Samuel Gann of Winchester Va Family

Wilburn Andrew Gann1899

Name
Wilburn Andrew Gann
Given names
Wilburn Andrew
Surname
Gann
Birth August 21, 1899 41 30
Birth of a brotherJames Earnest Gann
March 12, 1902 (Age 2 years)
Birth of a brotherWilliam Riley Gann
October 12, 1904 (Age 5 years)
Death of a paternal grandmotherSarah Minerva White
March 1908 (Age 8 years)
MarriageIva Lee CorbettView this family
December 21, 1919 (Age 20 years)
Death of a fatherBayless Pinkney Gann
September 23, 1928 (Age 29 years)
Death of a motherLaura Elizabeth Hunt
June 17, 1941 (Age 41 years)
Death of a sisterLillie Pinkney Gann
July 17, 1955 (Age 55 years)
Death of a brotherMelvin Leroy Gann
October 22, 1956 (Age 57 years)

Death of a brotherSmith Monroe Gann
December 29, 1967 (Age 68 years)
Death of a sisterSarah Emily Gann
July 20, 1969 (Age 69 years)
Death of a wifeIva Lee Corbett
1972 (Age 72 years)
Death of a brotherJohn Worth Gann
July 24, 1972 (Age 72 years)

Death of a brotherJames Earnest Gann
January 7, 1983 (Age 83 years)
Death of a brotherWilliam Riley Gann
June 2, 1984 (Age 84 years)
Deathyes

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage: July 27, 1886TX
9 months
elder sister
Sarah Emily Gann
Birth: May 6, 1887 28 18Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX
Death: July 20, 1969Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX
2 years
elder brother
Smith Monroe Gann
Birth: September 22, 1889 31 20Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX
Death: December 29, 1967Stephens Co, TX
2 years
elder sister
Lillie Pinkney Gann
Birth: February 13, 1892 33 22Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX
Death: July 17, 1955Young Co, TX
3 years
elder brother
3 years
elder brother
2 years
himself
3 years
younger brother
James Earnest Gann
Birth: March 12, 1902 43 32Veal Creek Community, Stephens Co, TX
Death: January 7, 1983Stephens Co, TX
3 years
younger brother
Family with Iva Lee Corbett - View this family
himself
wife
Marriage: December 21, 1919Ivan, 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!