Howdy Listers... If you don't already have a bookmark to the Bell County Query Board, please consider adding one. Not all queries folks have get to the TXBELL list, and you can do a real service by checking on occasion to see if you can directly help someone with an information request! Try: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Bell? You may have info someone can use, or some ideas of where they may try. Not being from Bell, I don't have a lot of info, but the entry of The Story of Bell County, and the related Biographies Board postings, are helping me get a better idea of early names and history (check on that effort at: www.rootsweb.com/~txbchc) Hope you're getting some useable info from the pages. Watch for the Sesquicentennial Committee to have a page active at www.vvm.com/~sqc sometime around June 25th. VVM is sponsoring the web page management for the SQC committee, and there will be more SQC material there. When it opens, the SQC-specific material from the Bell County Historical Commission page will be either removed or moved to a sub-page of some sort. Bill Bost Bell County Coordinator Bell County Historical Commission webmaster West Bell Genealogical Society webmaster Bell County Museum webmaster Some other stuff, too. Chief ding-dong in Bell? _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Forwarded to the List, to see if someone has some info. Please reply directly to Ava Leaverton at: aangel2@concentric.net (I'll also post her query to the Bell County Query Board.) Bill Bost Bell County Coordinator ----Original Message Follows---- From: aangel2@concentric.net (Ava Leaverton) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:41:16 -0400 (EDT) Could you tell me how I would find the grave site of my grgrandmother?She d in Belton, Bell Co, TX in the late 1800. Her name was Elizabeth Jane Mcelroy Powell. She was md to Oliver Powell. They came to Belton from Adair Co, KY. I would appreciate any help. They also had a grandson that died there and I believe is buried there. Thanks Ava Powell Leaverton _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

In a message dated 6/20/99 9:46:38 AM Central Daylight Time, bartlett@vvm.com writes: << If it rains, I will have to wait because getting out in this Blackland Clay is as foolish as standing behind a herd of unhappy skunks suffering from PMS! >> I don't know what happened to the other email. Hope you got it but in case you didn't here it is again. My husband and I both laughed till we hurt about your abv statement. I failed to tell you my only Surname in Bell Co. at this time is SMART possibly GLASGOW. But I think the Glasgow was in McLennan Co around Waco. The Reunion you talked about on the 4th Sunday of June at the Gober Place in Temple. Is that still going on? If so, is it possible you could put me in touch with someone connected to that. Thanks so much for your information. And Thanks for your offer to go to the Cemetery. That would be great. Just don't get caught behind a herd of skunks. Shirley Garrett

In a message dated 6/20/99 9:46:38 AM Central Daylight Time, bartlett@vvm.com writes: << If it rains, I will have to wait because getting out in this Blackland Clay is as foolish as standing behind a herd of unhappy skunks suffering from PMS! >> Mary, I laughed and laughed. This is hilarious! I guess I failed to say, so far my only Surname in Bell Co. is SMART. Thanks so very much for all your information. I'm sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday. We went to our son's for Father's Day. And when we got back I was too tired to think. I think I still am. Shirley McMahon Garrett

