One this page I will begin my limited knowledge with some pictures of my Wales family.  What I have been told is that in Texas, there was a Welshman named Edward Wilbur Wales.  He was the father to my great grandmothers' two children.  Abraham Charles Wales and Evelina Wales.

Birth records are not available as there was a fire in Ft. Worth Texas after they were born and all records destroyed, or most anyway.  I thought that both Charles and Evelina were born in Ft. Worth, Texas, but see that Evelina might have been born in El Paso, Texas.  Their mother, Adeline Elizabeth Bond, was born in either Illinois or Indiana.  She worked in one of the railroad camps doing laundry and cooking.  She met this Welshman and had two children.  Were they married?  No one knows for sure.  At some point she took her children and came to San Francisco, California.  They were living there during the 1906 earthquake and evacuated to Palo Alto and eventually moved to Yuba City-Marysville area.  And so, this is where it all begins.    Since I don't have any pictures of our Edward Wilbur Wales the first, I will start with Adeline Elizabeth Bond Wales Schandoney.  She was also known as "Big Grandma."

Sorry this is big, but she was.  I have a very little picture of she and her daughter, Evalina standing by a work-horse and they both are as tall as the horse.   Adeline worked in a railroad camp in Texas and that is where she met Edward Wales.  Her father or step-father was a Hawley Bond, near as I can figure.  I do have a picture of him and I have recently gotten a picture of he and Adeline's' mother and both will be next.

Here are her parents.  I don't know the names of either of them.  On the back of his picture it states in my grandmothers writing, "Hawley, Daddy's step grandfather who he loved very much."  Now was Hawley the first name or the last name, I have yet to find out.  I do know that he was a railroad engineer.  I do know they were in Fort Worth, Texas and I believe that Hawley was a 32nd degree Mason.  Now, you have to understand my grandpa told tall tales.  So, how much is true is for me to find out and prove.  I also have to find our "Welshman."  Now you try looking up the last name of Wales and see what you find, then you could always add Edward Wales and it gets even better.  Or. . .I could try looking for 7 brothers who came from Wales.  My grandpa said his father, Edward Wilbur Wales was one of 7 brothers who came to America.  Hmmm, ok, yeah sure.  Sort of sounds like the musical  7 Brides for 7 Brothers.  Either way my only hope is accidentally finding something out on the census.