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Page 10—Wimberley Mill, April 1,1972The Cloptons Crossing DamSusie Brooks DanforthI saw an article in the Wimberley Mill about the CLOPTIN CROSSING. Now, I’ve been here ninety-five years, ten months, thirteen days and fourteen hours, and I never have known anyone by the name of CLOPTIN. I knew all of the CLOPTONS except Mr. Anthony Clopton Sr, who died when I was too little to know anything. Anthony Clopton Jr. was born after his father died. The widow and her seven children were our neighbors as long as any of them lived. The children were Walter, Agnes, Dan, Lee, Sarah, Carroline and Anthony Jr. Lee married a Mr. Smith, who was killed in a cotton gin press, she had two childrenwhen she married my brother, Wyatt Brooks. The younger little boy died with fever, and the older boy is the father of our wonderful contractor and builder, Floyd Smith.In 1869, when my father came to this country, my uncle Frank Brooks., lived across the Rio Blanco' from the present Seven Acre Resort. The home of Joe Blackwell in that time. My father settled on the place now owned by Mrs. Harvy Cowan, and the Cloptons across the Blanco, and the road to New Braunfels and San Antonio crossed the river near their house, and was known as the CLOPTON CROSSING, not ehe CLOPTIN CROSSING, whenthe big rise in the Blanco River came in 1869, the water inundated the Clopton home, and came up to the log cabin home of my father. Both families moved from there. The Clopton family located their new home on the west bank of Cypress Creek about one half mile downstream from Jacob’s Well, my father built his new home about one mile upstream from Jacob’s Well, on the same side of dry Cypress Creek. The widow Clopton lived in ths home until very late in life when she lived most of the time with her daughter Lee and my brother Wyatt.The individuals who want to build the CLOPTIN CROSSING DAM on CYYPRESS Creek have my permission to do so, but I am sure that the Federal Government has chosen the Blanco River site near the old Clopton home, later, the home of Can Williamson.
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