Thanks, Some interesting curiosities you sent in this Wylie- Wiley message to Wyly stories in Georgia and Erath County Texas and Oklahoma. Any explanations? 1. There was a Cage- Wyly marriage in Georgia, but not on my Direct family line. This might have been from the Charleston S.C. Wyly families. 2. The Wylie Baseball team- Selden elderly and elderly from Thresher Crews repeated a similar story, which said that Ben Wyly 's family also had a Baseball team of brothers. Some of these brothers came to a Reunion and I had talked to 1 or 2 with similar stories. Janice Wyly slaughter of Roswell , N.Mex. joked about being the Bat Girl. This Team beat many Highchool and Tarleton and adult league teams in Cow pasture baseball and school fields. They lived in Crockett- Box- Pony Creek area on a ranch that Ben got in partial payment for the 3000 head of English Sheep that Ben Jr. delivered to Trammel and Crow, with connections to. Cage and Crow Bank in Stephenville. The sheep were moved on to Sheep country near Menard and San Angelo. Menard is still sheep country. 3.Also, Cousin Glenda Moring Neiderhoffer and "Guy "Moring " and "Cousin Butch " Moring are Wyly grandchildren. raised on Bunk Moring Ranch east of Hanibal Store and hill. Her family had connections to older Stephenville Families- and some report this includes a Cage or two. 4. The historic pages attached mention the insolvent of Wylie and/or Wiley families who were heavily involved in Hogtown (Desdemona) oil wells, which, with the Thurber Miners Strike under John L. Lewis, turned Thurber into a Ghost town. Some Wylys and Morings worked in Thurber, and one Wyly cousin married a Tackett, from the Thurber area. 5.When Ben, Fred and Ben Sr. left Erath County, they had a lumber yard and store in Stephenville and Fort Worth, before a flood removed the lumber downstream. They traded what was left for a drilling rig , Ben Sr. Became a Minneola, Texas Cotton buyer, and sons , married in Erath County, drilled in Southeast Texas Oil Fields. In the 3rd Generation, Ben of Houston, has retired from the Bacliff Marine Supply and Contractors. He moved into Uranium prospecting from planes across Texas into Colorado.He and crews cut the steel from Texas City Harbor after the ship blew up there, loaded with Nitrate. Ben and Red Adair went out to fight oil well fires and were on TV on the deck of a ship training Mexican- Pemex oil workers how to put out the fire raging at sea in a new Pemex well. One story says that a Wyly cut the cards with "Dad Joiner" and lost some area where the first Gusher blew in in Southeast Texas. Wyly Oil Company was sold to Sam and Charles J. Wyly of Dallas corporate offices. . THIS WAS NOT THE SAME AS THE WYLIE OIL COMPANY of Wylie, Texas, West of Abilene. Is it possible that Wylie and Wiley and Wyly families had all been in on Desdoma and Ranger oil Fields ? Could some researcher have seen the 3 names and assumed that they were all the same families and some just misspelled the name??? 5. Today I know of African, Cherokee, Choctaw, Scotch- Irish, and German roots of Wyly name, mostly from Tennessee to Georgia to Texas and now to Mongolia ,New Guinea, Australia and most of the United States. . If we were connected to Wylie- Wiley, it was probably in Ireland or Scotland. Can anyone shed light on this? Happy Hunting Charles Augustine Wyly On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:39:01 -0600 "Lori Beth Walker" <walkerlo@cox-internet.com> writes: > From the "History of Erath County" compiled by the Erath County > Historical Commission in 1980. > > Cage Wylie > > In 1868 my father moved to Erath County from Thorp Springs. He > owned > land at Wylieville, now X-Ray. Eventually there were eleven boys > and > two girls, in that order. I was born in 1910. We made our own > baseball > team; I recall seven boys living at home at once. > > I began school at Simms Valley -- but all I can remember is breaking > my > leg. Later I came to Stephenville and attended the high school. We > made our own recreation; to take thirteen kids on vacation was > unheard > of. Later I've taken my son Kenneth to Big Bend and around in West > Texas, as well as to Colorado, Missouri, and Tennessee. I've had > many > jobs -- on my folk's ranch, at sales barns, for the city, and for > Lone > Star Gas. > > We had a 1920 Model T which my father drove with his spurs on; he > was a > cowboy. My first car was a 1927 Model A. (One at a recent auto > show > was $12,000; mine cost $135.) Now I prefer the General Motors > Chevrolet. > > I knew Violet Mauldin a long time but first took her out on a blind > date. She was Drew Mauldin's niece; her parents had died when she > was > very young. A County clerk named