In a message dated 4/16/00 6:05:02 PM, ellen@airmail.net writes: << Does anyone know anything about the wagon train/s that l left West Point, Tn., Lawrence Co.?? The train master's name was Jonas DIXON. After about 140 days, they made their final camp at a point on the Brazos river, not far from Dallas. Possibly crossed the Red River at Colbert's Ferry and hiding in the reeds along the river from the Indians. >> Do you have dates for the departure of these wagon trains? I am trying to track the family of James Marcum & Lavenia Syrena McDonald (2nd wife) who left Lawrence Co. TN sometime before 1880 when they show up on the Tarrant Co., TX Census. James shows up on the 1864 Tax List for Tarrant Co. but no 1870 Census record in either TN or TX. Billie McDonald Goldwire