Reply to sss1942@yahoo.com. -----Original Message----- From: SARAH SUE SWINDELL <sss1942@yahoo.com> To: Hardin County Tennessee <TNHARDIN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 21, 1998 12:30 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} White, Baker, Fraizer, Droke, and Roach Families > > > > > >Dear Letter to the Editor: > >Is there is anyone out there who might remember anything about the >Bakers, Fraizers, and Whites mentioned in this old 1884 letter as >follows: > >April 29, 1884 >Lane Hunt Co Texas > >Pa, I wrote to you some time ago and have not heard from you yet. I >don't know why you don't write to us. I thought you would come to see >us this spring, but have quit looking for you. I understand some >parties are coming out here from your country in May. I think Jim >BAKER and wife, Mary WHITE and bunch, FRAIZER's son-in-law are talking >of coming. I would be glad if >you would. If you don't like well enough to stay, you can go back in >the fall. I would be glad if you would come and stay this summer, if >no longer. > >I have nothing of any interest to write. We are having the hardest >time in the way of farming I have ever seen since I have been here. >Too much rain and cold mixed with frost, which fell on the >twenty-second of this >month (?) which did much damage. In some places killed a great deal >of cotton. I had none up, am not down planting yet. Haven't done but >one day-s work on >the farm in two weeks. I t is now raining and the land thoroughly wet >and well covered with weeds and grass. Nearly all will have to plant >cotton over when it quits raining. > >Pa, we are all well. All the boys and families well. I don't think >any of us have any room to complain. Think we are all going as well >and perhaps better than we deserve. > >Now, Pa, I would be very proud if you will come this spring. If you >will and if you want to go back in the fall, I will go with you and >will quit for this time. Hoping to see you soon. > >I remain as ever your son, >W. T. Roach > >This letter was written to his father, William Buck Roach of >Tennessee, by William Thadius Roach, father of James Franklin Roach >who was father of Garland, Louis, Ernest, Howard, James, Florine, >AdaB, Geneva, Grace, and Estelle Roach of Celeste. As it turned out, >William Buck did come to Celeste and he is buried along side William >Thadius and other Roaches in the Lane Hunt Co.Cemetery. > >But what about the White, Baker, and Fraizer families? >And does anyone know anything about William Buck's third wife: Edith >Wallis (Wallace) Droke, widow of George Droke of Hardin County? > >Thank you, >Sarah Roach > > > > > >Co >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >