Remembering Coryell’s Founders on Father’s Day

Last month, in honor of Mother’s Day, The Gatesville Messenger printed an article titled Remembering the “Mother of Coryell County” about Isabella Eleanor Neff – mother of Governor Pat M. Neff.

Now, with Father’s Day this weekend, two candidates come to mind which could be named the Father of Coryell County and of Gatesville, Orville T. Tyler and Richard G. Grant.

In their own ways, both men had an …