Could you please explain to our friends to the N. what an eye hoe is. An eye hoe can cure a lot of problems. Smart mouth is one. wyly1@juno.com wrote: > hI, Someone got a date wrong. He served in the Civil War and washanged > Oct.11, 1878, so he was bornHe must have been born before 1850. . The > photo in this paper shows with a Black Beard (Narrow Goatee) and heavy > black moustashe. He was hanged for killing Wilson Anderson,one of his 32 > victims. My grandson is 19 and sported a beard and mustashe for a few > months, He is six feet and did weigh over 250 when he played football 5 > years ago. He is not fat, just big boned and muscled. > > Great Grandad Robert Augustine Wyly marched into the Battle of Shiloh as > a Drummer, age 13 and marched out as a soldier with a gun. He lived to be > 93 and died in Tulsa, 1937 of Typhoid, caught from a well. His brother > James Allen Wyly was in the same battle, His Uncle Capt. Ben F. Wyly , > lost an eye in the Battle of Knoxville and lived into his late 80's, > buried in Comanche County, Texas. Oliver Cromwell Wyly, their dad, sent > a letter to the Gov. of Georgia promising 3000 gallons of fine Whiskey > for the troops,( His brother and son Ran the Wyly Wholesale Grocery in > Atlanta. O.C.soon joined as a Captain and returned to Habersham County > where he piled a trunk full of Confederate money in his yard and burned > it. > > So far as age goes, my wife's grandfather was born abt 1850 in Ireland , > James Whitcomb O'Riley, stowed awayn on a ship and the Captain signed him > on as a Sheet Metal (Tinker) Aprentice in New York Harbor. He moved top > Cleburne, Texas and died in 1893, leaving 2 sets of Children. My wife was > born in Pettit, Texas in 1936 whgen her dad was about 50. > > Also, Ben F. Wyly's grandson drove 3000 head of sheep to San Angelo, > Texas, age 17 and deliverred them to former owners of Stephenville, Tx > Cage and Crow Bank- they swapped the sheep for Erath County property. He > had to stay up some nights with a rifle, age 17 to keep cattlemen from > riding in and shooting the sheep. That was 1887. > > My wife's dad had 4 years of Schoolhousing, but could add 2 columns of > Cotton weight or calf prices in his head faster than I could write them. > At age 12 or so he was buying cattle around Glen Rose and driving them > back across the Brazos to the Cleburne Slaughter House. > > Sometimes I do not think every child should be in a computerized > classroom to age 18 - He coulds be learning more in a Cooperative > Education Class or working. A man in Hill County said an Eye Hoe in a > Johnson Grass infested cotton patch would cure Juvenile Delinquency and > provide motivation to find a better life. > > Charles A. Wyly > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:27:27 -0600 Peter Selph/Kathy Duncan > <ppskdd2@airmail.net> writes: > > Charles: > > > > You are the person to ask about Wild Bill Longley. > > > > The Dallas Morning News article in today's paper > > says that Longley was hanged in 1878 at the age of > > 27 and that he was "one of the West's bloodiest > > pre-Civil War outlaws. I've never been very good > > at math, but just how bloody a career can someone > > manage before the age of 10?! And did he enlist > > near the beginning of The War or the end? Was he > > just a drummer boy? > > > > The Dallas Morning News also has a picture of full > > skeletal remains for Longley, exhumed in 1998--not > > just a tooth. In fact, they used his remains to disprove > > a one of Longley's wild stories that he had been > > shot in the mouth: "'That didn't happen because he's > > got beautiful teeth and didn't lose any of them,' > > Dr. Owsley said." > > > > They matched the DNA of the skeleton to the DNA of > > Helen Chapman, a great-grand daughter of Longley's sister. > > > > Still there are no details about Longley's prepubescent > > crime-spree and that seems like the most interesting > > part of the story!! :) > > > > In any event, it looks like Ted Wax is going to have to > > give up and do some real research on his Brown family!! > > Can't blame him for trying to turn his Brown's into > > Longleys--Brown has got to be the worst name on the planet > > to research. It's right up there with Smith. > > > > Kathy Duncan > > > > wyly1@juno.com wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > never