The Richland County Republican and Observer, November 9, 1893

Following is the report of Oak Ridge school, district no. 5, town of Orion, for the term ending October 28, 1893:

First month - No. enrolled, 26; No. days taught, 19; whole No. days in attendance, 363; average daily attendance, 18; neither absent nor tardy, Kate and Jennie Kane, Emma Abbey, Ed. and Frank Sherman, Sarah and Austin Mc Claren; absent but not tarde, Ada Demmer, Tempest, Arthur, Oscar, Irvin, Rose, Ella and Bertha McClaren, Maud and Truman Abbey, Carrie Sherman, Fred Kellar and Willie Wilson.

Second month - No. enrolled, 19; No. days taught, 21; whole No. days in attendance, 342; average daily attendance, 16; neither absent nor tardy, Kate and Jennie Kane, Sarah, Austin and Ella McClaren, Ed. and Frank Sherman, Maud and Emma Abbey; absent but not tardy, Ada. Demmer, Art McClaren, Everett Miller, Leonard Frye and Dolly Wilson; tardy but not absent, Ralph and Jimmie Miller.

There are only 150 minutes lost by tardiness during the term and an average absence during the last month of 3. This speaks well for the punctuality and attendance and I can say that the deportment of the scholars was fully as good.   CHAS. HENRY, Teacher  

The Beach Advance, Beach, Billings Co., ND, October 30, 1908

Golden Valley News

(First publication October 30th)

Department of the interior U. S. Land Office at Dickinson, N. D., Oct. 27, 1908. Notice is hereby given that Charles T. Abbey of Alpha, N. D., who on June 6th, 1907, made homestead entry No. 9213, for the ne1/4 of section 10, township 137, range 104, w. 5th principal meridan, has filed notice of intention to make final commutation proof,, to establish claim to the land above described, before George McClellan, U. S. Commissioner at Beach,, N. D. on the 2nd of Dec. 1908. Claimant names as witnesses: Gust Burke, of Alpha, N. D., Nels Miller, Thomas P. Oulton, John A. Joeger, all of Sentinel Butte, N. Dak. S. M. FERRIS, Register.

The San Antonio Light and Gazette, San Antonio, TX, Sunday, August 7, 1910

Additional Southwest Texas News

Mrs. D. G. Franks has returned from a month's stay in Las Cruces, N. M., where she went to visit her daughter, Mrs. E. P. Roberts.

The Rio Grande Republican, Las Cruces, NM, Tuesday, July 2, 1912

DEATH OF ED ROBERTS

The death of Ed Roberts shocked Las Cruces last Saturday morning coming as it did without warning. Mr. Roberts was preparing for his last days work previous to a long and needed vacation and was stricken in his own home in the presence of his wife and was gone from this life without a word or apparent knowledge of the approaching end. He had suffered for some years from a heart trouble but no immediate danger of death or even serious illness seemed imminent. He had for some time been in care of a physician and had frequently expressed a desire to go to a lower altitude for a rest. This was all planned when he passed away leaving  his friends mourning over his sudden demise. He leaves a young wife and child, his beloved mother and a young brother as his immediate family and they are joined by a host of relatives and dear friends in their sorrow. The funeral was held from the pretty bungalow home recently built by the ambitious young man, at four on Sunday afternoon and was in charge of B. P. O. E. Lodge 1119, and the beautiful service with appropriate music by a quartette composed of Messrs W. J. and R. A. Stevens, Dr. Orrin H. Brown and Orrin A. Foster, was solemnly observed. The pall bearers were his working mates from the Bascom French company and were Mr. Frank Islas, Mr. George Schenk, Mr. H. B. Bundy, Mr. Jose Ruiz, Mr. J. B. Wooden and Mr. A. R. Ruiz. Mr. Poole being the funeral director. Beautiful flowers expressed the grief and sympathy of friends and covered the casket from sight. The procession from the residence to the depot was a very long one and the train soon bore away the remains of one who has come to Las Cruces for health and an extension of life which had truly been prolonged by his stay here, in a land he loved, amid beautiful surroundings and loving friends. Ed Roberts as he was known here was a most exemplary young man of correct habits and ideal ambitions. He was a loving son and husband and a highly esteemed citizen. His employers the Bascom-French company prized his loyal service and genuine sorrow is felt by every man there for the loss of this young man. His remains accompanied by his wife and child were sent to Del Rio, Texas for interment.

The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI, Friday, July 22, 1927

Waupaca, Wis. - C. T. Abbey, of San Antonio, Tex. and G. A. Abbey, of Haiti, spent Tuesday in the city guests of the Almo Larsen family.

The Galveston Daily News, Galveston, TX, Sunday, January 13, 1929

HAMMOND HEADS BEARS

San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 12. - H. H. Hammond was elected president of the San Antonio Bears, succeeding Harry Ables, who resigned several weeks ago, following the annual meeting of the stockholders, today. The following were elected board of directors: Dr. J. L. Burleson, H. H. Hammond, J. F. Armstrong, J. L. Yarbrough and C. T. Abbey. The directors elected officers as follows: H. H. Hammond, President and treasurer; Dr. J. H. Burleson, vice president; J. L. Yarbrough, secretary, and Tom E. Conner Jr., assistant secretary and business manager. Conner was placed in active charge of the club.

The San Antonio Light, San Antonio, TX, Monday, July 31, 1972

Rites Set for Civic Leader

Services for Mrs. Dollie Evans Abbey, 69, of 2420 McCullough, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Porter Loring Georgian Chapel. Interment for Mrs. Abbey, who died Sunday, will be in Mission Burial Park. A San Antonio resident for 45 years, she was a member of the Conservation Society, Battle of Flowers Association, Military Civilian Club, and Christ Episcopal Church. She is survived by her husband, Charles T. Abbey; daughter, Mrs. June McNeel; sisters, Mrs. Edna Kuentcel, Palm Springs, Calif., Mrs. Ollie Eppler and Mrs. Dorothy Embrey, both of San Antonio; brothers, Raymond Evans, Houston, and Homer Evans, Westmoreland, Calif., and two grandchildren.

HISTORY OF TRUMAN FREMONT ABBEY 

(a/k/a CHARLES TRUMAN ABBEY) 

Edited reflections of Atty. Albert M. McNeel Jr. - Son-in-law of C. T. Abbey

C. T. Abbey was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1886. When he was two or three years old the family moved to Dodgeville, Wisconsin where he grew up and graduated from high school about 1905. His parents named him Truman Fremont Abbey, but he did not like the name Fremont. Soon after graduation he changed his name to Charles Truman Abbey. Apparently he didn't like the name Fremont because when he was growing up General Fremont was not popular in Wisconsin, probably because of being too friendly with the Indians. Mr. Abbey was always a very conservative Republican. When Harry Truman became President, Mr. Abbey was not at all in tune with Mr. Truman being a Democrat and again he was probably unhappy with his name, although he never said anything about it.

C. T. Abbey's father, William Searle Abbey, was born in Canada and thus was a British subject. While C. T. had dual Canadian and United States citizenship, C. T. considered himself to be an American because his father came to the United States at age 7 or 8. C. T.’s mother was Ida Elmira Blake and her family came from Pennsylvania. C. T. thought she was Pennsylvania Dutch, but Glenn Abbey said they were actually Huguenot French.

William S. Abbey was always a tenant farmer and perhaps raised horses. One time when C. T. Abbey was a teenager his father had him take some horses to Madison, Wisconsin for delivery to Mr. LaFollette who was then, or later became, a very well known United States Senator from the State of Wisconsin. C. T. Abbey had a very long and colorful life. He said that when he was six years old his father rented a mule to a neighbor for $5.00 a month and he rented Mr. Abbey to lead the mule for $1.00 a month. When C. T. Abbey was a boy about 13 or 14 years old, he cut up many cords of firewood until he finally had enough money to buy a shotgun. He got $.25 a cord for cutting up a cord of wood. He said the first time he had the shotgun the snow was on the ground and he knew there was a rabbit under a large pile of brush so he went and jumped up and down on top of the pile of brush and finally the rabbit ran out, and he shot at the rabbit. But when he did, the barrel of his gun split apart because when he was jumping up and down he wasn't paying attention, and he got snow in the barrel of his gun which blocked it and made it explode so that all of his work in cutting all that wood was for naught.

The story of the family is that when C. T. Abbey was a baby his parents went to town and left him in the charge of his older brother and sisters and that when his parents returned they saw that the older children were pulling something up on a rope of a tree limb and then letting it fall almost to the ground. It was a game and when his parents got home they found that what they were letting fall was C. T. Abbey. They had him in a crib, and they were playing with him.

C. T. Abbey said when the snow got to be high he would ski to school and he could ski over the fences. He also apparently had an iceboat where he had some type of skis on a frame and a sail and could go sailing on the frozen lakes. Mr. Abbey always had a wonderful physique and by the time he was about 16 years old he weighed about 190 lb. Mr. Abbey was about 5'10" in height. He said that was very large for that time and that anybody that was bigger than that was usually very clumsy and not athletic. Mr. Abbey played all sports but especially liked football and baseball. Platteville, one of the towns near Dodgeville was a lead mining center. Sometimes Mr. Abbey and the rest of the baseball team would walk over 10 miles to Platteville and play baseball and then walk back home again.

