--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