Person:George Clements (12)

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George Clements
b.28 Sep 1893 Kimble County, Texas
d.4 May 1973 Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico
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m. 16 Nov 1885
  1. Joseph Hardin Clements1886 - 1971
  2. Sarah Katherine Clements1888 - 1977
  3. Mary Myrtle Clements1890 - 1907
  4. George Clements1893 - 1973
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Name[1] George Clements
Gender Male
Birth[1] 28 Sep 1893 Kimble County, Texas
Marriage (her 2nd husband)
to Cassie Bill Mills
Death[1] 4 May 1973 Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico
Burial[1] South Park Cemetery, Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico

FROM: Roswell Daily Record, Sunday, 6 May 1973:

PROMINENT SHEEP RANCHER DIES AT 80

Death came to a prominent sheep rancher, George Clements, 80, a resident of the area since the age of four, at 2:30 a.m. Friday at Eastern New Mexico Medical Center, where he was admitted April 5.

Mr. Clements moved to the Hope area with his grandparents, Joe and Amanda Clements, in 1896. He was a lifelong sheep rancher who ranched 35 miles southwest of Picacho.

Mr. Clements was baptized into the Methodist Church and attended school at Hope, White Oaks and Roswell. His family says Mr. Clements always said his grandmother was his best school teacher. She helped rear him before and after the pioneer family moved to New Mexico.

Mr. Clements started herding sheep when he was eight years old and went on in 1922 to build one of the first fences and turn his sheep loose in pastures. This practice has become standard in the sheep ranching business.

He also was one of the first men to start shearing his sheep before they lambed, also now a standard practice.

Mr. Clements operated what is considered one of the best improved and watered year round sheep ranches in the country. He blocked up 53 sections of patented land to accomplish this.

He married Bebe Mills of Roswell on Aug. 16, 1937, in Roswell. Mr. and Mrs. Clements together took raw land at Riverside and built an outstanding livestock feeding mill and underground irrigated farm in the Hondo Valley. Mr. Clements engineered the mill and farm himself.

"Mr Clements was a man of his word and God.", a member of his family said at his death. "He loved his devoted wife who stood by his side for 36 years, and he loved his dogs."

Survivors include his wife, and two sisters, Mrs. Bebe Clements and Mrs. Sally Treat. Dr. Austin H. Dillon, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, Roswell, will conduct services. Caket bearers will be Neil Watson, John Wyly, Kern Jacobs, Dee Wilburn, Fritz Waxler, Arthur Clements, Frank Runyan and Lloyd Treat.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Find A Grave.

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