>X-From_: [email protected] Thu Jun 10 08:11:57 1999 >Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:07:01 -0700 (PDT) >From: [email protected] >Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:05:57 EDT >Subject: Georgia-Texas Emigration 1850's >Old-To: [email protected] >Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1821 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >My great grandparents left middle Georgia (Newton County) immediately after >their marriage in 1854, settling in Tyler (Smith County), Texas. I am writing >a book about my ancestors combining history and genealogy and need help in >describing how they might have traveled at that time. Are their any texts >that discuss emigration routes between Georgia and Texas? Any help would be >appreciated. > Art Seder > I wonder what was going on in Tyler, Smith Co Texas about the 1854 time frame? I have a group who were born in TN, moved to Illinois in 1820s, around 1854-1856 they were in Tyler, Smith Co Texas. the husband died there in 1862, he had been a lawyer, etc. in Illinois, also a Colonel or something probably in Black Hawk War???? I am just beginning research on him, but wonder why the move to Texas so late in his life? Seems his sons fought in USA IL units during War in 1860s, but his family in TN had among others - Peter Turney who was Col. of 1st TN Regiment and in 1880s Governor of TN. So it is a southern family, my branch was in Arkansas and was CSA, with some of the cousins being USA. Could this move have been because of the war coming? Did he feel he would rather be in Texas if there was a war coming? Or what was there about Tyler at that time? Do you know why your family moved from GA to Texas then? For land? that was the usual reason. Will see what I can find about routes at that time. Seem to remember something about there being an old port where a lot of people came in, but it is not there anymore. Mary