There are page listings in THE STORY OF BELL COUNTY, TX for: SMART, SMARTT, STOKES and CAGLE. Some STOKES are buried here at the Bartlett City Cemetery and there is an elderly couple who are descendents of the STOKES here in Bartlett, Bell Co,TX. Bartlett City Cemetery Updates done by Mr. and Mrs. COWSERT of Austin, Texas. Posted on Bell Co. WebPage by permission of the COWSERTs and the City of Bartlett, Bruce Swope, Mayor. Smart, Mrs. Tom F. 22 29 May 1868 – 6 Feb 1940 Smart, Thomas Franklin 22 12 Dec 1864 – 8 Apr 1943 Cagle, Edward 48 1926 – Cagle, Frank 48 1900 - 1942 Cagle, Lavina wife of W.J. Cagle 48 d. 2 Dec 1896 (69y. 3mo. 22da.) Cagle, W. J. Sr. 48 8 Dec 1827 – 22 Nov 1918 Cagle, Walter J. Jr. 48 1898 - 1963 Harris, Mrs. Florence Cagle 48 22 Feb 1873 – 20 Sep 1931 McGuyre, Elizabeth 48 d. 24 Jun 1905 79yr. 5mo. 10da. Waggoner, Charlie Lenard 48 17 Sep 1886 – 5 Jul 1915 Cagle, Alberta P. 324 1903 - 1980 Cagle, Clyde J. 324 1923 – 1944 Military WW II AAF Cagle, George W. 324 1900 - 1974 Cagle, George W. Jr. In Memory of 324 1921 – 1943 Military WW II AAF Cagle, Randall K. 324 30 Nov 1924 – 31 Jan 1983 ==================================== CITATION: THE STORY OF BELL COUNTY, TEXAS. Bell County Historical Commission, Volumes I&II, 1988. SMART Page 702 Originally Submitted by: Gladys Cornett Hendrix Under: Elisha Fredrick McCRAY..."Elisha Fredrick MCCRAY was born April 9, 1840, and married Mary Haydon SMART, born September 2, 1842." "E.F. MCCRAY died January 9, 1916, and Mary died August 7, 1914. They were among the first people buried in Holland Cemetery." "The descendants still gather for an annual family reunion on the fourth Sunday in June at the Gober Party House in Temple." They had nine children and mentions several of them living in Holland. If you think this is your ancestor, I will post Elisha Fredrick MCCRAY on the Bell County Biographies Page for you. ====================================== SMART Page 877 Originally Submitted by: John Marek Family Book Under: Frank B. SCHILLER Frank B. SCHILLER...b. 25 Dec 1867, Czechoslovakia; d. 30 Dec 1940; bur. Ocker; m. Theresa MARK...b. 17 Sept 1870 in Cermna, Czechoslovakia on 13 Nov 1890 at Industry; Theresa d. 31 Mar 1950. Came to Bell Co. =atb 1900 Occupation = farmed...Ocker, Barclay, Rosebud areas Children: 10 children; "10. Frank (b. 1915) was born at Rosebud and married Inez SMART in 1948." If this SMART is an ancestor of yours, I will also post it to the biographies. ====================================== SMARTT Page 818 Under: Edmund PENDLETON "Edmund PENDLETON married Sarah SMARTT in Warren County, Tennessee, on August 16, 1842. She was born there on June 23, 1823, the d/o General William Cheek SMARTT and Margaret COLVILLE SMARTT. In 1857 the Pendleton immigrated to Ellis County, Texas, where he was a farmer and represented Ellis County in the Texas Legislature for two terms." Again, if this were to be your ancestor, I will post it in the Biography section of our Bell County page. ===================================== I will wait to hear from you about the CAGLES and STOKES as there are several cited pages of information. I will also try to get up to the Holland Cemetery...Holland is about 17 miles north of us. If it rains, I will have to wait because getting out in this Blackland Clay is as foolish as standing behind a herd of unhappy skunks suffering from PMS! MaryAnn Bartlett Bartlett, Bell County, TX -----Original Message----- From: Scg2331@aol.com <Scg2331@aol.com> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, June 19, 1999 4:53 PM Subject: [TXBELL-L] Re: JOSEPH SMART |I am looking for information about JOSEPH W. SMART, b. 1 Feb 1844, Weakley |Co., TN, migrated to Holland, Bell Co., TX (maybe by way of Clay Co., AR, not |sure about this) We know he was living at Holland in 1904. There is a |letter from him to his brother, James P. Smart (my grgrandfather) found in |the Family Bible. The signature page is missing. If someone has any |information, I will gladly share what I have on the Smart family. Joseph's |father was Presley G. Smart, who migrated from Weakley Co., TN to Clay Co., |AR and died there. | |Shirley McMahon Garrett |Surnames: McMAHON, SMART, YANCEY, STOKES, KEYWOOD, CAGLE, |STEWART, WHEELER | |"Walking the Footsteps of my Ancestors" | | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |Please Clear Off-Topic Posts With The Webmaster FIRST! The List Archives |Are At: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/TXBELL-L/ |

