----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodney Furse" <furfit@webtv.net> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 8:15 AM Subject: Craft > I am researching the Samuel Craft family who came to Bastrop County in > approximately 1825 from Tennessee. I have found his gravesite > and know of 5 of his children. (Found on census, tombstone ect.) Mostly > interested in his son John Samuel Craft and his wife Rebecca Thompson > Craft, dates of birth, death. According to my aunt they were buried > in Oakwood Cemetary in Austin but I have been unable to find that > cemetary in the Tombstone Section. I have a record of his decendants. > Would really appreciate any history of this family, and the birth and > death dates of John Samuel and his wife. This would complete > my whole family tree. Samuel Craft was a slave owner and > I believe he orginally came from North Carolina but thats not > Texas genelogy just tracking the migration. The Crafts were > in Austins lower colonies but found no listing of the family's of the > lower colonies. I really don't know what else to check. Can you help > at all? I would be more than happy to furnish all the information I > have accumlated for your records. > Thank You Jacque (Craft) > Fitzgerald > >