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of his younger brother, when he ac-
cidentally cut his own life short on
Mar. 14,1839.
At ages 14 and 10, William and
John Austin Wharton suddenly be-
came orphans after losing both par-
ents in 1816. A big-hearted uncle in
their hometown of Nashville, Tennes-
see opened his home to the boys and
three other siblings. Jesse Wharton
not only kept the children together but provided each
of them with a first-class education.
William and John were gifted students, who earned
undergraduate and law degrees and admission to bar in
their early twenties. The older Wharton was the first
to migrate to Texas coming in 1826. The date of John’s
arrival is in dispute with some historians claiming he
followed in 1829 and others arguing he waited until
1833.
Whenever he did appear on the scene, John found his
big brother leading the charge for independence. The
younger Wharton started a newspaper The Advocate
of The People’s Rights to give William a platform for
presenting his radical views.
The focus of the firebrand’s attacks was none other
than Stephen F. Austin, whom William repeatedly
raked over the coals for his conciliatory attitude
toward the Mexican government. The war of words
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Remember when...
“But, everybody goes,” I would ex-
plain. Without batting an eyelid she
would say it, “if everybody jumps off
a bridge are you going to jump, too?”
Not the bridge question!
In my day it was before bungee
jumping so I had nothing to work
Office receptionist/ with. Then if things were not bad
circulation enough, mother thought she had
Seven Year-Old: Daddy?
know what I’ve been thinking?
Me: What?
SYO: Wouldn’t it be good if
everyone in the world could jump
over our house...Everyone except
all the bad guys. And all those mean
girls.
My boys are now almost-12 and
just-turned-14—seven years have
passed since those conversations—
and even though the content of
the conversations have changed, they are equally
interesting and entertaining.
Here are some newer snippets from the last few
months:
Number one: School and the future.
14 Year Old: Daddy, I don’t understand school.
Me: What don’t you understand?
14: I don’t understand the concept.
Me: It’s not a hard concept, son. You go to learn
what you need for your future.
14: How will I ever need biology or algebra if I am
going to be a history teacher or a pastor?
Me: What if you change your mind?
14: I’m not going to change my mind. I don’t change
my mind.
Me: You don’t.
14: No. I am called to either the ministry or to
public education, (pause) Or maybe to professional
music, (another pause) Or to tennis, maybe, (pause)
Or maybe to psychology or counseling.
Me: You certain about that?
14. Pretty certain.
Me: Well, psychology is a science. You’ll have to be
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culminated in a duel between John
Wharton and William T. Austin, a
distant but combative relative of the
future “Father of Texas.” John was
shot in the wrist and never regained
full use of his hand.
The feud had cooled only a few
degrees by the fall of 1835, when Sam
Houston called William H. Wharton
and Stephen F. Austin away from
the siege of San Antonio. He talked
them into temporarily burying the
hatchet and joining Branch T. Archer on a mission to
the United States to raise money and political support
for the Revolution.
That was why William missed San Jacinto and John’s
heroics in the historic battle. But with the Republic of
Texas finally recognized by President Andrew Jackson
on his last day in office, the diplomat was free to return
home in time for the first anniversary of Lone Star
independence.
It took William an exhausting month to reach New
Orleans, where he hopped a ride on the “Independence”
for the last leg of his long trip. A week out of the
Crescent City, Wharton saw the mouth of the Brazos
River through the morning mist. That meant Velasco,
his ultimate destination, was just four miles down the
coast.
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10 Years Ago
Week of March 11, 2005
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• Angela Bailey of the Curler Salon cuts ten inches
of hair from JoAnna Waller to be donated to the
Locks of Love Organization. • Magon Teske won the
Miss Junior Teen at the 2004 Miss Shelby County
Pageant. • Restoration project begins at Shelbyville
Methodist Church. • Rio Theatre to show The Man
of the House. • Toledo Finance opens new offices. •
Center Middle School band students bring home 39
first division medals.
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enough, mother thought she had
to help Webster teach me how to
talk by getting after me with the bar
soap. “You should be ashamed,” she would add while
she held the bar soap in her hand. I would stand there
thinking to myself give me the soap just spare the, I
should be ashamed, speech.
Thankfully mother knew best when it came to di-
recting my childhood. She gets wiser with every year I
grow older and I am truly seeing the wealth of wisdom
she has.
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ritating sayings your mother can use 1 noughts ot our Lite
against you. Because -1 said so, is one
of the worst. How do you argue with
that? You can’t, there is nothing to
work with. You are doomed from the
start.
You may have found the most de-
lightful find of the century at the store.
In your mind, you have got to have it.
You wait patiently for the right time to
ask mother... using caution not to fail by asking at the
wrong time. She is almost finished with her shopping
when sweetly you ask for the item. The response is a
sharp “no.”. Forgetting, you ask “why?’ Quickly again
you hear those four words “because, I said so.”
It’s all over. Defeat sets in. Another irritating saying
often occurred when I wanted to go someplace with a
friend. If mother said no I would begin my campaign.
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Kids Say the Darndest Things, part II
Today is Column 245. Hard to
believe. One hundred and forty nine Off the Cuff
columns ago, on Column 96, this is
how I started off...
Besides being exhausting,
frustrating, bewildering, inexact and
eternal, parenting is also pretty neat.
Pay attention, and often you’ll run
upon some amazing moments.
Since a lot of parents are aware
of this, many of us continually make
scrap books so that other parents
(like me) can feel neglectful and disinterested. Still
others of us never leave home without a camera (or
a cell phone) so that we can record every amazing
moment...and lots of those other moments that have
nothing amazing about them at all. (“Here’s a shot of
my 3 year-old eating his banana sandwich with only one
hand!” “Here’s my oldest going off in one direction
while looking in another!” “Look here—my daughter
stepping in a hole on Easter!”)
So since I am good at none of those important
parenting skills, and because I’ve learned if I take my
cell phone out of the car, I’m probably going to lose it,
I have created a parent skill of my own: selecting some
of the few undocumented moments I do remember,
embellishing them, then sharing them in the local
paper...
Then I shared some snippets of my kids’
conversations when they were five and seven years old.
Here are two of them:
Number one: Penmanship.
Five Year-Old: Daddy, have you ever noticed that a ‘5’
and an ‘S’ look just alike?
Me: No, I haven’t. Do they?
FYO: Yep. Except an ‘S’ doesn’t have a big belly.
Number two: Wishful Thinking.
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