@patofoto Well, it took months and months but finally some guys over on the GitHub for ESP-Arduino finally found it!
https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/issues/8324#issuecomment-1725784617
The helper util file in the onewire lib had an outdated notion that there could not possibly be pins greater that 33.
I edited mine and now it works!
Wow, what a ride!
-Terry