[Mrs. R. A. Wyckoff]

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RUBY VUSLE'Y
NOTES (Mrs. R. A. Wyckoff).
Cane 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 DiUgan and Orient Streets. My husband and I watched 'them take
the sOldiers. One old negro had long hair and beard down to his
wais' and no soldiers were permitted to wear beard. Twin babies
were also found the babies arms were interlocked and each of the
other4 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 ithe air struck it the form shattered. The white soldiers
were Iburied 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 Alug 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 torn
'A larger flood came in 1906.
The old San ngelo jail was built of logs that were stood on
ends,: people were not bad then and most any jail would hold them.
San :licelo didn't mean much to the soldiers when specking of the
torn they would simply say across the river. T lived right be-
side of three. Chinese who operated a laundry. They were not
exclusive rice eating people for I sold them plenty of chic'ens
a -d eggs. I always believed one of the three to be a woman.
Two ahinese came in about lr'79 and crew a lovel- garden -,here the
Glennbre golf course is now located. That pair was rkc out.
We 1iie. out on Tom Jphnso-:,'s Draw, my sister and I went to
school in a r -ifs. I relLe, ler on old lor, once an ia enEe lecan
tree bad been nasLe over to seventh id Pecan Street by a flood.
Thc old lo: lay there many years as a flood mar1er. There was
no town in that section and it was ea -or enough for fie 1ob e.,et
to tbiet location by high water.