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SOUTHFORK RANCH
Founded in 1840, Southfork is located
in the town of Braddock. It stretches over a hundred thousand
acres. While the City of Dallas may appear to be pushing away
its history in favour of a world class, sophisticated image,
Southfork Ranch carried on as an awesome reminder of the past.
The Name Southfork
The pioneer of the Ranch , Enoch Southworth
had choen the ranch land because it was bountiful with water,
and to him water meant life. The water came from a stream which
divided at one point - hence the name SOUTHFORK.
Southfork during a snowy spell in 1978.
Owners of Southfork
Ranch:
1850 : Enoch Southworth
Enoch realized his dream of a Cattle
Empire was about to come true.
1901 : Aarron Southworth
Enoch died in 1901, a few days after
making his son Aarron promise that oil would never be drilled
on Southfork land. Aarron then inherited the legacy.
1953: Eleanor Southworth Ewing
In 1953 Arron dies and his daughter Ellie,
now married to Jock Ewing she took over the legacy of Southfork.
Like her father and grandfather before that, she loved that
ranch with all her heart, and maintained her fathers wish of
keeping it as a working ranch.
Miss Ellie in her later years
1990 : Ellie Southworth Ewing Farlow
and Clayton Farlow
In 1984 Miss Ellie remarried a few years
after the death of her husband Jock. She decided in 1990 that
she wanted Clayton to feel part of the family so signed over
50% to him. This caused outrage by the rest of the Ewing family.
But Ellie knew that Clayton loved the land as she had done since
a little girl.
1991 : Bobby James Ewing
In late 1990 Miss Ellie decided to leave
her beloved Southfork. She loved the ranch but was tired, Southfork
had seen much turmoil over the years and Ellie had always put
the Ranch and her family first. But now she wanted to spend
the rest of her life in peace with her husband Clayton. So she
signed Southfork over to her son Bobby. Bobby loved the ranch
and Ellie knew that he was the one to carry the legacy over
into the 21st Century
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