C. T. Abbey got an appointment to West Point after he graduated from high school but apparently was not old enough to accept the appointment. He went out to North Dakota and for two years was a cowboy. Part of that time, at least, he was in a cabin out on the prairie all by himself. He saw the Northern Lights many times, sometimes parallel to the ground and would come just like a big tube of light along the ground. While he was a cowboy he participated in two roundups. At that time (1905 -1907) there were no fences and the roundup would begin with cowboys like Mr. Abbey going out and rounding up all the cattle they could find and bringing them in to camp. The cattle would be sorted out by different brands and the brands from their ranch stayed there. Evidently the other brands were taken forward and dropped off at wherever they belonged. Mr. Abbey said that the sun came up about 4:00 a.m. and went down about 10:00 p.m. They would get up, have breakfast, and then roundup until noon when they would come back to headquarters (that is to the chuck wagon). They would get a new horse, eat lunch, and then go rounding up again until about 9:00 p.m. The trail boss when he was on the roundup was named Favor, and was from Texas. There were some terrific cowboys on the roundup. Some of the older cowboys would never go to sleep at night, and would sit and talk and play poker. I guess they slept in the saddle some times during the daytime. The roundup he was on apparently went for about 300 miles and crossed the Little Missouri River. He said most of the cowboys swam across the river with their horses, but that there was one man that had taught his horse how to walk on the railroad trestle and he would walk his horse across. Mr. Abbey said some of the older cowboys could rope a calf over a cow.

While Mr. Abbey was a cowboy he got a second appointment to West Point but it did not reach him until the time for acceptance had expired. Apparently he never got another opportunity for an appointment. About this time C. T. Abbey went to Oklahoma to work for his brother, Erwin, drilling oil wells. Several years earlier Erwin had shot a man and thought that he had killed him, so he fled and for a long time the family did not know where he was. Erwin would send post cards back to the family and say that he was OK, but would not tell them where he was because he thought that the law was after him. It turned out that the man didn't die, so Erwin eventually contacted the family and it was after that time that Mr. Abbey went down to work for him. This must have been about 1907 or 1908. Glenn Abbey said he remembered seeing Erwin only two times in his life; his parents’ 30^th and 50^th wedding anniversary family reunions.

C. T. Abbey was the principal of an Indian school in Oklahoma at one point, and slept in a dormitory where they had Indian girls and Indian boys. He said the Indian boys had a big room on one side and the girls on another, and Mr. Abbey slept in a room in the middle between them in the middle of the dormitory. It is unknown how long he was the principal of the school, but he greatly admired the physical ability of the Indians. He said they were wonderful athletes, and apparently enjoyed his stay there very much.

At some time in Oklahoma while he was working on a well, the gas coming out of the well caught on fire and burned his hands and face. Apparently it was a second‑degree burn because he recovered but after that he always said the skin on his face was a little more sensitive than it had been before. After this Mr. Abbey went down to the San Antonio area to work for somebody drilling water wells (perhaps for his brother Erwin). At one point around San Antonio he was employed to go with a crew out on the Devils River north of Comstock to drill for oil, but the man that he was working for apparently had a disagreement with the landowner and they never did start working on the well but came back to San Antonio.

About 1911 Mr. Abbey started to go to Mexico but he apparently got typhoid fever, and he ended up at the Lutheran TB Sanitarium in San Antonio. He stayed there a little while, and then he started for Mexico again, and he had a relapse and the last thing he remembered was checking in to the P&S Hospital in San Antonio, and the nurse asked him if he had a doctor, and he said he didn't, and he would like her to get him a doctor. She got Albert McNeel’s grandfather, Dr. E. W. McCamish. Grandpa McCamish not only took care of Mr. Abbey, they became good friends. One thing that they had in common was baseball. Both of them liked baseball. Mr. Abbey said that Grandpa took him over to the Palace Theater which was, perhaps, on Alamo Plaza, to watch a game of the World Series. Apparently the movie house had a set up so that the telegraph operator would receive what was going on in the game and then they would punch buttons and make lights go on on the screen so if Babe Ruth hit a fly to right field that would be on the screen, and I don't know how they told them who was doing what, but anyway Mr. Abbey remembered that with great pleasure.

Then in 1911 Mr. Abbey went to Tampico, Mexico to work in the oil fields, perhaps with Grover and Donald Fricks (whom he knew from Texas and Oklahoma). Before he went he became a friend of Mr. Charles F. Ginther, Jr. who was a young lawyer, and Mr. Guenther from that time on and Mr. Abbey were the closest of friends, and Mr. Guenther was always his lawyer. Mr. Abbey got down to Mexico. He began a construction company building roads, bridges and derricks. He would work himself, and the story from him and other people is that he would often work a day and a night and a day and then he would sleep a night. Mr. Abbey was a very strong person. In mid life his arm was just like the wall, and he continued to be very strong until the day he died at age 91. They would build the derricks approximately 80' to 100' high, and they had big 2" x 12"s that came across as cross pieces every 8'. There were also guy wires extending from the ground to the top of the derrick. Mr. Abbey said there were three ways to get down off the top of the derrick. One was to climb down a ladder inside which was safe. Another one was to just start dropping from one cross piece to another. You'd let go and then you'd grab on to the next crosspiece. Another one was to grab on to the guy wire and just slide down and turn loose before you got to the end because at the end they folded the guy wire back, and the end of the guy wire, which was a steel cable, was sticking up, and if you ran into that it would punch holes in your hand. Mr. Abbey said that he always perspired down to the tops of his shoes but that his feet never perspired.

