Addicks, Houston the original Addicks-Howell Road was paved over during the re-routing of present-day Highway 6, the northern most stretch still exists just south of its intersection with Interstate 10. Other roads that follow this convention include Addicks-Fairbanks Road (present day Eldridge Parkway north of Interstate 10) and Addicks-Clodine Road (most of which was abandoned after building of the Barker Reservoir). Perhaps the most interesting road name in the Addicks area was and is Jackrabbit Road. And, yes, it was so named because of the plethora of jackrabbits that once lived around and often darted across the narrow, two-lane road. Jackrabbit Road
J. Edward Addicks Pennsylvania, to John E. C. O'Sullivan and Margretta McLeod (Turner) Addicks. He graduated from Philadelphia public schools at age 15 and entered business, first in wholesale dry goods, then in flour, and later in real estate. Addicks married Laura Butcher in 1864, with whom he had a daughter, Florence. After the death of his first wife, he married her sister Rosalie; they subsequently divorced. Addicks moved to Claymont, Delaware in 1877, where he would eventually marry Ida Carr Wilson in 1898. Shortly after moving to Delaware, Addicks became involved with the natural gas business, then in its infancy. He built