My uncle Blackie Martin really Lewis Lee Martin, was married to Mont Thomas's daughter. Uncle Blackie was deputy sheriff under Mont Thomas and later sheriff in his own right. You have yet to get right anything you say about this family. Perhaps everything else you write is wrong also! John Martin Hi, Do you have the Selden, Erath County Picketts? Also, I goofed this morning. I said that Blackie Martin and Carl Turnbow were kin, There was also a Mont Thomas. They were all Erath County law officers and cattle Traders. Mr. Thomas ran it when I was in High School and my Stone cousins used to skip school and buy a calf to resell or take home to a nurse cow, sometimes with 2 to 4 calves on each cow. Pretty good part time job which taught responsibility. I am not sure which two of the 3 above were kin- all 3 may have been. Take care, Charles A. Wyly