While he was in Mexico he evidently picked up malaria because he had malaria off and on all of his life. He was in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, and many times he would be working in between two different groups that were fighting each other. He had a partner and it seemed that often his partner would be robbed on his way back from town with the payroll. They apparently always got the payroll in gold. Mr. Abbey was never robbed when he went in and out of town.

Mr. Abbey was in Mexico with a lot of people who later moved to San Antonio. One was Mr. Strauder Nelson who was a friend of Mr. Abbeys, Luke Gilliam was a friend, Mr. Luke Gilliam's brother, Arch, was a friend, Browney Bird and Dick Bird were friends of his, and their sister married Mr. William Cavender of the Cavender Oldsmobile in San Antonio. Another friend was Mr. Sam Kone and, of course, Mr. Adlai Harmon was a good friend of Mr. Abbey's.

In 1915 Mr. Abbey married Alva Franks Robert at Christ Episcopal Church, and I have a copy of the church records showing that. This lady had a son named Daniel McBride Robert from her first marriage and Dan, at that time, was about 5 years old. Mr. Abbey adopted Dan, and his name was changed to Dan Robert Abbey. Dan Abbey retired in Sun City, Arizona with his wife, Margaret (Muggsie), who was born Margaret Aderhold. Her father was a judge in Del Rio, Texas and she has a nephew, Jim Aderhold, living in San Antonio. Mr. Dan Abbey and Margaret have two sons, Dan, Jr. and Jon Abbey.

C. T. Abbey lived with his wife in Tampico until 1917. At that time he came out of Mexico and joined the American Army. Alva Abbey stayed in Tampico to run his construction business. Mr. Abbey was in an engineering regiment and was in New Jersey scheduled to be shipped overseas when the war ended in 1918. Mr. Abbey was there during the flu epidemic, and he said the people were dying in the fort or camp where he was, and that they would take them and put them in a warehouse where they were stacked up like cord wood because it was freezing cold. After the war Mr. Abbey went back to Tampico and took over running his business again.

About this time there was a company that wanted to build a drilling platform out in the Laguna Madre, and Mr. Abbey took the contract. The contract provided that he would get a big bonus if he finished early and a penalty if he finished late. Of course, Mr. Abbey finished early and made a lot of extra money on the job. He said that at one point he fell off the platform with a sledgehammer in his hand, and he fought his way back up to the surface and they pulled him out, and he didn't let go of the sledgehammer. However, Mr. Abbey was never able to swim. He said that whenever he got in water he sank and evidently his bones were unusually heavy.

With additional reference to his physical characteristics, he had a tooth beyond his wisdom tooth on each side. June always thought that this was unusual and that he had maybe some genes that went back further than most people, but this was just kind of a joke because he had those extra teeth behind his wisdom teeth.

About 1921 or 1922 (In 1919) Alva died of cancer of the spine and Mr. Abbey then brought Dan, who was about 12 (9) years, up (from Mexico) to live with Dan's grandmother Alva Franks who had a little hotel (Franks Hotel) in Del Rio, where Dan went to high school.

Mr. Abbey was almost always out in the brush constructing something or working on an oil well, but he was very well known to all of the British and American people that worked for the oil companies in Tampico. Another one of his friends was Mr. Burch Cochran, and Burch Cochran stayed in Tampico even after the expropriation and later had a Delaware Punch bottling plant and was very prominent and highly respected man in Mexico and also in San Antonio. A lot of the people that did business in Tampico also did business with the Frost National Bank in San Antonio because it was convenient and because they were known at the Frost Bank.

About 1924 Mr. Abbey was visiting a friend at the TB hospital in San Angelo, Texas where Dollie Evans was a nurse. She was a very beautiful girl, and she and Mr. Abbey were attracted to each other. Some of his friends or her friends persuaded her to go down and visit in Tampico, and I think it was about Christmas time in 1924 when they got married. Mrs. Abbey lived in the oil company camp, which was across the Pannuco River from Tampico. The oil companies had a separate camp because the bandits were always coming in to Tampico. One time she and Mrs. Harmon, I think, were in Tampico when people began yelling that the banditos were coming so Mrs. Abbey and her friend rushed in a store but it was a hardware store where they sold ammunition, and the man told them, said "Get out of here because this is the first place they come to get ammunition.".

