I'm still here, but don't post to the list too often, as I am a member of several name-specific lists that seen to get better results than the "scatter-gun" approach. Larry

I'm still researching VESTAL, RHODEN, MOORE, and WOODARD. Please reply if you have these names. Scott Mills AltonMills@aol.com

Hi everybody! I'm here also! Just got hung up on my ABSHER, MAYFIELD and WOOLVERTON families; wasn't sure what my next inquiry would be. Anyone heard of 'em? Becky in California

Looking for parents of Cassie ANDERSON b. 1826 in Al. I was told that the family lived in TN for a while and then moved to Nacogdoches, TX. She married Rueben KNOWLES in Harrison Co., TX in June of 1846. They both died and are buried in Leesburg, Panola Co., TX. Thanks. Carol

Hi Don, I think most of us are here. It's just August and people are onvacation, trying to stay cool, or vegging out in front of the A/C watching TV. I hope to review a few leads sent my way on the Ivy and Skinner lines. Hope everything is fine in TX... It's been hot and dry here in MD! JR Swenson

Dear Researcher: There are Evans from Cherokee County, Tx. I went to schol withthem. They are scattered now but one set of them had Douglas and Mary Evans as parents at a little community called Griffin, Tx. They all went to New Summerfield Schools which is 10 East of Jacksonville, Tx on Highway 79. Hope this gives you a clue. Sincerely, Margie Lacy Evjen ---------- > From: MATillma@aol.com > To: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Is everyone here? > Date: Sunday, August 10, 1997 7:06 PM > > I'm homesick for those Piney Woods, too- but August is not East Texas at its > finest. I'll wait for October before I head out to prowl cemetaries... > > But since business is slow, I'll put out an APB for some of my most elusive > ancestors: > > Mary Sapp who m Charles Harrison Richards and came to Shelby/Panola Co ca > 1835 from GA by way of AL. Mary is awful lonely, being the only Sapp in my > files. Surely someone knows her birth family... > > Mary Morris b ca 1867 and m. JL Morgan Richards, and died leaving 4 kids- > Lula, John, Harris and Ruby. I know she had female relatives named Melie, > Mae and Maybelle all who married Richards men-leading to some very tangled > relationships. > But who were her parents??? > > Levicey (aka Louisa) Evans b ca 1802 in TN, m. Thomas B Garrett and migrated > to TX ca 1834. Levicey and Thomas B are buried out at Douglass Cemetary. > She also misses her Evans kin- Did they come to TX or stay in TN??? > > Philip Stiefer m a woman listed on census as Purdy and Prudy and buried along > side him as PA Stiefer (1857-1914) in Edom cemetary in Van Zandt Co. Is her > true identity Martha Ann Hardin, sister of gunfighter John Wesley Hardin??? > If so I have a bunch of her kinfolk lined up for a reunion....If not, I have > a bunch of descendants waiting to get acquainted. Who is Prudy/ Purdy? > > Henry Tillman b ca 1799 poss in NC moved to Morgan Co, GA, picked up a bride > named Lydia (Liddy) Johnston/Johnson and moved to Talbot Co, GA in time for > the 1830 census. By the time 1850 census rolled around he and his had > settled in Cherokee Co where descendants are still. Who were parents of > Henry and Lydia? > > Hannah Grigsby, b ca 1825 in TN, m Isaac M Coston ca 1850 in TN and migrated > to TX. She is buried at Laneville cemetary. Family lore has it that she is > a cousin of Sam Houston. Did her birth family migrate to TX or stay in TN? > Is she kin to the TN Grigsby girls who m. the Blair boys and moved to Rusk > Co, TX, a few years earlier? > > Thanks for any clues- these people are keeping me up at night....

