-----Original Message----- From: rowesof4@bellsouth.net Sent: Oct 10, 2005 6:28 PM I checked my records, I have a Grace Blair also but not sure where I got the info. ( I have not proven written beside it). Have you checked with Rev. Ernest Blair? He lives in Smith County, near the Dickens Cem on Maggart Road, near Chestnut Mound. I got some of my info. from him. I also have Ruby Blair listed as "Ruby John Blair b:Aug 17, 1909 d:circa 1921 at age 12). According to the 1900 census records, 2 children had died before the 1900 census. If that were the case, could one of those children be the one you are talking about that is buried in Texas? When did John Fite and Clarkie move to Texas and when did they move back? My grandmother didn't tell me anything about that. There was a family legend that says Robert E. L. Blair, the brother of John Fite, "got into some trouble and had to leave Smith County" It was said that his mother, Margaret Shoemake Blair, visited him in Texas. Perhaps, John Fite moved there at the same time. Robert was said to have been 16 when he was "forced to leave town". Anyone have any information about Robert Blair? Randy Rowe Randy I am not sure when they moved to Texas and moved back to Tennessee Clarkie's brother Rufus Porter Beasley moved to Texas in the early 1880's he sent a letter back home to his parents telling them about his crops and he had found a girl but had not ask her to married him at the time when he wrote the letter, As to why John and Clarkie moved to Texas I don't have a clue unless they though farming there would be better than farming the hill sides of Smith County. There were several members of the Beasley's Family that moved to Fannin County, Texas most stayed and some moved back to Smith County. One being Marshall Ellis Beasley who married Gertruide Mc Cormick their two oldest girls were born in Fannin County, Texas but in 1910 census he back in Carthage. Marshall was the son of Robert Beasley & Cordelia J. Haley Beasley. Brothers Napoleon B. Duke and Altrie Green Duke moved their families to Fannin County Texas in the late 1880's they were the sons of Richard Spivey & Araminta Beasley Duke, and Isham Dillard Beasley moved there in the middle 1800's. and some time in the 1870's he came back and got his nephew Isaac S. "Ike" Beasley who married there and raised his family there. Fred ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com