About 1926 or 1927 C. T. and Dollie Abbey moved to San Antonio and lived in an apartment over near Mark Twain High School. It could have been 1928 or 1929, but it was more likely 1927 or 1928. Mr. Abbey made some investments. He bought a farm up near San Marcos on which they had a spring called Jacobs Well. He also bought about 1,200 acres up near Medina, Texas on what was called Honey Creek, one of the headwaters of the Medina River.

Mr. Abbey also did some contracting and some investing. Evidently when Mr. Abbey came out of Mexico he had sold his business and had sold some mineral interests that he had. It is unknown how much money Mr. Abbey had when he came out of Mexico but it is believed to have been several hundred thousand dollars if not more because he planned to take it easy and have a good living off of his income, perhaps using the money to do some contracting or ranching.

When the depression came Mr. Abbey probably lost some money, but was really not in debt. About this time the Delaware Punch Company, which was the parent company that owned the formula and made the concentrate, was in San Antonio, and the man that had promoted this lost control of the company. It was put in a trusteeship, and Mr. Abbey was appointed to run the company. Mr. Abbey took over the job and in due course the company came out of trusteeship, and Mr. Abbey bought some stock in the company, and he also got his friend, Mr. Adlai Harmon, to buy a substantial amount of stock so that Mr. Abbey and Mr. Harmon together probably had 51% of the company. When Mr. Abbey took over the company the stock had practically no market value and he and Mr. Harmon bought their stock for about $.25 a share. The man that had promoted the company had offended a lot of the bottlers, and when Mr. Abbey would contact the bottlers a lot of them would not want to see him when they heard that he was the President of the Delaware Punch Company. But soon he turned this around because Mr. Abbey was a very good businessman and was well liked by everyone. He drove in his car from coast to coast all the time for many years and apparently by about 1938 the Delaware Punch Company stock was selling for about $.50 a share, and then by 1941 it was probably selling for $1.00 a share. The stock was closely held, and it paid a pretty good dividend. By 1950 Delaware stock was selling for $30.00 a share and paying a $1.00 a year dividend.

Mr. Abbey, during World War II, would not use anything but the original formula which required sugar, but he during the war associated with Mr. Robert Ancira because Robert had a sister named Blanca who worked for Mr. Abbey, and Mr. Abbey thought a lot of Blanca. Mr. Abbey had the Delaware Punch Company give a concession to make and sell Delaware Punch in Mexico to Mr. Robert Ancira, and Mr. Abbey and Mr. Ancira began a long and very close friendship. About twice a year Mr. Abbey would go to Mexico City to make the concentrate there so that they could make the syrup, and they sold the syrup to the bottlers to make Delaware Punch. This became a very successful part of Delaware Punch and continued to be very successful until Mr. Abbey retired from the company and sold his stock. Mr. Ancira lived on for many years after that dying in about 1998, at which time he probably had already gotten out of the Delaware Punch business himself.

Mr. and Mrs. Abbey were very close friends of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Bechtel that was Grant and Helen Bechtel and began going to the Travis Park Methodist Church. Later Mr. and Mrs. Harmon, that is Ben and Adlai Harmon, moved to San Antonio. Mrs. Harmon was a big Episcopalian, and she got Mrs. Abbey to start going to Christ Episcopal Church. Mrs. Abbey became very active at Christ Episcopal Church and was active there as long as she lived. Mr. Abbey did not go to church except on occasions such as marriages or funerals. Mr. Abbey had indicated that he had never been baptized.

Mr. Abbey joined the San Antonio Rotary Club in the 1930s and he was always very active in the Rotary Club up until the time that he died, and Mrs. Abbey was active in the Rotaryannes all this time.

In 1930 C. T. and Dollie Abbey adopted June and named her Alana June Abbey. They loved June very dearly and they had a wonderful family. Mr. Abbey at some time in the 1930s sold the Jacobs Well property, but it must have been late in the 1930s because June remembered going there. Then after that he also sold the Honey Creek Ranch and built a house on West Kings Highway right near Kampmann Blvd. and Thomas Jefferson High School. Unfortunately this house was built over some kind of a fault and had a lot of foundation problems so during the war Mr. Abbey had an opportunity to sell the house which he did. All during the war Mr. and Mrs. Abbey and June rented a house on Huisache at North Main Avenue. June had started in the first couple of grades at St. Mary's Hall and then Mrs. Abbey, probably when they moved on West Kings Highway, moved her to Woodlawn Terrace where she went for several years and then she went back to St. Mary's Hall and went there until she graduated in 1948. After graduating from St. Mary's Hall, June went to Sweetbriar College in Lynchburg, Virginia for two years. June was a very fine student and always did very well in school. Then she went to the University of Texas where she was a Kappa Kappa Gamma graduating in 1951.

