An Old Photograph

 

This is the oldest photograph of the Tiner Hendrick House that I have been able to find. I am guessing that the photo was taken around 1900. Here is a list of the children of Jesse Lane and Connally Findlay Tiner. I think the baby in the wagon must be Mayme Althea Tiner, who was born just the year before. Connie is barely in the photo on the left. You can just see Jesse's head further to the left. Some of the children must have been standing in the torn off section. Is the little boy standing next to the baby in the wagon, George? 

Connally Lane Tiner (1880-1949) “Lane” 

Jesse Elnora Tiner (1882-1957) “Nora” 

Bertha Clethia Tiner (1884-1887) Her death is recorded in the 1887 Journal, p.152, May 3, 1887. The Journal indicated that she was buried in Sutherland Springs Cemetery, but there doesn’t seem to be a marker. 

Susan Frances Tiner (1885-1967) “Frances” 

Walter Vinton Tiner (1886-1948) “Vinton” 

Pauline King Tiner (1889-1985) 

Alanson Brown Tiner (1890-1951) “Lanson” 

Mary Adele Tiner (1893-1978) “Adele” 

Joie Kenner Tiner (1895-1990) She is sick in the 1899 journal. 

George Tiner (1898-deceased) The 1899 Journal tells about his poor health, but I don't know when he passed. 

Mayme Althea Tiner (1899-1989) The 1899 Journal tells about her birth on 31 August 1899. An African-American friend of the family, Aunt Patsy Turbin, has come to stay at the house and take care of Connie and the baby.

Wayne Darwin Tiner (1902-1951) 

Are you related to any of these folks? Can you add to their stories? I think Jesse must have kept other journals. The Sutherland Springs Historical Museum has a few photocopied pages from a Journal for 1882, a copy of the transcription of journals from 1886-1889, 1905-1906, and 1918. I am currently transcribing the journal from 1898-1900. It is 300 pages long. I am about half-way through. It's full of amazing details about the family living and working in Wilson County. Those young boys, Lane, Vinton, and Alanson are working at the grist mill, running the cotton gin, cutting cord wood, working on the family farm, an making trip alone to LaVernia for supplies. We want to be able to tell their stories more fully. If you do have journals, I would love to transcribe them for you. 

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Ther Hendrick and Hodges Families

Gertrude and John Hendrick ca. 1881

Mae Elizabeth ca. 1881

Angela Hendrick ca. 1881

 

Veronica Hendrick ca. 1881

 

John Kane Hendrick had emigrated to the United States in 1860 and joined the Union Army. He worked in espionage. After the Civil War, he was granted leave to return to Ireland and marry Gertrude Kickham, who was the niece of Charles Kickham, a famous Irish novelist and poet and a member of the Fenians. He is said to have based one of his poems and a character in his novel on Gertrude. 

 

John Hendrick and Gertrude Kickham were married in 1876 and returned to the United States to live in Stockdale, Texas, with John still working for the U.S. Army. He was murdered in 1883 by a man posing to be a Catholic priest. 

 

Gertrude went back to Ireland in 1888 with her three young daughters for a few years after John’s death, but returned to Stockdale in 1901 and purchased the Tiner house.

 

Their oldest daughter Mary Elizabeth married Jessie Gordon Hodges in 1903. The couple moved to Waco, Texas for a short time. Gertrude died in 1904. After the birth of their second son, Joseph Gordon, in 1910, Mary Elizabeth and Jessie moved back to Sutherland Springs to live with the unmarried sisters, Angela and Veronica. Mary and Jessie Gordon Hodges had three children. Their daughter, Gertrude, had died in her crib from a rattlesnake bite in 1908. She was only a year old. Their youngest son died in 1927 at the age of 17 from kidney failure. Their only surviving child, John Hodges, grew up in Sutherland Springs and married Edoleen Riddle in 1938. The couple moved to Fort Worth and worked for General Dynamics building planes. 

 

Mary Elizabeth died in 1944. Jessie Gordon died in 1948.  Angela died in 1951, and Veronica in 1967. John Hodges retired in 1971 and he and Edoleen moved back to the house in Sutherland Springs. He became ill in 1985 and they moved to Kerrville for treatment. He died in 1986. Edoleen died in 1994.

 

The Hendricks and the Hodges owned the Tiner Hendrick house in Sutherland Springs for 93 years. 

 

I am looking forward to transcribing two diaries written by Gertrude Hendrick, one from 1882 while the family was living in Stockdale, and one from 1895 while Gertrude and he girls were living in Ireland. I am sure there will be many more stories to tell.

 

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