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Giles Haney

6 Feb 1903 – 13 Apr 1980

Birth6 Feb 1903
Death13 Apr 1980
CemeteryFields Store Cemetery
Fields Store , Waller County , Texas , USA
Added byJames Haney on 25 Jan 2020
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Uncle Giles had the patience of Job. He was tall and thin and had a dry sense of humor. He nurtured us kids and taught my mother, Evelyn, how to drive a car. He never got mad about anything. I remember one time we were going to grandma's house with him and daddy was going to come out the next day. Mama wanted to stop and pick some black berries on the side of the road by Schnieders place. He stopped and helped her pick berries. He had bought a new record of the song "Over the Waves". He had been looking for it for quite some time. Uncle Giles had placed it on the front seat where he thought it was safe. Well, Little Miss Busybody (Thelma) had to get up in the front seat to see what was going on and I put my right knee through that record and it broke into a hundred pieces. He never said a word except to tell mother not to fuss at me, that I didn't mean to break it. He met Aunt Norma and started keeping company with her. Wesley and I were so excited for them. Aunt Norma was so sweet and was the best cook and a hard worker. She was thin, pretty, and had beautiful dark eyes and hair. I can see them now, riding down the road in that little Model "A" Ford Victoria Coupe with the rumble seat or as some people called it, turtle back. It would usually be opened. Submitted by Thelma Claire Haney-McCart Uncle Giles was born in Nacogdoches County on his fathers farm near the small East Texas town of Appleby. The year was 1903. His father was a rancher and farmer. As he grew he was expected to work and that he did. He attended Appleby School until his father moved the family to Waller County in 1920. After moving he went to school at a one room country school that was located in the Field Store Community. The School was called Field Store School. The school finally closed in the late 1950's. The building stood and was used for a community center until it burned down in 2001. Then the building was replaced. The school operated under the Waller Independent School District. After the school closed the children were bussed into the town of Waller to school. Uncle Giles learned how to farm and take care of livestock from his father. His mother taught school in Appleby and he studied under her teaching. I always thought of Uncle Giles as a man who knew how to do anything. I been with him when he butchered calves for the store. He candled eggs and sorted them. I have seen him pull the engine out of a car and truck and replace them. Haney Brothers had a ton and half 1937 Chevrolet stake bed truck. He built the bed on it with oak wood and put sideboards on it that were about four foot high. When they got a new two ton Dodge truck in 1948 he built the bed on it. He knew how to hunt rabbits, squirrels,deer, snakes, quail and anything else he found. He hunted for food for the farm. "By the way they did not eat the snakes". Uncle Giles drove into Houston for many years carrying crates of eggs and selling them to Hotels,Hospitals, Restaurants and groceries store over Houston. he would make the trip on Tuesdays and Friday's. When we still like in Houston he would come by during the summer while I was out of school and pick me up and let me ride with him on his route. I would help him but getting on the truck and pull the egg crates to the back of the truck so he could take them in the business places. We we would also sell watermelons and cantaloupes when they were in season to the groceries stores. He would always bring lunch for us and I really thought that was great to get to eat out with him. He also carried a gallon thermos jug with him and he would pour some water out on our hands so we could clean them before we ate. Then he would give me a cup of water with my lunch Aunt Norma had made for us. One day he picked me up I asked mother if I could eat at a small cafe on Harrisburg that we sold eggs too. She gave me a quarter to eat on. I could hardly wait until got to this place on our route. After we unloaded Uncle Giles told me to go sit at the counter and order a hamburger. Well I ordered two hamburgers and a root beer. The hamburgers were a dime and the drink was a nickle. I pay the gave the man who ran the place my quarter. That was my first time to eat out. I though I had just died and went to heaven. The reason is that this was right after or on the tail end of the depression and I did not even know anyone who ate out. The only time we did not eat at our house we were a relatives house. No Restaurants. Uncle Giles later making the usual egg route had a old country boy with him helping him do the same thing I described to you that I had done for him. Uncle Giles would most of the time would have to stop and pick up items for the store or someone he wanted to help. This one time he on Washington Avenue going west and he pulled over on the south side of the street and stopped. He bought something for the store. When he got back into the truck and was ready to pull out on Washington Avenue he could not see the traffic coming for the east. So he asked this country boy if there were any trucks coming (really he meant vehicles) and the boy looked and told him "No". So Uncle Giles pulled out on Washington and a car hit his truck. ( He just asked if there was a truck coming, not a car) It did not do very much damage to the car or to the truck. They had insurance to take care of the car. I never saw Uncle Giles get out of sorts with anyone but I know that on one occasion that he met a man at the Post Office. This man owed him some money and kept telling him lies about when he was going to pay him. Uncle Giles had gone way out of his way to help this man and then the man refused to even talk with him. Well when he saw this man at the Post Office one morning he pressed the man for payment and the man jump on Uncle Giles but the man jump on the wrong man because Uncle Giles was a strong individual and he make the man wished that hadn't happen. Then Uncle Giles when to the Justice of Peace and told the Judge that he want to pay a fighting fine and told the judge what happened. Well the Judge let him pay a small fine and gave him a receipt. Later the man went to city office and filed on Giles. Later that day the City Marshall, Mr. "Zeke" Hoffman, came to the store to arrest him on this charge. Uncle Giles showed him where he had already paid a fine. The City Marshall walked off shaking his head and without Uncle Giles. Uncle Giles beat him to the punch. Some time after Uncle Giles retired he joined the Waller Baptist Church. He asked me to come and be with him when he was baptized. I was very honored and I drove to Waller and help him get the robe on, that they wore into the baptistry and waited for him afterwards till he dressed. Uncle Giles had attended Myrtle Grove Baptist Church when he was a home and he joined the New Hope Methodist Church at Field Store at one time. He also would attend Aunt Norma's church with her (St.Johns Lutheran Church in Waller). He died on Monday, April 13,1980. I was asked and served as one of his pall bearers at his funeral. Uncle Giles lived to be 77 years, 2 months and 7 days old. Submitted by J. B. Haney his nephew. *********************************** According to the Rainbolt Genealogy Book : Page# 320 Individual# 1434 ************************************ Individual# : K H C 3 - 8 F R ************************************* Texas Death Certificate# : 3 1 6 0 8 Burial : 15 April 1980 **************************************

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