ranch owner's relatives who came from St. Louis to visit at times. They asked questions like "How can you tell when the cabbages get ripe: and "Do the redbugs (chiggers) just fly through the air to find us". He got a big kick out of playing harmless practical jokes on them. Many of these stories were about the trail, the chuck wagon fare and the trail boss and cook. I suppose those were his most footloose days, and he loved the freedom of the range. On one of the rides north, he quit the trail and went to work as a farm hand for Grandma Cobb when he was 18. He married Gracie Cobb and they had 3 children, Allen being the only one that survived. Gracie died when Allen was about 5. (Two other children preceded her in death). He continued to farm Grandma Cobb's place and the one he and Gracie had lived on, then he moved in with Grandma and her family so Allen could be cared for. Later, he married Gracie's sister, Sallie. He was 28 and she was 17. Together, they had eleven children. He worked for the MKT railroad from 1915 until 1921, transferred from Denison, Texas to Wichita Falls in 1917 and became the wrecker foreman. (Weldon told me Grandpa Pautsky was a wrecker foreman for Katy RR at Dennison, then a shop foreman at Wichita Falls.) During World War I the railroads were the lifeblood of the nation. There was no time to repair engines or tracks. Trains frequently developed "hot boxes" and lost a wheel, or the tracks were rough and the trains would jump the tracks. Dad's crew had to pick up all the wrecks in North Texas, Eastern Oklahoma and S. E. Kansas. He was sometimes away from home for as long as six weeks before the tracks could all clear and he could get back home. Dad went "out on strike" in the big railroaders strike of 1921. It was terrible. I remember seeing the men carrying lead pipes for weapons. The strikers fought the "scabs", as they called the strike breakers. Dad wouldn't picket or participate in the violence and he kept us away from it. But I can still see the kids fighting: strikers kids against "scab" kids. I still remember one striker's son rubbing the face of a smaller boy on the gravel road until the whole side of his face was bleeding. Dad never went back to the railroad after the strike, but worked for a tank car company that repaired railroad cars for a few years". Obit Info. - Pautsky, a native of Forney, Texas, came to Wichita Falls in 1917 and was employed by the MKT Railroad until 1921. In 1934 he came to Kamay, later moving to Benton County, Arkansas, but returning in 1950. Lists one surviving sister, Mrs. Lou Moss of Redlands, California. Notes for SALLIE BELL COBB: In note from M. B., Grandma Cobb's Bible says they were married at the home of the bride near Ravia, OK. by Rev. Holland. Information on dates of birth and dates of death of John and Sally's children were sent to me by M. B. from copy of info from Grandma Cobb's Bible . M.B.: Belonged to First Baptist Church, Iowa Park, TX. Indian census gives her date of birth as January, 1892, age 7, place of birth Texas. |
| ii. | DIXON JOHNSIE PAUTSKY, b. Unknown; d. Abt. 1960, Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas; m. TILDY. |
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Notes for DIXON JOHNSIE PAUTSKY: Weldon, June 1999: Dixon Allen? Pautsky. Younger than John, Sr. Wife's name was Tildy (Matilda?). They never had children that he is aware of. He died at a nursing home in W. F. abt. 1960. May be buried at Dennison, TX. |
| iii. | LOU PAUTSKY, b. Unknown; d. Aft. 1954; m. GEORGE MOSS, Unknown. |
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Notes for LOU PAUTSKY: Grandpa Pautsky's obit. (Feb. 1954) says she lived at Redlands, CA. |
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