Is anybody related to this family??? He is one of texas most famous pierces I have always wondered who Geo W Pierce Sr's father was. for more info go to google and type in george w pierce and lots of info comes up there are pages about him in the new handbook of tx too When George Washington Pierce senior sired his first son by his second wife Mary in 1872, he named him George Washington as well. But in adult life, the son never affixed "junior" to his name. In 1880, when George the son was eight, the town nearest their Texas farm was Webberville, a community of about 200 on the banks of the Colorado River some fifteen miles east of Austin. [1] Pierce's early life was not much different from that of thousands of other farm boys of the same time and place. Cattle and cotton were the two great staples of rural Texas, and in later years Pierce expressed a hearty disdain for the type of manual labor he was obliged to do in his youth. Shucking corn and watering mules with a leaky bucket was not his idea of how he wanted to spend the rest of his life. [2] He manifested his outstanding intellectual gifts in both languages and mathematics early and won an academic medal in the fifth grade of the new elementary school at Taylor, a town twenty miles north of Webberville where his family moved about 1883. The Austin City Directory for 1895-96 lists "Pierce, James, stockman" and "Pierce, George W., stockman" at separate residences. In the 1897-98 city directory, James B. Pierce is operating a meat market next door to his residence at 1511 E. 6th. St., where his brother Benjamin joined him in business as listed at the same location in the 1910-11 city directory. I thank Pam Stephan for researching this information. This info is from this page http://txtell.lib.utexas.edu/stories/p0003-article.html LD Pierce P.O. Box 86 GAGE OK 73843 <http://facelink.com/LDokla> http://facelink.com/LDokla my photo page <http://www.ldpierce.com/> http://www.ldpierce.com genealogy stuff <http://www.bellhop.org/> http://www.bellhop.org/ <http://www.aabibliography.com/> http://www.aabibliography.com friends of Bill W click here Click Here LDP <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=chim eguy1&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=100> Books <http://www.aabibliography.com/ebayunsoldbookschimeguy1.html> <http://www.eztonechime.com/> http://www.eztonechime.com eztone door chime page