United States Army World War I
William Alpheous Carlisle and Minnie L. Raines were married in Talbot County, Georgia in the middle 1870´s. Eight children were born to this couple while they lived in Georgia. The fourth child, Ada, died young and was buried in Talbot County. The rest of the family migrated to Navarro County, Texas in 1893.One crop was made near Powell, Texas before the father died, February 11, 1894, leaving the little mother with seven young children, ranging in age from three to sixteen. The task was too big for her, so she reluctantly agreed to place the four younger children in the State Orphans Home at Corsicana, Texas, Navarro County. Willie Steve age 8, Lucy Mae age 7, Ethel age 5, and James Brinkley age 3, were admitted into the home in the fall of 1894.
The home had been in operation only five years, so they were among the first 200 children to receive care and training. Ethel died and was buried in the State Home Cemetery in 1895. Steve grew up fast in three years and ran away from the home to join his family in 1897. He came back in 1898 and helped James Brinkley to run away. Lucy Mae was taken from the home in 1899 by her mother. Five years of help from the State Home were sufficient to mature and stabilize this family for the future.
By 1900, their Uncle Jonas Carlisle, had established his family in Dickens County, Texas. Letters from this area soon aroused the Carlisles of Navarro County to the possibilities of a new life on the Rolling Plains of West Texas. John Walter touched the new land in 1908, married Nellie Lee McClellan of Jack County in 1912, and returned to help in many capacities to build and strengthen Dickens County.
Steve married Mary Jane Massey of Winkler, Texas, Navarro County in 1908, started his family, made eleven crops and decided to head for Dickens County. On Christmas Day, 1919, he unloaded his wife and three children and belongings from a emigrant train at Spur, Texas. This family has added much power, strength and growth to Dickens County in 58 years.
James Brinkley served in the U.S. Army in World War I. On July 22, 1922, he married Allie Lee Massey of Winkler, Navarro County, Texas and they established their home in Dickens County shortly thereafter. Four children have blessed their home. For 55 years, this family has contributed much to the Dickens County pioneer efforts.
Ola Carlisle married Wayne Sullivan, lived and died in Ft. Worth, Texas. Ila Carlisle married Robert Bean, lived and died in Amarillo, Texas. Lucy Mae Carlisle married Isaac Perry Walker of Winkler, Texas. They moved to Dickens County in 1928 and made two crops on the Talent Farm near Gilpin, then moved back to Winkler, Texas where they lived and died. Both are buried in St. Elmore Cemetery near Winkler. They have two children: Clyde Walker family of Winkler, Texas and Louise (Walker) Blair who married Joseph Andrew Blair of Spur, Texas, Dickens County.
Funeral services were held Monday in the Bethel Baptist Church for James Brink Carlisle, 84. Rev. Norris Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiated at the 3 p.m. service.A retired farmer, Mr. Carlisle died in the Veterans Hospital in Big Spring on November 23. He had been a resident of Dickens County since 1908. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wire, Mrs. Allie Mae Carlisle, Spur; three sons, Billy and Kent Carlisle, both of Post; and A.B. Carlisle, Spur; a brother, Steve Carlisle, Spur; and seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Pallbearers included Marvin Hagins, Mac Driggers, Don Tatum, Billy Bigham, Calvin Simmons, and Donald Windham.
Burial was in Spur.
©The Texas Spur, November 27, 1975
From the records of Lillian Grace Nay, transcribed By B. Hodges, August 2004
SPUR (Special) Services for Allie Mae Carlisle, 78, of Spur will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Bethel Baptist Church of Spur.Burial will be in Spur Cemetery under direction of Campbell´s Funeral Home.
Mrs. Carlisle died at 3 p.m. Friday in the Huntley Nursing Home of Post. The death was ruled due to natural causes.
She was born in Winkler. She married James B. Carlisle in 1922 in Fairfield. He died in 1975.
Survivors include three sons, A.B. of Jayton, and Billy and Kent, both of Post; a sister, Pearl Beachum of Corsicana; six grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, January 23, 1981
From the records of Thelma Kimmel Scott
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