As some of you remember, I had Jessee McBee /MagBee in Jackson Co. AL then Johnson Co. AR then on to Atascosa Co. Texas. However, all the families there (5) went different directions, some to MO and others just seemed to disappear. One of the daughters had married Jesse Ward Dancer and he was accused of murdering a man in Frio Co. in 1876. It appears to be a land grab deal but the records were stolen and only bits and pieces can be pieced together. One day everyone in the small community along the Bishop Creek were law abiding citizens with no known problems with the law and the next day they are all accused of rustling cattle and the most vocal was accused of murdering a man whose body seems to have disappeared and the law did not even know his name other than Greeley. This is the reason I've searched out this Dancer connection. Dicie McBee's first husband was my GGGF and she was my GGGM. She had three kids by Alex McCandless, he died in 1869 and in 1870 she married J.W. Dancer. Family history says he was captured, escaped, captured again in Medina Co. and escaped again. County records show that the sheriff of Frio Co. issued warrants to other counties as late as 1882. It appears that Dancer lived in Wilson Co. for a while and the sheriff there either did not find him or refused to take part in the scam but in any case did not arrest him to return to Frio Co. Then he was McKinney Co. (Bracketville, TX) where F. M. McBee lived. I've never found his connection to the family yet either. From there it seems that Dancer made his way to New Mexico. In the 1900's a Dancer researcher started looking into the case and a man came by her father's house while she was gone and threatened that she "had better drop it." As a side note, Dancer had a son who settled in Caldwell Co. and became the Post Master of Sea Willow, TX and later became a deputy sheriff and jailer in Gonzales, Gonzales Co. He was killed in a shoot out early one morning on the streets. That too seemed suspicious but no investigation seemed to have been done. Too late to make a long story short but I'm looking for information on any McBee's in West Texas or New Mexico or if you run across the surname Dancer, I'd like to know. Ron McCandless