I ran across this article about Aunt Maude Gibson in an old addition of The Highlander. After mentioning it here in an earlier post we found out the buggy is now restored and resides at Fort Croghan Museum in Burnet. Continue reading Aunt Maude Hall Gibson’s Buggy
It was brought to my attention some time ago that in the Smithwick Cemetery there are the graves of 6 children that died during a very short period of time. They all died within 4 years. I found several oddities about this. If they had all died at the same time, perhaps the plague or a house fire may have been the cause. But they died in groups of 2. A boy 8 and a boy 4 died on the same day, Feb. 9, 1859. Three years later a little girl 5 and a little boy almost 4 died just … Continue reading The Mystery of the Death of So Many Children From One Family
I always considered Jake pretty easy going, knowledgeable and a good teacher. But if you got him riled up, you better watch out. Some of the older guys and a few of the younger ones were real hoodlums. They would always try Jake on for size. He swung a hard paddle. But the maddest that I ever saw that man was pretty late in the school year. A couple of little young pretties were dispatched from the school newspaper to do a story on the Building Trades Program. Jake had told us they were coming and we needed to be … Continue reading Jake the Building Trades Teacher
As I browsed the 100 Pages of Marble Falls History 1887-1987 published by the Highlander back in 1987 to commemorate the Centennial of the Town, I ran across this paragraph from 1922. (Thomas E. is actually Thomas C.) Being curious about what all young Thomas accomplished during his lifetime, I did some digging. I was to find out that he is buried at Cook-Walden Memorial Gardens in Austin. Following is a pretty good summary of his lifelong accomplishments. So in summary I guess you can say the boy that graduated Burnet High School at 14 did go on to accomplish … Continue reading Thomas Ferguson
This information comes from 100 Pages of Marble Falls History 1887-1987 published by The Highlander on October 22, 1987. Continue reading The Cyclone That Hit Marble Falls.
This was covered on here before. Something was mentioned on another post a few days ago when we were talking about the old lumber yard in Bertram, so thought I’d bring it back around. Joanne Myers added this copy of a newspaper clipping. Complete newspaper clipping on Burnet TXGenWeb here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txburnet/Phinney-Sinclair.html Continue reading A Strange and Tragic Happening In Bertram on July 27, 1887
We had no idea what the future held. Emma Nicole Lewis popped out into this world and has entertained us all every day since then. That blond hair was always mostly seen sticking out from underneath a cap, worn backwards most of the time. As she entered Kindergarten at Bertram, she wore her cap everyday. Although wearing hats in school wasn’t permitted, they gave up on that rule with Emma, if I remember correctly. It just wasn’t worth their effort to change her mind. She had a very nice early career in Quarter Midget Racing, along with her brothers, Nate … Continue reading On This Very Day, 18 Years Ago
Clipped from The Austin American, 09 Oct 1932, Sunday. Continue reading This is a story, like many others told by our ancestors.
When the ones we love go away to college, we are as full of dreams as they are. Our very precious oldest granddaughter, Holly finished high school just a little less than 4 years ago and headed off to Waco to attend Baylor University. It took her a little while to determine what her best direction would be with her major. She finally settled on a Communications Degree (actually it’s something about “Digital Communications”) and she went to work and graduated after 3 1/2 years. Because of her outstanding performance she was allowed to spend the final semester of her … Continue reading A Dream Come True
There are a few things in life that really don’t mix. Being really tough and drinking too much are a good example of this. Cecil Lewis was tough guy and he drank a way more than he should have. Back in 80 – 81 I had contracted to build a new state park and campground area down on the Guadalupe River near the little community of Bergheim not far from Boerne, Texas. When I needed him my dad would help me out on projects. On this job he mostly drove a water truck driver. He never drank while on the … Continue reading He Bit My Thumb
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