Wylie Potts and Rosa Jane (Ward) Zinn
Wylie Potts Zinn was born February 1, 1879 in Tarrant County, Texas. Wylie was one of seven children born to Rev. Jacob Albert Zinn III and Cornelia Ann (Walker) Zinn. Cornelia and infant child died in October 1883 leaving Jacob with seven children to raise. In August on 1887 Jacob married Emma Morrison where she became stepmother to his seven children. She was a good mother and all the children loved her. She died in April 1911 and is buried by her husband in Warren, Oklahoma.
Wylie came to Oklahoma at a early age and lived in the Warren Community with his parents. Both Wylie and Rosa were native of Texas. Rosa came with her parents from Montague County in old Greet County in 1902. Wylie came to Old Greer County as a young boy of 11 in 1890 with his parents from Young County, Texas. Wylie and Rosa were married in 1904 in Mangum, Oklahoma in Greer County.
After their marriage they filed on a claim in Beaver County in the Oklahoma Panhandle and lived there intil 1915 when they came to Hobart where Wylie worked for a number of years as a drayman for Antrim Lumber Company. He later would farm and in 1928 he went to work as the custodian of the Methodist Church in Hobart, Oklahoma. He would serve at this job for 30 years. Wylie retired only two years before his death.
In the later years of his life he had a Lawn Mower Repair shop at his home.
Wylie and Rosa have nine children two of who preceded them in death as young children.
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