Richardson married us July 14, > 1932 -- > and I was 21. Money was very scarce! > > My favorite sport is quail-hunting, and I always have a good > pointer. > We loved the country but enjoyed the city, the brick streets always > meant town to us. I hope they can be preserved. Any holiday was an > occasion in those days, and it was a treat to skip work, since the > hours > were sunup to sundown. Baling hay was done -- always in hottest > summer > -- on shares. Teamwork was very important, and you had to keep up. > I > worked on WPA -- 15 days a month at $1.25 daily. It was hard, but > welcome. We built bridges, did stone work, and fenced > rights-of-way; it > wasn't bad. Our boss John Dean Dabney, Sr. was reasonable. > > Our family ran a ranch of 1100 acres, 300 in cultivation. All the > Wylies were land connected. There was some branching out; one > relative > even bought a circus, but almost gave it away later because he > didn't > know anything about it. Aunt Pearl Wylie Cage did some banking, > several > did railroading -- the line was sold to the Cotton-Belt company. > Some > in the family speculated on Desdamona oil property and did well. At > X-Ray, some of the ranchers in the area got a good deal of oil money > in > the 1920's. > > Young people needing advice might well consider that it's not what > you > make, it's what you save. That's what's important. > > Thought you might enjoy this! > > Lori > walkerlo@cox-internet.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Freorden@aol.com [mailto:Freorden@aol.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:15 PM > To: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ERATH] Wylie family: > > > > I have a Mary L. FULFER who married A.K. WYLIe on Jan 8-1890 in > Erath > Co. Tx. > > I am researching my extended FULFER and AINSWORTH families [Tx. & > NM] > mostly. > > Charles..............this person must be related to you? > > Freddie B. 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Hi Charles I know nothing about any of these people, but I love the stories. Callie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles A. Wyly" <wyly1@juno.com> To: <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [ERATH] Wylie family: or Wiley- or Wyly- seeking connections , if any. > Thanks, > > Some interesting curiosities you sent in this Wylie- Wiley message to > Wyly stories in Georgia and Erath County Texas and Oklahoma. Any > explanations? > > 1. There was a Cage- Wyly marriage in Georgia, but not on my Direct > family line. > This might have been from the Charleston S.C. Wyly families. > > 2. The Wylie Baseball team- Selden elderly and elderly from Thresher > Crews repeated a similar story, which said that Ben Wyly 's family also > had a Baseball team of brothers. Some of these brothers came to a Reunion > and I had talked to 1 or 2 with similar stories. Janice Wyly slaughter of > Roswell , N.Mex. joked about being the Bat Girl. This Team beat many > Highchool and Tarleton and adult league teams in Cow pasture baseball > and school fields. They lived in Crockett- Box- Pony Creek area on a > ranch that Ben got in partial payment for the 3000 head of English Sheep > that Ben Jr. delivered to Trammel and Crow, with connections to. Cage and > Crow Bank in Stephenville. The sheep were moved on to Sheep country near > Menard and San Angelo. Menard is still sheep country. > > 3.Also, Cousin Glenda Moring Neiderhoffer and "Guy "Moring " and "Cousin > Butch " Moring are Wyly grandchildren. raised on Bunk Moring Ranch east > of Hanibal Store and hill. Her family had connections to older > Stephenville Families- and some report this includes a Cage or two. > > 4. The historic pages attached mention the insolvent of Wylie and/or > Wiley families who were heavily involved in Hogtown (Desdemona) oil > wells, which, with the Thurber Miners Strike under John L. Lewis, turned > Thurber into a Ghost town. Some Wylys and Morings worked in Thurber, and > one Wyly cousin married a Tackett, from the Thurber area. > > 5.When Ben, Fred and Ben Sr. left Erath County, they had a lumber yard > and store in Stephenville and Fort Worth, before a flood removed the > lumber downstream. They traded what was left for a drilling rig , Ben > Sr. Became a Minneola, Texas Cotton buyer, and sons , married in Erath > County, drilled in Southeast Texas Oil Fields. In the 3rd Generation, > Ben of Houston, has retired from the Bacliff Marine Supply and > Contractors. He moved into Uranium prospecting from planes across Texas > into Colorado.He and crews cut the steel from Texas City Harbor after the > ship blew up there, loaded with Nitrate. Ben and Red Adair went out to > fight oil well fires and were on TV on