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Henry Grady Osborne (my
Great-Great Grandpa) was born on October 27, 1833 in Ashville, North Carolina. He came to Parker County, Texas in 1858, settling
on a farm east and northeast of Brock, where he lived until his death. Henry built his own log cabin and married Mary Catherine
Cox, daughter of Eli and Eliza Higgins Cox.
When the civil war came,
Henry left his farm to fight for the Confederacy. After the war ended, Henry returned to his 996 acre farm, 180 acres of which
he had traded one of his fine horses for. He raised mostly corn, wheat, horses and cattle on this land. Indians often camped
in the creek bed on the Osborne farm. Quite frequently, they helped themselves to horses and cattle. Shortly after Henry and
Mary were married, an incident with the Indians occurred. It was after the evening meal, and darkness had descended over the
land, when Henry heard a whistle. He grabbed his gun while Mary extinguished a burning candle. It is thought that her prompt
action in putting out the candle saved their lives, as the inside of the cabin was in absolute darkness. There was no trouble
that night, but when morning came, they found the ground around the cabin covered with the print of Indian moccasins. Henry
also found that some of his horses had been stolen, and an arrow was found in the hip of one of his horses.
Henry and Mary Osborne
had ten children, Eli Alonza (Lon), Johnathan, Franklin (Frank.....my Great-Grandpa), Oscar, Cora, Robert (Bob), William Sammons
(Sam), Thomas, Charles (Charlie) and Benjamin.. Thomas and Benjamin died at very young ages. The rest of the children lived
to be grown and have children of their own. Mary Cox Osborne died January 16, 1884 and was buried in the Cox cemetery in Parker
County, Texas.
Henry Grady Osborne married
Frances (Frannie) Powell on February 26, 1886. Four children, Newton (Newt), Vance, Horace and an infant daughter, were born
to the couple. Horace and the daughter died in infancy. Newt and Vance lived to have families of their own. Frannie took on
a great responsibility in helping raise the younger children of Henry and Mary along with the children born to her and Henry.
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Note To The Family:
These are the pictures I've managed to scan so far (See Below and other pages)... more will go
up as soon as I input them. Send any that you want to add... I'll make a different page for the different families that want
one. Note: you can usually see a larger version of the pictures by just clicking on them.
Hey cousins.... can you believe I found a song that actually says 'Shut my mouth!'? You never hear people
say that any more ... except back in Lone Wolf and Altus, Oklahoma, at the reunion... I'm fairly certain Theresa (Woodward,
OK) said it on more than one occasion.
Until this song, I always believed 'Shut my mouth!' was just an Osborne thing, like 'Iiiiiiiii
Ssswwwaaaannnnn'... which, like 'Shut my mouth!", depending on the context or intonation is how the Osborne's would convey
anything from bewilderment.... to excited surprise to... even a form of curse... of course the Osborne's didn't curse... but
they did occasionally say 'I Swann!' or 'Well, shut my mouth!' with a certain, shall we say, passion.
Hope you enjoy the 'shut my mouth' song.... kind of eery, in the song they talk of 'mama getting sick' and
losing the farm '... moved to town'. Need to get more of the story from the Aunts and Uncles.... email them to me... the cousins
need to know the history better... to pass it on to our kids. Hope you all enjoy this and the other songs. Love to all, K
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, Dad (Norm Osborne), ?)
