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FOY’S IN THE MOVIES

One of the most popular family legends oft repeated by family members at the
annual FOY reunions in Cisco, TX concerned Aunt May, my grandfather’s
sister.

ALICE MAY (actually MAE) FOY was born February 8, 1888 in Limestone
County, Texas. Her early adult years were spent in Fort Worth, TX where she
was a telephone operator for the Fort Worth Telephone Company. She even had

her own telephone, number 595, at her residence in 1907 which was a real
distinction for young women in those early days.

MAY married a man named WILL SPRINKLE at Fort Worth in 1907 and, soon
thereafter, they moved to Los Angeles, California. With that Aunt MAY stepped
into another world so far as the Texas FOYs were concerned. Movie ad like
photographs of MAY in fur coats and fine clothing and of WILL SPRINKLE in
late model convertibles smoking a pipe gave rise to much speculation in the FOY
family.

In years to come it was claimed famed movie star Hopalong Cassidy was the God
Father of MAY’s and WILL’s children, whose names few even knew. Later, it
was rumored that their son, HENRY SPRINKLE, had married and that he and

his wife (name unknown) were a dance team and had appeared in several
movies. In still later years it was rumored that HENRY had changed his last
name to FOY and was called EDDIE FOY (see the photo toward the end of the
Cisco Clan section). Such is the life of family legends which grow with each
telling and are embellished as the years pass until some genealogical
curmudgeon comes along trying to nail down the source and veracity of such
tails.

Aunt MAY died in the Panorama City, California outside Los Angeles in
January 1973.

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