the King also married into kuykendall family Shanghi Pierce was the famous cattleman of galveston houston area his daughters married into the king ranch (i have read) I do not recall seeing a Geo W Pierce in that line though several books have been written about shanghi Pierce (Able Head Pierce) his geneallgy was from MA or Boston and is well documented look at my panhandle history links page and search on the Tx Handbook for Pierce, AH or Shanghi and you will find his story I recently purchased a used copy of his biog by chris somebody but have not read it yet are you a member of the pierce email list?? you will find that on my genealogy links page and several other links to pierce stuff genealogy links I like and use a lot http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/pierce/ http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/pearce/ http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssoc/Pearse http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pierces/ResourceCenter.html http://www.usgenweb.com/ http://rootsweb.com/ I am thinking of doing a web page on Shanghi Pierce Shanghi travelled from galveston to austin and then to Dodge City Ks and Amarillo area many times this route (the chisolm trail) took him right through the Pierce Ranch at Kimbell Bend in Bosque County Tx (Now Johnson County) the ranch was called Goatneck I am sure he was acquainted with my LD Pierce (Pegleg) and CAP Clem Abercrombie Pierce My grandfathers brother settled some land CAP owned in ARCH NM Read the Joel J Pierce Mystery on my webs (carefully) hundreds of other peirces migrated to the Hill Johnson Bosque County areas after first landing at Palestine Rusk in East Texas Many of these pierces settled in AL and LA on the Way to Rusk After Johnson County Cleburne, some ended up in Hamilton County, Granbury forget the County) and even Cisco TX and stephenville area. (and Bell County See Eliz Pierce Page on My webs) If I were you I would concentrate on the LA and AL and MS pierce researchers. And Start Looking to East Texas for Leads There are several other descendants of Hugh Pierce in the Johnson Hill Bosque areas that we have not yet identified. We are working on a census for all these counties and there are several other ( but not a great number) of pierces that were in this area around cleburne at this same time. A Geo W Pierce is also in the Tx Handbook. A Geo W Pierce built the road from Alvarado to Cleburne in 1851. My Family had many Geo W Pierces You also need to work the PEARCE line. Sometimes the name was pearce and ended up Pierce by the 1860's ----- Original Message ----- From: Teresa Gaffney <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 10:53 PM Subject: Pierce Geneology > LD, > > I read your posts on Genforum regarding the Pierce family. I do believe > my Pierce line may tie in with your material, but I don't have the > positive proof - only lore. What I do know. > > George W. Pierce married Sarah Taylor. One daughter that I know of, > Sarah Allie Pierce b 14 Mar > 1860, Fort Concho, Texas. (This is before Fort Concho existed on record) > > Sarah Allie Pierce married in 1878 Selma, Texas to George Washington > Rhoades, b 3 Apr 1860. > > George Washington Rhoades b 3 apr 1860, Abilene Texa. Parents Thomas > Jefferson Rhoades and > Elizabeth Jane Lavender. > The couple migrated to Ashland, Jackson, Oregon. They farmsteaded land > in Hebo, Tillamook County, Oregon for ranching. Both are buried in the > Ashland Cemetery. > > Tom Rhoades was a Texas Ranger. Something happened in the early 1880's > that he fled with his family west. All I have heard was it had to due > with cattle rustling and a family name King. My grandmother always said > her family ruled with guns and fists first, which I read something > similiar in context in your material. She also advised against doing > much research into this line, because our ancestors do not always make > the same choices that we would nowadays. > > Sometime later George and Sarah followed to Oregon. Sarah Allie Pierce > Rhoades spoke of her family having a plantation either called or in > Alamagordo. > > Please let me know if you should have any insight about this material. > > Teri >