From: "John & Elnora Wyrick" [email protected] John & Elnora Cook-Wyrick Families; http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/y/r/Elnora--F-Wyrick/ Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick Descendants of Peter Alexander Lee 1 Peter Alexander Lee b: 1824 in VA d: 04 January 1868 in Lamar Co., TX Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Lamar Co., TX Father; (?) John G LEE Mother; (?) Susan FRANS +Ann Mariah Frashure/Frazier b:1826-29 in VA d: 27 March 1906 in Paris, Lamar Co., VA Burial: Faubian Cemetery, Lamar Co., TX m: 14 August 1845 in Patrick Co., VA Father: Benjamin FRASHURE/FRAZIER Mother: Virginia (Jenny) FULKERSON .. 2 Richard H (? Henry) Lee b: Abt. 1850 in (?) Patrick Co., VA(nothing more known) .. 2 Peter A Lee b: Bet. 1854 - 1855 in (?) Patrick Co., VA (nothing more known) .. 2 Mary F/A Lee b: 1860 in (?) Patrick Co., VA Or Lamar Co., TX (nothing more known) .. 2 T/J Ella W Lee b: September 1863 in (?) Lamar Co., TX . +James Fredrick Eaglebarger b: September 1853 in MO d: Bef. 1930 in Lamar Co., TX m: 29 December 1880 in Lamar Co., TX ========= You might try browsing the Texas handbook online. Was Peter in TX before say 1830? If so he might be found in one of the Colonies, Dewitt, Austin, Robertson, Peter's, Mercer, DeLeon's, etc. This site has tons of info in it, also cemeteries, biographies, etc. abt alot of folks who lived in TX and died there. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online TENNESSEE COLONY, TEXAS. Tennessee Colony is off of Farm Road 321 fourteen miles northwest of Palestine in northwestern Anderson County. The town was founded in 1847, when a large group of settlers from Tennessee and Alabama arrived in the area. They named the settlement Tennessee Colony after their home state. Early families included the Sheltons, Avants, Hanks, and Seaglers. The moist climate and fertile soil was suitable for growing cotton, and a number of cotton plantations prospered, including the Jackson Plantation, which became one of the largest plantations in East Texas. In 1851 a log school opened, and Grant Kersky was the teacher. A post office opened in 1852. The community experienced racial tensions in the years before and after the Civil War.qv In 1860, for example, two white men from Mississippi, named Cable and Wyrick, were accused of plotting a slave uprising. They were suspected of encouraging slaves to poison the town's water supply and kill most of the white citizens. Cable and Wyrick were quickly tried and hanged. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250