The Clementine Freight & Delivery Service
A Living History Attraction
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 Mr. Jackson Clementine runs
a freight and delivery service located at the east end of Elm Street. Mr.
Clementine and his team of Mammoth Jack Stock donkeys provide a valuable
service to the town. Many of the items received via the train are delivered to
the homes and businesses by Mr. Clementine's freight service.
Unfortunately, Mr. Clementine suffers from an unhealed wound from the Civil War
and is often indisposed. His wife, Mrs. Maggie Doble Clementine runs the
service when he is indisposed.
Nip and Tuck are Mr. Clementine's matched team of Mammoth Jack Stock Donkeys.
To learn more about this rare breed of donkey, visit
Nip & Tuck's Page.
Maggie Doble Clementine, the only child of Thomas L. Doble and Lizzy
Broadmarkle, was born in 1865 in rural Minnesota. Her father Thomas L. Doble
was born near Clearwater, Minnesota in 1833 and worked as an itinerant laborer
until May 1861 when he enlisted into Company E of the First Minnesota Volunteer
Infantry. It was one of the first units to respond to President Lincoln’s call
for troops in April of that year. The unit fought in the battle of Bull Run and
participated in all the major engagements of the Army of the Potomac including
Fredricksburg, Petersburg. Chancellorville, Antietam, and Gettysburg. Shortly
after the battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863 Thomas met thirty-year-old
Lizzie Broadmarkle, an Illinois native who was following the Union Army camps
and working as a laundress. By the end of that year Thomas had sent Lizzie back
to his parent’s home in Minnesota where, in January of 1864 she gave birth to
their child, a daughter Margaret, who was always called Maggie. No legal record
of Thomas and Lizzie’s marriage was ever filed.
Following his military discharge in May 1864 Thomas Doble retuned to
Clearwater, Minnesota where his family and new child waited. Over the next ten
years the Doble family moved several times as Thomas work various jobs:
Minneapolis in 1865, St. Louis in 1868, Bowling Green in 1870, Memphis in 1872,
and finally Dallas Texas in 1874. Lizzy died in 1876 of lung fever and Maggie
remained with her father to keep house. Thomas Doble passed away in August 1892
in his rented shotgun house on Bopp Street near the T&P rail tracks in
Dallas’ Deep Ellum neighborhood with still single twenty-eight year old Maggie
by his side. Finding herself alone, under educated, and unskilled within six
months she had married fifty-year-old Jackson Clementine, the owner of a
small-time local freight and dray service who performed deliveries in the
downtown area and sometimes drove donkey-drawn vehicles for public
transportation. The Clementines run their business from a rented carriage house
behind a local doctor’s office and live in leased rooms above a nearby hotel’s
bathhouse facility.
Mr. Clementine, a union veteran just like Maggie Doble’s father, had been in
Dallas since 1866 when he arrived as a young army teamster. After the end of
Reconstruction Mr. Clementine continued to work in the city of Dallas for
several wagon freight companies, and often worked on long distance shipping
before the arrival of the trains in 1872.The year 1900 found him a bitter old
man who sees his livelihood endangered by increased train traffic, large
commercial shipping firms, and the anticipated promise held in new automobile
transportation. Jackson Clementine is far from an ideal husband, known to
frequent the numerous saloons along Elm Street, drinking and gambling. In
November of 1900 he suffered a stroke, which left him unable to drive his wagon
for work. Maggie has begun to function in her husband’s capacity during his
recovery as they have no other means of financial support.
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