MATTHEW MORGAN McCALL, M.D, Alikchi Chukma of the Choctaws, Page

Melissa Ann McCall (M4/1.1), daughter of Matthew Morgan McCall (M5/1.1) and Lucinda Rogers Bowlin Willis McCall (R5/1.1), was born October 18, 1845, in Red River County. Lela Woolsey Gurgiolo (W2/1.1) states that her tombstone shows her birth as "October 18, 1849," but suggests that this is an error. Her father died in November 1850, and her mother was a widow, apparently for the third time. In 1857 the family lived in Titus County. When her mother died she and her brothers and half brothers lived with a relative--reports indicate an aunt at one time and an older half sister at another.

She was very fond of her half brothers who were continually doing her chores which they considered too difficult "for one so tiny." When James M. Bowlin (B4/16.2) found her using ravelings to make lace he went to the store and bought some knitting thread for her, according to Lela Woolsey Guigiolo (W2/1.1).

William H. Bowlin (B4/1.3) after his marriage took them into his home and later brought them to Wilson County, Texas shortly after the Civil War. From there her brothers and her step-brother William H. Bowlin (B4/1.3) were preparing to move to Williamson County. She was exhausted by the long, continual move from North Texas and despaired of ever having to move again. Fortunately for her she met Hugh Rogers.

She was "milking cows for Judge Pickett," according to Lela Woolsey Gurgiolo and was embarrassed because she was barefooted when first they met. He towered over the 4'11" milkmaid. He invited her to go to a dance. When he learned that she had no shoes, he returned in a short time with a pair of little red slippers, which she wore to the dance.

Andrew Greer Picket was enumerated as the head of a household in the 1860 census of Bexar County, Texas, Wilson Precinct, page 442. When Wilson County was organized from Bexar County later that year Pickett provided the land for the courthouse and was elected county clerk. He had married Elsie Hughes, sister to Simon P. Hughes, governor of Arkansas. In 1872 when Floresville, the county seat, was organized, Pickett was re-elected as county and district clerk. In 1884 he was elected county judge and the courthouse that was built during his term was still in use 100 years later. He died in 1895.

Children born to Andrew Greer Picket and Elsie Hughes Pickett include:

Jonathan Pickett born about 1868

Andrew Greer Pickett, Jr. born about 1870

Lucille Pickett born about 1875

Helen Avis Pickett born about 1880

Mary Vance Pickett born about 1884

Elsie Hughes Pickett born in 1889

Agnes "Aggie" Gates Ward wrote in 1985, "I don't know if there was a relationship between the Bowlins and Judge Pickett. When Judge Pickett's granddaughter, Miss Helen Avis Pickett, died about 10 years ago, the obituary listed among the relatives a Mrs. Henry Bowlin and a Mrs. Joe Bowlin from Idabel, Oklahoma."

In an interview July 23, 1988 Lillian Holman Bolin, "Mrs. Henry Bowlin of Idabel," explained the relationship of her family to that of Judge Pickett. Her aunt, Jennie E. Bayles, sister of her mother, Mary Bayles Holman, accepted a job as a schoolteacher in Floresville. There she met and married Andrew Greer Picket, Jr.

Judge Andrew Greer Pickett performed the wedding ceremony for Hugh Rogers and Melissa Ann McCall December 11, 1865, according to Wilson County Marriage Certificate No. 34. The bride wore the "little red shoes." Hugh Rogers was born in County Cork, Ireland in March 1828, according to Agnes "Aggie" Gates Ward. "He kissed the Blarney stone," she wrote in 1985. The Blarney stone was famous for imparting the gift of eloquence to those who kissed it. It was located below the battlements in the south wall of Blarney Castle which was built in County Cork in 1446.

Following graduation from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, he emigrated to America. He was employed as a railroad engineer in South America and Cuba before settling in Floresville, according to John D. McCall.

"He arrived at Galveston harbor during the Civil War without a dime in his pocket, met Charles Harper, a rich rancher from Wilson County, took his place as wagoner in the Confederate army and served until the end of the war," according to Agnes "Aggie" Gates Ward. "I suppose that is why he later bought three sections of land in Wilson County where he started ranching.

He invited his brothers-in-law Robert Marshall McCall and Oliver Hazard Perry McCall to live with them and work on the ranch. They were employed as cowboys there for a short time before they removed to Williamson County and established their own households.

