This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gause, Dawes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HU.2ADI/1577.1.2.3 Message Board Post: Steve - Another interesting bit of info on our TX branch is how John Thomas Dawes (Johnnie Gause's huband) was murdered by two of his tennants - the whole trial was in the Crockett Courier for weeks back in 1916 but in all the hooplah - they didn't even record his death with the county clerk! It only matches JT's father's mystery of no Death cert. in IL. Like father like son;-)