1a JAMES ERNST LICH-TYLER, Student at Midway High School in Waco, Texas (* Fort Riley, Geary County, Kansas 28.xii.1973, ~~ St. Boniface's Church, Comfort, Texas on Easter 1974): James Lich-Tyler moved to San Marcos, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Kerrville, Texas; and then in 1988 to Waco, Texas (where he had a fabulous eighth grade honors American history teacher). He plans to attend a military academy or Texas A&M University after he graduates from high school in 1992. 1b STEPHEN WOOLFLEY LICH-TYLER, Student at Midway Junior High School in Waco, Texas(* San Marcos, Hayes County, Texas 19.x.1976 ~~ Saint Matthew's Church, Henderson, Texas on Saint Stephen's Day 1976): I was born in San Marcos, Texas where I lived until I moved to New Orleans in 1979; then in 1980 I moved to Kerrville, Texas; and to Waco, Texas in 1988 (where I have a fabulous seventh frade life skills and eighth grade honors American history teacher). I plan to attend to United States Coast Guard Academy. 1c ELIZABETH ERIN LICH-TYLER, Student at Midway Junior High School in Waco, Texas (* San Marcos, Texas 23.i.1973 ~~ Saint Mark's Church in San Marcos, Texas on Palm Sunday 1978): Elizabeth Lich-Tyler moved to New Orleans, Louisiana when she was one year old; and to Kerrville, Texas when she was two. She moved to Waco, Texas when she was nine, and plans to attend Southwestern University after she graduates in 1996. 2 GLEN ERNST LICH, Writer and Director of the Program for Regional Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas (* Fredericksburg, Texas 5.xi. 1948 ~~ Gaddison Memorial Methodist Church in Comfort, Texas on Easter Sunday 1949 ƒ First Methodist Church in Overton, Texas on 5.ix.1970 to Lera Patrick Tyler): Glen Ernst Lich grew up on the Sturdy Oak Farm along the Cypress Creek near the small town of Comfort. He went to school in Comfort until he went to Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Here he met Lera Patrick Tyler. After attending Universität Wien in Vienna, Austria, the two got married. After college, Glen and Lera Lich moved to Austin, Texas; Monterey, California; Junction City, Kansas; San Marcos, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Kerrville, Texas; and finally to Waco, Texas where he presently resides. Glen Lich has a B.A. from Southwestern University; M.A. from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas; M.A. from Southwest University in San Marcos, Texas; Ph.D. from Texas Christian University it Fort Wort, Texas. Children: James Ernst Stephen Woolfley Elizabeth Erin 3 LERA PATRICK TYLER, College English Teacher at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas (* Henderson, Rusk County, Texas 3.xii.1948 ~~ First Methodist Church in Overton, Texas on Easter Sunday 1949 ƒ First Methodist Church in Overton, Texas 5.ix. 1970 to Glen Ernst Lich): Lera Patrick Tyler is the only child of Clifton Maxwell Tyler and Cecile Bettie McCann. She grew up in the small town of Overton, and attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas where she met and was married to Glen Ernst Lich. In 1971 the couple moved to Austin, Texas where they lived for one year. Lera Lich then moved to Monterey, California; Junction City, Kansas; San Marcos, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Kerrville, Texas (where she lived when she got her M.A. from the University of New Orleans); and finally to Waco, Texas where she presently resides. 