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Joseph Byas

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Joseph Byas

Birth
Lavaca County, Texas, USA
Death
23 Apr 1925 (aged 76)
Hunt, Kerr County, Texas, USA
Burial
Ingram, Kerr County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Oldest son Joseph Byas known as Joe was the source of much oral family history. He maintained the farm on Big Brushy Creek while his father was on the road at an early age. Joe Byas never completed full schooling, but he tells of the one room school of the area and a strict schoolmaster whose prized teaching tool was a large atlas which he would only let the children touch under strict supervision. Normally he sat on the large book in front of the class, but pulled it out when needed and sat back down in his chair with the book on the desk. For a joke, the kids placed a freshly killed water moccasin under the book one day, the teacher pulled the book out and sat right back down on the soft snake and with panic jumped up again. Some snake blood got on the book. The children were marched around the room until someone broke and confessed, with the guilty receiving a severe whipping. Joe Byas related another incident where at the local swimming hole on Brushy Creek where his friends all would race to dive in the water on a hot summer day. The first one in one day proudly was standing with head above water in what they thought was the deepest part of the hole warning the others to be careful for he was standing on a very large log at that point. He suddenly realized that the log was moving and a gigantic alligator surfaced from under him. Joe Byas later joined his father in the freighting business learning by heart every stop and person between the coast and his home area to Austin and San Antonio. Used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved
Oldest son Joseph Byas known as Joe was the source of much oral family history. He maintained the farm on Big Brushy Creek while his father was on the road at an early age. Joe Byas never completed full schooling, but he tells of the one room school of the area and a strict schoolmaster whose prized teaching tool was a large atlas which he would only let the children touch under strict supervision. Normally he sat on the large book in front of the class, but pulled it out when needed and sat back down in his chair with the book on the desk. For a joke, the kids placed a freshly killed water moccasin under the book one day, the teacher pulled the book out and sat right back down on the soft snake and with panic jumped up again. Some snake blood got on the book. The children were marched around the room until someone broke and confessed, with the guilty receiving a severe whipping. Joe Byas related another incident where at the local swimming hole on Brushy Creek where his friends all would race to dive in the water on a hot summer day. The first one in one day proudly was standing with head above water in what they thought was the deepest part of the hole warning the others to be careful for he was standing on a very large log at that point. He suddenly realized that the log was moving and a gigantic alligator surfaced from under him. Joe Byas later joined his father in the freighting business learning by heart every stop and person between the coast and his home area to Austin and San Antonio. Used with permission from SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved

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  • Created by: Janice
  • Added: Apr 26, 2003
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7388784/joseph-byas: accessed ), memorial page for Joseph Byas (10 Aug 1848–23 Apr 1925), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7388784, citing Nichols Cemetery, Ingram, Kerr County, Texas, USA; Maintained by Janice (contributor 46569014).