heard of him? His life was depicted in the 1950's TV movie > > or > > > programs called THE TEXAN. He was born WILLIAM PRESTON (WILD > > BILL) > > > LONGLEY and was a veteran of the Civil WarHe was hanged and > > buried in > > > Giddings, Texas in 1878The story persisted that the sheriff was > > bribed to > > > put some leather harness under his shirt and fake a hanging. TEXAS > > HAS > > > NEVER HAD PUBLIC HANGINGS, ACCORDING TO h. GRADY PERRY, State > > Rep. from > > > Erath County. The scaffold was prepared as crowds of families > > gatherred > > > to watch. Blinds were raised around the actual hanging site. The > > criminal > > > was marched in vew of the crowd, Blinds were raised for > > > privacy,thehanging took place, and the blinds or privacy shields > > were > > > dropped after he was pronounced dead for all to see as a crime > > prevention > > > and education method. > > > > > > Ted Wax of .Gonzales, la. claimed he was a grandson of CAPT. JOHN > > > CALHOUN BROWN, a prosperous planter of Bienville Parrish , La. > > This line > > > followed the idea that a box of Rocks were in Wild Bill's grave in > > Texas. > > > BROOKS ELWOOD, Chairman of Genealoogy Dept of Louisiana State > > > Universith started investigating and somehow got the Smithsonian > > > Institute interested. They used imaging equipment to find Bill's > > grave in > > > Giddings , as the family knew where it was- but his headstone had > > been > > > moved as some objected to be buried by a criminal. - moved twice, > > > according toplats and historians. The Grave was not moved. > > > > > > When LSU and the Smithsonian excavated the grave recently, they > > found > > > decayed clothing, boot heels (tops had rotted) and a tooth. Bones > > had > > > decayed too much to test(?)According to DNA testing on the tooth > > and > > > known descendants of Mr. Longley, they are 100% sure this was a > > Longley, > > > and 95.something% that it was Wild Bill, not a box of rocks for a > > fake > > > funeral. ( I know of one Texas Cemetery where Blacks and whites > > are > > > buried in same cemetery, but several graves of white Cattle > > Rustlers are > > > buried down the road to themselves. I do not know if they were > > hanged > > > legally or by Vigilantes during the days that the Reconstrution > > days > > > sheriff and deputies stayed close to the office unless in groups. > > > > > > Does anyone have a Geneaology chart which shows these percentages > > of > > > accuracy? According to this report, Jesse James DNA proof should > > be 95% > > > accurate, decreasing each generation. If it did not , all us > > Coffee or > > > Cleveland or Wyly or Sevier or Miller or Harris cousins or > > Copeland or > > > Carey or Hipp cousins. would have the same DNA. Any answers? > > > > > > Scientists and archeologists and Geneaologists worked on this > > grave and > > > family testing for 15 months before issueing their final report. > > > > > > The past is fun to read about and profit from their mistakes once > > we > > > recognize them, and also for hereditary disease predictions, but I > > just > > > wish we would SPEND AS MUCH TIME FINDING OUR SOLDIERS IN KOREA > > AND > > > vIETNAM, ALIVE OR DEAD. Ask most Jr. High and many High School > > kids when > > > and where was the Korean War and they will askif it was before or > > After > > > WW1? I taught 33 years and have been Substituting since 1989. > > Korea and > > > Vietnam had many lessons we could learn if we just quit ignoring > > its > > > lessons. We did not ride down and shoot Vets who went to Canada to > > avoid > > > the draft as some did on both sides , making their own law as they > > went > > > along. I did not agree with them but they have the same freedonm > > to their > > > ideas as I doo to mine, . > > > > > > SOURCE OF LONGLEY INFO; > > > > > > Waco Tribune- Herald, June 14, 2001, from Cox News Service, Stphen > > Krupin > > > , reporter. > > > > > > > > > Take care, > > > Charles A. Wyly > > > > > > ============================== > > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > > > > > > ============================== > > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & > > Celebrate > > your heritage! > > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. 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