My great grandfather told my father that when he and his family migrated to Brown County on the Texas frontier. He said that remembered crossing the Trinity River in 1877 at a place called Eagle Ford, just west of the Dallas community. That was the low water crossing of the Trinity River that was then located about where the old Rock Island Railroad tracks cross the Trinity River today. That is just south of Texas Stadium on US-183. I can visualize the route they took. The old wagon road from the Bonham Texas area to Dallas went southwest and intersected old Preston Road that ran from Austin Texas to Coffee's Trading Post on the Red River. The wagon road to the west ran from Dallas through Ft.Worth, Granbury, Stephenville,Comanche and Brownwood Texas. The Sante Fe Railroad road ended in Temple Texas about that time in the century and did not get to Brownwood until 1885. The comunities along the wagon road are about 15 to 20 miles apart on the wagon roads. That is about a day's travel by wagon. The Indian problem ended in the northern part of Texas in the 1870s although my great grandfather "Uncle Sam" Wyatt (on my mother's side of the family) mentioned to his children and grandchildren that he saw a young calf at the creek on his property that was killed with a Indian spear and was skinned and partially dressed out. Some renagade groups of Indians did not want to stay on the reservations in Oklahoma. They still went on hunting and foraging expeditions in North Texas up to about 1876. Jerry Coffee -----Original Message----- From: Charles A. Wyly <wyly1@juno.com> To: Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com <Southern-Trails-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, May 13, 2001 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Re: 'junk' and other things... >Hi, >some enterred through Port of New Orleans and walked the Natchez Trace >northeast. , and other port towns on the Mississippi. Also, some may have >stopped in Caribean plantations before enterring the Continental U.S. I >think it was a Cleveland, Coffee, or Graves which didso. Been a while >since I read it. Some also enterred the U.S. through Flrida and other >seaports on the Gulf of Mexico. Others enterred through Mexico and were >married in Mayesville and Fort Smith, Ark. A Telles who did so was an >ancestor of Mattie Roberts Somerville, a Wyly descendant of West Monroe , >La. > >My Fleming Ancestor , Patrick, was naturalized in Calloway County, >Missouri. I have a copy of the record. > >Take care, >Charles A. Wyly > >On Sun, 13 May 2001 17:19:21 EDT KAOCR@aol.com writes: >> In 1830, your ancestor may have entered the U.S. thru S. Carolina. >> Kate >> >> >> ============================== >> Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >> > > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >