Mr. Tiner's "Bees"ness

 

I have known for a while that Jesse Lane Tiner kept bees. The Sutherland Springs Historical Museum has a copy of his 1918 Journal, transcribed by his grandson, Wayne Douglas Tiner. The Tiner family had sold their place in Sutherland Springs in 1903 and moved to Uvalde. Jesse Lane Tiner had an Apiary on the Frio River, in the southeast corner of Uvalde County where the Frio and the Sabinal Rivers joined. Wayne Douglas Tiner had visited the house by the Apiary on the Frio with his Uncle Alanson, when he was about 12 years old. 

In his journal from 1918, Jesse Lane describes his beekeeping in great detail, listing many of the flowers that the bees were feeding on: catclaw, white brush, mesquite, and Brazil bush. On April 19, he boasts that he has 35 "gums" and projects that he will have 150 pounds of honey from just one "gum."  On June 4, he began extracting honey. He says "have to be very careful and not let the bees get a taste of honey. it is an uphill business for one man to take honey alone but a fellow does not know what he can do untill he tries and has to do." Jesse Lane Tiner was 71 years old in 1918.

However, I just found out that his beekeeping had begun even earlier in his life. He records in his 1898-1900 Journal, on April 9, 1900, that "we hived 2 nice sized swarms of Bees today."

Beekeeping was a thing in Floresville. The Southland Queen, Volume 6, October 1900, records that the Sixth Annual Meeting of the South Texas Bee Keepers' Convention has held in Floresville, Texas, on August 10 and 11 at the opera-house. The article mentions these people in attendance at the meeting: C. C. Halcomb, J. B. Wall, J. N. Cox, Joseph Roberson, Ed Dietz, T. S. Tipton, Alma Halcomb, Callie Ferall, Miss Katie Rosse, G. W. Hufstedler, Mrs. G. W. Hufstedler , Miss May Hufstedler, Rev. J. H. Manlove, Mrs. J. H. Manlove, C. J. Mon, N. A. Webb, M. C. West, C. D. March, J. M. Allen, W. O. Murry, Alex Ormand, Walter Houston, Albert Stadt, Miss Mary Chaney, J. M. Bell, L. L. Beard, Udo Toepperwein, E. T. Jones,  Stachellhausen, Herman Jahm, A. H. Knolle, W. H. Laws,J. B. Salyer, W. E. Crandall, Mrs. E. D. Farris, Mrs. C. W. Tipton, Zachrie Ferris, J. T. Bell, Judge Lawhorn, M. M. Faust, J. M. Faust, Miss Carrie Faust, Miss Lauretta Faust. The article mentions that there may have been others in attendance.

Miss Katie Rosser was my husband's grandmother. She was the daughter of B. F.  and Texana Rosser. Do you have relatives among those who attended the Sixth Annual Bee Keeper's Convention in Floresville in 1900?