{"id":1636,"date":"2020-03-30T05:26:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2023-05-26T16:47:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:47:30","slug":"letter-from-henry-ator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/letter-from-henry-ator\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER FROM HENRY ATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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POCAHONTAS NEWSPAPER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RANDOLPH COUNTY, ARKANSAS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page 1 – Published May 11, 1906<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Contributed by\u00a0Virginia Hale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Research at the Arkansas State Archives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IS STILL A SOCIALIST.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

INTERESTING LETTER FROM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FORMER RANDOLPH CO. MAN, NOW IN TEXAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We get your weekly paper and read it\u2026I am 52 years old and have 3 grandchildren.\u00a0\u00a0All my family are well and at home, except the 3 oldest boys, 1 of them is in the mercantile business, 1 at Tarlton college where he will graduate in June, and 1 is at Weatherford, Texas, studying law.\u00a0\u00a0This part of Texas is very much like Randolph co., for there is not less than 1,000 people who are descendants from Randolph co. or from cos. adjoining Randolph.\u00a0\u00a0Ex-Governor Drew\u00a0of Randolph co. died at Lipan, Texas, and is buried here; but there is no tombstone to mark his resting place\u2026Still I think it is the duty of the State of Arkansas to put up a monument at the grave of Ex-Governor Drew.\u00a0\u00a0And Randolph co. being his home, it is the duty of your representative to see that your legislator appropriates at least $1,000 and send it here to pay for the monument\u2026Newt Gresham, who was once a partner of mine in the newspaper business at Lipan and Granbury Texas was the founder of the Farmers\u2019 Union, and as you will see from this slip in print he is now dead.\u00a0\u00a0I am still a Populist, or rather a Socialist now.\u00a0\u00a0I will mention some of the names of Randolph co. people living here: Lon Woodburn, Jarret Cook, Bill Wilson, Luther Hurn, Wright Hale, John Beaver, Joe Vandergriff, Arch McElvoy [should be McElroy] and 1,000 other men, women and children\u2026Dittie Ann Mock, my same wife\u2026I think I will visit Randolph co. July 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry Ator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lipan, Texas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 28, 1906<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry Ator was born August 29, 1854 and passed away January 26, 1913.Perdittie Ann Mock Ator was born April 3, 1857 and passed away June 8, 1941.  They were buried next to each other in Evergreen Cemetery near Lipan in Hood County, Texas.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

to POCAHONTAS NEWSPAPER RANDOLPH COUNTY, ARKANSAS Page 1 – Published May 11, 1906 Contributed by\u00a0Virginia Hale From Research at the Arkansas State Archives IS STILL A SOCIALIST. INTERESTING LETTER FROM FORMER RANDOLPH CO. MAN, NOW IN TEXAS. We get your … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4771,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}