TX BIOS:  Mrs. R. A. Wyckoff
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   Washington, 1994.
   
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   RUBY MOSLEY [Interview?]
   
   NOTES (Mrs. R. A. Wyckoff).
   
   Came to San Angelo in 1886; soldiers were in the Fort at that time.
   
   The negro soldiers cemetery was located between Ave. I and J. and
   Dugan and Orient Streets. My husband and I watched them take the
   soldiers. One old negro had long hair and beard down to his waist and
   no soldiers were permitted to wear beard. Twin babies were also found
   the babies arms were interlocked and each of the other arms were
   holding a bottle that had contained milk it was still white. One body
   looked as if it had just been buried and when the air struck it the
   form shattered. The white soldiers were buried between Washington
   Drive and Highland Street in the southwest Y formed by the railroad
   and street. The soldiers were taken up to be removed to San Antonio.
   There was a big mound near the present roundhouse used for target
   practice. The boys dug lead out of there for years afterward to sell.
   
   There was a flood in 1900. I lived in the old soldiers' hospital. I
   remember the date as my eldest daughter was born there.
   
   A larger flood came in 1906.
   
   The old San Angelo jail was built of logs that were stood on ends,
   people were not bad then and most any jail would hold them. San Angelo
   didn't mean much to the soldiers when speaking of the town they would
   simply say across the river. I lived right beside of three Chinese who
   operated a laundry. They were not exclusive rice eating people for I
   sold them plenty of chickens and eggs. I always believed one of the
   three to be a woman. Two Chinese came in about 1889 and grew a lovely
   garden where the Glenmore golf course is now located. That pair was
   [DEL: [?] :DEL] run out. We lived out in Tom Johnson's Draw, my sister
   and I went to school in a gig. I remember an old log once an [??]
   pecan tree had been washed over to seventh and Pecan Street by a
   flood. The old log lay there many years as a flood marker. There was
   no town in that section and it was easy enough for the log to get to
   that location by high water.
   
     NOTE: [1811?] [Chinese?]

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