Searching for Works families in Bell Co., TX. Ann

I am looking for information about JOSEPH W. SMART, b. 1 Feb 1844, Weakley Co., TN, migrated to Holland, Bell Co., TX (maybe by way of Clay Co., AR, not sure about this) We know he was living at Holland in 1904. There is a letter from him to his brother, James P. Smart (my grgrandfather) found in the Family Bible. The signature page is missing. If someone has any information, I will gladly share what I have on the Smart family. Joseph's father was Presley G. Smart, who migrated from Weakley Co., TN to Clay Co., AR and died there. Shirley McMahon Garrett Surnames: McMAHON, SMART, YANCEY, STOKES, KEYWOOD, CAGLE, STEWART, WHEELER "Walking the Footsteps of my Ancestors"

I am researching George Washington ALLISON, my great-great grandfather. We have found no trace of his parents. He was born in GA in 1848 and appears to have gone West to AR and TX with the family of William Flemon COWAN. He married one of Cowan's daughters, Sarah Arkansas COWAN. Family stories indicate that GW ALLISON and at least one brother were orphaned and lived near Salado with a family named NAPIER. We find this family in the census with children of other surnames but no ALLISONs. The COWANS moved from AR to Williamson COunty TX in 1863 and later to BELL County. In 1874, the COWANS began moving to Katemcy in Mason County. GW Allison moved to Kempner and then to Katemcy. If any researchers have information on these families, I would very much appreciate receiving it. Best regards, Joe O. Rogers P.O. Box 372 Hunt Valley, MD 21030 Phone: 410-527-2005 Mobile: 410-456-2558 Fax: 410-527-9485 Email: joe.rogers@alumni.duke.edu

