The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1967 Page: 10 of 12
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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 2, 1967
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mile from our house when one of
those blue northers hit us. It had
been rather hot; we were actually
perspiring, and the bow wave of
the norther was below freezing.
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He says, “I note that you say
the old Faulkner school was call-
ed Hog Waller. I know about
those old hog wallows, but what
bothers me is this: the hog wal-
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name was Georgia. I remember
that she slapped my face good
and hard one night when I, in a
peeve at her, called her “George.”
No sense in that, was there? I
told her this, and told her that if
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under it. This wall of rain and
the cloud from which it fell were
blue-black in color, hence the
name, “blue norther.” Up to the
moment the wind from this scud,
or roll cloud hit, the temperature
was almost always warm ,or even
hot. The second the wind from
the norther struck, the tempera-
ture fell almost instantly. Once,
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as says that when a town used as
a county seat is within five miles
of the center of the county, the
town does not have to move to
nearer the center. Buckner was
within THREE miles of the cen-
ter of this county; still the peo-
ple thought they had to move it,
or did they? William Davis and
wife gave fifty acres for a town-
site in present McKinney, but as
land went begging in those days
for twenty-five cents an acre, this
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down. Instantly, Georgia stopped
the rig, jumped out and came
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of the move. Looks to me as if
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laughing so that I had to stagger
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running back to where I sat with
my head in my hands.
“Oh,” she said, when she saw
I was laughing. “I thought you
were crying,” and started runn-
ing back toward the buggy. I
ran after her. Our racket scared
the old horse and he started walk-
ing along, with his ears cocked
back toward us. I had to yell
whoa like the mischief to get
him to stop again. Lovers quar-
rel, and soon over, but you see
why I am cautious about the
name Georgia?
Now about the Confederate and
Union dead in this county. Two
or three years ago, as part of the
Centennial celebration of the
Civil War, the State Historical
Committee asked the chairman in
each county of the state to find
and mark all the Union and Con-
federate soldiers graves in the
county. An impossible task, as
we soon found. So far as I am
able to ascertain there are over
3,000 Confederate soldiers alone
buried in Collin County. Of these,
we know the location of just over
300 graves, and are not absolu-
tely sure of many of them. After
the Civil War, hundreds of Un-
ionists came south to settle in
We had a tough time getting
home, even though we had the
norther at our backs, and I re-
call that when I went up our
steps the light rain that accom-
panied the front was freezing on
the honeysuckles at the end of
the porch. I have not seen a blue
norther in twenty years. They
used to be the common approach.
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buffalo is long haired. The pig
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and Confederate soldiers are bur-
out just why it was moved. The ’ ied in Collin County. I am not
Constitution of the State of Tex- sure as to Georgia’s gender, as
the letter had no prefix to his
or her name.
pression that stays for many,
many years. These, I am pretty
sure, were the “hog wallers” of
the early settler. Buffalo wallows
were true wallows though.
The pig has a tough time in
summer. He cannot sweat and has
no way to keep himself cool ex-
cept by wetting his skin in water
or mud, no matter where he finds
it. It is the commone belief that
a hog likes mud better than
water, but this is not true. Given
a vat of clear water in his pen,
and one of pure, slimy mud, and
he will never put foot in the
mud. While a hog is a fair swim-
mer, he tries to avoid deep water,
because in swimming he raises
his front feet so high that his
hooves tend to cut his throat to
an extent. He therefore, stays
close to the bank in ponds and
streams and as the banks are us-
ually muddy he appears to prefer
mud to water to wallow in. The
buffalo, of which there were
very few in Collin County in the
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thrashed my horse into a gallup.
I stood a moment and then started
walking after her. Down the road
a quarter of a mile or so, she
pulled the horse up and waited
for me. When I got within fifty
feet she called out, “If you are
cooled off you can get in now.”
