GEORGE THOMAS "TOM" PEEL, b. January 15, 1859, In or near Grand Prairie, TX; d. December 06, 1919, Naples, Grady Co, OK; m. SARAH ISABELLA BRADLEY, March 19, 1882, Tom Green Co, TX; b. September 25, 1863, Robertson Co, TX; d. September 24, 1910, Brownwood, Brown Co, TX. They Married about a month after Rufus Wilson Peel md Diana Cravy.
Notes for GEORGE THOMAS "TOM" PEEL:In the fall of 1894, Tom Peel (George Thomas Peel) started to divest himself of a ranch and cattle somewhere near Beeville, Texas within the confines of two rivers. He bought five real large wagons. His daughter, Emily Elizabeth Peel, said they were known as overhang wagons and it took two horses to pull an empty one. The wheels were as high as a man’s head standing on the ground. (Keep in mind, they are traveling with five children, the oldest was about twelve and the youngest born Dec 1894). In early 1895, they set out and skirted around San Antonio, Texas and stopped outside San Angelo, Texas. I don’t know how long they stayed there but they camped on a river. This stop was necessary to rest the stock and wash up all the clothes. Also the baby (Sidney Burse Peel) was sick. They camped between the North Concho and the Middle Concho rivers. It came a flood and almost wiped them out. They lost one wagon and some household goods. While in this area, George Thomas Peel worked a while as carpenter. When they left in March of 1895, it was to the west for they traveled near the place where Ft. Stockton is now. From there they went on to present day Pecol, then north to Carlsbad and then on to Roswell, New Mexico arriving there in November 1895. They rested there a few days and then traveled west to a place called James Canyon-near Cloud Croft, New Mexico. George Thomas Peel hauled supplies back into the mountains to mining camps and timber camps and brought ore and timber back to the smelters and out to the mills. Emily Elizabeth Peel and Walter Monroe Peel went to boarding school in Almagordo, New Mexico until 1901. Things got slow and Tom (George Thomas Peel) sold out and moved to Haskell, Texas where his dau (Emily Elizabeth Peel) and (Richard Steele) met and married. Tom Peel (George Thomas Peel) farmed there before finally moving to Brownwood, where he did carpenter work.