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. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

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. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS GenWeb, http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >