----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:00 AM Subject: ADRIAN Digest, Vol 1, Issue 4 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: 20 Nov 2006 11:07:57 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [ADRIAN] Adrian family in Texas > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Adrian > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mJ.2ADEB/143 > > Message Board Post: > > Looking for any information linking any of the descendants of John > David Adrian and Rachel Fleming to the beginnings of a small town in > Texas named Adrian. My Grandmother says one of the family were > supposed to have been one of the founders. However, I have yet to > see any proof of any of them being here. I live in Amarillo which is > fairly close to Adrian Tx and have friends who live there. > Any help would be appreciated if they had been there. > Linda Carter > [email protected] > > Linda, You and I corresponded in August, 2005, regarding the ADRIAN family. I believe that you were using a different e-mail address then. In its article on Adrian, Texas, the University Texas at Austin "The Handbook of Texas Online" at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/AA/hla6.html lists Calvin G. ATEN, a former Texas Ranger, as the first settler in the vicinity. It says that the town was named for Adrian CULLEN [sic], an early farmer in the area, and officially began in the summer of 1909, when the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway was completed through that portion of Oldham County. The surname, ADRIAN, is not in the article. I am descended from David ADRIAN through my maternal grandmother, Mary Alma Laurie ADRIAN (1885 - 1961), 2nd great granddaughter of David ADRIAN and Rachel FLEMING. Bob Bumpas Ashburn, Virginia