Susie - have you checked out the Texas General Land Office records on either side of your lines in Upshur - paternal and maternal? Occasionally, vacant lands were still available in 1870s and later. If you have access on internet through Ancestry, try both names and see if any are located with Upshur Co. headright land. Check out county boundary changes too. Order the Upshur tax and deed records (on microfilm) from the nearest LDS family history center and check those out as well. And have you read the history of Upshur County; maybe that will help? Try out a query in that county too. Advertise for Bible records. You never know what will turn up. Good luck! Janice Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: <SusieKnu1@aol.com> To: <TX-ETGS-L@rootsweb.com>; <TXUPSHUR-D-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 11:33 AM Subject: [TX-ETGS] History of late 1870s in Upshur County >I am just realizing a lot of my family and friends arrived in Upshur >County, > around the East Mountain, Gilmer area by late 1870s. Can someone give me > an > idea as to why the families were moving from Missouri, Arkansas and as > far > away as Georgia to come to Upshur? Perhaps land, mining, etc? Would > like > some input if possible. Thank you, SUe K in Seattle > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL > at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TX-ETGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >