Great Great Granddaughters Still RanchingAfter 140 Years
When William Moses Hindes came to South Texas in 1855 to settle he might not have realized that his descendants, first cousins Judy Burnside and Lorraine Paul would still be allied with the ranching business in Wilson County through their husbands' weekly visits to the Catchpenny Farm. This is an account of a long-term tradition with a light-hearted twist about these scions of that historical ranching family. Even though both Lorraine and Judy married professional men from the city, they still hold great respect for the farming and ranching country in Southwest Texas.
These particular two cousins share another prominent ancestor, John Wesley Devilbiss, a Methodist circuit rider who came to Texas in 1842 three years before Texas became a State and who was instrumental in civilizing the Texas frontier in this area and whose life is celebrated at Oak Island Church South of San Antonio each year. He preached the first protestant sermon in San Antonio. In Lorraine and Judy's pedigree is this maternal great grandfather who was preaching on the San Antonio River when some ruffians came in to dunk him in the river but became enthralled with his sermon and joined his church.
Lorraine is married to David Paul who grew up on a farm and wrote a book "Six Miles To Town" and is an active author, retired from the Methodist ministry, and Yale graduate. Judy is married to Floyde Burnside, a practicing certified public accountant and George W. Bush commission appointee. Lorraine and Judy are cousins because their mothers were Hindes sisters Effie and Berta Lou both born on the San Miguel creek in Hindes Texas.
The unlikely part of these cousins' cattle and farming alliance is that Lorraine and her husband have come back into ranching as advisors to Judy and Floyde on such a modest scale after their ancestors' vast ranching holdings. Ranching in South Texas might have been in their genetic code but alas that genome has not been identified, yet!
The Paul's son, Eric is an electrical engineer in Fort Collins Colorado, and Dave a chemistry professor in Fayetteville. The Burnside's daughters are Kate Simpson, a speech pathologist in San Antonio, and Hayley Burnside, an actress and a teacher in San Antonio. They visit the Wilson County farm and have an interest in these roots.
Lorraine and Judy have many thrilling events in their shared family history as their great great grandfather Moses Hindes was killed by the Indians in Dogtown Texas on the Frio River four miles form Tilden. In Tilden there is a monument to him standing in the historical cemetery there. He was reburied later in Pleasanton.
Moses' son George F. Hindes, was a distinguished pioneer. He was an Indian fighter, ranger, rancher, old time cow man, railroad builder and general community developer. George's sons and these women as their descendants carry on in his tradition.
Articles and clippings support the above brief account and photographs show the family resemblance of these women who trace back to important pioneers of Texas.
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Moses Hindes Began A Tradition That Continues Today!