the deck of a ship training > Mexican- Pemex oil workers how to put out the fire raging at sea in a > new Pemex well. > > One story says that a Wyly cut the cards with "Dad Joiner" and lost some > area where the first Gusher blew in in Southeast Texas. Wyly Oil Company > was sold to Sam and Charles J. Wyly of Dallas corporate offices. . THIS > WAS NOT THE SAME AS THE WYLIE OIL COMPANY of Wylie, Texas, West of > Abilene. > > Is it possible that Wylie and Wiley and Wyly families had all been in on > Desdoma and Ranger oil Fields ? Could some researcher have seen the 3 > names and assumed that they were all the same families and some just > misspelled the name??? > > 5. Today I know of African, Cherokee, Choctaw, Scotch- Irish, and German > roots of Wyly name, mostly from Tennessee to Georgia to Texas and now to > Mongolia ,New Guinea, Australia and most of the United States. > . > If we were connected to Wylie- Wiley, it was probably in Ireland or > Scotland. Can anyone shed light on this? > > Happy Hunting > Charles Augustine Wyly > > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:39:01 -0600 "Lori Beth Walker" > <walkerlo@cox-internet.com> writes: > > From the "History of Erath County" compiled by the Erath County > > Historical Commission in 1980. > > > > Cage Wylie > > > > In 1868 my father moved to Erath County from Thorp Springs. He > > owned > > land at Wylieville, now X-Ray. Eventually there were eleven boys > > and > > two girls, in that order. I was born in 1910. We made our own > > baseball > > team; I recall seven boys living at home at once. > > > > I began school at Simms Valley -- but all I can remember is breaking > > my > > leg. Later I came to Stephenville and attended the high school. We > > made our own recreation; to take thirteen kids on vacation was > > unheard > > of. Later I've taken my son Kenneth to Big Bend and around in West > > Texas, as well as to Colorado, Missouri, and Tennessee. I've had > > many > > jobs -- on my folk's ranch, at sales barns, for the city, and for > > Lone > > Star Gas. > > > > We had a 1920 Model T which my father drove with his spurs on; he > > was a > > cowboy. My first car was a 1927 Model A. (One at a recent auto > > show > > was $12,000; mine cost $135.) Now I prefer the General Motors > > Chevrolet. > > > > I knew Violet Mauldin a long time but first took her out on a blind > > date. She was Drew Mauldin's niece; her parents had died when she > > was > > very young. A County clerk named Richardson married us July 14, > > 1932 -- > > and I was 21. Money was very scarce! > > > > My favorite sport is quail-hunting, and I always have a good > > pointer. > > We loved the country but enjoyed the city, the brick streets always > > meant town to us. I hope they can be preserved. Any holiday was an > > occasion in those days, and it was a treat to skip work, since the > > hours > > were sunup to sundown. Baling hay was done -- always in hottest > > summer > > -- on shares. Teamwork was very important, and you had to keep up. > > I > > worked on WPA -- 15 days a month at $1.25 daily. It was hard, but > > welcome. We built bridges, did stone work, and fenced > > rights-of-way; it > > wasn't bad. Our boss John Dean Dabney, Sr. was reasonable. > > > > Our family ran a ranch of 1100 acres, 300 in cultivation. All the > > Wylies were land connected. There was some branching out; one > > relative > > even bought a circus, but almost gave it away later because he > > didn't > > know anything about it. Aunt Pearl Wylie Cage did some banking, > > several > > did railroading -- the line was sold to the Cotton-Belt company. > > Some > > in the family speculated on Desdamona oil property and did well. At > > X-Ray, some of the ranchers in the area got a good deal of oil money > > in > > the 1920's. > > > > Young people needing advice might well consider that it's not what > > you > > make, it's what you save. That's what's important. > > > > Thought you might enjoy this! > > > > Lori > > walkerlo@cox-internet.com > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Freorden@aol.com [mailto:Freorden@aol.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:15 PM > > To: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [ERATH] Wylie family: > > > > > > > > I have a Mary L. FULFER who married A.K. WYLIe on Jan 8-1890 in > > Erath > > Co. Tx. > > > > I am researching my extended FULFER and AINSWORTH families [Tx. & > > NM] > > mostly. > > > > Charles..............this person must be related to you? > > > > Freddie B. Stewart > > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved > > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved > > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >