John Wyatt -- The Money Lender

from "Southeast Corner of Tarrant County Before the Civil War"
by Sallie Hodges McKnight


Financial transactions were accomplished without difficulty, unless the creek happened to be up, in which case the borrower waited for it to "run down" before visiting "Uncle" Johnnie Wyatt, who lived north across Walnut Creek. Application for a loan might be made to "Uncle Johnnie" or to his wife, "Aunt Susan." Neither hesitated longer than to exchange news and learn the amount required, when he or she reached in between the feather bed and mattress, and the transaction was completed without the formality of taking a note. Being a neighbor, that is somebody they know or had heard of, was indorsement enough.

Also north of Walnut Creek were the homesteads of Nathan Poole, John Hudson and W. T. Murphy, who found the depredations of wild animals, deer and wild turkey, an added hazard to the young corn, along with drouth, blizzard and too uncertain rainfall.

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