Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Jamie Cornelia Warner wrote: > > have you checked the Alaska Gold Rush? happened just about then, 1890-1910 > period. > > At 03:55 PM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote: > >The Patterson family that lived just outside of Madisonville, Tx. in a > >little community known as Cottonwood woke up one day to find their husband > >and father gone never to return. There are suggestions that he was > >murdered for gambling debts and also that he went to fight in whatever war > >was going on in 1895. My grandmother who was born in 1890 recalls that > >she was 5 years old when he left. He would have been 42 y/o. He left his > >wife with several small children at home. She also remembers that her > >mother told her on her death bed that if "Paddy" ever returned they were > >tell him that she still loved him. Does anyone have a clue as to what > >might have happened. Was this kind of thing common in the 1890's? > > > >Jamie Gregg Smith > > > > > > > >==== GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Mailing List ==== > >To contact the owner use, [email protected] > >