Mr. Abbey loved his friends, and he loved to play pitch and have a party, and he always would drink but he never became intoxicated to anyone's knowledge. He apparently had a great capacity for liquor, although no one ever knew him to have more than one or two drinks, and it is believed that he never did drink very much. Mr. Abbey would never have wanted to get to where he didn't know what he was doing.

Mr. Abbey had many adventures in Mexico and knew lots of people. One of the people he knew was a fellow named Monte Michels. Monte had worked for one of the big oil companies and had gotten mad at them and fallen out with them, and he quit and he became a bandit and began robbing the oil company payrolls when he could. Eventually somebody killed Monte Michels but he had been a friend of Mr. Abbey's, and even after he became a bandit he was friendly with Mr. Abbey. At one time he came into the camp where Mr. Abbey was with Monte's bandit gang but they didn't cause Mr. Abbey any trouble. Mr. Abbey said that coming from the border to Monterrey during the revolution they would hang people by their neck but that going south from Monterrey to Tampico they would hang them by their feet. Evidently if people are hung by their feet long enough the blood rushes to their head and kills them. One time Mr. Abbey started in a Dodge automobile to drive from Tampico to San Antonio but he broke an axle. They had the axle fixed and drove along a little further. The axle broke again so he just put the car on a flat car and shipped it up to San Antonio to have it repaired. Mr. Abbey would come out of Mexico almost every year in the summer time and often come to San Antonio and buy an automobile and then drive to St. Louis and Chicago and see the baseball games. Then he would drive up to Dodgeville and see his parents or go to a family reunion, and then he would come back to San Antonio and sell the car, and probably ride the train back to Tampico and stay there for the next year. June remembers going to some family reunions up at Dodgeville or at Eau Claire.

Mr. Abbey's sister, Edna, married Mr. Louis Anderson who lived at Eau Claire, and Edna, although she was the youngest daughter, was kind of the leader of the family along with Emma Jane.

Dollie O. Abbey had a sister, Ollie Mae Evans. Ollie Mae had gotten married to Vernon Eppler when Ollie was 16 years old, and she stayed married to Vernon until she was 26. Then she divorced Vernon and was unmarried until about 1956 when she remarried Vernon who had been married and divorced in the meantime. She and Vernon were happily married for a few years, and then he got cancer and died but Ollie stayed with him and took care of him until he died. Right after Dollie married Mr. Abbey he took her up to Wisconsin to a family reunion, and he took Ollie also. They were identical twins and were very beautiful and full of life. Aunt Ollie said all she remembered was washing dishes the whole time. Robert Anderson, who was Edna Anderson's son and Mr. Abbey's nephew, of course, was a friend of mine, and Robert said that they thought Ollie and Dollie were two of the most beautiful girls they had ever seen but that, of course, they could not understand a word they said because of their heavy southern accent. This seems funny now when everybody talks about the same way.

In 1941 C. T., Dollie and June Abbey went to California and stopped in Odessa, Texas to see Mr. Abbey's brother, Erwin. It turned out that Erwin was in very poor financial circumstances and was in bed very sick, perhaps with pneumonia. Mr. Abbey, Dollie and June went on to California and when they came back through Odessa to see how Erwin was getting along they discovered that he had died, and Mr. Abbey took care of the funeral. Mr. Abbey had always been very devoted to Erwin. Mr. Abbey was a very sensitive person but he would never express his feelings but you could tell how deeply affectionate he was to people in general and to many particular people such as his brother Erwin.

Erwin and his wife Edna Hyde had one daughter Ruth who lived in Las Vegas, Nevada. She came to Mr. Abbey's 90th birthday party in San Antonio. Aunt Iva had five or six children and Aunt Maude had five or six children and Emma Jane had one son, Wilbur Larson, who lived in Las Vegas, but who lived most of his life in Watertown, Wisconsin where his three sons were born. We have met all of them. Aunt Edna Anderson had Robert, Ruth and Mary Lou. Ruth lives in Illinois, and had one daughter, Barbara, but her husband, Robert Borst, died several years ago. Robert Anderson had three children, David, Roger and Kay who are all married. David and Roger live in Eau Claire, and Kay and her husband live in Rosebud, Minnesota, and they possibly have five children. Glenn Abbey was never married although he was engaged at one time in South Africa but his fiancé evidently was killed in an automobile wreck. After Dollie Abbey died, her twin sister, Ollie, lived with Mr. Abbey and took care of him until his death. It was a very nice arrangement for her and for him. On almost every Tuesday, Albert McNeel would take Mr. Abbey to the Downtown Rotary Club, and over several years made more meetings than some of the members. These were in the days when most of the Rotarians were actually businessmen or professional people and who had employees. Albert McNeel is a Rotarian now, and most of the people in the Rotary Club now are officers in companies, banks, and other organizations.

