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Submitted: 8/2/22 • Approved: 8/4/22 • Last Updated: 8/7/22 • R529133-G529131-S3
John S. Wyche
1850-1921
Zuleika Tucker Wyche
1859-1929
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary John S. Wyche
J.S. Wyche, Pioneer, Dies Suddenly Thursday
J.S. Wyche, aged about 72, one of the Plains pioneer settlers, expired suddenly at his home, eight miles southeast of Hereford, about 8:15 o'clock Thursday night.
Mr. Wyche had been failing in health for several months and had suffered greatly from rheumatism. He was sitting up Thursday night with his family after supper when he complained of feeling ill and he was put to bed, dying peacefully as he laid down. Funeral arrangements and not been completed Friday afternoon, pending information concerning the arrival of relatives, although it was expected he would be buried Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Wyche had been a resident of Castro and Deaf Smith counties for thirty-five years and leaves a great concurse of sorrowing friends scattered all over this country. At one time he was tax assessor of Deaf Smith county, and was held high in the esteem and good will of every man and woman who knew him. Besides his widow he is survived by two sons, Tucker Wyche of Laredo, Texas, and Tate Wyche, of Guymon, Colo., and two daughters, Miss Jennie, of Laredo, and Miss Nellie Lee, who is at home.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 22nd Year, No. 86, Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas, Friday, Nov. 17, 1922, Page 1)
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J.S. Wyche
John Stapler Wyche was born June 7, 1850, in Macon, Twigg County, Ga. He immigrated to Texas in 1875 and settled in Terrell; Kaufman County, Texas. On December 23, 1885, he was united in marriage to Miss Zuleika Tucker. To this union six children were born, four daughters and two sons. Two daughters died in fancy, Miss Nellie Lee, is at home, Miss Virginia is at Eagle Pass, also Tucker S. Wyche of Eagle Pass, Texas, and John Stapler, of Guy, N. Mex. Only two, Tucker S. and Nellie Lee, were able to be here for the funeral services. Mr. Wyche in early life united with the Methodist Church and ever continued a faithful member and worker, always taking an active part in church and Sunday school work. In 1892 Mr. Wyche and family moved to Castro county and 27 years later moved to Deaf Smith county, where he spent the remainder of his life. He passed away November 16. The funeral services were held at the residence Saturday at 2 p.m. and interment at the City Cemetery, Rev. L.N. Lipscomb, officiating.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 22nd Year, No. 87, Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1922, Page 4)
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1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Cornelia Wyche
Gender: Female
Age: 3
Birth Year: abt 1847
Birthplace: Georgia
Home in 1850: Lowndes, Georgia, USA
Line Number: 34
Dwelling Number: 506
Family Number: 506
Household Members Age
Elizabeth B Wyche 33
Robert H Wyche 13
Polly V Wyche 11
Louisa E Wyche 9
Cornelia Wyche 3
John S Wyche 0
Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1837-1965
Name: Jno S Wyche
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 23 Dec 1885
Marriage Place: Kaufman, Texas, USA
Spouse: Zuleika Tucker
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WYCHE, JOHN S.
Founded A Community
The Wyche school was named for John S. Wyche, who came to Deaf Smith from Castro County in 1895. He hauled the lumber for the first school house from Amarillo and had it built on his land in 1899. School was held only through the three summer months for the first few years.
Two years later the building was moved to the road two miles west of the first location. In June 1917, R. R. Sherman donated a two-acre tract, and a new school house was built. The original building was moved back to the Wyche place.
John Stapler Wyche, Sr., was born at Dalton, Georgia, on June 7, 1850 and was married to Miss Zuelieka Virginia Tucker at Terrell, Tex., in December, 1885. Mrs. Wyche was a school teacher and the daughter of Gen. W. F. Tucker of Okolona, Miss.
From Royce City, near Dallas, the Wyches moved by wagon to Castro County in 1892. They were members of the Methodist Church. Wyche died at their home east of Hereford in 1922 and Mrs. Wyche died on Feb. 9, 1929.
The Wyches were parents of: John S. Wyche, Jr., Lamar, Colo.; Miss Nellie Lee Wyche, Fort Worth; Jennie Wyche Hellams, Terrell; and Tucker S. Wyche, Temple. (A History of Deaf Smith County, by Bessie Patterson, 1964
*Obituary Zuleika Tucker Wyche
Mrs. J.S. Wyche Is Found Dead In Home
The community was shocked last Saturday to learn that the body of Mrs. J.S. Wyche, pioneer resident, had been found by a neighbor in her home about seven miles east of Hereford, where she had been living alone. She had evidently died very suddenly in her kitchen, while fully dressed and obviously going about her usual duties. Her body was discovered by Mr. Perkins, a farmer living in another house on the same place, who investigated because he found no one moving about. Mrs. Wyche had apparently been in the best of health, but had told neighbors that her heart had been giving her trouble. Mrs. Wyche had been living in the same house in which she died for thirty-four years, and in spite of all the protests of relatives and friends continued to live there alone after the death of her husband in November, 1922, for her children had all grown up and moved away.
Mrs. Wyche was buried beside her husband in the Hereford Cemetery Monday, February 11, after a beautiful ceremony at the Methodist church at 3:00 p.m. conducted by the Rev. E.B. Bowen.
Mrs. Wyche's maiden name was Zuleika Virginia Tucker. She was born in Okolona, Miss., during the troublesome days of 1860, and was sixty-nine years old at the time of her death. Her father, General W.F. Tucker, was killed by a shot through a window by an unknown assassin during the reconstruction period following the Civil War. Mrs. Wyche taught school in Mississippi and in Terrell, Texas, as a young lady. She was married at Terrell in 1886 [sic] to the late J.S. Wyche, who died here in 1922. Mr. Wyche moved his family to the Plains country with the first influx of settlers, when the Fort Worth & Denver railroad was under construction. They located in Castro county in 1892 and three years later acquired their house here.
Mrs. Wyche had always been a devout Christian and had lived with her religion constantly. She is survived by two daughters and two sons: Mrs. H.M. Hellams, of Terrell, Texas; Miss Nell Wyche of Wichita Falls, Texas; John S. Wyche of Caddos, Colorado; and Tucker Wyche of Eagle Pass, Texas; two sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Tom Buchanan, of Okolona, Miss.; Mrs. Chas. Battle of Vancouver, B.C.; Mrs. [sic] W.F. Tucker of Woodville, Miss., and Dr. H.S. Tucker of Laurel, Miss.
Owing to illness her daughters were unable to attend the last rites, but both her sons were here.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 29th Year-Number 5, Hereford, Texas, Thursday, February 14, 1929, Page 6)
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Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1837-1965
Name: Zuleika Tucker
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 23 Dec 1885
Marriage Place: Kaufman, Texas, USA
Spouse: Jno S Wyche
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