Hugh Rogers was enumerated as the head of Household 207-208 in the 1870 census of Wilson County, precinct 3, page 470, near Lodi, [later Floresville] Texas:

"Roggers, Hugh 42, born in Ireland, farmer, $200 real estate

$320 personal property

Melissa 26, born in Texas

Cate 2, born in Texas"

He reappeared as the head of a household in the 1880 census of Wilson County:

"Rogers, Hugh 54, born in Ireland, father born in Ireland, mother

born in Ireland

Melissa 35, born in Texas, father born in Choctaw Nation,

mother born in Tennessee

Catherine 12, born in Texas, father born in Ireland, mother

born in Texas

Marion 9, born in Texas, father born in Ireland, mother

born in Texas

Mack 7, born in Texas, father born in Ireland, mother

born in Texas

Bettie 4, born in Texas, father born in Ireland, mother

born in Texas

Nancy 2, born in Texas, father born in Ireland, mother

born in Texas

Sallie 1/12, born in Texas, father born in Ireland, mother

born in Texas"

Melissa Ann McCall Rogers (M4/1.1.) made a trip in August 1886 back to her birthplace in an effort to secure her inheritance from the estate of her mother, according to Agnes "Aggie" Gates Ward (G2/1.1) who wrote: "Melissa took her eight-month-old daughter Mary and went to her family in North Texas (perhaps it was Williamson County). She returned to her home in Wilson County in September (after the storm). She had received some recompense for the large and long-disputed estate, but she could never hear any more from the lawyer. She had signed a paper, and it was thought this ended it." She may have contacted N. A. Rogers in Fannin County and Nancy Minerva Bowlin Rogers in Delta County.

Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) died March 25, 1908 at age 80. She died December 11, 1927 and was buried in Catholic Cemetery, Floresville, Texas.

Nine children were born to Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) and Melissa Ann McCall Rogers (M4/1.1):

Catherine "Katie" Rogers (R3/1.1) born May 15, 1869

Marion Rogers (R3/1.2) born February 28, 1871

Tillie Mack Rogers (R3/1.3) born March 16, 1873

Bettie Rogers (R3/1.4) born July 4, 1875

Nancy Rogers (R3/1.5) born December 8, 1877

Sallie Rogers (R3/1.6) born May 20, 1880

Hugh Rogers (R3/1.7) born August 31, 1882

Mary Rogers (R3/1.8) born December 22, 1885

Perry "Pete" Rogers (R3/1.9) born March 28, 1888

Catherine Me Rogers, daughter of Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) and Melissa Ann McCall Rogers (M4/1.1), was born in Wilson County May 15, 1869. She was married about 1890 to William Mebane Crisp (C3/1.1), schoolmaster of Sunnyside School. She died July 25, 1908 in Atascosa County, Texas. Melissa Ann McCall Rogers (M4/1.1) took an intense dislike to William Mebane Crisp (C3/1.1) and omitted him and his four children from her will. When he died of cancer about 1915, she had not changed her will, and they lost their inheritance. After the death of their father the three older children were reared by Melissa Ann McCall Rogers.

Children born to William Mebane Crisp (C3/1.1) and Catherine Rogers Crisp (R3/1.1) include:

Mebane Crisp born in 1893

Frances Mae "Fannie" Crisp born September 23, 1897

Anna "Dollie" Crisp born about 1900

Albert Crisp born in 1906

Mebane Crisp (C2/1.1), son of William Mebane Crisp (C3/1.1) and Catherine Rogers Crisp (R3/1.1), was born in 1893. He volunteered in the U.S. Army in World War I and served in France with the American Expeditionary Force. He was married about 1919 to Ofala Reed (R2/1.1). A daughter was born to them about 1920 before they were divorced.

Frances Mae "Fannie" Crisp, daughter of William Mebane Crisp (C3/1.1) and Catherine Mae Rogers Crisp (R3/1.1), was born September 23, 1897. She was married about 1916 to A. D. Richardson (R3/1.1). She died September 30, 1969 in Bexar County.

Children born to them include:

Mark Richardson born in 1917

Evelyn Richardson born in 1921

Mark Richardson, son of A. D. Richardson (R3/1.1) and Frances Mae "Fannie" Crisp Richardson, was born in 1917. He served in the U. S. Army in World War II and was discharged as a major. He was married about 1946 to Joyce Ewing (E2/1.1). One daughter was born to them before they were divorced. He became a PhD and was remarried.