I said not a word, but tried to
increase my walking speed with-
out her noticing. She saw what
I was up to though, and whipped
the horse with the ends of the
reins and pulled away. I was
within twenty-feet of the buggy
and let out a loud, “Whoa!” For
some reason, I was driving one
of Dad’s work horses that night,
and as any farm horse was always
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would make her get right out of
the buggy and walk home. Dog-
gone if she didn’t haul off and
hit me harder than the first time.
This made me so mad that I
stopped the horse and shouted
for her to get out, and get out
now. She sat tight. “If anybody
gets out of this buggy it will be
you, Roy,” she said, as mad as I
was apparently. In a gigantic huff,
an totally without common
sense, I whirled out on my side
and walked off a short distance.
She grabbed the reins and
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settlers came. Were they any
hogs- here before the settlers
came?”
There has been a lot of specula-
tion as to what caused the so-
called “hog” and “buffalo” wal-
lows the settlers found when they
came to Collin County. Most
everyone believed them to be as
they were described — wallows
made by buffalo and hogs. This
was natural of course, as the
swine brought by the settlers
used the depressions to wallow in
after a rain in summertime. But
hogs did not make the wallows.
There were no hogs, even the
small wild peccary, in this coun-
ty until the pioneers brought
them in after 1843. I am pretty
sure of what made the wallows;
hogs did not cause them, but the
buffalo did.
Practically all the hog wallows
in this county were caused by the
rotting of the undergorund stump
of a big tree. Trees, like every-
thing else, as you know, do not
live forever. A large tree will
displace a lot of soil by its
stump and roots, and in the
course of time after the tree dies
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on, and I yelled whoa again. We ty.
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would like to keep his hide damp
all the time if possible; the buf-
falo wants his dry. Both the hog
and the buffalo are infested, at
times, with lice. The pig pays no
attention to them; the buffalo,
having a far more sensitive skin,
tries to rid himself of the pests
whenever possible. Like our do-
mestic chicken, about the only
way he can do this is to dust
himself. Fine dust stops the
breathing roles in the small in-
sects and they smother.
I never saw a buffalo wallow in
this section of Texas. I saw thou-
sands of them on the High Plains,
especially north of Red River in
the Texas Panhandle. In places,
where gypsum is prevelent, I
have seen a buffalo wallow that
covered an acre or more of
ground, but most of them are
smaller — fifteen to thirty feet
in diameter and five to ten feet
in depth. These are aften con-
fused with the shallow prairie
lakes that form after a rain up on
the Plains, but there is a dif-
ference; water does not stand in
a buffalo wallow. The wallow
was formed by the buffalo for
dusting, and there is always some
kind of underground drainage
that takes the water away as it
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teest that pehaps they should be
■ discussed in this article. Most of
■ the questions written to me I
■ answer personally, but if one is
■ of enough interest to the county
■ as a whole I think the rest of the
■ readers should know about it
■ also.
| The first to take up is one from
■ Mrs. Amie Sherrod of Prescott,
■Arizona. Mr. Sherrod writes. “My
■father used to talk about the blue
■northers that hit Collin County
■ during his young days, and wond-
ers why they have ceased. Also,
if you have it at hand, what was
■the coldest day Collin County
lever had and when was it?” Feb-
Iruary 10th, 1899, when it hit II
below zero, Mrs. Sherrod.
I Well, I do not know why we
have no more of those old “blue
Inorthers.” They, were called
“blue" due to the way they ap-
proached. I never saw one that
did not come out of the north-
west. A long roll of black clouds
would first appear, building up
in the northwest. This would
come on over and shortly the
long roll of a scud cloud, reach-
ing from horizon to horizon,
would rise in the same quarter of
the compass.
As this long roll got higher the
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soil was so full of the wallows
that it was referred to as “hog
waller” land. It is one of our
most productive soils.
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Thompson, Wofford & Thompson, Wofford, Jr. The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1967, newspaper, February 2, 1967; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1523808/m1/10/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.