Hi Gang, I'm here too, with a list of surnames I hope I can get some help on. KINNEY (found it spelled KIMMEY, KENNY, Kinie, Kinni, & Kinny) George b. 1794 GA, m. Selistany ?, d. 1870 LA. lived in Angelina, Nac. & Rusk Co. Sons: George F. and Henry Clay b. 1850's & d. early 1900's TX. SMELLEY: James, Allen, James E., Willis, Susanna, Sarah ,James Frank AL>LA?>TX BASS: James F., James G., James Frank, Raulston E. Phoebe Ann, James T, Elija, Lula Ann "Doll", Lindsey, William B., Jesse, David Washington >NC, >LA, >TX. BUTCHER: James Thomas, Margaret & Lucinda (twins), Elizabeth?-mother AL>FL>LA>TX Any help or leads will be greatly appreciated. Margie Kinney-Butler

Dear All, Same for me!! I was brought up in East Tx also. Do not get many msgs.either. Researching: TIPTON, RICHARDSON, DOTSON, STEWART, WILLIS, LACY, SCOTT, DURHAM, AND OTHERS FROM VA, NC, TENN, KY, GA, AND TX. Margie Lacy Evjen---------- > From: pigoletto <piglet@usroots.com> > To: MAGiamona@aol.com > Cc: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Is everyone here? > Date: Sunday, August 10, 1997 6:07 PM > > MAGiamona@aol.com wrote: > > > > I only just joined this list. I joined because I grew up in east TX. It > > certainly hasn't been as active as the other lists. > > > > Homesick for the pineywoods!!! > > > > Mary Anne The more I learn, the more I learn that I don't know!!! > > MAGiamona@aol.com > > I'm still here....between vacations.... > Van Zandt County holdin down our section of the fort. > > megan > VZCo @ TXGenWeb > -- > piglet@usroots.com > Peripatetic Pseudo Porcine > Purveyor of Peculiar Phraseology

You wrote: > Just a quick question. this list use to be quite active, but since the >move to Rootsweb, I have only recieved about one message per day through >the list. All of the other "moved" lists are maintaining their pace. Just >wondering if everyone moved over with East-Texas-Roots or what? >-- >Don Watson dwatson@texas.net >TXGenWeb County Coordinator >Blanco County http://lonestar.texas.net/~dwatson/blanco Hi Don, I'm still here, if anyone cares. Still looking for TURNER, INES, ROBERTSON, GILLASPIE, BOGER, EKES, and EUBANK from Rusk Co., TX; PILGRIM from East Texas; and WILLIAMSON from Nacogdoches Co. TX. Most all of these lines came to TX from AL and MS from 1859-1866. Van Turner <vturner@airmail.net>

Hi Karen, I have a copy of parts of the book and it is in some public libraries. The Dallas Public library has it. I can also put you in touch with the authors if you want to correspond with them. The book is out of print and is not available for sale. At least I have not been able to find it. Please let me know what specific Talley families you are researching. I do not believe there are any Tillery's in the book but there are Tillers, Talleys and Woodleys which are all my lines. There are also Goldens and Crenshaws. Bill Everheart weverheart@worldnet.att.net ---------- > From: Karen I. Reck <kireck1@molalla.net> > To: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: "Deep East Texas Folks" > Date: Sunday, August 10, 1997 4:26 AM > > Hey Ya'll!! Que Pasa??? > > Haven't heard anything from ya for awhile! > > I'm looking for a copy of "Deep East Texas Folks" in researching my > Tillery, Talley, Golden, Crenshaw and related families in and around > Panola Co. Texas. > > Karen in Oregon