Evelyn Richardson, daughter of A. D. Richardson (R3/1.1) and Frances Mae "Fannie" Crisp Richardson, was born in 1921. She was married about 1946 to Richard Trappe. She became an elementary school principal in San Antonio. He died in 1982, and she was remarried, husband's name White.

Anna "Dollie" Crisp, daughter of William Mebane Crisp (C3/1.1) and Catherine Rogers Crisp (R3/1.1), was born about 1900. She was married about 1918 to Wesley Coleman (C2/1.1), against her grandmother's wishes. She died in the summer of 1927.

Children born to them include:

Mary Kathryn "Kitty" Coleman (C1/1.1) born about 1919

Pauline Coleman (C1/1.2) born about 1922

Willie Mae Coleman (C1/1.3) born about 1925

Mary Kathryn "Kitty" Coleman (C1/1.1), daughter of Wesley Coleman (C2/1.1) and Anna "Dollie" Crisp Coleman (C2/1.3), was born about 1919 in Wilson County. Following graduation from high school she enrolled in Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos, Texas. She was married in 1941 to Charles E. Doolin (D1/1.1), president of Frito Company.

Her life was described in the September 28, 1978 edition of the "Floresville Chronicle-Journal:"

"Kitty Doolin, a Floresville-born country girl, never guessed she would end up the wife of the man who founded a multimillion-dollar corn chip company.

'It's almost like hearing someone else tell about their dreams come true,' says the grand dame of the Frito Company as she sits in the diningroom of her huge home overlooking Forest Lane. It took some adjusting at first when Mary Kathryn Coleman married Charles E. Doolin, who was already owner and president of the successful chip business.

Mrs. Doolin had never traveled outside South Texas. But when she married Doolin eight days after becoming engaged to him in 1941, her life suddenly and drastically changed. She would be the mogul's wife from then until the time of his death, mother five children and in the end be the major stockholder and only female member of the board of the world-renowned Frito conglomerate.

Today, 19 years after Doolin's death, the country girl's life is farm from what is probably would have been. But her rural upbringing plays a strong role in how Kitty Doolin leads her life. She is a large woman with short, simply coiffed blonde hair, fair skin and blue eyes. Trappings of her wealth are relatively unnoticeable in her home, which despite its size, is decorated simply.

Intrinsic to Mrs. Doolin's personal value system is that everything have a function. Even the heavy carved wood diningroom set, purchased from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon, is above all, comfortable. It had to be; Mrs. Doolin would not have bought it otherwise.

The Doolin's youngest child was only 20 months old when Mr. Doolin died of a heart attack in 1959. So she took to the business of raising her five youngsters alone, which even today seems the central force in her life. Now there are also two grandchildren living with their mother in the Forest Lane home, along with the youngest Doolin son.

There have been many awesome upsurges in Mrs. Doolin's life, starting with her marriage. She was a college student, majoring in home economics, and knew Doolin's mother, Daisy Deen, long before she even met her husband. She visited the elder Mrs. Doolin on her way home from school at Southwest Texas State University. At that time Charles Doolin was married, living in Dallas and working on his new business.

At this point Kitty Doolin clarified the misunderstood notion that she made the first Frito. It was her mother-in-law, she says, who was a staunch supporter of her son's enterprise and who helped him obtain the business in 1932 from a Mexican family in San Antonio. Mrs. Daisy Doolin, in fact, sold her diamond ring to raise the original $100 with which the business was bought. Eventually Doolin's marriage broke up, and he proposed to Kitty Coleman.

'I had never been outside of South Texas when we married,' she explains, but this soon changed when after a sunrise marriage ceremony, the two took off by car for California.

'We shared a Chevy coupe, for company and personal use,' Mrs. Doolin recalls. New recipes were concocted in their kitchen at home, and new machinery Doolin invented was first tried in their workshop.

Today Mrs. Doolin's involvement in the company, which later merged with the Lay Company of Atlanta, is a less active one, although she is a board member, which she says was given to her as an honor. Since Doolin's death, Mrs. Doolin has married twice, both of which ended in divorce. She doesn't foresee another marriage.

None of her children have continued in the family business. 'It wasn't insisted upon to fulfill a family hope,' she says. Of the five, the oldest, Charles, 33, is manager of the family ranch in Big Wells. Earl, 30, is an accountant. Koleta, 28, is a sculptress and artist living in Aspen. Willa, 26, is divorced and lives at home with her two children, and Patrick Daniel, 21, also lives at home.

A shared dream of Kitty and C. E. Doolin came true in 1963 when Mrs. Doolin took the whole clan on an around-the-world tour for a year. For six months the family traveled from country to country ending up in Switzerland where they spent another six months learning various languages. The trip included every type of transportation from ocean liners, airplanes and trains to cars, camels and elephants."

Children born to Charles E. Doolin (D1/1.1) and Mary Kathryn "Kitty" Coleman Doolin (C1/1.1) include:

Charles Doolin (D-1/1.1) born in 1945

Earl Doolin (D-1/1.2) born in 1948

Koleta Doolin (D-1/1.3) born in 1950

Willa Doolin (D-1/1.4) born in 1952

Patrick Daniel Doolin (D-1/1.5) born in 1957

Albert Crisp (C2/1.4), son of William Mebane Crisp (C3/1.1) and Catherine Rogers Crisp (R3/1.1), was born in 1906. His maternal grandmother cared for him during the illness and death of his mother in 1908. His father gave him to his sister in Temple, and kept the three older children, according to Agnes "Aggie" Gates Ward (G2/1.1).

Marion Rogers (R3/1.2), son of Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) and Melissa Ann McCall Rogers (M4/1.1), was born in Wilson County February 28, 1871. He died in November 1926 unmarried.

Tillie Mack Rogers (R3/1.3), son of Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) and Melissa Ann McCall Rogers (M4/1.1), was born in Wilson County March 16, 1873. His father named him for a man he admired in Ireland. He appeared as a seven-year-old in the 1880 enumeration of his father's household. After World War I he owned a large ranch composed of land in Atascosa and Carnes Counties, Texas. He died unmarried June 5, 1937.

Bettie Rogers (R3/1.4), daughter of Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) and Melissa Ann McCall Rogers (M4/1.1), was born in Wilson County July 4, 1875. She appeared as a four-year-old in the 1880 census. She was married April 21, 1911 to William Woolsey (W3/1.1). In 1935 they lived in San Antonio, and she continued there in 1966 at 3523 Morales Street. She died September 28, 1967.

Children born to them include:

Lela Woolsey (W2/1.1) born June 26, 1912

Lela Woolsey (W2/1.1), daughter of William Woolsey (W3/1.1) and Bettie Rogers Woolsey (R3/1.4), was born June 26, 1912 in Floresville. She was graduated in 1933 with a B. A. degree from Our Lady of the Lake College. In 1940 she received an M. A. degree from Catholic University of America. She was married August 30, 1948 in San Antonio to Charles Gurgiolo (G2/1.1). He was born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania to Charles Gurgiolo, Sr. (G3/1.1) and Della Gurgiolo. He lived most of his life in San Antonio and was graduated from Jefferson High School and St. Mary's University there. He spent five years in the U.S. Army during World War II, serving overseas in France and Germany. After the war he became a postal employee in San Antonio and retired in 1974. In retirement he busied himself in operating the old ranch of Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1). In 1988 she continued to live in San Antonio.

She wrote a number of letters to Mary Alnora "Nora" Cox Drennan (C2/10.4) and gave considerable information about her grandparents:

"April 8, 1964

Dear Cousin Nora,

I was so pleased to receive your letter. I am as interested as you are in the McCall-Rogers family, but I can't tell you very much except that your information is correct as mama and grandma always related it to us, instead of our great-grandmother's name being Melissa Rogers it was Lucinda Rogers. She married a Bowlin and had three children--Jim, Bill and Mary Ann, or maybe Mary Ann was the aunt they went to live with.

Lucinda's second [third] husband was Dr. McCall, but I don't know anything about her brothers. Aunt Sallie who is the only one left of the family of Melissa and Hugh Rogers would not be able to help much as she has failed so much since mama passed away last fall. I will tell her about you asking about her, but her memory is not very good.

I am writing a cousin of mine who lived with grandma when she was growing up. If she can give any additional information I will send you a note.