4 ERNST PERRY LICH, Conservation Contracter and Farmer-Rancher on the Cypress Creek in the Hill Country in Texas(* Cypress Creek 11.ix.1926 ƒ Kerrville, Texas on 23.vi.1945 to Susan Woolfley): Ernst Perry Lich was born one the Cypress Creek, where he lived all his life. He moved once, about a mile downstream. Perry Lich met Susan Woolfley whom he married when he was eighteen. He began his own business as a conservation contractor in 1959. He served as a 4-H leader, community director, and chamber of commerce member. Children: Glen Ernst (1948- )(married Lera Patrick Tyler) Nancy Elaine (1954- )(married Charles Worth Jones) 5 THELMA OLIVE "SUSAN" WOOLFLEY, Hill Country Landscape Artist (* San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas on Saint Patrick's Day 1927 ~~ Westminister Presbyterian Chuch in San Antonio, Texas on Easter Sunday 1937/8 ƒ Kerrville, Texas on 23.vi.1945 to Ernst Perry Lich): Susan Woolfley began painting when she found a set of paints in the trash of some of her granmother's tenants. After she married when she was eighteen to Ernst Perry Lich, she spent the next ten years of her life working on her home. She served as a 4-H adult leader in public speaking, wildlife, and conservation. 6 CLIFTON MAXWELL TYLER, Railroad Telegraph Operator and Insurance Agent (* Sabine Parish, Louisiana 19.vi.1905 ~~ Methodist Church in Sabine Parish, Louisiana ƒ First Methodist Church in Overton, Texas on 1.vi.1946 to Cecile Bettie McCann Ý 1.x.1980 × Overton Cemetery 3.x.1980): Clifton Maxwell Tyler, a sickly child, started school when he was seven. He became a telegrapher for the railroads, and married eighteen days before his forty-first birthday. In 1961 Cliff Tyler was liscensed as an isurance agent and started working for Farmers Insurance Group. He retired from the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1967, and from Farmers Insurance Group in 1973. He lived in Overton until his death. Children: Lera Patrick (1948- ) (married Glen Ernst Lich) 7 CECILE BETTIE MCCANN, Elementary School Teacher (* Hammond, Tangipahoo Parish on 11.vii.1911 ~~ Plesant Spring Presbyterian Church in Rusk County, Texas during summer 1928 ƒ First Methodist Church in Overton, Texas on 1.vi.1946 to Clifton Maxwell Tyler): Celcile Bettie McCann, the oldest daughter of George Early McCann and Erin Leah Patrick, started school when she was seven years old. She grauated in 1930, but had to wait a year during the Great Depression to get enough money to go to college. Cecile McCann graduated from Stephen F. Autin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas when she was twenty-four, and started teaching in the Patrick Community where she had grown up. She later taught in Nacogdoches Texas, and then in Overton, Texas where she married Clifton Maxwell Tyler. Two and a half years later their only child, Lera Patrick Tyler, was born. Cecile Tyler continued teaching until she was fifty-eight in 1969. 8 ERNST LICH, Rancher on the Cypress Creek (* Cypress Creek, Kerr County, Texas 18.vii.1878 ƒ Comfort, Texas on 17.ix.1922 to Tony Hoerner Ý on his ranch on the Cypress Creek 31.i.1955 × Comfort Cemetery). Children: Elvera Annette (married to Wilbur Cravey) Ernst Perry (1926- ) (married Susan Woolfley) Irma Pearl (married Erno Bohnert) Elmer Elgin (married Ruth Grobe) 9 (ANTONIA?) "TONY" HOERNER, Seamstress in Comfort, Texas and Rancher on the Cypress Creek (* Comfort, Kendall County, Texas 26.i.1888 ƒ Comfort, Texas on 17.ix.1922 to Ernst Lich Ý Fredericksburg 19.i.1978 × Comfort Cemetery 21.i.1978). 10 NEWTON SINGLETARY WOOLFLEY, Accountant at Kelly Air Force Base (* New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana 30.vii.1900 ~~ ƒ San Antonio, Texas on 24.x.1925 to Thelma Olive Rust Ý San Antonio, Texas 29.xi.1967 × San Antonio): Newton Singletary Woolfley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and Laredo, Texas (where his father was an accountant for the Texas-Mexico Railroad Company). He attended the Laredo schools, and received a business education in New Orleans after his graduation. Later he became an accountant in San Antonio. Children: Susan (1926- ) (married to Ernst Perry