| Collin Dennis Wyatt saddle and harness maker, storekeeper and first postmaster of Gravis, TX born 1850 Arkansas (confirmed Census1920 living in Lampasas, TX) Children 1. Alice W. Wyatt (born 1872 Williamson County, TX), 2. John W. Wyatt (born 1873 Williamson County, TX), Cora E. Wyatt (born 1875, Williamson County, TX), 4. Collin Dee Wyatt (born January 1877, Williamson County, TX), 5. Susie B. Wyatt (born June 1878, Williamson County, TX), 6. Ollie M. Wyatt (born 1879 Williamson County, TX), 7. Knight Wyatt (born May 1881, Williamson County, TX, 8. Hugh Wyatt (born August 1883, Williamson County, TX), 9. Rome Wyatt (born January 1885, Williamson County, TX), 10. Floyd Mance Wyatt (born February 1887, Williamson County, TX), 11. Shelby Wyatt (born May 1889, Williamson County, TX), and 12. Annie Wyatt (born March 1891, Williamson County, TX) birth source: http://www.nativetexan.8m.com/wyatt.htm |
Jacob L. Wyatt born about 1815 in Virginia married
August 07, 1845 in Yell County, Arkansas Source: Yell County
Early Marriage Records: WYATT, JACOB L.
SCOTT, MARGARETTE AUG 7, 1845 Children: 1. William H. Wyatt, 2. Mary Wyatt, 3. Collin D. Wyatt |
| Margarette Scott born 1821, IL source: ancestry.com |
GRAVIS, TEXAS (Williamson County). Gravis was a farming
community on Dry Berry Creek some five miles southwest of Jarrell
in northwestern Williamson County. The community had a post
office, blacksmith shop, store, and school at the end of the 1800s.
When the post office opened there in 1895, two names were
proposed for the community: Cross Roads or Wyatt's Ville (the latter
after Collin Dennis Wyatt, the local saddle and harness maker,
storekeeper, and first postmaster). The postal officials rejected these
names, and the post office and community were named for John A.
Gravis, the original land grantee. The Gravis post office closed in
1904. By 1948 Gravis was not shown on the county highway map.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Clara Stearns Scarbrough, Land of Good
Water: A Williamson County History (Georgetown, Texas:
Williamson County Sun Publishers, 1973).
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