R. B. "Bud" Archer - Family Histories

     My father, Rufus Brandon (R. B. "Bud'*) Archer, was born in Magnolia, Arkansas, in 1874. His mother, Lorena Norton Archer, was of Indian descent (her mother being full-blooded Cherokee Indian); and his father, Col. Robert L. Archer, was English dating back to ancestors immigrating from England to America. Bud's grandfather Archer was a doctor who practiced many years in the Cottonwood area near Cross Plains.

     Some years after the Civil War, Col. Robert L. Archer sold his plantation, and his family of wife and seven children - Annie, John, Emma, Lizzie, George, Birdie, and Rufus Brandon "Bud" - moved to Texas. Bud's father bought land at Jordan Springs, later moving to Byrds Store in Brown County where he bought land and was Postmaster and taught school. Col. Archer's oldest daughter (my father's sister), Emma Archer Mcintosh, taught in the same school. The family then moved to Brownwood, where my father grew up. Bud's older sisters attended Howard Payne College. His mother passed away and his father moved to Houston and was a Postmaster there.

     Bud, my father, moved to West Texas to seek his fortune, settling near Bangs, with his widowed sister, Mrs. R. A. Moore. Bud attended school and church activities in the Buffalo community in Coleman County where he met and fell in love with the lovely Lillie Della Curry, daughter of Sallie Pennington and William Francis Curry (pioneers of the Buttalo community owning several hundred acres of land). Lillie, my mother, was born in 1881 in Tennessee and moved to Texas in 1889 with her parents and brothers and sister (Charley L., William J., Oscar G., Sidney T., and Nettie). Her father and brothers farmed and raised white face Hereford cattle commercially. Her father later sold several hundred acres of his land to some of his children (Charley, William and Lillie Curry Archer), keeping a portion of his land where he and his wife lived the remainder of their lives.

     Bud asked Lillie's father for her hand in marriage and it was given. Bud then went to New Mexico to seek his fortune and returned to claim Lillie as his bride in 1900. Bud and Lille lived in the Buffalo community until 1943 when they moved to San Angelo. They had three children - W. L. "Bill," 1901; S. Lola, 1903; and myself, Nettie Lee, 1907. Bill married Ruth Tervoren in 1930 and still owns and operates his farm in the Buffalo community. Lola married Hughie Williams in 1942 and they reside in Abilene, where Hughie is semi-retired from the Abilene Casket Company.

     I married Peyton A. Dick, son of Aim T. and Alphie (Wilson) Dick, in 1926 and had the only descendants in the R. B. "Bud' Archer family - Shirley Dolores, born 1934 and married Glen M. Brown in 1953 (both deceased), and Brandon Duane, born in 1943 and married to Charlotte Ann Townley in 1965. My grandchildren - Peyton David Brown, born 1960, and Patricia Dawn Brown,
born 1965 - were reared by my son, Duane, and his wife, Charlotte. Duane and Charlotte Dick are both on the staff of the Texas A&M University System.

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W. F. Curry and family, 1889