Hi, have been thinking about your letter. I know I was a paulbearer for Squire Morga, and think I was for Ira Hurley. As I remember one or both had one set of bearers to the church and another set of Masonic Bearers at the cemetery, where a masonic graveside service was held. Hard to remember teh details of one funeral so close together in a community which had more deaths than births. I definitely remember my wife and I going to their house early in the A.M. to help with household chores and breakfast. Col. Honzie Rodgers was already there making coffee and cooking breakfast. He worketd all day making kin and well wishers welcome, the ones who brought food. He had a ranch towards Iredell. He had married Tom Fair's sister. Tom was Walnut Springs postmaster and had a farm by Honzie's ranch, His sisterand my Aunt Mary Wyly attended nurse's training school together- either at Tarleton otr St. Joseph's in Fort Worth. Squire Morgan lived a block from the Hurleys on same block I lived on. Stories were his older brother J.P. Morgan (???) had managed to obtain Squire's inheritance of the Morgan- Campbell Ranch near Morgan, Texas and his interest in developing some railroads and a steamship or two. Squire and Ira Hurley were large- tall but gentle men. Both loved fishing and gardening. Squire was a poet and some of his poems were read at his funeral, Tthey were better than many published today. . When my daughter ran to tell his widow I got 2 A.s that summer at North Texas State and my M. Ed. degree was complete, she came through the back yard carrying an Ingraham pendolum mantle clock with alarm which she said had been the Morgan family 150 years in 1960's and it was my graduation present. It will still run. Keep this in mind as you select graduation gifts- the gift has value, but the background story is more valuable. She could have sold the clock, but she gave it to someone she knew appreciated it. Take care Charles Wyly On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:19:45 -0600 charles a Wyly <wyly1@juno.com> writes: >Hi, check the post on Jackson's Crossing and Ira Hurley's death. I was >one of his paulbearers. His wife Lela and my great Aunt Etta Robinson >Moxley were lifelong friends and I took them from Walnut Springs to >Indian Creek cem., Hatchett Cem.(Selden) and Tom Arendell's grave and >cabin at Selden, not in Hamilton County as one history book said. > >Charles Wyly, Johnsville, Selden, and Hewitt, Texas. > >P.S. "Uncle A" Hurley used to gin his cotton at Kay then Stone Gin at >Selden. Jean Wakefield Riggs said he used to stop his cotton wagon and >visit with my Great Uncle Bill- William Sevier Wyly, born Blont Co. >Tenn or Hiawasse Ga. his great nephew Kevin Woods now lives in the >same house, minus the coverred and charcoal filterred rainwater >cistern, resembling a well, across the road from our farm. Dad took us >to Aunt Mary Hurley's birthday- a barbecue between Elvis Riggs and >Ruby Beech Rumph. She, about 80, walked a hundred yards to the tank >and told the boys swimming there to put an undershirt over their >trunks- they looked naked. They did. We didn't argue with authority >figures like the kids I teach today. > >On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:00:45 -0800 TRUETT TYLER ><truett.t@worldnet.att.net> writes: >>My maternal great-grandmother, Temperance Hawkins, died at Wingate, >>TX on Nov. 21, 1922. Can someone tell me in which county, and where >in >>the county, Wingate is/was located. Great-grandfather Joseph Henry >>Hawkins, her husband, preceded in death, at Hillsboro on April 4, >>1918. >> My parents, Clinton Hendrix Tyler and Edna Mae (Huey) Tyler, >were >>married in Lingleville in 1914. My aunt Alma (Huey) Goodman still >>lives >>at age 101, in a convalescent home in Stephenville. Grandfather Ira >>Huey >>and Grandmother Rose (Hawkins) Huey owned a farm near Harbin >community >>in Erath in the early 1900s, and my mother and her three younger >>sisters >>attended Harbin School. I yet have Goodman cousins in the area: Huey >>Goodman near Stephenville, Terrell Goodman in Granbury, and Peggy >>(Goodman) Burnett in Fort Worth. My parents moved from Erath to >Denton >>County around 1917-18, later to Lynn County, where both are buried at >>O'Donnell. >> I will be pleased to hear from anyone for whom any of the above >>names strike a memory chord. --- Truett Tyler, Whittier, CA. >> >> >___________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get >completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html >or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]