Hi, Indianola is the port in Texas where so many Germans entered in the mid 1800's...then they moved mainly up to Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, and Kerrville. Peter Turney..how wonderful! Peter Turney has always seemed a colorful and adept character....once ate a letter rather than have it admitted as evidence, I believe. How could you not like a guy like that? Karen In a message dated 6/10/99 10:29:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << 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 ==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== Please remember that real people read the messages you post. Got a problem? Got a gripe? Don't take it to the list! Send me a message, and I'll try to take care of it: mailto:[email protected] ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (rly-zc01.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.1]) by air-zc03.mail.aol.com (v59.34) with SMTP; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:29:41 -0400 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id KAA03566; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:29:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA17033; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:31:33 +0000 Old-To: [email protected] From: Harold Miller <[email protected]> Subject: Smith Co TX 1854 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1823 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected]