FYI; It took me many years but I fainally found the long lost older bro. of the James Drake family. Family tradition had it that when the James Drake and Betsy Holmes Drake came to Ala. prior to 1840 census of Jackson Co. Al. that William M. Drake the eldest son stayed around Bedford (Coffee) Co. and then went to Texas with some other people. I finally found him on the 1860 census of Austin Texas living with the H.D.Blair family. census states he was blind but later census records indicate he became rather prosperous(he was a farmer and had a license to operate a still) and owned a good bit of land. Md. and had 3 ch. by the 1870 census but seems to have died before the 1880 census. The Blairs and walkers were intermarried some way and some of the walkers went to Texas also. The Wagon Train info. is great. Sue in Al.