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Wednesday, June 9, 2004
I've Been Thinking, Historical Account of the Montgomery Area
by Narcissa Martin Boulware
Historic Lands of Montgomery
The large tract of land owned by W.B. Woos, Sr. located in the Lake Creek settlement by which Montgomery was first identified is now owned by W.B. Wood, Jr.
Wood enlisted the help of the Texas Parks and Wildlife and is creating a beautiful wonderland that will be a rarity in the coming years. Inspired by Mr. Wood's plan to take his land back to it's natural beauty and purpose. I wanted to follow his footsteps badly and so I appealed to the Parks and Wildlife officer Mr. Greg Creasy, a wildlife biologist stationed in Huntsville, Texas. He responded quickly and did the same for my son's Landrum tract. He spent days walking over my 71 acre tract. I was so very happy to find somebody that recognized the wonders enclosed within my beloved land that I promptly began to see how the plan recommended by this very nice young man could create something that has never been seen before in our Montgomery area. When I applied to Mr. Creasy to ask for his help, I gave him a copy of something I had written when I was about seventy years old and was so full of happiness there on the land, I just had to write it all down. I thought I needed to use all my persuasive tactics to get him to make a plan for me. I was very wrong there, because he loves to reclaim and save land and wildlife.
The following account of the other than human life on this plat of land is till true today sixteen years later. On January 3rd, 2004 I sat at my window there were eight bluebirds piling into their birdbath, four mamas and papas and eight teenagers. The temperature was in the 60's and I know the water is still cold, but they splash and flip the water until they are thoroughly wet. There has been no sun for several weeks, but the bluebirds check their nest boxes and I believe I can see buds on the trees that the oldtimers called the piss~elem. The trees and the willows are the first to bloom out in the spring. I am including my feelings about this special plot of land that is home to such a great variety and form of life.
"Life Forms in One Spot"
Narcissa Willis Martin Boulware
When Zachariah Landrum and wife Letitia came from Alabama to claim 4400 acres given by the Mexican government he brought, according to family stories, 100 wagons, and 100 slaves, driving a herd of full blood Durham cattle ahead of him. According to the talk passed down, he stayed around the town of Nacogdoches almost a year because of tales of Indian activities, hostile around the area he had in mind. This land he was to own was in Montgomery County about eight or ten miles west of the San Jacinto River and seven or eight miles east of Big Lake Creek, file miles east of Shannon's Prairie. I am coming to the close of my life on 71 acres of that grant land, which has passed down through the succeeding generations to me.
First there was Zachariah, the Katherine, the Narcissa, the R.S., the S.A. and then Olive, now me. Zachariah and Letitia lay buried on part of their grant just south of my small portion. Nobody looks at this small piece of land like I do; though sometimes it's called "pretty" or "nice place" or "peaceful or "quite.”
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