Many years ago my son wanted a computer so bad he hoed weeds out of a soybean field all summer. That boy sure loved that computer. My daughter did the same, except she went shopping and was very proud of the clothes she bought. They are both police officers now and have grown to be very likable, self sufficient, people. I am not saying the hoe did it, but they learned their self-worth and they walk with pride and dignity. wyly1@juno.com wrote: > An eye hoe is one with a heavier blade, heavier handle- long handle, and > a tapered eye on the back of the hoe which keeps the handle tight in the > hoe. it is much heavier than a regular Garden hoe and in an 8 or 10 hour > day it will blister hands without gloves andmake for very sore muscles- > the boys who hauled hay and did a cotton or corn crop with an eye hoe > were in shape for Football season started, if they were still in school. > One had a file handy to keep it razor sharp . > > We used them on large cockleburs or Cuckleburs and used to dig Johnson > grass runners and cut sunflowers out of cotton and corn with them. My > Uncle let some land grow up when starting a dairy. @When he tried to plow > it with a John Deere tractor and a light breaking plow, he had to first > cut down many10 foot tall Sunflowers with a light axe and got smaller > ones with an Eye hoe so the plow would track in dry Blackland Prairie. He > had a 30 HP tractor. Today they use 60 to 90 HP Tractors or larger and > shred all such trash growth int straw and then plow it under . > > Next time you go to a museum, ask to see an Eye Hoe. > > Take Care, Charles A. Wyly > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:17:06 -0500 skm <flintlock@kcnet.com> writes: > > 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. 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