I'm homesick for those Piney Woods, too- but August is not East Texas at its finest. I'll wait for October before I head out to prowl cemetaries... But since business is slow, I'll put out an APB for some of my most elusive ancestors: Mary Sapp who m Charles Harrison Richards and came to Shelby/Panola Co ca 1835 from GA by way of AL. Mary is awful lonely, being the only Sapp in my files. Surely someone knows her birth family... Mary Morris b ca 1867 and m. JL Morgan Richards, and died leaving 4 kids- Lula, John, Harris and Ruby. I know she had female relatives named Melie, Mae and Maybelle all who married Richards men-leading to some very tangled relationships. But who were her parents??? Levicey (aka Louisa) Evans b ca 1802 in TN, m. Thomas B Garrett and migrated to TX ca 1834. Levicey and Thomas B are buried out at Douglass Cemetary. She also misses her Evans kin- Did they come to TX or stay in TN??? Philip Stiefer m a woman listed on census as Purdy and Prudy and buried along side him as PA Stiefer (1857-1914) in Edom cemetary in Van Zandt Co. Is her true identity Martha Ann Hardin, sister of gunfighter John Wesley Hardin??? If so I have a bunch of her kinfolk lined up for a reunion....If not, I have a bunch of descendants waiting to get acquainted. Who is Prudy/ Purdy? Henry Tillman b ca 1799 poss in NC moved to Morgan Co, GA, picked up a bride named Lydia (Liddy) Johnston/Johnson and moved to Talbot Co, GA in time for the 1830 census. By the time 1850 census rolled around he and his had settled in Cherokee Co where descendants are still. Who were parents of Henry and Lydia? Hannah Grigsby, b ca 1825 in TN, m Isaac M Coston ca 1850 in TN and migrated to TX. She is buried at Laneville cemetary. Family lore has it that she is a cousin of Sam Houston. Did her birth family migrate to TX or stay in TN? Is she kin to the TN Grigsby girls who m. the Blair boys and moved to Rusk Co, TX, a few years earlier? Thanks for any clues- these people are keeping me up at night....

please tell me how to withdraw. thank you Jane Rhem

Hi, It is slow....but I'm hanging in there! I am researching the JERNIGANS in Shelby County. Would appreciate any information somebody out there may have! KMosley kmo@sat.net

MAGiamona@aol.com wrote: > > I only just joined this list. I joined because I grew up in east TX. It > certainly hasn't been as active as the other lists. > > Homesick for the pineywoods!!! > > Mary Anne The more I learn, the more I learn that I don't know!!! > MAGiamona@aol.com I'm still here....between vacations.... Van Zandt County holdin down our section of the fort. megan VZCo @ TXGenWeb -- piglet@usroots.com Peripatetic Pseudo Porcine Purveyor of Peculiar Phraseology

mary mabe wrote: > > Hi I hope not I just sighned up. > > MARY CANDELIER MABE > & > GEORGE NORMAN MABE Mary, Well, that makes 3 of us still here! :) Sharon

I only just joined this list. I joined because I grew up in east TX. It certainly hasn't been as active as the other lists. Homesick for the pineywoods!!! Mary Anne The more I learn, the more I learn that I don't know!!! MAGiamona@aol.com

dwatson@texas.net wrote: Just a quick question. this list use to be quite active, but since the move to Rootsweb, I have only recieved about one message per day through the list. All of the other "moved" lists are maintaining their pace. Just wondering if everyone moved over with East-Texas-Roots or what? Don, I'm still here. :) Sharon Herrington Anderson County, Texas Searching Douthit/Elrod/Freeman/Herrington/Martin/Moon/Willingham Genealogy Page: http://sharon.simplenet.com/index.htm Anderson County: http://www.e-tex.com/personal/bonniew/acgs2.htm

Just a quick question. this list use to be quite active, but since the move to Rootsweb, I have only recieved about one message per day through the list. All of the other "moved" lists are maintaining their pace. Just wondering if everyone moved over with East-Texas-Roots or what? -- Don Watson dwatson@texas.net TXGenWeb County Coordinator Blanco County http://lonestar.texas.net/~dwatson/blanco

Hey Ya'll!! Que Pasa??? Haven't heard anything from ya for awhile! I'm looking for a copy of "Deep East Texas Folks" in researching my Tillery, Talley, Golden, Crenshaw and related families in and around Panola Co. Texas. Karen in Oregon

