Wilburn Andrew Gann1899–
- Name
- Wilburn Andrew Gann
- Given names
- Wilburn Andrew
- Surname
- Gann
![]() | August 21, 1899 41 30 |
![]() | James Earnest Gann March 12, 1902 (Age 2 years) |
![]() | William Riley Gann October 12, 1904 (Age 5 years) |
![]() | Sarah Minerva White March 1908 (Age 8 years) |
![]() | Iva Lee Corbett — View this family December 21, 1919 (Age 20 years) |
![]() | Bayless Pinkney Gann September 23, 1928 (Age 29 years) |
![]() | Laura Elizabeth Hunt June 17, 1941 (Age 41 years) |
![]() | Lillie Pinkney Gann July 17, 1955 (Age 55 years) |
![]() | Melvin Leroy Gann October 22, 1956 (Age 57 years) |
![]() | Smith Monroe Gann December 29, 1967 (Age 68 years) |
![]() | Sarah Emily Gann July 20, 1969 (Age 69 years) |
![]() | Iva Lee Corbett 1972 (Age 72 years) |
![]() | John Worth Gann July 24, 1972 (Age 72 years) |
![]() | James Earnest Gann January 7, 1983 (Age 83 years) |
![]() | William Riley Gann June 2, 1984 (Age 84 years) |
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Family with parents |
father |
Bayless Pinkney Gann Birth: June 13, 1858 25 26 — Marion Co, AL Death: September 23, 1928 — Stephens Co, TX |
mother |
Laura Elizabeth Hunt Birth: March 22, 1869 — MS Death: June 17, 1941 — Stephens Co, TX |
Marriage: July 27, 1886 — TX |
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9 months elder sister |
Sarah Emily Gann Birth: May 6, 1887 28 18 — Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX Death: July 20, 1969 — Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX |
2 years elder brother |
Smith Monroe Gann Birth: September 22, 1889 31 20 — Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX Death: December 29, 1967 — Stephens Co, TX |
2 years elder sister |
Lillie Pinkney Gann Birth: February 13, 1892 33 22 — Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX Death: July 17, 1955 — Young Co, TX |
3 years elder brother |
John Worth Gann Birth: November 16, 1894 36 25 — Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX Death: July 24, 1972 |
3 years elder brother |
Melvin Leroy Gann Birth: May 23, 1897 38 28 — Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX Death: October 22, 1956 |
2 years himself |
Wilburn Andrew Gann Birth: August 21, 1899 41 30 — Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX Death: |
3 years younger brother |
James Earnest Gann Birth: March 12, 1902 43 32 — Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX Death: January 7, 1983 — Stephens Co, TX |
3 years younger brother |
William Riley Gann Birth: October 12, 1904 46 35 — Ivan, Stephens Co, TX Death: June 2, 1984 — Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co, TX |
Family with Iva Lee Corbett |
himself |
Wilburn Andrew Gann Birth: August 21, 1899 41 30 — Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX Death: |
wife |
Iva Lee Corbett Birth: February 19, 1904 — Ivan, Stephens Co, TX Death: 1972 — Ivan, Stephens Co, TX |
Marriage: December 21, 1919 — Ivan, Stephens Co, TX |
Note | From Galen Gann, 821 Reveille Rd, Fort Worth, TX 76108-4030 12/15/98 Wilburn and brothers cleared fields surrounding the Stovall Hot Water Wells at South Bend, TX. Wilburn's job was keeping firewood in the steam tractor. With early life experience in driving cattle and butchering, he was the community butcher, helping neighbors and fellow workers to kill and process their animals for family consumption. He raised large gardens each year and freely gave of his harvest to the elderly and needy. He enjoyed calf roping, training horses, etc. He was affectionately known among friends as "Cowboy," but to many he is remembered as the rattlesnake hunter, a pasttime he enjoyed as long as his eyesight permitted. Wilburn worked for several ranchers as a young man. While working for Willie Corbett in 1919, he married the bosses daughter. Wilburn and Iva lived in Ivan, Caddo, Eliasville (member of the Masonic Lodge there) and Hamlin, TX. He was a ranch hand, butcher, truck driver, blacksmith and oil field worker. He worked for Phillips, Mid-Kansas, Ohio, Marathon and T.P. Oil Companies. Most of this on the Hill lease west of Eliasville. He was an active booster of youth activities. After his retirement, Wilburn and Iva Lee moved to a cabin on Veal Creek where it runs into Cedar Creek close to the old Veal Creek school ground. Truly, they had come home. At this home there was no need for TV, etc., for many old timers and relatives came to visit and sit in the shade relating incidents of the past. Example, one night a community gathering took place at the Veal Creek schoolhouse. As smaller children fell asleep, mothers would carry them out and place them in the family wagon. The "big boys" then exchanged the children and vehicles. Imagine, as a mother, when you arrived home only to find the sleeping child was not your own. Oh well! Boys will be boys! |