February 13, 2012
This is from Richard. Tomorrow is Valentines Day! And it is the 100th year anniversary
of Arizona Statehood! Lots of things
are happening and there has been a lot of history in the last 100 years.
I will talk about a family that came from Texas around 100 years ago. They were known as the Wileys in Texas but they changed their name out here. They are my neighbors and friends and I
have known them for years. They are
big cattlemen. They have a lot of the
ranches for cattle between here and New Mexico.
Way back then a Wiley was walking down Railroad Avenue with a beautiful girl. The girl was a sheep herder’s daughter and
of course he was a cattleman. They were
walking down Railroad
Avenue and
they got to this building that is on the south side of the theater. It has been several things since then… it was Patty Jo’s ceramic shop at one
time. It was a bar at that time. Wiley and his girl friend, the sheep
herders daughter, walked past the open door and the bar tender shouted ‘baaaaaaa’
to the girl. Since Wiley was a cattle
man and he was associating with the sheep herder’s daughter he felt he must
defend his girl against that derogatory remark. So he bounded in the doorway and across the
counter toward the bar keeper. The bar
keep was terrified of him and when he jumped the counter the bar keep found his
pistol and shot him dead. Wiley was
dead. The moral of that story for Valentines
Day is that the Cattleman should not get too close to the sheep herders
daughter. And that is the moral of
that story on Railroad
Avenue in
Willcox Arizona.
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