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Thomas Lewis Latané Temple, Jr.
1887–1947
❖ A photo album has been shared for this person: Thomas Lewis Latané Temple Jr — on Google Photos; may include living family
♪ Songs: Can’t Stop Won’t Stop · Rivers Run From Many Waters — by Owen Temple, further down this page
Life
- Born
- 24 Sep 1887 · Texarkana, Bowie, Texas, United States
- Died
- 25 Mar 1947 · Diboll, Angelina, Texas, USA
- Buried
- Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas, United States of America
Parents
Marriage & children
Timeline
- 1900ResidenceGarland, Miller, Arkansas — Age: 12; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
- 1907ResidenceLawrenceville, New Jersey, USA — Age: 20
- 1 Sep 1907EducationAustin, Travis, Texas, USA — Enrolled at University of Texas at Austin in Fall 1907 and withdrew in March 1908
- 1910ResidenceJustice Precinct 4, Angelina, Texas — Age in 1910: 22; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Cousin
- 27 Dec 1910Comment on Marriage in Social PagesLos Angeles, California
- (1910-12-27)Cracked Truth in ResolutionLos Angeles, California
- 24 Dec 1910MarriedHal Christine Crouch — Miller, Arkansas, United States
- 1911ResidencePineland, Sabine, Texas, USA
- 1917MilitaryFrance — No. 7071 Name: T. L. L. Temple Jr. Rank: 2nd Lt. Engrs. U.S.R. (2nd Lieutenant, Engineers, United States Reserve) Duty: Co. B. 5th Bn. 20th Engrs. (Company B, 5th Battalion, 20th Engineers)
- 1917ResidenceHouston, Texas
- 1920ResidenceTexarkana, Miller, Arkansas — Age: 32; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
- 1920ResidenceTexarkana, Miller, Arkansas
- 1922ResidenceTexarkana, Arkansas, USA
- 1924ResidenceTexarkana, Arkansas, USA
- 4 Apr 1925MarriedHal Christine Crouch — Miller County, Arkansas, USA
- 1927ResidenceTexarkana, Arkansas, USA
- 1935ResidenceHidalgo, Texas
- 1 Apr 1940ResidenceHidalgo, Texas, United States — Age: 52; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
- 1942ResidenceHouston, Texas, USA
- 27 Mar 1947Obituary for T. L. Temple (Aged 59)Waco, Texas
- —ResidenceTexarkana, Miller, Arkansas
- —ResidenceHouston, Harris, Texas
- —ResidenceTexarkana, Arkansas, USA
- —MarriedMadeline Potter — Texas
Life as they lived it
Not the dates — the person. What the records happen to show of work, habits, possessions and the odd episode. Each line says where it comes from.
1907 At the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey he was "Tom" and "Temp." The 1907 yearbook lists him on the basketball team, the second football team, the choir and the orchestra, preparing for Williams, and prints his birth as 24 September 1886.
nickname · The Lawrenceville Olla Podrida, 1907, p. 43
1911 At Pineland, between 1911 and 1914, he raised hogs in succession: Duroc Jerseys, little-bone Berkshires, and Tamworths he sent to Ohio for. He played trombone in the Pineland band.
habit · Hal Crouch Temple's 1959 letter to her son, published in the Pine Bough, September 2002
He was away at school when his mother died and was not allowed to come home for her funeral. His son wrote that it marred him and he never forgot it.
episode · His son Latané Temple's column in the Diboll Free Press, 11 October 1973
A Lawrenceville headmaster wrote to his father that the boy would never die of overwork. His son called it a true and proper prediction.
episode · Latané Temple's recorded recollections (interview 83g), family archive
After the First World War he gambled and drank heavily. His father bought him Riverside Farm, on McKinney Bayou outside Texarkana, run by an overseer named Hugh Powell.
habit · Latané Temple's recorded recollections (interview 83g), family archive
Photographs
All photographs: Thomas Lewis Latané Temple Jr — on Google Photos; may include living family
Songs
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
from Rings on a Tree
I heard a story that T.L. would race trains driving down railroad tracks. He played trombone, banjo, sang, and according to my grandfather, he wooed Hal by playing violin for her. This song imagines the impulsive couple coming together and then coming apart.
— Owen Temple · Lyrics →
Rivers Run From Many Waters
from Two Thousand Miles
A song about generations of fathers and sons based on some facts of my great-grandfather, grandfather, and father.
— Owen Temple · Lyrics →
Records behind this page
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open. Many open with a line grading the parentage; what the grades mean.
Research note · 27 Jul 2026
Elsewhere
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