I know that this is kinda off list info and please scold me if you think so but having said that: As I was growing up, my family always had a Christmas tradition of making the 3 hour trip up to Beaukiss, near Elgin, to clean up the family graves at the cemetary there. Nowadays a 3 hour trip is nothing but back then this was a major excursion. We always stopped in Elgin and loaded up with Hot Guts and a couple of loaves of bread and crackers. When we got to the cemetary we'd have a tailgate picnic before setting about cleaning the weeds and trash that had accumulated over the past year. We'd then drive down the country roads looking for a good cedar tree to cut for a Christmas tree. Sometimes we'd cut over a dozen trees (they are considered a nuisance tree so no one objected to us cutting them down) to take home to our neighbors and family. There's a lot of good memories connected with those annual trips. The smell of fresh-cut cedar and the taste of those hot guts takes me back to a really fun time of my life. OK, we can get back to genealogy now. ;) Rick Richard Gillespie, DC mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net -----Original Message----- From: Jack Hardwick [mailto:Jack_Hardwick@prodigy.net] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:22 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website That was one of the greatest things my ancestors did for me . . . besides coming from Williamson County ("near Elgin," as the family history always said), doing my research led me to the fabulous barbecue in Elgin. Worth going to get, even if you aren't researching the area. Plus, some of my Hardwicks are buried there . . . surely the barbecue didn't have anything to do with that . . . naaaah . . . that was at the turn of the nineteenth century. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Gillespie, DC" <DrRickTx@rattlers.net> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:37 PM Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > Thanks Shirleen. > And every time I run up to Bastrop I ALWAYS make a side trip to Elgin for > some Hot Links or "Hot Guts" as the old timers always called them. I > usually buy about 50 pounds of uncooked to take home and freeze! > > Richard Gillespie, DC > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shirleen Smith Reese [mailto:shirleenreese@msn.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 10:47 AM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > I can't say for sure about this particular building, but you should make the > trip to Bastrop anyway--if you've not been before or in a long time. > There's lots to see and good BBQ to boot! > > Shirleen Smith Reese > shirleenreese@msn.com > http://www.geocities.com/bastrop52 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard Gillespie, DC > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:03 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > Hi, all. > I also enjoyed the pictures. My Great-great Uncle James Hiram Gillespie > owned a mercantile store in Bastrop from about 1860 until sometime in the > late 1800s. In his later years, I think he sold the store to Charles Leroy > Morgan and I've also been told that it later became Turner Mercantile. There > may have been several different buildings during this period but someone > once told me that the building still stands. Do any of you recall seeing > anything in the City of Bastrop archives? If the building still stands I'd > love to make the trip to Bastrop to take pictures. Thanks > > Richard Gillespie, DC > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > Shirleen Smith Reese, > Thank you for letting us know of your website. I really loved the pictures. > Makes me want to go to that intersection of Bastrop and take a picture for > you to add so there will be 3 in 50 year increments. > > Tammy Owen > Bastrop County Coordinator > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > <A > HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp > age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with > subscription. > <A > HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. > com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, > Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to > find new and used genealogy stuff? > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's > online marketplace</A> and > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest > Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, > send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send an email with only the word unsubscribe in the body of > the email to TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com (or > TXBASTRO-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest list) > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously posted messages, > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. 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Rick: Was Beaukiss in Williamson or Bastrop County? I've attempted to find exactly where my gg and ggrandparents lived. I've never been able to pinopoint it, yet I'm wondering if there might be some of my ancestors buried in the cemetery at Beaukiss. They scattered from SC to the general area in Bell, Bastrop and Williamson County, all apparently near Elgin, yet I've never located exactly where. Thanx! Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Gillespie, DC" <DrRickTx@rattlers.net> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:59 PM Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > I know that this is kinda off list info and please scold me if you think so > but having said that: > > As I was growing up, my family always had a Christmas tradition of making > the 3 hour trip up to Beaukiss, near Elgin, to clean up the family graves at > the cemetary there. Nowadays a 3 hour trip is nothing but back then this > was a major excursion. We always stopped in Elgin and loaded up with Hot > Guts and a couple of loaves of bread and crackers. When we got to the > cemetary we'd have a tailgate picnic before setting about cleaning the weeds > and trash that had accumulated over the past year. We'd then drive down the > country roads looking for a good cedar tree to cut for a Christmas tree. > Sometimes we'd cut over a dozen trees (they are considered a nuisance tree > so no one objected to us cutting them down) to take home to our neighbors > and family. There's a lot of good memories connected with those annual > trips. The smell of fresh-cut cedar and the taste of those hot guts takes > me back to a really fun time of my life. > > OK, we can get back to genealogy now. ;) > Rick > > Richard Gillespie, DC > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Hardwick [mailto:Jack_Hardwick@prodigy.net] > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:22 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > That was one of the greatest things my ancestors did for me . . . besides > coming from Williamson County ("near Elgin," as the family history always > said), doing my research led me to the fabulous barbecue in Elgin. Worth > going to get, even if you aren't researching the area. Plus, some of my > Hardwicks are buried there . . . surely the barbecue didn't have anything to > do with that . . . naaaah . . . that was at the turn of the nineteenth > century. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Gillespie, DC" <DrRickTx@rattlers.net> > To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:37 PM > Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > Thanks Shirleen. > > And every time I run up to Bastrop I ALWAYS make a side trip to Elgin for > > some Hot Links or "Hot Guts" as the old timers always called them. I > > usually buy about 50 pounds of uncooked to take home and freeze! > > > > Richard Gillespie, DC > > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Shirleen Smith Reese [mailto:shirleenreese@msn.com] > > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 10:47 AM > > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > > > I can't say for sure about this particular building, but you should make > the > > trip to Bastrop anyway--if you've not been before or in a long time. > > There's lots to see and good BBQ to boot! > > > > Shirleen Smith Reese > > shirleenreese@msn.com > > http://www.geocities.com/bastrop52 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Richard Gillespie, DC > > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:03 PM > > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > Hi, all. > > I also enjoyed the pictures. My Great-great Uncle James Hiram Gillespie > > owned a mercantile store in Bastrop from about 1860 until sometime in the > > late 1800s. In his later years, I think he sold the store to Charles > Leroy > > Morgan and I've also been told that it later became Turner Mercantile. > There > > may have been several different buildings during this period but someone > > once told me that the building still stands. Do any of you recall seeing > > anything in the City of Bastrop archives? If the building still stands > I'd > > love to make the trip to Bastrop to take pictures. Thanks > > > > Richard Gillespie, DC > > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] > > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 PM > > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > > > Shirleen Smith Reese, > > Thank you for letting us know of your website. I really loved the > pictures. > > Makes me want to go to that intersection of Bastrop and take a picture for > > you to add so there will be 3 in 50 year increments. > > > > Tammy Owen > > Bastrop County Coordinator > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > > <A > > > HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp > > age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with > > subscription. > > <A > > > HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. > > com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> > > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, > > Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to > > find new and used genealogy stuff? > > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's > > online marketplace</A> and > > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest > > Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > > To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, > > send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe, send an email with only the word unsubscribe in the body > of > > the email to TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com (or > > TXBASTRO-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest list) > > > > > > ============================== > > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > > Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously posted messages, > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO > > > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > > Source for Family History Online. 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Hi, Jack. Beaukiss is in Williamson Co. I wish we would have conversed a little sooner. I went out to the cemetary last month to check on things. There are probably 100 gravesites there, some going back to the late 1800s. You're talking to someone that has trouble remembering his kid's names lately but I'd almost swear Hardwick was on a tombstone. Next time I go there I'll take a peak. Where are you located? Rick Richard Gillespie, DC mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net -----Original Message----- From: Jack Hardwick [mailto:Jack_Hardwick@prodigy.net] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 5:08 PM To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website Rick: Was Beaukiss in Williamson or Bastrop County? I've attempted to find exactly where my gg and ggrandparents lived. I've never been able to pinopoint it, yet I'm wondering if there might be some of my ancestors buried in the cemetery at Beaukiss. They scattered from SC to the general area in Bell, Bastrop and Williamson County, all apparently near Elgin, yet I've never located exactly where. Thanx! Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Gillespie, DC" <DrRickTx@rattlers.net> To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:59 PM Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > I know that this is kinda off list info and please scold me if you think so > but having said that: > > As I was growing up, my family always had a Christmas tradition of making > the 3 hour trip up to Beaukiss, near Elgin, to clean up the family graves at > the cemetary there. Nowadays a 3 hour trip is nothing but back then this > was a major excursion. We always stopped in Elgin and loaded up with Hot > Guts and a couple of loaves of bread and crackers. When we got to the > cemetary we'd have a tailgate picnic before setting about cleaning the weeds > and trash that had accumulated over the past year. We'd then drive down the > country roads looking for a good cedar tree to cut for a Christmas tree. > Sometimes we'd cut over a dozen trees (they are considered a nuisance tree > so no one objected to us cutting them down) to take home to our neighbors > and family. There's a lot of good memories connected with those annual > trips. The smell of fresh-cut cedar and the taste of those hot guts takes > me back to a really fun time of my life. > > OK, we can get back to genealogy now. ;) > Rick > > Richard Gillespie, DC > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Hardwick [mailto:Jack_Hardwick@prodigy.net] > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 3:22 PM > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > That was one of the greatest things my ancestors did for me . . . besides > coming from Williamson County ("near Elgin," as the family history always > said), doing my research led me to the fabulous barbecue in Elgin. Worth > going to get, even if you aren't researching the area. Plus, some of my > Hardwicks are buried there . . . surely the barbecue didn't have anything to > do with that . . . naaaah . . . that was at the turn of the nineteenth > century. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Gillespie, DC" <DrRickTx@rattlers.net> > To: <TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:37 PM > Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > Thanks Shirleen. > > And every time I run up to Bastrop I ALWAYS make a side trip to Elgin for > > some Hot Links or "Hot Guts" as the old timers always called them. I > > usually buy about 50 pounds of uncooked to take home and freeze! > > > > Richard Gillespie, DC > > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Shirleen Smith Reese [mailto:shirleenreese@msn.com] > > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 10:47 AM > > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > > > I can't say for sure about this particular building, but you should make > the > > trip to Bastrop anyway--if you've not been before or in a long time. > > There's lots to see and good BBQ to boot! > > > > Shirleen Smith Reese > > shirleenreese@msn.com > > http://www.geocities.com/bastrop52 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Richard Gillespie, DC > > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:03 PM > > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: RE: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > Hi, all. > > I also enjoyed the pictures. My Great-great Uncle James Hiram Gillespie > > owned a mercantile store in Bastrop from about 1860 until sometime in the > > late 1800s. In his later years, I think he sold the store to Charles > Leroy > > Morgan and I've also been told that it later became Turner Mercantile. > There > > may have been several different buildings during this period but someone > > once told me that the building still stands. Do any of you recall seeing > > anything in the City of Bastrop archives? If the building still stands > I'd > > love to make the trip to Bastrop to take pictures. Thanks > > > > Richard Gillespie, DC > > mailto:DrRickTx@rattlers.net > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bastropcc@aol.com [mailto:Bastropcc@aol.com] > > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:12 PM > > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [TXBASTRO] Personal Website > > > > > > Shirleen Smith Reese, > > Thank you for letting us know of your website. I really loved the > pictures. > > Makes me want to go to that intersection of Bastrop and take a picture for > > you to add so there will be 3 in 50 year increments. > > > > Tammy Owen > > Bastrop County Coordinator > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > > <A > > > HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=35098265&bfp > > age=digbutton">Ancestry.com - View Census Images Online</A> The Best! with > > subscription. > > <A > > > HREF="http://www.myfamiliesname.com/?AID=2834348&PID=849435">MyFamiliesName. > > com - "Preserving and Reserving Your Family Name Online."</A> > > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-487817">Go to the AandE, > > Biography and The History Channels</A> And the best place to > > find new and used genealogy stuff? > > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-1643272">EBay - the world's > > online marketplace</A> and > > <A HREF="http://www.qksrv.net/click-849435-168019">Half.com: The Smartest > > Place to Buy and Sell Genealogy material.</A> > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > > To send a post to the BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS list, > > send your message to TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe, send an email with only the word unsubscribe in the body > of > > the email to TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com (or > > TXBASTRO-D-request@rootsweb.com for the digest list) > > > > > > ============================== > > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > > Search the TXBASTRO-L archives for previously posted messages, > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TXBASTRO > > > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > > Source for Family History Online. 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