Christ Peter Hoyo

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C. P. HOYO, 85, FORMER WEIMAR MAN, IS BURIED
Weimar Mercury, January 2, 1948, page 1

Funeral services for C. P. Hoyo, 86, who spent his boyhood in Weimar and later moved to Eagle Lake where he prospered in rice farming, were held Christmas Day at the First Baptist Church in Eagle Lake. Rev. Albert Brown officiated, and interment was in the Masonic Cemetery.

A native of Buffalo, New York he was born January 21, 1862, and came to Texas with his family at the age of two, settling in Weimar. On his 23rd birthday, January 21, 1885, he married Miss Elizabeth Miles at Live Oak. In 1902 he moved to Eagle Lake, where he was widely known in rice farming and later as a partner in the Eagle Lake Grain Company. His wife died in 1925, and in 1927 he married Mrs. Mary Emma Manning Fuller at Eagle Lake.

A deacon in the Baptist church, he was a director of the First National Bank at Eagle Lake, and a Rotarian. He spent 20 years as a school trustee and was associated with the American Rice Growers Association. He supervised building rice canals for the Lakeside Irrigation Company.

Survivors include his wife; an adopted daughter, Mrs. Christine McDonald; stepsons Everett and Roger Fuller of Houston, and Dr. Ralph Fuller of Austin; a brother, George Hoyo, of the Oak Grove community near Weimar; half-brothers, Frank Obenhaus of San Antonio, Adolph Obenhaus of Electra; Henry, Vernon and Otto Obenhaus of Cuero; and seven grandchildren.

Christ married Elizabeth Victoria Miles, daughter of Rev John Steen Miles and Francis G. Hames. (Elizabeth Victoria Miles was born in 1859 in , Lafayette County, Mississippi,¹ died on 24 May 1925 in Eagle Lake, Colorado County, Texas ¹ and was buried in Eagle Lake Masonic Cemetery, Eagle Lake, Colorado County, Texas.)