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Mama had that ineffable charm and grace of a true Southern gentlewoman, yet she stood firm as the rock of Fibraltar on her moral convictions, and she defended her household from any assault, whether from without, such as Texas cyclones and tornadoes, or from within, such as disobedience and rebellion among her children or her servants.
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The 'gentlemen' of her household never failed to get their dinners. And what dinners they were! Served to twelve as a daily routine, but there were always visiting relatives, or Methodist preachers or little Montagues (Sister's children, Wynona, but we all called her Sister because she was the eldest.).
Mama was born Margaret Welch Henderson in Fulton, Arkansas in 182. Her father, John Henderson, and her mother, Nancy Barry Henderson, were mving in a covered wagon from Georgia to Texas and they stopped in Fulton for the birth of their child. She was not born in a covered wagon, however. Grandpa Henderson rented a house and established his family in Argansas for the summer while he went on to Texas and prepared a home for them.
He bought a large farm on the highway, almost exactly half-way between the towns of Marshall and Jefferson because he hoped to contract with the stage line to feed and stable the stagecoach horses. All of his life he was a lover of fine horses and a shrewd judge of horse-flesh. He must, also, have been a competent builder and architect because the house he built still stands today in excellent repair!
Read more about the Early Years of the Wynne Family.
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