I have more information on this black Chambers family from Webberville and Bastrop County that I'm researching. Eddie's son, David, who was born in 1932, was somewhere around five when his father died. His mother remarried, and as a result, David adn his daughters are extremely vague about the most obvious details about David's family, and it seems hardly anyone obvious is left alive. I now understand that Eddie Chambers, who died around 1937 give or take a couple of years, was shot. It had something to do with he was known to carry a gun. "Everyone carried a gun back then". I don't know how true that was, even in Texas. The family have no other details about what happened including the motive for the shooting, and they do not know if the killer was caught. It is not known if this was some gun duel thing, some gangsta thing, or a robbery, or a crazy man angry at Eddie for some reason, or even a lynching. Eddie's occupation is also unknown. The family is believed to have been living in Webberville at the time. Eddie was believed to have been FROM Bastrop County, and I did indeed find Eddie in his parents' household in Bastrop County in the 1920 census. David's children were born in Austin. Webberville is a little village on the road to Bastrop County near the county line. Eddie's father owned $7000 worth of land in Bastrop County in 1920, and was a farmer, as was his father before him. The family were Black. What Eddie did for a living is not known. Eddie was 15 in the 1920 census, so he was around 30 when he was killed. Also, Eddie married in Bastrop County. I found the marriage in the index. I can not find any death for an Eddie Chambers or anything that conceivably could be Eddie's name, in the death indexes for the 1930's in Travis or Bastrop County, though several Eddie Chambers' died in other parts of TExas. If Eddie was not killed in Bastrop or Travis Counties, his death certificate would be where he was killed and not where he died. Can anyone tell me where would be the best places to look for information on the shooting of a thirty year old black man with a family who lived in Webberville and came from Bastrop County, who may or may not have been killed anywhere near where he lived? Given that the date is pinned down to only within a few years? Yours, Dora Smith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/