Lee - I'm researching the GAMMILL (GAMMEL, GAMBILL ) family through LUCINDA GAMMILL (GAMMELL) who married MARCUS LAFAYETTE DALTON. Here's something I received from a descendent last year... I'm NOT a relative of either the Gammills or Daltons, just researching for an article on Dalton for an historical magazine. However, should you find a connection for LUCINDA GAMMILL (GAMMELL), I'd appreciate your sharing, if you don't mind?? HER parents were William & Sarah [Ward] Gammill) and Marcus L. Dalton were born in 1819 in Tennessee.... Sharon Cunningham ================================================================= Dear Ms. Cunningham, Please accept my apology for the long delay in my reply. Genealogy is a hobby that competes, and often loses, against the demands of my small business. Like yourself, I am not a member of the Dalton family. However, Lucinda Gambill (b. 1819) would be my 3C5R, and thus, any children of her marriage to Marcus Lafayette Dalton would be cousins. I know very little about Marcus Dalton, but have obtained one extensive note on his life (copy inserted below). The text reads like an article written upon the demise of Lucinda Dalton. However, a computer problem in 2002 wiped out most of my reference database, and for this particular item I am unable to provide a proper citation or offer assurance that it is free of copyright. Let me know if I can be of further assistance. Regards, Douglas -- Douglas B. Johnson, Ph.D. President Environmental Intelligence, Inc. 712 7th St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55414-1330 Cell: 612.387.3430 Fax: 612.331.1459 Email: [email protected] Web: www.eiiweb.net --------- "Marcus L. Dalton, one of the first settlers of Palo Pinto County, paid with his life to help open the road to civilization in northwest Texas. He and his wife settled on a ranch at the mouth of Rock Creek on the Brazos River in Palo Pinto County in 1855. On this ranch they turned loose seventy head of cattle which they brought with them to their pioneer ranch home. Ten years later 800 cattle were driven up the trail and sold for $16,000. The next year 1000 head were sold for $22,000. The money for his cattle was received in gold and when safely home from each trip Dalton buried his money on the ranch for safe keeping as there were then no banks in that section of Texas. In 1869 Dalton took 600 head of cattle to Kansas up the Chisholm Trail and sold them for $15,000 in gold. He was away on that trip six months. He made the return home safely as far as Weatherford. With him he brought many supplies for the ranch including two new wagons, in one of which were two trunks containing clothes for Mrs. Dalton and their daughters. There were five mules and fourteen saddle horses in the train and assisting Dalton in the driving were James Redfield and James McCaster, two extra cowhands whom he had hired to help him on the homeward journey. The party spent the night in Weatherford with his daughter and her husband, Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Volentine. On the next morning, they continued their journey toward the ranch. Nearing Loving's Valley, on the Parker and Palo Pinto County line, their small party was suddenly attacked by thirty or more Indians who had hidden behind a fallen live oak tree in the trail. The three settlers were instantly killed and their bodies riddled with arrows. They were scalped and left where they fell. They were found the next day by Green Lassiter, one of Dalton's neighbors, who took the bodies to Weatherford for burial. After murdering their helpless victims the Indians pillaged the wagon train, prying open the trunks of clothing and took away everything that struck their fancy. They then made a hasty retreat with the mules and horses. In the toe of an old boot in a trunk tray, Dalton had hidden the remainder of his cattle money which amounted to $11,500. This particular boot, had held no interest for the savages and was later returned to Mrs. Dalton with its fortune. Mrs. Dalton was left with a large family but was a true pioneer mother and met her vicissitudes and heartbreaks with a smile. She bravely carried on and today has many descendants who revere her memory. The children of Marcus and Lucinda Dalton were: William C. Dalton, George, John, Charlie A., Robert S., G. Lee, Sarah Dalton Denton, Mary Dalton Herrin and Jennie Dalton Volentine." On 8/14/03 10:20 AM, "Sharon Cunningham" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mr. Johnson - > > I've just seen your GEDCOM on Marcus Lafayette DALTON, and wanted to contact > you re further information. > > I am NOT a member of the DALTON family; my interest is in writing historical > articles about several of the early settlers of Palo Pinto County, Texas. I > hope that you - as a descendent - will help me with additional DALTON family > background and HOPEFULLY, photos of M. L. and Lucinda Gambill DALTON. And, > of course, I humbly ask for your permission to excerpt the data you have > posted in your GEDCOM. > > I suppose, since it isn't on your DALTON family files that you do not know > M. L.'s parents' names? I live in Tennessee, so I can do some checking in > Murfreesboro myself. If I learn anything more about the DALTON family > background, I'll certainly share it with you. > > Looking forward to hearing from you. > > Sincerely, > > Sharon Cunningham, editor > Pioneer Press > P.O. Box 684 > Union City TN 38281 > 731-885-0374 > > From: "Lee Cate" <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 10:23:57 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: [TNHARDIN] GAMMILL Resent-From: [email protected] Resent-Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 09:23:56 -0600 I would like to get in contact with anyone who is researching the GAMMILL family of Hardin County, TN. I am particularly interested in finding information about Emma GAMMILL who married Albert Sidney BARNHILL on June 27, 1894. She is listed in the 1880 Hardin County, TN Census living in District 6. She is the daughter of M. and Alice GAMMILL and has a sister named Lea. From other census information I suspect that the "M" stands for Milas. If this is correct, Milas is the son of Archibald and Elizabeth GAMMILL. I also suspect that Emma died prior to 1900 when Albert Sidney BARNHILL remarried. Please contact me if you have information about this family. I will appreciate any help. Thanks! Lee Barnhill Cate ==== TNHARDIN Mailing List ==== Visit the Hardin County, Tennessee Genealogy and History Page at http://www.tngenweb.org/hardin/