Lenora, I'm fascinated by your question though I don't know that I can help you. But I thought my Breedloves were the only ones in this part of Texas in that period. My great grandfather was Jefferson Davis Breedlove who about 1890 was going back and forth, sometimes living in Erath County and sometimes in the southeast part of Texas (near Houston) in Austin County. He had a brother Thomas Larkin Breedlove who lived in Brown County, Erath County, and Comanche counties some of the time. I have not known of one in Fisher County, though. Fisher County is one maybe ten miles from Haskell County where my great uncle Charles Berryman Breedlove was superintendent of schools, but he was born November 9, 1886, at Gatesville, Coryell County, Texas, so couldn't be the "C. R. Breedlove" father of Frankie. Colorado County is adjacent to Austin County, and the proximity of the two sets of counties seems quite a coincidence. Jefferson Davis Breedlove and Thomas Larkin Breedlove were sons of Simpson Breedlove and his second wife, Emmaline Matilda Hodge(s). If anyone would like a fuller description of the family, I'll send it privately. Barbara Breedlove Rollins (who lives in Taylor County adjacent to Fisher County) > -----Original Message----- > From: LGut800427@aol.com <LGut800427@aol.com> > > : Here is my query: In the year of 1890, a young girl wrote a love letter to > :her handsome Cowboy on a ranch in another county. She was Frankie Breedlove, > :daughter of C.R, Breedlove in Fisher CO Texas and the cowboy was W.R.Smith of > :Colorado CO TX. They eventually married and I think he became a senator. I > :want a direct dec3endant to have this precious letter. Contact me at > :LGUT800427@AOL.COM Thanks, Leona