Waylonzo

[ community, school site (June 3, 1913) & post office (established 11 Oct 1889 - discontinued 15 Sept 1916 moved to Perry) ]

Wiley Poppell operated a large turpentine operation at Waylonzo for many years.

Lum Stanaland and family lived all their career in the Waylozo area. He is known as a chair maker.

The A. J. McPhail family lived in the Waylonzo area - they received their mail at Waylonzo post office and their children attended the Waylonzo School. McPhail was a farmer and later he logged for Hays Hardwood Mill at Perry.

Julian Padgett moved to the area of Nutall Rise early in his life. During his career, he was a farmer and sold vegetables at Scanlon, a convict guard and he guarded prisoners at Waylonzo. He was united in marriage by two venerable Rocky Ford ministers: Penn Strickland and B. F. Brooks. This occured at Covington a station on the Seaboard Railroad, about midway between Mt. Gilead and Rocky Ford churches.

The Willie R. French family lived in the Rose Creek section of Taylor County - this area abuts the Waylonzo community. Many of the French children attended Rose Creek School.