| George F. Eckert was born in 1907 near Fredericksburg,
Texas, and started working in his father’s oil fields as
soon as he was old enough to stoke the steam boilers (around the age of
10). During the 1920s he worked oil fields in southern California and all
around Texas, from Daingerfield to Miranda City, again in his father’s
small leases and for Sun Oil. After his marriage in 1930, he settled in
San Antonio and worked the first shallow oil field found (by his father)
in southeastern Bexar County, pulling the oil out of Eckert Chalk for the
rest of his life. As a child, I recall watching him empty his pockets every
evening, and rare was the time that he didn’t have a point or two. He would
often tell stories about looking for (and finding) points around the oil
fields when he was a kid. These points were the best of the lot and he
left these for me upon his death. (P.S. He often swore he could smell a
rattle snake from 50 feet!)
For more information, please email
Tomye Zettner, his grandaughter. |