Charles Truman Abbey was very highly respected by everyone that ever knew him, and certainly he was highly respected in San Antonio. He single handedly took the Delaware Punch Company, which was absolutely broke and worthless, and built it into a soft drink with bottlers from Florida to California. The small drink business was very difficult because of the domination of Coca Cola who kept the price of the drinks very low so that the people with the lesser volume found it very difficult to make much money. However, in Mexico, Delaware Punch was a big drink, and the company undoubtedly made more money there than they did in the United States because Delaware is a sweet drink, and the Mexicans like sweet drinks. In fact, the Coca Colas in Mexico are sweeter than they are in the United States.

Index to Probate Cases, Names Begining with "F"

NAME	STATUS	DATE FILED	CASE NUMBER
Facundo, Pedro	Deceased	Sept. 15, 1884	84
Fagin, A. L.	NCM	Oct. 29, 1907	337, 261
Fagin, A. L.	NCM	Nov. 20, 1917	520
Fagin, Abe	NCM	June 7, 1903	261, 337
Fagin, Abel	NCM	March 12, 1906	305
Faris, Josepha	Tubercular	June 12, 1936	1050
Farran, Gertrude M., Kathleen B., and Walter	Minors	June 16, 1905	296
Farrell, Edward F. and Mary Annie	Monors	Aug. 12, 1879	49
Farris, A. F.	Deceased	Aug. 9, 1911	394
Farris, Alonzo F.	Minor	Nov. 17, 1892	173
Farris, Amanda Mildred	Deceased	Jan. 19, 1931	866
Faulkner, Madge	NCM	March 20, 1936	1032
Faver, Emma	NCM	Oct. 11, 1904	287
Faver, Gus M.	Minor	April 19, 1909	365
Faver, Harl. Lester and Lloyd	Minors	July 22, 1924	679
Faver, J. M.	Deceased	Jan. 17, 1914	454
Faz, Otilla and Rudolph	Minors	July 14, 1926	749
Fallrath, Annie1	NCM	July 15, 1916	490
Fenelon, M. P.	Deceased	March 10, 1928	788
Fennell, M. P.	Deceased	March 3, 1926	731
Ferguson, James W.	Minor	Nov. 28, 1932	934
Fernandez, Emma	Minor	May 17, 1927	773
Fisher, Morton	Deceased	May 27, 1890	149
Fisher, Morton C.	Deceased	April 10, 1891	154
Fletcher, J. M.	Tubercular	June 6, 1932	921
Florence, Walter D.	Tubercular	March 3, 1931	871
Flores, Canuto	Deceased	May 21, 1903	269
Flores, Edwardo, Guadalupe, Juan, Maria, Maris J., Ramon and Trinidad	Minors	Sept. 22, 1883	77, 71
Flores, Edwardo, Guadalupe, Juan, Maria, Maris J., Ramon and Trinidad	Minors	April 24, 1883	71, 77
Flotte, Fernando	Deceased	Feb. 4, 1914	512
Flowers, Stayton and Wyvonna	Minors	April 8, 1931	875
Fojtik, Emil	NCM	Sept. 20, 1928	802
Fojtik, Veronika	Deceased	July 15, 1938	1131
Foltan, J. Chas.	Deceased	Jan. 7, 1933	938
Fortner, Caleb H., Clara A. and Sallie M.	Minors	Feb. 23, 1883	69
Foster, Thomas Calvin	Deceased	Sept. 24, 1924	686
Fowler, Francis E.	Deceased	Jan. 15, 1935	1024
Fowler, Harry Leonard	Deceased	May 27, 1921	603
Fowler, J. W.	Deceased	Sept. 1, 1927	779
Franklin, Mrs. Nellie	NCM	Sept. 8, 1936	1062
Franks, Alonzo, Artie, Dannie, Lela, Ortie, Oscar and Zorilla	Minors	April 7, 1885	89
Franks, B. F., Deceased; James, Mary L., Mathew, Nancy Ann and William	Minors	Aug. 20, 1863	11 (A)
Franks, Charlie P. and John S.	Minors	Sept. 27, 1912	418
Franks, Essie, Florence and John	Minors	July 26, 1922	626
Franks, Essie O.	Deceased	May 16, 1921	602
Franks, L. A.	Deceased	Nov. 10, 1883	73
Franks, W. M.	NCM	July 29, 1914	451
Franks, Wm. A.	Deceased	March 3, 1916	486
Franks, Wm. A.	Deceased	March 3, 1916	586 (A)

The Constitution??, Atlanta, GA, January 24??, 1898

Jacob Barge, Fairburn, Ga.

Fairburn, Ga., January 24. - (Special) -

Mr. Jacob Barge, a prominent and highly respected citizen of this county, died suddenly at his home last night. Mr. Barge was the father of the two Drs. Barge, of Newnan, Ga., and J. J. Barge, of California, recently of the firm of Parker & Barge, of Atlanta, and Judge Barge, who is at present a student of the University of Georgia, and of Miles Barge, who left this county last week for Texas, and whose address is not known.