St. John's Luthern Church is at the edge of town; Volo is up yonder a little bit north of us; Stockton Ceme. is over yonder a little bit west of town; some other little cemeteries, including one they just stumbled across out on Sullivan or Sunshine road...want I should get some of those for you? -----Original Message----- From: MaryAnn Bartlett <bartlett@vvm.com> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 12:07 PM Subject: Re: [TXBELL-L] Bell County Historical Commission Page |Disclaimer at beginning of SOBCT: The present information is being |transcribed onto the site as published in 1988. Once the entire two volumes |of text are posted, we will begin, with help from any and all descendents, |to update the information. | |Cemeteries of Bell County: I have a copy of the elderly book, could I help |you transcribe some of them? I am trying to get 10 more biographies up |today so that we hit the 100 mark. I would like to see a note somewhere, in |big letters, telling people I am doing these biographies in an effort to |help build the sites for the celebration. I don't want anyone to think that |because my name is plastered up there so much that I am the only one that |can submit the biographies...and something to tell them where to send their |updates or, if they submit an update to the site, who to contact to get the |older one off. You guys know that if I had my way about it, I would put |Klem K. Kadiddlehopper as the person submitting. I just hope that someday, |descendents will find the biographies and update them replacing my posts |with theirs. | |You might also consider a note on biographies about not putting up |information about living people. | |Just asking: Would it be better if I didn't send you chapter material until |I have typed up the whole chapter....or is it okay to send it in pieces like |I have been doing. | |Let me know about the cemeteries......ohhhhhhh...could you please give |credit to Mr. and Mrs. Cowsert of Austin for doing the update of the |Bartlett Cemetery..and the Mayor, Bruce Swope, of Bartlett for giving |permission to use the list. Mr. Cowsert left me a message the other day |that he will be bringing an updated disk by for me to send you. I have |offered to give him your addy but he seems to want me to send it to you. | |I don't know anything about making webpages...but I do know I am more likely |to dive into the depths of a site if I can "go by links" rather than having |to go back to the beginning and reinvent the search. Could maybe you talk a |local server like VVM into donating someone that can do webpages to visit on |a regular basis and then contact you to help you? Just a thought...is |FrontPage the one from AOL??? |-----Original Message----- |From: Bill Bost <longwired@hotmail.com> |To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> |Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:28 AM |Subject: [TXBELL-L] Bell County Historical Commission Page | | ||Howdy TXBELL Listers! ||I've been working on the BCHC pages recently, and would like to get some ||feedback from possible users. There are some links that don't work right ||(Live Oak Cemetery photo is in the wrong folder at the moment, and "Back to ||Top" isn't correct on some pages), and content for the Story of Bell County ||(SOBC) is going on pieces at a time (with lots of help from MaryAnn ||Barlett). || ||I'd like to know what you think might help with navigation, whether the ||navigation buttons help or not (some of them, like in Chapter XV of SOBC, ||are WAY too busy), if the photo album is a good idea, and so forth. If you ||find something not working, feel free to let me know now, or at some point ||in future. FrontPage98 is new to me, as is HTML, and there's LOTS of room ||for errors (me) and improvements (the page). A very basic idea is to make ||the pages as user-friendly as possible, somewhat logical in flow and |format, ||and USABLE. Some things are experimental, in that I'm not sure how to make ||them work, but over the long term, I think the BCHC page can become quite |an ||information source for researchers. || ||Please try the hyperlink to the County Archives, and see if the new search ||engine feature works for you. There are something like 33 cemeteries with ||lists there, although very dated, and more are coming. We'll try to update ||old lists in the very near future to be more current. || ||When looking at the SOBC pages, please remember the book's publication |date, ||1988, and remember that much information is probably not current. We hope |to ||add some sort of in-text update feature, to provide more-current info. || ||Thoughts? || ||Bill Bost ||Bell County Coordinator ||TXBELL Listowner ||BCHC webmaster ||WBGS webmaster ||Interim Museum webmaster || || ||_______________________________________________________________ ||Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com || || ||==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== ||Hosted By The Fine Folks At RootsWeb, For Genealogy ||Bell County Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell || | | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |Hosted By The Fine Folks At RootsWeb, For Genealogy |Bell County Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell |

Disclaimer at beginning of SOBCT: The present information is being transcribed onto the site as published in 1988. Once the entire two volumes of text are posted, we will begin, with help from any and all descendents, to update the information. Cemeteries of Bell County: I have a copy of the elderly book, could I help you transcribe some of them? I am trying to get 10 more biographies up today so that we hit the 100 mark. I would like to see a note somewhere, in big letters, telling people I am doing these biographies in an effort to help build the sites for the celebration. I don't want anyone to think that because my name is plastered up there so much that I am the only one that can submit the biographies...and something to tell them where to send their updates or, if they submit an update to the site, who to contact to get the older one off. You guys know that if I had my way about it, I would put Klem K. Kadiddlehopper as the person submitting. I just hope that someday, descendents will find the biographies and update them replacing my posts with theirs. You might also consider a note on biographies about not putting up information about living people. Just asking: Would it be better if I didn't send you chapter material until I have typed up the whole chapter....or is it okay to send it in pieces like I have been doing. Let me know about the cemeteries......ohhhhhhh...could you please give credit to Mr. and Mrs. Cowsert of Austin for doing the update of the Bartlett Cemetery..and the Mayor, Bruce Swope, of Bartlett for giving permission to use the list. Mr. Cowsert left me a message the other day that he will be bringing an updated disk by for me to send you. I have offered to give him your addy but he seems to want me to send it to you. I don't know anything about making webpages...but I do know I am more likely to dive into the depths of a site if I can "go by links" rather than having to go back to the beginning and reinvent the search. Could maybe you talk a local server like VVM into donating someone that can do webpages to visit on a regular basis and then contact you to help you? Just a thought...is FrontPage the one from AOL??? -----Original Message----- From: Bill Bost <longwired@hotmail.com> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:28 AM Subject: [TXBELL-L] Bell County Historical Commission Page |Howdy TXBELL Listers! |I've been working on the BCHC pages recently, and would like to get some |feedback from possible users. There are some links that don't work right |(Live Oak Cemetery photo is in the wrong folder at the moment, and "Back to |Top" isn't correct on some pages), and content for the Story of Bell County |(SOBC) is going on pieces at a time (with lots of help from MaryAnn |Barlett). | |I'd like to know what you think might help with navigation, whether the |navigation buttons help or not (some of them, like in Chapter XV of SOBC, |are WAY too busy), if the photo album is a good idea, and so forth. If you |find something not working, feel free to let me know now, or at some point |in future. FrontPage98 is new to me, as is HTML, and there's LOTS of room |for errors (me) and improvements (the page). A very basic idea is to make |the pages as user-friendly as possible, somewhat logical in flow and format, |and USABLE. Some things are experimental, in that I'm not sure how to make |them work, but over the long term, I think the BCHC page can become quite an |information source for researchers. | |Please try the hyperlink to the County Archives, and see if the new search |engine feature works for you. There are something like 33 cemeteries with |lists there, although very dated, and more are coming. We'll try to update |old lists in the very near future to be more current. | |When looking at the SOBC pages, please remember the book's publication date, |1988, and remember that much information is probably not current. We hope to |add some sort of in-text update feature, to provide more-current info. | |Thoughts? | |Bill Bost |Bell County Coordinator |TXBELL Listowner |BCHC webmaster |WBGS webmaster |Interim Museum webmaster | | |_______________________________________________________________ |Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |Hosted By The Fine Folks At RootsWeb, For Genealogy |Bell County Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell |

Howdy TXBELL Listers! I've been working on the BCHC pages recently, and would like to get some feedback from possible users. There are some links that don't work right (Live Oak Cemetery photo is in the wrong folder at the moment, and "Back to Top" isn't correct on some pages), and content for the Story of Bell County (SOBC) is going on pieces at a time (with lots of help from MaryAnn Barlett). I'd like to know what you think might help with navigation, whether the navigation buttons help or not (some of them, like in Chapter XV of SOBC, are WAY too busy), if the photo album is a good idea, and so forth. If you find something not working, feel free to let me know now, or at some point in future. FrontPage98 is new to me, as is HTML, and there's LOTS of room for errors (me) and improvements (the page). A very basic idea is to make the pages as user-friendly as possible, somewhat logical in flow and format, and USABLE. Some things are experimental, in that I'm not sure how to make them work, but over the long term, I think the BCHC page can become quite an information source for researchers. Please try the hyperlink to the County Archives, and see if the new search engine feature works for you. There are something like 33 cemeteries with lists there, although very dated, and more are coming. We'll try to update old lists in the very near future to be more current. When looking at the SOBC pages, please remember the book's publication date, 1988, and remember that much information is probably not current. We hope to add some sort of in-text update feature, to provide more-current info. Thoughts? Bill Bost Bell County Coordinator TXBELL Listowner BCHC webmaster WBGS webmaster Interim Museum webmaster _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

