>> Gone to Texas"..... I have also been trying to tie together the links from Illinois to Texas. I have several relatives that lived in and around Washington County, Illinois, then eventually wound up in Texas. Since I live in Texas I have been tracing this trail also and thus why I started reading all your "trivial' messages, a joke of course, I really like the messages and I agree with Dot, if you don't want to read it delete it. Anyway, I found many of the Relatives, (Richards and Woodside/Woodsides), left Illinois right after the Civil war, some followed the Railroad that braved Westward. I found a Railway that was laid and dead ended in and around Abilene, Texas. Some of these folks went through Oklahoma and worked there with the railways, drilling for that new black gold, Oil, and of course there was so much work in Oklahoma and Texas at this time because of the expansion westward after the War. Could you tell me if any of these folks you mentioned had relatives that had the names of Richards or Woodside mentioned anywhere in the family line, also Scott is another one. I have talked with the Railroad Historical Society and they informed me that to access any of the records you have to know the actual name of the Rail they worked on, so it is back to square one. I ordered all the Rail Way maps from 1850 to 1900 and that is where the clue came for the expansion from Illinois to Oklahoma and or to Texas. I f I get further info I will let you know. Shirley White -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 02, 2000 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [ILWASHIN] Not a dumb one >In a message dated 01/02/2000 10:27:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > >> This is what was told to me by my Aunt........ >> Spicey Kinyon married James E. Parks in Washington County 1854. This has >> been confirmed by Delores in a look up in the Looking Back series (Tanks >> Delores)........ >> Anyway, Aunt Freida says that on the tombstone of James E, it says......." >> Gone to Texas".....he never came back ...... >> On the 1880 census it states that Spicey is now a widow. So James was >gone >> and dead by then. >> Aunt says that many men went to Texas during that time...... >> Question.......why did they go??? Too late for the Mexican war.....and it >> was after the Civil.... >> Anyone have a clue???? > > >Don't have a clue, Marci. Maybe they went to settle? James Markham the >younger also went to Texas but that would have been late 1880's. Maybe it >was like going west. If you hear let me know. Interesting material. Thanks >for sharing. > >Love this trivial stuff. It is how facts pop up. Putting the puzzle >together. Sharing information with others who may have similar stuff and >questions. What I want to know is what is not trivia? It is that tiny >little fact that can sometimes piece the whole thing together. That is what >happened when Capt. Earl Smith sent me all that material from the Nashville >Newspaper on my family names. One tiny fact of a relationship between two >people created a domino effect and that is how I had proof of how my great >grandmother fitted into the John Phillips household. Later I proved it with >other things. Keep on trivialing! :) Ava > > >==== ILWASHIN Mailing List ==== >Looking for genealogy in other states? Visit the USGenWeb Project at: >http://wwww.usgenweb.org/ > >