Mama thought so much of your family. Uncle Perry must have named your mother after his mother Lucinda. Mama and I enjoyed cousin Mary's letters so much. Mama said when she was visiting with them 'Mary was always ready to go to the dances and was lots of fun.'

I am sorry I cannot give you any concrete information. Grandma was born October 18, 1849 [1845] and died December 11, 1927. She came by ox-wagon in the 1860's to Floresville (then called Lodi). Hugh Rogers who at the time of their marriage 37 years old was born in Ireland. He died March 1908, age 80 years. She was 16 when they married, and they had 9 children. Their old home place is still occupied by the widow and sons of Uncle Perry (Pete). We were down there yesterday, and the bluebonnets were more lush and seemed to be bluer around the old home place.

I enjoyed hearing from you and will send anything I can find out. I would love to have a copy of your family tree.

Sincerely, your cousin,

Lela"

"April 24, 1968

Dear Cousin Nora,

I received your letter and enjoyed it so much. I have been reading passages from it to different cousins of mine who might remember something grandma told us. Thank you so much for your family tree. I will write ours down on that kind of form and send you a copy.

I was talking to my cousin Agnes Gates Ward, aunt Mary's daughter, and she is very much interested and wanted me to ask you if you know any dates of births, deaths, etc. of any of the Rogers or McCalls prior to those of Melissa, Bob and Perry.

Grandma could remember her parents riding off to call on sick people, and one time she said they both rode off horseback to attend some kind of medical school. She said they were gone a long time. I don't know who kept the children unless it was the aunt we were wondering about. Grandma was not married when she came down here. They came in a covered wagon and seemed to be going nowhere in particular.

She was getting tired of that kind of life. She was milking cows for Judge Pickett when she first met grandpa. She didn't have any shoes and was so embarrassed she put her dress over her feet to hide them. She thought he was the most handsome man she ever saw. She would hardly talk to him though.

The next time he came by he brought her a pair of little red shoes. When her brothers prepared to move to Williamson County she remained. She wanted a home of her own. Not long after that she and grandpa were married. Grandpa had been a well-digger in Ireland so he dug all the wells in our part of the country. He also made money hauling freight from Fredericksburg to Powder Horn (now Port Lavaca) and vice versa. Their first home was a log cabin, but later they moved into nicer homes. Their last one still stands and is as strong as the day it was built. As I told you it is still occupied by members of the family. All their houses were within a few hundred yards of each other.

Sincerely,

Lela"

"June 30, 1968

Dear Nora,

I finally got a letter from Gladine Rogers Kluge (she is Uncle Pete's daughter), and she lived with Grandma Melissa until she died. Gladine would sit for hours listening to the stories Grandma told. Here are a few quotes from Gladine's letter, 'Grandma used to tell me all kinds of interesting stories, but very little can be learned from them. I didn't know what questions to ask. I was more interested in Indians, etc. than who I was or am. But to begin with I want to say there was somebody named Arabella. I had it down that she was Grandma's half-sister, but Aunt Bettie said her name was Mary Ann. Anyway I named a doll Arabella for someone she knew. We shall never know who it was probably.

Dr. McCall was a government doctor on the Indian reservation. When he and his wife died the three children went to live with a half-sister. Grandma talked a lot about her mother. She said she was pretty. She had long red hair, and when she and the doctor went to the Indian reservation she let it down. It was very long. She rode a white horse and Morgan rode a black horse. She, I suppose, was his nurse. The Indians loved her, and him too, I suppose.

Grandma did not like living with her half-sister. Her husband seemed to resent her family moving in. She had to work hard. I think Perry must have been a baby because she spoke of caring for him. Bob seemed old enough to fend for himself. Jim took care of her. She loved him dearly. When she was sent to get some wood or water Jim went out and did it. He would let her help or pretend she had done it so she wouldn't get into trouble.

Grandma talked lots about 'brother Jim.' She had a playmate, Minerva, (again I don't know her last name). Minerva was older than Grandma, but they used to play together. They would meet in the woods and swing on a grapevine. Brother Jim married Minerva. When Bill was old enough he got married and took the children with him, those who wanted to go; anyway he seemed to want them. He had an 'itching foot' and could never stay put, according to Grandma. He would stay in one place a year or two and go on to greener pastures. Grandma got awfully tired of moving about. When she met Grandpa he told her they would homestead, and she would never have to move again.

