Grandpaws Stories....

[matt_aggie04]

My grandpaw, now nearly 80 years young, was the first person that I ever heard talk about hunting hogs with dogs.  My family originally settled around the Pinehurst area and there are a few of us still here today even though it is much much different then it was back then.  My grandpaw has more stories then I have time to write but I will share a few as time allows. 
The "big hog" story that is his favorite is of a good 200lbs boar that the cought off of Spring Creek just west of Tomball that really put a whoopin on the dogs so being the sporting men they were they barred him and knocked his wheters out and sent him on his way.  Almost five years later they were hunting off of what is today Telge Rd closer to Cypress Creek where before construction took its grip used to be a hog paradise with a lot of youpon, greenvine, rose hedge thickets that covered hundreds of acres along the creek.  Well they bayed and cought that big barr in there one night and since he was too big to handle they shot him.  They carried him to town and had to weigh him on the butchers scales and said he was around the #400lbs mark.  My grandpaw still has the teeth out of that hog to this day.  It is hard for me to think about it now but they primarily worked cows and hunted hogs from just east of Waller all the way east to San Jacinto River horse back, that is a PILE of country.

[Sean]

cool story matt. makes me want to cut some hogs! lol thanks for sharing.

[Circle C]

Matt,

   Good story, I am ready for another!

Speaking of the city taking its grip on surrounding land. My grandfathers prototype machinist was an old German by the name of Carl Walther. When I was at Carl's funeral about 8 years ago, they mentioned him settling in a rural community near Crosstimbers. (For those that are not familiar with Crosstimbers, it is one exit outside of Loop 610 in Houston. Darn near downtown Houston.)  He ended up retiring and moving to a small farm outside of Franklin, Tx. My mother's house was in a neighborhood called Tanglewood, again one exit outside of loop 610. She could look out her kitchen window, and she was looking at the Katy prairie. That was less than 40 years ago. It is hard to believe that the sprawl could cover darn near to Brookshire in such a small time frame.

[Circle C]

Forgot to mention when I was born in 1978 we lived on an 1100 acre  dairy farm called the Speckmeyer place. We sold to developers, that area is now Bear Creek.  Hwy 6/ Clay Road/Barker Cypress area.

[uglydog]

Matt, My Grandaddy, and Grandpa is from the Lufkin area, and I have heard alot of stories, not sure how many is true and how many was exagerated. My grandpa is still going but not to good, he is 83.

Yall making me thinking of going to see him and put him to work on the video camera. That way maybe I can play that oldstyle story tellin' to my grandbabies one day.

Sean, If I can get his story about boar hog guttin' his horse while he pickin up pigs with a piggin string to mark while in the saddle (which I have heard it told the same way atleast 20 times over the years, so I believe it) on video can you put it online for me? It s almost one of my favorites

[Sean]

not a problem krystal. "seansgotthesoftware" 

[jdt]

anybody got any more good ones

[lettmroll]

My mother got my grandfather to write a story about his life before he passed away. He wrote it in a 3 subject notebook, I'm going to try and get it scanned and in pdf.
It is full of great stories about hog hunting, duck hunting and commercial fishing.