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<p>[QUOTE="Lulululu, post: 42123, member: 431"]No, but thanks for sending that - interesting to see the other half of the story. She owned it after my family, who never lived there. My mother died when I was a child, so I only know what I was told as a child and what I know about the family in general. I don't, for example, know if it was her dad ( who's name was Wagner) or her grandfather (Wyruck) who owned it. It's even possible it was lost in the depression of 1893 instead of the one in 1930. It would not have been my mother's paternal GF as her father ran away from home when he was 13 and never returned. Both had money - my ggf was a Jayhawker who killed - we have found documentation of an estimate of 13 people - and took their money - no idea how wealthy he was or if he had other or more legal, lucrative occupations. His name was never spelled the same way twice (wyrich, wyrick, etc) which was not uncommon in those days but could also have been deliberate and he may sometimes not have used his real name (he is last officially known to have escaped from jail just before a scheduled hanging). He was an older man, with a published reputation for being "so mean he frightned young children" when my grandmother was born, but I have never heard anyone in my family speak about him - what he was like as a family member. My grandfather Wagner joined the merchant marines after he ran away ( lied about his age), became a naval architect ( designed one of the lesser bridges over the San Francisco Bay) and became the first director of highways for the state of California. My grandmother (his wife, daughter of the Jayhawker) was very formal ( quite a contrast from my father's side of my family in my other photos). This photo was taken when she was 18 - the same age as the one of my paternal grandmother standing next to the horse, in a photo above - they came from very different worlds![ATTACH=full]10558[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lulululu, post: 42123, member: 431"]No, but thanks for sending that - interesting to see the other half of the story. She owned it after my family, who never lived there. My mother died when I was a child, so I only know what I was told as a child and what I know about the family in general. I don't, for example, know if it was her dad ( who's name was Wagner) or her grandfather (Wyruck) who owned it. It's even possible it was lost in the depression of 1893 instead of the one in 1930. It would not have been my mother's paternal GF as her father ran away from home when he was 13 and never returned. Both had money - my ggf was a Jayhawker who killed - we have found documentation of an estimate of 13 people - and took their money - no idea how wealthy he was or if he had other or more legal, lucrative occupations. His name was never spelled the same way twice (wyrich, wyrick, etc) which was not uncommon in those days but could also have been deliberate and he may sometimes not have used his real name (he is last officially known to have escaped from jail just before a scheduled hanging). He was an older man, with a published reputation for being "so mean he frightned young children" when my grandmother was born, but I have never heard anyone in my family speak about him - what he was like as a family member. My grandfather Wagner joined the merchant marines after he ran away ( lied about his age), became a naval architect ( designed one of the lesser bridges over the San Francisco Bay) and became the first director of highways for the state of California. My grandmother (his wife, daughter of the Jayhawker) was very formal ( quite a contrast from my father's side of my family in my other photos). This photo was taken when she was 18 - the same age as the one of my paternal grandmother standing next to the horse, in a photo above - they came from very different worlds![ATTACH=full]10558[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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