That was a great exchange of information about McDade. Thanks Mr. Taylor for sharing your information. Hopefully, someone will send you a picture. Want to try another one, more in the myths and legends category? Here's the background on this one. All my young life I heard that a great Aunt had married Frank James and the Hemphill boys held the horses for them. (Not the Hemphill Bend Hemphill's but the Red Rock Hemphill's). Recently talked to my grandmother and got close to knowing who the great aunt was. (Turned out to not be my gr aunt thta married him but her mother). I talked to another Petty descendant last year and she also had the same stories, though she's from another Petty branch. Just seeing if anyone else has James Gang stories that were passed down for Bastrop Co. I'm just curious about these stories, don't what to prove who's buried in who's grave and since there were no children from the following marriage, not claiming kin to them either. Thomas Earl Petty married Elsie Awalt. It was Elsie's mother that was to have married Frank James. I don't know who Elsie's parents are, therefore I don't know the woman that supposedly married Frank. Is this Mae Sanboth someone has listed as his 2nd wife? This was one of three marriages I have found. One being to an indian lady and Frank had children with her. The story I got was that Elsie's mother married Frank in Austin, they were at a hotel, when the possee found out. Frank escaped capture and never came back for her. Growing up I always thought that if he got hold of one of our family, she was probably too much for him to handle. Family history says Jesse James was a close friend of the Petty family. (My relationship calculator says Elsie Awalt is the wife of 1st cousin once removed to Jesse James Petty's father Alfred.) Jesse James Petty's mother (Sarah Ann Riddles who married Alfred Manion Petty), said she didn't know who they buried in that coffin; but it sure wasn't Jesse James because years after Jesse James' funeral, her son, Jesse James Petty b. about 1882, was said to have met the man he'd been named for, living in Texas. Anyone have any more family stories? Here is a picture of Frank James headstone: http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/537.html Interested in Jesse James? Go here: http://www.nursehealer.com/JesseJames.htm Contains Petty family information, also. I also read there was a Red Rock train robbery by the James boys. Is this our Bastrop County Red Rock? Which of the Hemphill boys could have held their horses while they "worked"? Is it true that Red Rock isn't on one of the census years because it was too rough for the census taker? I'll be out of touch next week Aug 7-11. 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