Hi, There were several Strickland, Lowry- Lowery- and Carr families in Erath County, Texas. Mother had Strickland childhood friends in the Selden Community. One was a Baptist pastor and one was a school teacher in Erath County. Carrs who lived in Selden and some in Carleton, Hamilton County Both counties have much on these families in the Rootsweb archives. In my family George Wyly married Effie Carr and moved to Friona, Texas then to a Roswell Apple Orchard and store, then to Virginia. One Carr owned the land near West which had thePanther Cave or Mart Cole Cave. Mr. Cole was a fund raiser for Baylor Universithy and his grandad Carr had a stagecoach station and a rock quarry, which furnished rock for many Hillsboro, West, Abbott and other buildings with brick fronts. Mr. Carr's brother was a Judge Carr of El Paso who backed Judge Roy Bean, "Law west of the Pecos". Now, former Texas Attorney General from Hillsboro, Texas is on retainer and part of the family who claims the heritage of Jesse James AKA J. Frank Dalton, Bartender in Grandbury, Texas and was in Waco less than 10 years agowith Texas Rangers observing as 2 James descendants- one from Australia, tried torecover a safe Jesse had shipped to Waco, then came and buried it in the Quicksand mire of the Brazos River Bottoms, There was not much money expected but many legal documents , which could prove his true identity The steel vault was visible to Sonar and other test equipment, but seemed to move each time a Diesel engine for back hoes and drag lines were cranked. The search was finally discontinued. Digging seemed to cause the safe to move. On that side of the river Mr. Roebling, before building the Brooklyn Bridge, had dug 90 feet in Jelly like mud without hitting rock. Across the river, the rock is about 12 inches deep. Finally, they brought 12 inch cedar logs in from Bosque County and criss- cross stacked them for piling, built the East Side suspension columns and bridge on this floating log raft, then pushed the murky muck back over the logs, sealing them from Air decay. The bridge is now closed to cars, but open to walkers and bikers.It opened when the Texas Trail, wrongly called the Chisolm Trail was at the height of cattle drives. It is in the lower tip end of the Cameron Park, on the Balconies Fault Line. It is the largest single City park in the U.s. , including Central Park in New York. Stop and see our bridge and outstanding zoo and museums. and hiking and biking trails and Lake Waco and Lake Brazos, where Kansas State Rowing teams practice before all the ice is gone there. It was a gift of the William Cameron family of Cameron Mills and William Cameron lumber yards to the city. Take care, Charles A. Wyly On Wed, 16 May 2001 00:10:53 -0700 "Genealogy Research Mail" <genealogyresearch@prodigy.net> writes: > Hi, > > My name is Carole. I've been on this list a long time now. Mostly, > lately, > however, I have not had time to read my mail. I had a death in the > family --- my Uncle Bob. His terminal cancer laid him low for the > last few > months of his life and took my attention. > > We had a couple of good visits before he could no longer talk (which > happened shortly before his death). During one of the visits, we > joked > together about him asking his dead father (my grandfather) what his > real > name was, when he finally got to see him again. I'm now waiting for > the > message. <g> > > Yes, we have a weird sense of humor in my family. > > I have a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Archeology from the > University of > California, Los Angeles (1976 and 1979). I worked in public > archaeology for > a time after getting out of school, but couldn't support my children > on the > money. I retired from working about five or six years ago due to > medical > problems. So, one would think I'd have more time. <g> But, I had > five > daughters and for the last eight years, they have been giving birth > to eight > children. So, that keeps me kind of busy, too. One is going to > spare me > and probably not have any children. Her husband and her keep > changing their > minds about it. Another one of my daughters, though, may break the > two to a > couple rule that the rest of them have set for themselves. So, I > may end up > with ten grandchildren after all. I have three grandsons and five > granddaughters, to this point. > > A lot of you have said you enjoy history. I hated history in school > and > only got interested in it, somewhat, when I visited the South on a > business > trip. Visiting some of the museums, I got an idea of what went on > with the > regular people during the Civil War. That interested me, though > wars and > dates of wars never had. > > Since doing genealogy, I have gotten very interested in History, > though. It > has become useful. It helps me find my ancestors, and the history > I'm > learning through genealogy is about people and not wars. I am still > having > trouble with the dates, though. > > I envy hearing some of the stories of your families. I would love > to be > able to fill in my family tree with stories about the people on it. > I have > only gotten to know by their names and statistics to this point. I > tell > people that I know where the bodies are buried. I don't, though, > not all of > them. I can't find out where they put my grandfather, C.B. > Strickland's > ashes after they cremated him. I checked with the hospital where he > died > and was cremated, but they don't keep records back that far. Darn! > > One of the people I really would like to talk to from my family tree > is my > grandfather, John Bernard Calhoun from Iowa. We think he changed > his name > and lied about where he came from. We don't really know why, > though. We > don't believe it was because he murdered three brothers, as he > always said. > We think it was because he was hiding something else, though we > aren't sure > what could be worse than three murders. I'd like to ask him for the > truth. > > The other person I'd like to talk to is my great-great-grandmother > Sarah R. > Lowry, daughter of Cindarilla Breedlove and Thomas Lowry. She > married a man > named William Alan Mullicane. According to family lore, "the > Mullicane > married an Indian woman." So, I'd like to ask Sarah what Native > American > group she belonged to and if both of her parents were Cherokee, like > we > believe. I'd also like to ask her how I could prove it. > > The only wagons that I can talk about my family having traveled in > were the > ones that the Stricklands built in Nebraska at an uncle's dairy farm > in > which they came to California from their home in Springfield, > Missouri. > That was in the 1930s and they were pulled by brand new Ford cars, > not oxen > or horses, and came on highways, not trails. > > I had the pleasure of meeting my great-grandmother, Sarah Frances > Mullicane > Strickland before she died (in her late nineties). She chewed > tobacco and > spit it into a coffee can all the way across the room (or so it > seemed to my > sister and me aged 6 and 4 something). My Uncle Guy and Uncle Claud > played > the fiddle and a one stringed base while we were there, and I > enjoyed the > whole experience a whole lot. That's probably why I still remember > it > though I was not yet five years old. > > My Uncle Bob told me about a time when Uncle Guy and Uncle Claude > had a gun > fight over a ham that they couldn't decide how to divide up that > they'd won > at the Los Angeles County Fair. They had both been drinking. > Claude shot > Guy and accidentally got Guy's wife Agnes in the arm, too. My older > sister > remembers going to see them when they were both recovering from the > wounds, > laying in bed in the big old house in Los Angeles where the entire > family > (at least three generations) was living at the time. I believe > Claude had > already gone back home to Missouri. I always was told that Claude > left > because of the shooting. I have since found out that he came back > to > California for a visit after that. So, I don't believe they had any > hard > feelings about the shooting. > > They were quite a group. They were, I believe, where the idea for > the > Beverly Hillbillies came from. My grandmother, Claude and Guy's > sister, > worked for a movie producer, Stanley Kramer, for some time while she > lived > in Los Angeles, so it is possible that he told someone about them > and the > idea of them eventually got turned into a TV show. > > Researching on my father's side: > Calhoun, Strickland, Mullicane, Lowry, Breedlove, Carr, Parr, etc. > etc. > UK>VA>IL>MO>CA > > I enjoy this list and plan on staying on it no matter what junk you > guys > post. (Just kidding.) > > Carole C. > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & > Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >