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