Lich) Mary Louise 11 THELMA OLIVE RUST, (* Bergheim Community, Kendall County, Texas 5.v.1907 ~~ ƒ San Antonio, Texas 24.x.1925 to Newton Singletary Woolfley Ý San Antonio, Texas 9.iii.1936 × Rust Family Cemetery, Texas 10.iii.1936): Thelam Olive Rust was the oldest child in her family, and married when she was eighteen. She was a short, vivacious person with light brown hair and hazel eyes. She moved from New Orleans to San Antonio after she had two daughters, and lived there until she died. 12 THOMAS ANDREW TYLER, Farmer in Sabine Parish, Louisiana (* Sabine Parish, Louisiana 24.v.1867 ƒ Sabine Parish in 1902 to Keziah Maxwell Franklin Ý Zwolle, Sabine Parish, Louisiana 25.iv.1942 × Bayou Scie, Sabine Parish, Louisiana): Thomas Andrew Tyler was beloved and respected wherever he lived. He was a religous leader and a community worker. He help to build the Bethsaida Methodist Church, and he died in Zwolle, Louisiana, where he lived for the last fifteen years of his life. Children: Clifton Maxwell (1905-1980) (married to Cecile Bettie McCann) Thomas Rollie (1907-1971) (married to Fannie Mae Wallace) Mabel Abaline (1909- ) (married to Donald Cooper) Lois Arline (1911-1984) Paralee Fae (1916- ) (married to Harry Lee Vowels) 13 KEZIAH MAXWELL FRANKLIN, (* Mount Enterprise, Texas 19.x.1877 ƒ Sabine Parish, Louisiana 1902 to Thomas Andrew Tyler Ý Shreveport, Bossier Parish, Louisiana × Forest Cemetery in Shreveport, Bossier Parish, Texas): Keziah Maxwell Franklin was the sixth child in her family. "Kizzie" finished her schooling when she was fouteen years old, four year after her father's death. She married when she was twenty-five to Thomas Andrew Tyler, a widower. When her husband died after almost forty years of marriage, she moved to Shreveport, Louisana, where she lived the rest of her life. 14 GEORGE EARLY MCCANN, Farmer, Gin Operator, and Carpenter (* Jones County, Georgia 2.ix.1880 ƒ Rev. McComick's residence in the Patrick Community of Rust County, Texas 1.vi.1910 to Erin Leah Patrick Ý Longview, Gregg County, Texas 27.vii.1964 × Boynton Cemetery in Panola County, Texas): When he was two or three years old, George Early McCann moved from Jones County, Georgia to Longbranch, Panola County, Texas. He was raised on a farm, so he became a farmer after he grew up. He was also a carpenter and later, after he married, a ginner in the Partick Community. He married Erin Leah Patrick and moved in 1910 to Hammond, Tangapoo Parish, Louisana where he lived for a year. Then he moved to Garrison, Shelby County, Texas for two years. After that he returned to the Patrick Community, where he lived when he lost all in savings in the bank in 1929. After the depression, in 1947, he moved to Henderson, Rusk County, Texas. Children: Cecile Bettie (1911- ) (married to Clifton Maxwell McCann) Hattie Mae (1913-1987) (married to Lee Felbert Maxwell) Opal Bell (1915- ) George Albert (1916-1919) (1919-1922) Chester Franklin (1923- ) 15 ERIN LEAH PATRICK, (* Rusk County, Texas 15.viii.1884 ƒRev. McComick's residence in the Patrick Community of Rust County, Texas 1.vi.1910 to George Early McCann Ý Henderson, Rusk County, Texas × Boynton Cemetery in Panola County, Texas): Erin Leah Patrick was three years old when her mother died. She was raised by an aunt and a Negro who had formerly been a slave. When she was in the sixth grade, she was expected to keep the home. Then she married George Early McCann and lived to Hammond, Tangapoo Parish, Louisana from 1910-1911. Then Erin Leah McCann moved to Garrison, Shelby County, Texas for two years. After that she returned to the Patrick Community, where she lived until 1947, when she moved to Henderson, Rusk County, Texas. Sources: Glen Ernst Lich, Lera Tyler Lich, Celcile McCann Tyler, and Family Stories, collected and written by Glen and Lera Lich