News Story: Bob Harwell Early Settler - 1881

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
April 2011

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The Bronte Enterprise, September 3, 1964 {Historical and Progress Edition}

HARWELL

               Mother Comes to West Texas in Covered Wagon

One of the country's earliest settlers was Bob Harwell, his mother and brothers 
and sisters.  He was born Feb. 14, 1870, in Titus County.  His father, a well 
known East Texas farmer, died and the mother with her seven children came to 
West Texas in a covered wagon.  They located in the Fort Chadbourne area of 
Coke County, in 1881.
 
Bob Harwell worked on ranches and farms for wages and went into the ranching 
business in 1900 southwest of Bronte.  The ranch still is in the Harwell family.

He was married to Miss Ida Caperton December 26, 1897.  She was born May 31, 
1877, in Travis County.  Bob Harwell died in 1951 and Mrs. Harwell died in 1959.

                       
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