One question, who is this Jenkins sheriff. I can't find him in any lawmen of texas sites? thanks Lisa ---------- > From: Bastropcc@aol.com > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXBASTRO] McDade > Date: August 5, 2000 12:34 AM > > > --part1_4a.928c13b.26bcf356_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Sorry gang, thought the email went to all, but just came to me. Here's a > great story about growing up in McDade. At the end, Mr Taylor is looking for > old pictures of McDade to pass to his grandchildren and their children. > Anyone have any to share with him? Have one to scan so I can put it on the > website? > > Tammy Owen > Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator > Bastropcc@aol.com > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html > > --part1_4a.928c13b.26bcf356_boundary > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-Path: <rtaylor@tstar.net> > Received: from rly-yh05.mx.aol.com (rly-yh05.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.37]) by air-yh04.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 19:07:46 -0400 > Received: from orion.tstar.net (orion.tstar.net [207.13.78.4]) by rly-yh05.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Aug 2000 19:07:19 -0400 > Received: from tstar.net (dial10-20.tstar.net [198.68.205.227]) > by orion.tstar.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA11674 > for <Bastropcc@aol.com>; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 18:07:16 -0500 (CDT) > Message-ID: <398B4CBB.F20FEFF4@tstar.net> > Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 18:07:40 -0500 > From: Roger Taylor <rtaylor@tstar.net> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: Bastropcc@aol.com > Subject: McDade Christmas Shoot Out 1883 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I would like to thank every one who had any part of furnishing the > information about this incident. I was born in the country about four > miles from McDade out toward the Knobbs. All my life I have heard this > story but never had the opportunity to read this information. During the > 1930s Sometimes I would ride in a wagon with my grandfather to his > fields when he worked the crops. As I was a kid at the time, I ask him > why he always had a pistol under a tow sack in the seat of the wagon by > his side. He would say "there used to be a lot of out laws in this part > of the country and there still could be some around and he just wanted a > little protection just in case." He told me his father was robbed > several times after taking his cotton to McDade and sold it. He would > only take one bale at a time to sell for on the way back home you were > more likely than not be robbed before you got home. I have no idea if > this is true but my grandfather told me the "Masons AF & AM" are the > people who finally tamed the area down and brought law and order to > McDade. He stated they were the only people in the McDade area who could > trust each other. As I understand he and his father were both Masons. I > have ancestors from McDade who married members of the Milton and Bishop > families mentioned in the story. > > It was a shame to see McDade go down hill so bad for in the 1930s, when > I was a youngster, it was quite a town. There was a cotton gin, two > banks, a post office, the Williams jug factory, a lumber yard, a drug > store, a mercantile store, two or three grocery stores, a blacksmith > shop, a barber shop, a livery stable, a hotel, two or > > > ==== 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) > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/