Another story I liked was about the time the Indians almost got her. They were supposed to be at peace, and the white people respected them. Some did get out of hand. It was Grandma's job to get in the milk calves every morning. One morning she rode out on her little spotted pony and rode and rode without finding them. All of the sudden her pony threw up his head, snorted and bolted. She was thrown, and her leg was broken in the fall.

She realized that only Indians could frighten a horse that much and that they must be nearby. She dragged herself to a nearby gulley and hid in it under an overhanging ledge. Sure enough a group of Indians soon arrived. Reading the signs they began to search for the injured rider. One old Indian kept coming to stand right over her. Looking down intently he would squat and spit down into the gulley. She was so frightened. At last they went away, but Grandma did not move.

Her leg had swollen and was very painful. She lay there all day. Part of the time the sun was so hot she could hardly stand it, but she kept thinking 'Brother Jim will find me.' About dusk she heard him calling her.

Another story she told me was about the snake biting her. In our grandmother's time neighbors were far apart. She started to spend the night with a neighbor whose husband was away from home. Half way there she waded across a creek and was bitten by a snake. She immersed her leg in the cold water to ease it. She fell asleep lying there on the bank of the creek, and when she woke it was morning. She stood up and found she could walk. She hobbled back home where they split her leg and placed it in kerosene to draw out the poison. Her family had believed that she was with the neighbor, and the neighbor had believed she was not coming, so nobody worried about her. She had an ulcer there where the snake had bitten her when I knew her. Sometimes it was hardly noticeable, and other times it was worse.

There was a story too, about Grandma's and Grandpa's meeting. The first time he tried to talk to her she kept backing away. When he came back he brought her some little red high-topped shoes. She put them on and talked to him. She was married a short time later . . . in those shoes.

As ever,

Gladine'

Well, I don't have any more to add at this time. Sure hope we can somehow find a break-through on our McCall-Rogers line. It is very frustrating that we cannot find Dr. Morgan and Lucinda in the census records or anywhere. All we know for sure is what is contained in the records of the land Lucinda sold, which indicates that Dr. Morgan McCall died a few years before Lucinda did. But when did she die and where? I will keep you informed of anything new I find.

As ever your cousin,

Lela Woolsey Gurgiolo"

April 27, 1970

Dear Nora,

We enjoyed the book on the Rogers so much and also the pictures. I took the book by my friend's house and she even found some names that were in some books containing her ancestors from Scotland. We were surprised to find so many Hugh Rogers and so many Woolseys too. I did not know most of the pictures but will try to send you one of Hughie and Aunt Katie. Thank you for the one of Aunt Sallie. The bride and groom are Uncle Pete and Aunt Ruth. Blake is their son. Aunt Ruth and the other son still live on the old home place. The picture of Uncle Mack was made when he was older. I am sure you have one of him when he was young as I know he must have given one to Aunt Fannie. Mama, Cousin Fannie, Cousin Julia and especially all the girls who were not related to him thought Uncle Mack was extra special when he was young, and he had so many friends all his life. My Daddy was his life-long friend. Uncle Mack and Hughie both died at our house.

Sincerely,

Lela"

"August 29, 1970

Dear Nora,

Just got back from the "old home place." Pan-Am Oil Company is drilling a deep well on Aunt Ruth's place right out in front of the old home. It is between 8 and 9 thousand feet, and everyone down there has great hopes for the No. 1 Ruth Rogers. Will let you know what happens. The first I heard of it was when I saw it in the San Antonio paper. I told Agnes it was traditional for us Indians to have oilwells.

Now to answer some of your questions:

Lucinda and the doctor were gone about a year, and it must have been a refresher course for he was already a doctor. Grandma remembered them riding off, and Lucinda wore a white riding habit which looked like "a white robe floating behind her."

Melissa, Bob and Perry came with their half-brother and his family to Floresville. I think it was brother Bill. They must have camped on the San Antonio River near Floresville. She must have been working for Judge Pickett as she was milking his cows when Grandpa rode by. After they were married Bob, Perry and Brother Bill moved away.

I have always understood that Dr. Morgan McCall came from Tennessee. In fact I am positive that her or his family or both came from Tennessee--Grandma told me that.

About the story Maurie told you about her parents spending the night with cousin James Bowlin, do you suppose this was our half-uncle's son. Julia must have been Grandma's brother's wife. I am sure she must have been the sister-in-law Melissa, Bob and Perry lived with. Uncle Bob must have named cousin Julia Hendricks for her.

