Mrs. Caleb Watson died last Thursday, December 30, 1953 at her home in Wylie. She was eighty-one years of age. The former Miss Cordelia Rice was born February 20, 1870 at Holly Grove, Mississippi. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. William Rice. She married Caleb H. Watson in 1889 at Augusta, Arkansas. The two packed […]
Thomas Jackson McClain, Civil War veteran, was born in Granada, Pennsylvania, on January 29, 1835, and died on the same day of January in 1888. He was an early pioneer of the Pleasant Valley area, having arrived there sometime prior to 1862. He would later be instrumental in the organization of a Church of Christ […]
Jack Parr was born at Lucas across Muddy Creek to James C. and Leona Moss Parr at the home of his grandfather, W.M. Parr, who owned 180 acres of land there. While Jack was a young child, the family moved two miles north of Wylie. Papa farmed and bought and butchered cows to sell to […]
“Brags about Texas” and asthma brought one of the best loved doctors of Wylie to come here, and, oddly enough, he and his new bride came on their honeymoon and stayed. He was Dr. Percy Franklin Brooks, who was born on George Washington’s birthday, February 22, 1881 at a very small settlement called Center Star, […]
In 1955 Dr. Terrill Marshall Trimble Jr. moved from Ft. Worth to Wylie to take over an existing practice at the Wylie Clinic. Thirty years later he would be joined in this practice by his son, Ted Dawson Trimble. The young Wylie doctor was born at Ft. Worth, Texas back in 1928 to T.M. Sr. […]
When Jack Ratcliff saw Wylie first, he was a little “shaver.” On the way to see the State Fair in Dallas via railroad, he viewed Wylie first through the window. That was when horseracing was held at the fair and trains made stops from Lavon to Wylie. Waverly Jackson “Jack” Ratcliff was the oldest child […]
The migration of the Brown family started with Samuel P. Brown. They came to the Wylie, Texas area from Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas around the year of 1852. Traveling with them were his brothers and families. Jesse, William and John along with his sister Martha and her husband, Michael Millirons.Their eldest son, William Thomas, would […]
My father moved to Millwood in Southeast Collin when I was too young to remember. Millwood was east of Wyie and south of Lavon. I remember back to when I was about 6 years old. We lived in a little log house a short distance east of the cemetery. I have seen several letters written […]
Pat Housewright starts off as follows: I had $7.40 left, and me and four kids, and 200 miles from home so we had to leave the motel. We started downtown Mineral Wells and we stopped and went under a tent and there was some hay in it and I guess they must of been some […]
Fred Callaway was born in Nickleville on January 29, 1886. Nickleville was located in an area now known as the east side of Wylie, Texas. Wylie became a town in October of that same year. The Civil War ended and many from the Southern States headed to Texas. Among them were the three strong Christian […]
We made a good cotton crop and had so much money I didn’t know what to do with all of it. So I took the old 1914 Model T. Ford and traded it for a brand new 1924 Model T. Ford. We thought we were sitting on top of the world. I will tell you […]
One of the first settlers in the Wylie, Texas area was mark L. Morris. He was born n Alabama in 1823. He was of Scottish ancestry. He and his family were among those who came with Andy Burns, Fayette Summers and Adam Scott to Texas from McNary, County, Tennessee. They came with their slow moving […]
So as time went by Lucy tried to be a mother to the children (children of Pat’s brother) and they haven’t lost their love for her. She tells Percy Fay that she put a lot of diapers on him and told him that his hips were so small she had a time trying to fasten […]
PAUL MAURICE AKIN Wylie Elementary School Principal, 1956-1976 P. M. Akin Elementary School Named in His Honor in 1988 Paul Maurice Akin taught and was the Elementary Principal to many, sometimes spanning “three generations.” He was born April 8, 1912 in the Clear Water Community, the son of John Weldon Akin Sr. and Hester (Hillis) […]
