Farmers, Ranchers, the Land and the Falls - Texas Parks & Wildlife ...

A History of the Pedernales Falls Area, 1850–1970
Figure 27. C.A. and Harriet Wheatly pose with wild turkeys
killed in a hunt on the Circle Bar, 1951. Photo courtesy of
Sherill East, Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur............................................ 35
Figure 28. Sherill East poses with a deer he killed on the ranch.
To the right is his grandson, Doug Roberts. Photo courtesy of
Sherill East, Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur............................................ 35
Figure 29. The area now covered by Duck Lake just before it was bulldozed
to create the lake in 1958. From left: Raymond Smith (Harriet’s brother);
Pearl East, Harriet’s daughter; Raymond Stewart, a hired hand who at that
time lived with his wife in the “foreman’s quarters” over the garage at the
Wheatley “manse”; and C.A. Wheatley. Photo courtesy of Sherill East,
Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur.................................................................. 36
Figure 30. Christmas at the Wheatley’s home on the Circle Bar in 1957.
Here (left to right) Diana, Janet, Candy and Doug Roberts, Harriet
Wheatley’s great-grandchildren, pose in front of the fireplace. Photo
courtesy of Sherill East, Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur........................ 37
Figure 31. The Wheatley living room on Christmas, 1957, was
bursting with gifts around the tree. Photo courtesy of Sherill East,
Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur.................................................................. 38
Figure 32. Doug Roberts, Harriet’s great-grandson, leads his
little sister Candy on a ride at the ranch. Photo courtesy of
Sherill East, Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur............................................ 38
Figure 33. Richard Garcia, who worked as a ranch hand for the Wheatleys in the
late 1950s or early 1960s, poses with Sherill East. Behind them are the frame
house and outbuildings that were built when J.B. Wenmohs owned the ranch.
Photo courtesy of Sherill East, Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur. ........... 39
Figure 34. At the Wheatley “manse,” from left: Pearl East (Harriet Wheatley’s
daughter; Shirley Whitcome (a woman who worked in the manse); and Sherill
East, Pearl’s husband and foreman of the ranch during the early 1960s.
Photo courtesy of Sherill East, Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur............. 40
Figure 35. Raymond Stewart, a hired hand, in front of the Wheatley manse.
Originally from Odessa, Stewart worked on the Circle Bar on “five or six” different
occasions, according to Sherill East: “He would go and come” when he felt like it.
Photo courtesy of Sherill East, Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur............. 40
Figure 36. C.A., Harriet and the “lady’s pistol” they found near Eagle Bluff.
C.A. looks a lot more enthused than Harriet does. Photo donated to
Pedernales Falls State Park by C.A. Wheatley (the Younger), C.A.’s nephew. .......... 41
Figure 37. The “manse” on January 1, 1960, after it was destroyed
by a fire the night before. Photo courtesy of Sherill East,
Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur.................................................................. 43
Figure 38. The Pedernales River at the Circle Bar after the great flood of 1952.
Photo courtesy of Sherill East, Diana L. Cooper, and Candace K. Sandefur............. 44
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