An awful lot of Missouri Confederates also came to Texas around 1860-1875 to get away from living on a battlefield. If it wasn't a skirmish on your own land, it was bushwhackers and jayhawkers and Order No. 11..... Missouri Union types, on the other hand, who wanted to get away from this tended to go to Kansas, Iowa or Illinois, whichever was closer or wherever they already had ties. Some of them later came back. A not untypical pattern, from one of my ancestors: Went from Greene Co to Texas (and in fact evacuated some of the women and children from his extended family to Texas as well for the actual duration of the war, where the men and older boys stayed and worked the land or went off and fought). About 1880, he tiptoed back into the region, but stayed on the Arkansas side until 1900, when he was back in Missouri, but down on the border in Taney County. Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz, ListPig [email protected] [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 2:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MO] Re: (MO) If your family disappeared from MO A lot of Missouri men (and sometimes families) came to Texas after 1846 when Texas had free land. I found land records for Garrett (Garrard), George W., Liberty J. and F. M. Teeter in north Texas after this period. All of these Teeters returned to Missouri but there were many more who stayed in Texas. My ggrandfather, John Robert Teeter, was the son of an F. M. Teeter and according to his obit he was born in Galveston, Texas. Why F. M. and wife (Louisa M. Schooling) were in Galveston I have no idea. Since an F. M. Teeter was in Texas in the late 1840's and early 1850's I am thinking this was the father of my ggrandfather and the same F. M. who was recorded on the 1860 Mortality Schedule for Chariton Co. MO. I am sure there were many more who came to Texas for land besides the Teeters. It would be well to check the census records of Texas from 1850 and later. ==== Missouri Mailing List ==== To subscribe to MO-ROLLCALL-L: send a message containing only the word "subscribe" to [email protected] ============================== Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp