In the days before the Cotton Festival, Hedley area residents held an annual Old Settlers Picnic on the Tom Tate Place northeast of Hedley. In the 1950s, the picnic merged with the Cotton Festival, but members of the Tate family are still active participants in the celebration. Shown here are four generations of the Tate family: Kaylan Cosby, Kennedy Cosby, Juanell Tate Carson, Nanci Cosby Johnson, Susan Carson Cosby, and Addison Tate Reed. Jaunell is the daughter of the late Tom and Myrtle Tate and lives on the Tate Place with her husband, Bill Carson, and they own Moffitt Hardware in Hedley. The place has been in the family for more than 100 years. Susan Carson Cosby lives in Amarillo with her husband, Stan, and Nanci and the girls live in Oklahoma. Enterprise Photo / Kari Lindsey
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