Don't want no more of this garbage. >Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 18:58:21 -0700 >Reply-To: <@shelley.dbstech.com> >From: "Margie & John Evjen" <txtwosom@shelley.dbstech.com> >To: <MATillma>, <EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L> >Subject: Re: Is everyone here? >Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:54:06 -0500 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1157 >Resent-From: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/241 >X-Loop: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: EAST-TEXAS-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com > >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.... > > > Roy Chance ;} aka Running Buffalo P.O.Box 456 Chloride, AZ 86431