going public w/ added Texas tales

[Jim Baldauf]

Jimmy Strong claimed:

> The Wilde's, of course, produced Orel Wiley Wilde, who
> hooked up with the "black ewe" daughter of Governor
> James. S. Hogg - ... siring the so-called "Hogg-Wilde"
> clan that became infamous as hereditary hide inspectors
> and armadillo poachers.

To which some would reply "of course" my ass! Some would insist that the
rumored shotgun wedding of Wiley and the "black ewe," said to be arranged by
the governor and his ranger bodyguard was just that - a rumor! Some
descendants of the Wilde-West clan are much more inclined to acknowlege
Cornel and his booklearnin' branch than those shiftless hide inspectin',
armadillo poachin' varmints that took the governor's "letter of safe
passage" (meant to get them out of Texas) as a license to run roughshod over
their neighbors for the last fifty years. Just look how some of them wound
up in Maine, came back to Texas, and then started carpetbaggin' nationwide.
Some would insist that the Wilde-West branch of the family represents the
very best tradition of Texas respect for military valor and education and,
yes, multi-culturalism and diversity. The so-called Hogg-Wilde clan can
rightfully trace the beginning of its demise from the time Big John Connolly
switched from the Democratic to the Republican party just in time for the
Watergate Scandal. It's gone on too damn long! I just pray that the
"situation" in which we find ourselves now may once and for all drive a
wooden stake thru the black heart, and drive the final nail in the coffin,
of that hide inspectin', vote grabbin', taxin' without representin' branch
of the family.

Jim Bob Baldauf
A Distant Relative
(On the good side.)





----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Strong <strongjim@yahoo.com>
To: Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com>; Jim Baldauf
<jfbaldauf@prodigy.net>; Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>;
<austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: RE: going public w/ added Texas tales


>
> --- Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com> wrote:
> > Well now, as many of you know, the West family was
> > very successful in the
> > timber business in East Texas...until they found oil
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Okay, now you have let the (pole)cat out of the bag,
> bubba. So it might as well ALL be told.
> ---------------------------------------------
> The Wilde's, of course produced Orel Wiley Wilde, who
> hooked up with the "black ewe" daughter of Governor
> James. S. Hogg - that's right, there was another
> daughter besides Miss Ima Hogg. Her name was Hortense
> Velma Hogg, and she and Orel moved to Wood County
> (just outside Quitman) and produced prolifically -
> siring the so-called "Hogg-Wilde" clan that became
> infamous as hereditary hide inspectors and armadillo
> poachers.
> ---------------------------------------
> The absolute worst of the lot, Ray Don Hogg-Wilde,
> begat a son - Hezikiah Abner Hogg-Wilde and a daughter
> Doreen Abalone Hogg-Wilde. "Abby," of
> course moved back just outside the governor's home
> town of Quitman and married Geraldo Beavis Grosse -
> the great grand nephew of old J.W. Goethe, who was the
> partiarch of the Grosse (nee Goethe) family. The
> distinctive and appropriately dispositive
> Goethe/Grosse family crest remains the same to this
> day - a lone pine tree (symbolizing the limited
> branches of the family) set against of field of swamp
> wort and crested with wild hog droppings and crossed
> gars.
> ---------------------------------------------
> The couple had 18 beautiful children - 10 boys and
> eight girls. After an unfortunate misunderstanding,
> Geraldo Beavis and Doreen Abalone packed up their
> belongings and relocated the entire family to Azle,
> Texas. Even to this day, that branch of the family is
> referred to as the "Grosse Azels" in the tightly knit
> (and bred) German family community into which they
> were assimilated.
> -------------------------------------------
> We shall not, however speak of the second oldest boy
> -George Prescott Hermann Grosse. It is rumored he
> moved up all the way to Odorono Maine (and from there
> to Kennebunktport, Maine) and established a branch of
> the family that took on a surname befitting of their
> world class abilities as poachers who could
> immediatley fade into the trees and bushes whenever
> the law was about.
> --------------------------------------------
> "Bunky" Grosse (Bush) was said to be a dead ringer for
> Governor Hogg, who also had an uncanny ability to
> blend into the natural background, as this picture
> attests:
> -----------
> http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/governors/rising/hogg-p01.html
> -----------
> Billy Jim
>
>
> =====
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