Hello I have seen a few postings concerning Moore's in Bell County, Texas so I thought I would post what little bit I had in case anyone recognized them. I am also researching COWEN and REDDEN in Bell County. Thanks Ronda Redden Descendants of Alexander Moore 1 Alexander Moore b: in Missouri .. +Elizabeth Philips b: in Missouri . 2 Mira Fidella"Bell" Moore b: October 22, 1860 in Missouri d: September 22, 1928 in Bell County, Texas ..... +John I. Cowen b: September 11, 1853 in Texas m: Abt. 1877 in Arkansas d: July 01, 1931 in Bell County, Texas ..... 3 Birdie E. Cowen b: November 1878 in Arkansas ......... +Charles V. Brown b: August 1874 in Texas m: October 20, 1895 in Bell County, Texas ..... 3 Delia Cowan b: October 1882 in Salem, Arkansas d: Aft. 1942 ......... +Joseph Thomas Redden b: 1879 in Coffey County, Tennessee m: June 22, 1904 in Bell County, Texas ..... 3 Mary M. Cowen b: May 1887 in Texas ......... +Sam Stevenson ..... 3 Robert Lee Cowen b: May 21, 1889 in Texas d: May 12, 1953 in Bell County, Texas ......... +Helen Shaffer b: May 20, 1900 in Texas d: May 30, 1980 in Bell County, Texas ..... *2nd Wife of Robert Lee Cowen: ......... +Minnie Streater m: June 10, 1910 in Bell County, Texas ..... 3 Jessie Cowen b: July 1891 in Texas ..... 3 Ira Cowen b: August 1893 in Texas ......... +Ora Dunn ..... 3 Bettie Cowen b: May 1896 in Texas ......... +J. Albert Landrum m: July 26, 1914 in Bell County, Texas ..... 3 George Valkie Cowen b: October 1898 in Texas ......... +Nell Shafer ..... *2nd Wife of George Valkie Cowen: ......... +Myrtice

Well, it looks like I will finally be visiting Bell County tomorrow (Wednesday) to research my Deaver ancestors. Apparently, many of them are buried at the Taylor Valley Cemetary. I plan to also stop by the Belton Library, museum, and county clerk's office. Hopefully, I can fit all that into one day! In case anyone is curious, my ancestors from Belton were John Hamilton Deaver and Mary Elizabeth Deaver (maiden: Henry). Their daughter, Texas Clementine Deaver, was my great grandmother. I believe she was born in Belton in 1869. Joe D. Deaver jdeaver@eaze.net

MaryAnn Bartlett wrote: MaryAnn, Would you look in your books and see if there is any information on Bedford Moore? He was the husband of Texana Powers, and the father of Leslie Moore who married Israel Isaac Cockrum. They lived in Holland. Date range for Bedford is estimated to be 1865-1910 Bedford also had these siblings: Homer, Claude, Gene, Curtis- Thank You- Becky Cockrum > ==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== > The Bell County Genealogy And History Page Is At: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell

Could you check the Biographies and see if I need to change anything and to make sure I have not duplicated dead people again...or ::::snicker::::confused the dead with anyone living

I just got the same information you have requested for my great grandfather, John Thomas BARTLETT. It was wonderful! I got it in about two weeks and it cost only $2.50. Had a whole lot more information than I anticipated...enjoy yours. I hope some of what I sent you will help you at some point. When I can get over to the Bell County Courthouse, I will see what else I can find. They have put many of the old records on film and it is harder to read the film than the old documents. MA Bartlett -----Original Message----- From: Mike <nash@randomc.com> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 12:01 AM Subject: [TXBELL-L] Elijah and Sarah J. GORE |I have just found a possible link to my missing Confederate relative, Elijah |Gore! A Sarah J. Gore is listed in the Confederate Pension Records as the |wife of Elijah GORE, living in Bell County at the time she applied for a |pension. | |Elijah was born in 1831 in Bradford County, PA and was in the South at the |start of the War. Against the wishes of his family, he signed up with the |1st Louisiana Cavalry and served valiantly under Col. Scott. In 1863 he was |captured and spent the rest of the War in Yankee prisons. He had no apparent |contact with his family after the War and they presumed he was dead. This |spring I found a reference to him in Yandell Hospital in Meridian, MS at the |end of the War and the trail had stopped there. | |AS far as my research has taken me, my Elijah is the only Elijah GORE who |fought for the Confederacy. AS you may tell, I am quite excited to have |found this reference. I have sent off to the State Archives for this record |to verify it is him.....in the mean time, I am requesting any leads that you |may know of to further my search for Elijah....any local records of |Confederate Veterans, local historians who could help, local cemetery |records that I could search....etc. I would appreciate any information |that you may point me to. | |Thanks! | |Mike Wennin | | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |The Bell County Genealogy And History Page Is At: |http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell |

