>From: "Burney Parker" <burneyparker@bluebon.net> >To: (suppressed) >Subject: Proposed Family Reunion in October >Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:30:11 -0600 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 > >Hello Cousins. > >Brenham has added two new motels and two others have been newly remodelled, >and in addition we have some outstanding Beds and Breakfasts. If you go to >the following website you can take a tour of these places, and other points >of interest in Washington County. One in particular is the Citadel which >was the home for more than 30 years of my Mother's sister, Jonnie Mae >Hackworth. It is now open for tours. > http://www.rtis.com/reg/brenham/ > >I have talked with the Chamber and am hoping to arrange a large family >reunion here in Washington County about the third week in October. We will >have tours through the Independence Baptist Church where Sam Houston was >baptized. The Anson Jones Farm in Old Waahington the Prairie Lea Cemetery >The Chappel Hill Historical District. and the Citadel Many of our ancestors >were early settlers of Washington County, some of whom were citizens of the >Republic of Texas. Many are buried here and I have located many of the >gravesites, and home places. >I am trying to contact the descendants of the following > Riggs Pennington and Joanna Osborne > William W. Hackworth and Eliza Jane Pennington > John Duncan Harvey and Elizabeth Suggs > Elijah Snow Boynton and Elizabeth Moffett > Amos Boynton and Mattie Harvey > William Wallace Ralston and Margaret Courtenay Walker > Jesse Young Wallace and Martha Susan "Mattie" Phillips >I am in the process of putting together a mailing list and would like very >much to have your help. If you could E-Mail the snail mail addresses of >your brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, aunts and uncles. it would >be most helpful. Its been exciting for me to find so many lost cousins and >to find records that have been hiding all these years. I am most anxious to >meet a lot of you face to face and introduce you to members of my family. >This will be a great opportunity to swap stories and gather information from >all of our long lost cousins. I will do my best to make this a memorable >occasion for all of you who can attend and in the meantime I would certainly >appreciate your help. Thank you. > >Burney in Brenham >Home of Bluebonnets and BlueBell > > > > > > > >Visit our Washington County Genweb site >http://www.phoenix.net/~awhart/washgene.htm >Burney Parker > Katherine Cochrane mailto:katherine@cd-info.com Assistant Research Director Pennington Research Association