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    1. Re: [ERATH] Mineola, TX HUGHES / SMITH
    2. Charles A. Wyly
    3. Hi, Great Grandad Robert wyly's one eyed brother Bn F. Wyly had a cotton yard in Minewola, He had run a store in Stephenville after he and his uncle finally closet the Atlanta. Ga. wholesale grocery in 1890. He also had 3000 acres inside the Trinity Levees (Some now developed) which he sold for $1. oo per acre to move to Mineola. I have a letter he wrote from there , giving Wyly, Cleveland, and Sevier historyhe learned from his frandmother Sarah Hawkins Clark Wyly and she had had learned from her grandad Gov. John Sevier. He lost his eye in the Battle of Knoxville, Civil war and had a ranch near the old Crockett, Erath County school. What was behind the moves to Mineola? Oil boom? I know some from Erath County who did the Corsicana oil boom. Take care, Charles Wyly

    09/27/1999 06:00:01