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He believes that his law practice offered the flexibility to pursue his other passions, thanks to his excellent secretaries through the years. While they kept him connected to the office, he was able to spend summers collecting antiques and knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was the first president of the Historical Society. Its greatest accomplishment was the publication of two comprehensive works by Jack and June Towry: \u201cHistory of Lincoln County\u201d and \u201cGenealogical History of Lincoln County,\u201d both widely circulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wyatt said, \u201cI was on the board when we built the new library and was on the board for a number of years. I feel that we are fortunate to have a good library like that. I love history, and I don\u2019t think you can be well educated unless you know some history, especially the history of the people around you. I\u2019ve always loved knowing about the families in Fayetteville.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was in the antique business for about 30 years and had good ladies working for me. We had the house down on South Elk, which was the old McKinney house, built in 1824, and we restored that, and I opened my antique shop there. It got to be too much going back and forth, so we moved the shop downstairs here in my home. It worked out beautifully,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He traveled to England to buy for the shop and had his purchases shipped to Fayetteville. Other trips coordinated through the University of Tennessee and Parson\u2019s School of Design of New York took him to Italy, France, and England, allowing him to see other parts of the world and study law abroad. But it was always good to come home again \u2014 home where his roots are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy mother\u2019s and father\u2019s families came here over 200 years ago, and I\u2019m rather proud we\u2019re still here. My great-great-grandfather fought in The Revolution and came here in 1807. He helped clear the town square of a canebrake and helped lay out the roads. It was Indian country, and they had to wait to get a clear title before settling. We\u2019ve been here a long time, and I expect to be here a while longer,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI can attribute a large part of my small success to my present secretary, Mrs. Marie C. McNeese, who has assisted me up to the present time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wyatt said of all he\u2019s done in his lifetime, \u201cI like it all, and I don\u2019t know that I\u2019d be happy without any of it. I\u2019d hate to have gone through life without it; I enjoy so many facets of it. I have been fairly successful, and that\u2019s, of course, comparative, and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coming full circle, his closing statement leaves the jury with but one verdict \u2014 a life well lived. GN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lincoln County attorney Don Wyatt has packed his 90-plus years with love for his hometown of Fayetteville and for his profession. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC08658-1024x683.jpg\")