going public w/ added Texas tales

[Jim Strong]

Oh, yeah - I forgot to include the Azle Grosses "clan
motto."
It is:
"Ich bin ein Grosser Azel" (Esel - as a variant).
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Und wirklich waren sie.
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Billy Jim
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--- Jim Baldauf <jfbaldauf@prodigy.net> wrote:
> 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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