Bringing Cotton to Town

ID: 1751 ~ Source: Gibbons, Maggie McLennan, interviewed by Roger Conger and Bob Davis, November 18, 1968, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Maggie McLennan Gibbons describes her memories of bringing cash crops from their farm in China Springs to sell in Waco.

This file appears in: Uncle Dan McLennan

By Stephanie Endicott
Dan “Uncle Dan” McLennan was born in 1849 as a slave to Neil McLennan in what would a year later become known as McLennan County, named for his master. Uncle Dan became a beloved member of not only the McLennan family but of the Waco community as…