Hi, Michael, who are your grandparents? Ever hear of Sylvia Holland of Willow Springs, between Walnut Springs and Meridian, or between the Twin Peaks near Willow Springs and the confluence of the East Bosque and the North Bosque, east of Iredell. This was Jackson's Crossing (low water crossing). Sylvia was in a Biology class and some Geometry and History classes I taught at Walnut Springs High School. I also sometimes drove that bus route. They sometimes killed rattlesnakes near Twin Peaks on a southern exposure slope in December. Sylvia married Butch Offutt and the last time I saw him he was working in a Hillsboro , Texas body shop. Can't remember her brother's name. Butch's grandad was an elderly carpenter in Walnut Springs. One day we folollowed the rural school pattern of catching our own frogs to examine, rather than buying the pickled ones some Lab had killed and then they injected their veins with red Latex. Didn't seem such a big deal to us, as we killed our own chickens and hogs and Deer and short circuited the Supermarket loop. J.Eddie McCarty and Larry Jackson poured wood alcohol on the frog's body to sterilize him. His head dropped like he was dead. then we neatly opened his stomach and watched his heart beat and identified the parts, then neatly sewed his stomach seam up with a needle and strong thread. The next day he was sitting in the sink croaking. We fed him and by the 3rd day he hopped out of his pan, under the door,down the stairs, and was sitting at the front door the next morinig. We put him in a flower bed near the school door and he appeared happy a few days, then he vanished. A week or so later Sylvia came in and said "Mr. Wyly, our frog came home- over 3 miles. I found him in a cool wet shade yesterday and he still had the stitches". Do Frogs have a pigeon's homing instincts, or did we have a prankster who sneaked the frog out to near their house????? Imagine hopping 3 miles in rocks and gravel, dodging snakes and hungry stray dogs and racoons and only he knows what else. , all to get home to his favorite shade. . Take care Charles Wyly On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 21:40:37 -0600 "Michael Holland" <mai-holland@worldnet.att.net> writes: >Charles, you're incredible. No wonder the Erath site is a favorite. >Thanks for all your contributions. Keep up the good work! >I've learned more about Erath County history from you than from >years of research. I have four sets of grandparents in the >county, none of which you are related, but I learn the real >flavor of Texas from you each week. Thanks again for your >input. Michael Holland, Dallas, TX > >---------- >> From: charles a Wyly <wyly1@juno.com> >> To: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [TXPARKER-L] History book >> Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 7:42 PM >> >> Hi, >> >> The Soundex is in the Waco- Mclennan County library, Geneaology >section. >> I haven't had time to use it recently. Brady Richardson attends our >> church in Hewitt and Richardson Creek in Erath County, a tributary >of >> the Paluxy River. Sid Richardson was a self made Texas oil >millionaire >> and left his estate with Corporate offices in Fort Worth, Texas >willed to >> his nephews, the Bass Brothers. Fort Worth is in 3 parts, North >Main, for >> example, runs from the Trinity River North. Main runs from the >Trinity >> south from the Courthouse seen on 'Walker, Texas Ranger"on tv, to >East >> Lancaster and the Railroad depot. From there south is South Main . >Other >> downtown streets are divided similarly. The Bass Brothers >corporations >> hire private security guards in uniform and disguise to supplement >City >> and County police in the downtown tourist area between the >Convention >> Center and the Courthouse, It is the safest downtown area in any >town in >> Texas , according to reports. >> >> Since you are in Ireland and are apparently a Riley, HELP! My >wife's >> grandad, James Whitcomb O'Riley died in Cleburne , Texas 1893 when >her >> dad Alvin Norman was about 6 years old. He was 43 or so. and was >married >> twice. , the second time to Alice Marie Renfro of Tennessee and >Johnson >> County, Texas. Jeannie's dad and his two sisters said Mr. O' Riley >was an >> Irish Catholic- red headed and freckled, just like 2 of his 3 second >set >> of kids. He lived on a farm in Ireland that raised prize race >horses. He >> was told to never ride, ESPECIALLY the Stalion when the family were >gone >> and he was home. One day, at age 12, he was jumping with the Stalion >and >> he fell and broke a lef. James did not want a Sheileigh threshing, >so, at >> age 12, he helpped the stalion to his stall, wrapped his leg, and >packed >> some sandwiches and clothes and stowed away in a lifeboat on an >outbound >> ship. Three days to sea he was seasick and gave himself up to the >Sea >> Captain ., who said he could work his way to the U.S. as many of the >crew >> were coming down sick. >> >> Since james was alone, he could not come through immigration with >> parents, so the Sea Captain carried him to a Tinker.s shop (for >sheet >> metal supplies and buckets and tubs for the ship) in New York and >James >> signed on as an Aprentice Tinker. He came ti Cleburne, Johnson >County, >> Texas where he gardened, made sheet metal supplies like water tanks >and >> troughs and deliverred them on his weekly route where he sold >Watkins or >> Rawleigh products and took more orders for custom sheet metal work. >> We have reason to believe one of my wife's dad's half brothers was a >> Cleburne Texas barber and one ran a shoe factory in Boston Mr. Riley >said >> before he died that an attorney had once contacted him about being >an >> heir to the shoe factory and someons else had contacted him about >the >> farm in Ireland. He told them he had his own West Texas land and a >> Central West Texas retirement home and if his dad had not bothered >to >> tell him and his mother about their inheritance, he was not >interested. >> >> Does this ring any Bells? >> >> I also know a building in Dublin, Ireland and one in \Glasgow, >Scotland >> had our Wyly name carved in Stone over the door. My Great Grandad >John >> Milton Moxley married Mary Ann Fleming, both Ireland born,or 1 >generation >> removed, and Mary Ann's mom was Mary Murphy They are all buried in >Indian >> Creek Cemetery, Erath County , Texas. >> . Some of his kids married aome Irish immigrants named Higdon, >Arendell, >> and Darnell. >> >> Great Grandad Dr. & Rev. Dr. W.P. Hatchett's (he buried in Erath >County) >> family were from Shrevesburg, England. One Hatchett was Burgess of >> Shrevesburg. Great Great Grand's mother Eliza Tuggle (Tugglestine) >(Also >> buried in Erath County by his wive's parents, Rev. & Mrs Angelina >> Isabella Stevens) had roots in Jamestown, Va. from the Tarrant, >Tuggle >> and Herndon families of Bradford, England, who made Navy uniforms >for >> World wide export and Tarrant County, Texas is rooted in the same >family. >> One built Christ Church in Bradford and donated it and land to the >> community. >> >> Does any of this ring any bells? Just courious >> >> Thanks, >> Charles Augustine Wyly >> >> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 07:53:03 EST Arkivemom@aol.com writes: >> >Does anyone out there have access to the 1880 soundex for TX? I am >in >> >Ireland >> >and need to find out which county either of the two following were >in >> >in >> >1880:James Buchanan RICHARDSON, who would have been 35, and/or >Henry >> >Clinton >> >RICHARDSON, who would have been 30. I just need the county. Any >help >> >would be >> >most appreciated. >> >Charmaine Riley Holley >> >arkivemom@aol.com >> > >> > >> >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> 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. 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