George F. Mauldin (1875 - 1910)

Born 4 May 1875 in Red River, Texas, United States

Ancestors

Died 5 Dec 1910 at age 35 in Midland, Midland, Texas, United States

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Biography

George was a liveryman and burned to death in the W.A. Holloway Livery Barn in Midland, Texas fire on December 5, 1910. See story below about the fire.

The easygoing yet often hardscrabble pioneer life was interrupted by a frightening fire 100 years ago this weekend.

The date was December 5, 1910 when the blaze destroyed many businesses in downtown. The Great Fire began in the W.A. Holloway livery barn at 8 p.m. on a Monday. According to early published reports, the fire spread soon to the Midland Grocery and Dry Goods Store. The list of downtown businesses that would be lost was long: Martin-Kapp Jewelry Company, the Klapproth Building, Maggie McCormick's Millinery, Bigham & Lee, Midland Metal and Manufacturing Company, and Heatly and Parks Saddlery all went up in flames.

The businesses rebuilt and miraculously, according to the Centennial edition of the Midland Reporter-Telegram, "the two banks downtown kept their sentinel posts in the same spot on Iowa (Wall Street).

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18425801/george-f-mauldin

1900 Census:

• https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7602&h=44431484&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=CjB67&_phstart=successSource

• Year: 1900; Census Place: Justice Precinct 4, Victoria, Texas; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0090; FHL microfilm: 1241676

Source Information

• Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.

Livery Stable Fire:

• http://www.historyofcharacter.com/character-blog/archives/12-2010

Death Certificate:

• https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2272/33154_B061781-01443?pid=30066743&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid%3D2272%26h%3D30066743%26indiv%3Dtry%26o_vc%3DRecord:OtherRecord%26rhSource%3D7602&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true