Hi, Run Rootsweb Archives of Txerath for Keith name and I think you will find a Keith kin had posted the details of this wedding, including the Bride's family name. If you don't find the Archives through Google.com, I may have time next week to search a little Fred became an Oil driller in East Texas. He is in some of the old Oil Museum photos' Some photos show him in a suit, tie, and dress hat and coat watching or teaching the Drillers the next step. The one so dressed may have his shoes hanging on his shoulder. Either Fred or Frank lost some of the Oil leases around the Spindletop well to a Dad Joiner in a Poker game. One of them ran the Galveston Cotton Compress for super compressed bales for export, and facing the Houston ship channel, , hand painted was the name of the manager BAREFOOT (b.f. ) wYLY. he could have learned the cotton business in Atlanta, Ga. or Stephenville. Wylys once had yards in both places- and this branch of the family sold their brother in Law's Mr. Dunn) Hardwood lumber sawed in Dublin and later San Angelo area. Sawmill still runs- We used to see them loading dead pecan trees in Dublin to send to the mill outside San Angelo. Also wonder if Fred could hve learned the Drilling trade on the Laney gas Wells or those in Hogtown (Desdemona)?? Where can I find a list of Oil or Water well drillers in Erath County history? Some shallow oil wells were dug with a wooden framed,wheeled Cable drop bit, but rotaries were faster,esp. in rocks. Charles A. Wyly On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:42:35 -0700 Gina Thomas Patterson <[email protected]> writes: > Charles - > Which Keith wedding was this, do you know? > ~gina~ > > --- "Charles A. Wyly" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > Fredrick Wyly was a son of Ben Wyly. He married the > > Mefford > > mentioned, then they later "Stood Up" at a Keith > > Wedding in Green's Creek > > Baptist Church, when a Keith was married. it was a > > nice spring day and > > friends came from miles around for the Wedding. The > > crowd was too large > > for the meal planned for the Families of Bride and > > Groom, so each wagon > > or buggy had killed a Chicken, picked fresh > > vegetables, opened canned > > fruit and home canned Grape juice and cooked a roast > > or whatever. Wagons > > and buggies spread to trees near the church and > > smaller groups shared > > their lunches and visited with friends until > > Sundown, then returned home > > after dark- > > > > >From my living in the county I will name a few > > common dishes they would > > have eaten: > > 1. Mustang Grape juice and Jelly > > 2. Home baked cornbread and biscuits > > 3. Wild Plum Jelly and Canned Indian Peach Pickles > > 4. Fresh Garden produce- raw and cooked. > > 5. Beef and Pork and Chicken, home raised, home > > killed and home canned > > or cooked > > 6. Polk Salad or Poke Salet Greens > > 7. Sometimes Rabbit, fish, and Deer > > 8. Home raised honey > > 9.Fresh Peaches, plums & Berries > > 10. Field Corn, fresh or canned in jars. > > 11.Pecan Pie from local pecans and Syrup from local > > Syrup mills. > > > > Time to eat, > > Charles Wyly > > > > > > From: Mike and Jo Ann Moffat > > To: [email protected] > > Hello,I just came across our message on rootsweb > > that you are trying to > > find us. We still have our yahoo.com e-mail address. > > About Fredick Wyly > > and Mary J. Mefford. Mary Mefford was a sister to my > > grandfather James > > Edward Mefford. She wasn't a sister to Roy Mefford > > they were cousins. > > Mary Mefford was the oldest child of George > > Washington Mefford and Serena > > Jane Pickering. George Washington Mefford was the > > son of William Ewing > > Mefford and Lucinda Findell Arendell. Lucinda > > Arendell Mefford was a > > sister to Thomas Arendell. (Thomas was the > > father of Henry Russell > > Arendell right?) That would be your Moxley > > connextion. I can send you all > > the brothers and sister of Mary J. Mefford Wyly if > > you want them. Thank > > you,Jo Ann Mefford Moffat > > > > Mike and Jo Ann Moffat > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > > -- Copyright 2003 Author -- All Rights Reserved > > Post to List: [email protected] > > http://www.selfroots.com > > Unsubscribe request To: > > [email protected] > > ARCHIVES: > > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2003 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: [email protected] http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: [email protected] > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >