I just sent 50 messages like this to the garbage bin. Please refrain from sending this garbage to me. I am not interested in receiving any more of this garbage. >Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:09:05 -0700 >From: MATillma@aol.com >Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:06:18 -0400 (EDT) >To: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L >Subject: Re: Is everyone here? >Resent-From: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/238 >X-Loop: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com > >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.... > > > Roy Chance ;} aka Running Buffalo P.O.Box 456 Chloride, AZ 86431