I am surprised that he wasn't interested in them, but, as you say, it may have been because of the land settlement of 1886 negotiated by N. A. Rogers (that's the only date I know, the year of the great storm when all the trees blew down.)

Sincerely,

Lela"

Children born to Charles Gurgiolo (G2/1.1) and Lela Woolsey Gurgiolo (G2/1.1) include:

Charles William Gurgiolo (G1/1.1) born in 1950

Roger Arthur Gurgiolo (G1/1.2) born December 2, 1954

Charles William Gurgiolo (G1/1.1), son of Charles Gurgiolo (G2/1.1) and Lela Woolsey Gurgiolo (G2/1.1), was born in 1950 in San Antonio. He was graduated about 1972 from St. Mary's University with a B. A. degree. He was married about 1975 to Margaret Neugebauer (N1/1.1). In 1988 they continued to live in San Antonio. He, a master sergeant in the U. S. Air Force Reserve, is an insurance underwriter.

Children born to them include:

Christopher William Gurgiolo (G-1/1.1) born February 19, 1984

Roger Arthur Gurgiolo (G1/1.2), son of Charles Gurgiolo (G2/1.1) and Lela Woolsey Gurgiolo (G2/1.1), was born December 2, 1954 in San Antonio. He was married about 1980 to Erma Hinojosa (H1/1.1) In 1988 he continued in San Antonio as an executive with J. C. Penney Co. A daughter was born to them in 1985, and John Gurgiolo (G-1/2.1) was born July 11, 1987.

Nancy Rogers (R3/1.5), daughter of Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) and Melissa McCall Rogers (M4/1.1), was born in Wilson County December 8, 1777. She appeared as a two-year-old in the 1880 census. She was married in 1906 to Thomas Benton Drury (D3/1.1). In 1935 she lived at Poteet, Texas. She died March 31, 1964.

Sallie Rogers (R3/1.6), daughter of Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) and Melissa McCall Rogers (M4/1.1), was born May 10, 1880. She appeared at the age of one month in the 1880 census. She was married November 21, 1912 to Will Stanley (S3/1.1). In 1935 she lived in Floresville. She died December 30, 1969.

Children born to them include:

Harmon P. Stanley (S2/1.1) born April 12, 1914

Syble Stanley (S2/1.2) born September 23, 1915

Harmon P. Stanley (S2/1.1), son of Will Stanley (S3/1.1) and Sallie Rogers Stanley (R3/1.6), was born April 12, 1914. He was married about 1937 to Annie Hosek (H2/1.1). He died in September 1969.

One daughter was born to them:

Sallie Stanley (S1/1.1) born about 1950

Sallie Stanley (S1/1.1), daughter of Harmon P. Stanley (S2/1.1) and Annie Hosek Stanley (H2/1.1), was born about 1940. She was married about 1970, husband's name Hevner.

A son was born to them:

Cody Hevner (H-1/1.1) born in 1977

Syble Stanley (S2/1.2), daughter of Will Stanley (S3/1.1) and Sallie Rogers Stanley (R3/1.6), was born September 23, 1915. She was married about 1942 to J. P. Woolsey (W3/1.1). He was a banker and a first cousin to William Woolsey (W3/1.1), husband of Bettie Rogers Woolsey (R3/1.4). He died August 18, 1985. In 1988 she continued to live in Floresville.

Hugh Rogers (R3/1.7), son of Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) and Melissa McCall Rogers (M4/1.1), was born August 31, 1882 in Wilson County. He was married in 1931 to Ivy Fitzhenry Jurena (J3/1.1). He died March 9, 1951.

One son was born to them:

Dalton Lee Rogers (R2/7.1) born in April 5, 1933

Dalton Lee Rogers (R2/7.1), son of Hugh Rogers (R3/1.7) and Ivy Fitzhenry Jurena Rogers (J3/1.1), was born April 5, 1933. Three sons were born to him.

Mary Rogers (R3/1.8), daughter of Hugh Rogers (R4/1.1) and Melissa McCall Rogers (M4/1.1), was born December 22, 1885. She was married September 28, 1910 to Morgan Lott Gates (G3/1.1). In 1935 they lived in San Antonio. She died March 8, 1966.