Hi, sorry, what I said about Mr. Rocky Martin being a stagecoach driver and freighter, as was one of the Uncles of Homer Stevens, who also ox carted freight to Fort Graham and Fort Griffin via Chalk Mountain, where he and family lived in Panther Cave. Ever been there? all came from H. Grady Perry's book GRAND OLE ERATH, . He was raised in the rural area around Dublin and ran the Three Way (Johnsville) Store and was a State Representative in Austin, where he gatherred info from State Records. He was a Hurley grandchild. I mentioned several different Martin families for someone who asked- I have no reason to know if they were related and do not think they all were- . I forget- for 300 years now we have always been told that anyone who spelled our name Wyly were kin. Then a small family showed up in S.C. with same Irish and Quaker background which an Australian Wyly descendant plans to try to prove on his trip to Europe this summer that Grandad was right and the 3 Wyly immigrants were cousins if not brothers. We know 2 were brothers. I was rather small when they were active and much I knew about them came from my dad at Johnsville and Uncle and Grandad at Selden. Once again if I was a little confused on this one, but I thought I said that I was listing several Martin Families and did not say nor have reason to believe they were connected. I just thought the inquirer might find a missing link they were hunting. Take care, Charles A. Wyly On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 22:10:45 -0600 john martin <jdmartin@zianet.com> writes: > 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 > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >