Coppell, Texas: A History (Brief History) by Murph Jean & Duggan Lou

Author:Murph, Jean & Duggan, Lou [Murph, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

OTTINGERS WORKED ON A COPPELL HOG FARM

Bobby Ottinger, always one to get out on the ground to show Coppell’s history, provided descriptions of early geographical sites and contributed old farm and family memorabilia for a future Coppell museum. He wasn’t bothered by getting dirty or wet to show interested parties an old farm or remote creek bed, and he personally rescued a reporter with his cane when she couldn’t climb back up the slippery banks of Denton Creek.

Even though Ottinger’s family history goes way back (his mother, Eula, was a Holt), Bobby Ottinger described a later activity, hog farming. Hogs were part of almost every early farm, but hog farming as a business did not start until the late 1930s. Ottinger recalled moving to the farm at Sandy Lake and Denton Tap Road at the age of three. After sharecropping on a farm near North Lake, his father started the hog farm for the landowner, Dr. Floyd Norman. The Ottinger home sat near an old windmill, torn down in 1995 to develop a Wendy’s restaurant on Denton Tap. The hog farm began with seven brood sows, which had 45 to 50 piglets. Most years, the farm had between 1,300 to 1,800 hogs, said Ottinger, who worked on the farm in his early years. The family bought day-old bread from Mrs. Baird’s Bakery to feed the hogs. Ottinger remembered hauling 150,000 pounds of bread to the hogs, sometimes as many as two loads a day, five days a week.

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