Like bad pennies,
the name stories about Ima, Ura, et al. followed Ima’s father everywhere. One such occasion was in November
1899 when the ex-Governor of Texas attended a fair in San Antonio. He was
accompanied by three young belles he called the “Waco Trio.” Afterward he wrote
to one of them, Mary Lou Tinsley, about the good time he had escorting her and
her friends. But, he said,
“Only
one thing marred my pleasure or wounded my feelings . . . I must tell of it. It
was this: While proudly I assumed that I was regarded by that swarm of young
fellows [at the fair] as their rival, I soon learned the hordes
of strangers were being told that there ‘s ‘Old Hogg and his three
daughters—Ima, Ura, and Shesa!” This was why I looked and felt so gloomy, at
times.
Served him right!
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