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Farmers, Ranchers, the Land and the Falls
ranch since 1894. He asserted that Wenmohs had built the house that was still on
the property when the Wheatleys bought the land in 1936. While Ulrich is probably
the best source for when the house was built, it remains possible that the Wenmohs
house was actually the same dwelling previously built by E.W. Maume in about the
same place. Wenmohs brand: Jerry Wenmohs interview. Old Trammell field possibly
tilled and planted until 1915: Bobby Wilson interview.
67 Ellis, “John B. Wenmohs,” 81; Goethe, Texas Pioneer Grandmother, 118.
68 Ulrich, “Affidavit of Use, Occupancy and Possession.”
69 Loma Wenmohs interview with author, July 1996.
70 Herman Reiner’s land had been patented in 1862 to the heirs of D.
Gamble, who had died at the Goliad massacre, but it had been purchased by Wilhelm
Fuchs, the early owner of the sawmill at Cypress Mill. Herman Reiner’s father,
Frederick, was originally from Germany and had moved to Cypress Mill area after
serving in the Union army during the Civil War. There he met, and eventually
married, Wilhelm Fuch’s daughter, Dora. When Wilhelm Fuchs died, Frederick
and Dora received the D. Gamble land as part of Dora’s inheritance. Herman (born
January 15, 1891) was Frederick and Dora’s only son, and he had inherited the land.
Moursund, Blanco County Families for One Hundred Years, 142; Lila Jean Hobbs
interview with author.
71 Loma Wenmohs interview; deed from J.B. and Louise Wenmohs to C.A.
and Harriet Wheatley, December 30, 1936, Blanco County Deed Records 50:518-
519. The deed states the price paid by the Wheatleys as “Ten dollars and other
valuable consideration.” According to Sherrill East, the Wheatley’s son-in-law, C.A.
once told him that he paid ten dollars an acre for the ranch. If that is true, the actual
price was about $47,780. Sherrill East interview with author, February 1996.
72 “Death Takes Prominent S.A. Oilman,” San Antonio Light (September 16,
1963); liner notes to Harriet V. Wheatley, Lady Angler: Fishing, Hunting and Camping
in the Wilderness Areas of North America (San Antonio: 1952). Birth date for C.A.
supplied by the Porter Loring Funeral Home, San Antonio, Texas.
73 Liner notes, Lady Angler; Sherrill East interview with author; undated
newspaper clipping in autographed copy of Lady Angler, now in possession of
Pedernales Falls State Park; email to author from Diana L. Cooper, Harriet
Wheatley’s great-granddaughter, June 30, 2010; Worley’s San Antonio City Directory
( John F. Worley Directory Co., Dallas and San Antonio, 1926 and 1927). While Mrs.
Wheatley’s obituary states that she moved to San Antonio in 1919, a search for both
Wheatleys in the Soundex index for the 1920 census proved futile.
74 Bill Casparis interview with author, January 1996.
75 Lila Jean Hobbs interview; Bobby Wilson interview.
76 Bill Casparis interview.
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