I received this message from Joe Walker Peterson who has Peterson roots in East Texas. If you have any informaton on this Peterson family would you please contact me or Joe. Maybe someone, somewhere can help Joe. Mary B. From: Joe Walker Peterson joepete@juno.com I got into genealogy at a late date and it seems my east Texas Petersons and Walkers were not very commutative. I have all the decedents but can�t get the grand parents born in the mid 1800�s and most people who are on the net are looking for early 1800 or before. And I have to have a starting point, The 1870 census was lost at by fire according to the National Archives in Washington. I got into this too late but would appreciate any help. George W. Peterson c. mid 1800"s + UNK John William Peterson b.8/6/1871 d. 1947 Kiomatia Texas Red River County +Cynthia Ella Garrett b.10/1879 d.1968 " Charles Dewitt Peterson b. 1899 d.1965 Kiomatia TX +Minnie Walker b. 1900 d. 1995 Kanawha TX Joe W. Peterson b.1922 Brentwood MO Jerald Walker Peterson b.1948 St. Louis Mo James Austin Peterson b. 1933 d.1996 Dallas TX Jesse Peterson b.1900 d.1972 El Paso TX Vera Elizabeth Peterson b.1904 d.1990 Paris Texas Ione Peterson b.1907_ Phoenix AZ John Peterson b.1908 d c1969_ Adack Alaska Woodrow Peterson b.1909 d.1973 El Paso TX I have no information on George except his name and that he was married 5 times and had 21 children. He lived some where in the Henderson County area and his some of his children remained in that area. (And it is a big area and may have been bigger in the mid 1800�s ) A nephew of Grandfathers, Durham Peterson from the Rusk CO Area( who had land with Oil on it) in the late 30�s moved to the Clarksville area . He had a son J. W. Peterson my age. The son lost an eye while living in Red River Co.. Durham moved back to his old home area about 1940�s. Durham had other children I do not know their names. Grandfather had two sisters I know of : Angie who married a Franklin and lived in Oklahoma and Ophleia who lived in Arizona. I remember My grandparents going back down there to visit. I have an 8X10 picture of them being there for a family reunion in what I believe to be the mid 30�s. There are a large number of people in the photograph. I only know my grandparents and Aunt Angie. Angie Franklin lived in Kiomatia after her husband died. Prior to his death they had lived in Oklahoma. She had at least a son and a daughter but I don�t know their names. I remember her saying either her daughter or sons wife posed for Chesterfield Cigarette adds (1930�s). I also remember GF had a relative, maybe a sister, who was blind and lived by her self , kept chickens and a cow . She sold eggs and milked her cow and sold butter.(It seems to me she lived in Kilgore but those are 70 Year old memories.) All the while the oil wells on her property were pumping oil. She kept up her ways which were familiar to her and what she couldn�t see did not bother her. There were either or Blacks and Blackburn names mentioned. I don't know if they were kin, friends or inter marriages. Grandfather had moved to Red River County by the mid 1890�s and working as a Manager for the Wright plantation The depression of the 20 and 30�s took it toll on all in the farming business. Later he operated a store and ranched. My great aunt Angie (and she told many a tale) told of an exslave, who was a giant of a man, being elected as sheriff of the county by the carpet beggar government, He came to the house and told her mother that he was afraid for his life and would surely be killed by the KKK. They fixed him up with food and horse and he headed northwest. I am sending this information on my family the only ones alive out of the ones I have listed are my self and my son and my great Aunt Ione. However I do have the names of all the children I only listed the Peterson line and it is getting thin. There is no violation of Privacy. Durham an his son are likely gone also. At least my brother was not able to find them 10 years ago, but then he wasn�t in to genealogy. It is a long shot but you are closest I have been able to come to where they lived. And where some one into genealogy might see something which reminds them of stories they have heard in the past. I am on the Peterson discussion group, but they aren�t very active. Thanks for listening, Joe Walker Peterson joepete@juno.com 8916 Bridgeport Ave Brentwood Mo 63144 >