The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, Sunday, August 8, 1915

FAIRBURN, GA.

Mrs. Margaret L. Barge, of Newnan, and Mrs. James P. Aderhold and children, of Del Rio, Texas, are guests of Mrs. M.  H. Collins.

The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, Saturday, August 6, 1921

Barge and Dorsett Families Will Hold Big Reunion Sunday

An interesting reunion will take place in the park at Union City next Sunday the 7th, at 10:30 o'clock when the Barge family connection of the Barges and Dorsetts will assemble. A big picnic dinner will be served and all of the descendants of either the Barges or the Dorsetts - both extensive families - are invited to be present. Arrangements for the reunion of these two well-known families are being made by Dr. J. R. Barge, well-known Atlanta physician, whose office is in the Georgia Savings Bank & Trust Co. building, formerly the Flat Iron building. The late Jacob Barge and his wife, Mrs. Margaret Dorsett Barge, were for many years well-known country residents in the section to the southwest of Atlanta. They have many descendants, particularly in this community and some located in distant states. A large gathering of both families will be on hand at next Sunday's reunion, and Dr. Barge requests that if any representatives of either of these families should wish further information concerning the reunion they can get it by communicating with him.

MC NEEL

On the morning of September 24, 2004, after a long and courageous battle with cancer, the Lord called Ian Abbey McNeel of Boerne to his eternal reward.

He was born on August 7, 1958 in San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX, the son of Albert and June McNeel.

Ian was an Eagle Scout and was awarded the Order of the Arrow. His joy in life was spending time as an avid outdoor enthusiast, loving hunting and fishing.

Ian graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1976, and then graduated from Texas A&M University in 1983.

Upon graduation from Texas A&M in 1983, Ian worked as a real estate appraiser in San Antonio, and founded McNeel, Weissler & Associates real estate appraisers in 2000.

Ian was a Member of the Appraisal Institute, where he served on the board of directors.

In 1993, Ian married the love of his life, Kay Sterner. He has two children who were the greatest blessings in his life, Courtney and Connor.

Ian is survived by his wife, Kay; children, Courtney and Connor; father and mother, Albert and Ita McNeel; sisters, Shelby McNeel Miller of San Antonio and Ilse Hummel and her husband, P. J. of Boerne; sisters-in-law, Jane Everett and husband, Zane of Bandera, and Debbie Lee of Brownwood; brother-in-law, Keith Sterner of Dangerfield; mother-in-law, Dorothy Sterner of San Saba, several aunts and uncles, and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and many friends.

The family would like to express special thanks to Dr. Ronald Drengler of CTRC and his nurses, Gail and Stacy, who supported Ian and his family through many difficult times.

VITAL RECORDS - KENDALL COUNTY, TX - MARRIAGES 1993

File           Husband                Husband      Wife                      Wife       Marriage
Number           Name                   Age         Name                      Age          Date

 

66434    MCNEEL IAN A                    34    STERNER KAY                     31      19-Jun-1993

The combined Franks and Brite families, about 1895, taken in front of the Dolch Holtel, Eagle Pass, TX. Mattie Brite, age 15 (standing second from left), Bennie Brite, age 13 (standing fifth from left), Alva Brite Franks (seated at right), Daniel Franks (seated next to Alva), Robert Franks (in lap of Daniel Franks), Edward Sturges (seated second from left). 

The Kerrville Times, Kerrville, TX, April 23, 1952

HUNT TIDINGS

A notice of interest to a lot of friends in the Hill Country was the announcement of the opening of the law office of Albert M. McNeel, Jr., in San Antonio. Albie was a counselor at Camp La Junta for a number of years and has a host of friends in Hunt who wish him well.

The Kerrville Times, Kerrville, TX, November 19, 1952

HUNT TIDINGS

Mr. and Mrs. Albert McNeel of San Antonio are spending a week at the Walsh home here in Hunt.

The Kerrville Times, Kerrville, TX, November 26, 1952

Of interest to a lot of Hunt people is the announcement that Albert McNeel and his bride spent a week at the Walsh home before returning to San Antonio where Mr. McNeel is in the law business.

The Kerrville Times, Kerrville, TX, December 12, 1952

HUNT TIDINGS

Mrs. F. C. Walsh, after attending the McNeel wedding in San Antonio last week went on to Corpus Christi to be with Mrs. Ralph Walsh and her family for Thanksgiving.

The Kerrville Times, Kerrville, TX, October 14, 1953

HUNT TIDINGS

Mr. and Mrs. Edward McCamish of San Diego, California and his mother, Mrs. E. W. McCamish and sister, Mrs. McNeel of San Antonio all spent the day with Mrs. F. C. Walsh this past week. While here they took a trip to Bear Creek where Mr. McCamish hadn't been for years.