I have just found a possible link to my missing Confederate relative, Elijah Gore! A Sarah J. Gore is listed in the Confederate Pension Records as the wife of Elijah GORE, living in Bell County at the time she applied for a pension. Elijah was born in 1831 in Bradford County, PA and was in the South at the start of the War. Against the wishes of his family, he signed up with the 1st Louisiana Cavalry and served valiantly under Col. Scott. In 1863 he was captured and spent the rest of the War in Yankee prisons. He had no apparent contact with his family after the War and they presumed he was dead. This spring I found a reference to him in Yandell Hospital in Meridian, MS at the end of the War and the trail had stopped there. AS far as my research has taken me, my Elijah is the only Elijah GORE who fought for the Confederacy. AS you may tell, I am quite excited to have found this reference. I have sent off to the State Archives for this record to verify it is him.....in the mean time, I am requesting any leads that you may know of to further my search for Elijah....any local records of Confederate Veterans, local historians who could help, local cemetery records that I could search....etc. I would appreciate any information that you may point me to. Thanks! Mike Wennin

The 53rd annual Lawler Family Reunion of Central Texas will be held July 17 & 18 at Temple Lake Park on Lake Belton. We will meet again at the Cen-Tex Sportsman's Club. We represent the descendants of Sarah Crawson Lawler who founded the first business in Belton. She being the widow of Eli Wilburn Lawler and a family to raise; opened a boarding house to feed the survey crew preparing for the county seat. Moses Newton Lawler 1833-1886 was one of the sons. Children of Moses Newton Lawler are: "Lee", "Molly", "Bell", "John", "Will", "Sam", "Fannie", "Mart" and " Jim" . Not one of these are still living but we usually have descendants representing almost every family. Any and all Lawlers as well as friends are welcome. I will be happy to give detailed information such as directions and time to any one. Reba Lawler

Howdy, Jackie.. I've also taken the liberty of posting your query to the Bell County Query Board... (there may be some folks who will respond there that are not part of the TXBELL list). Bill Bost Bell County Coordinator ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Jackie Smith" <jjsmith2@ipa.net> Reply-To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TXBELL-L] MOORE Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:34:50 -0000 Does someone have access to Bell Co., TX marriage and death indexes? Seeking information on the deaths of William J. MOORE and Helen Tubbs MOORE. William J. died about 1897 and Helen died 1890. They had a son William Crawford MOORE who married Mattie ????. This family could have moved to Bell Co. from Mineral Springs, AR circa 1881-?? I know that William Crawford Moore and wife Mattie went to Smith Co., TX (where Mattie died) from Bell Co. William C. had previously been married to Zillibia BEACHAMPS. I have no idea where in Bell County they would have lived. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jackie ==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== The Bell County Genealogy And History Page Is At: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

THE STORY OF BELL COUNTY, TEXAS has the following MOOREs: Austin MOORE Daniel Webster MOORE James Christopher MOORE Jonathan Ewing MOORE Lewis MOORE Lovick Pierce MOORE Thomas Theodore (Teed) MOORE William Wallace MOORE Wilson Wallace MOORE Could any information on this family help you with your search? MAB -----Original Message----- From: Jackie Smith <jjsmith2@ipa.net> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 6:35 PM Subject: [TXBELL-L] MOORE |Does someone have access to Bell Co., TX marriage and |death indexes? | |Seeking information on the deaths of William J. MOORE | and Helen Tubbs MOORE. William J. died about 1897 and |Helen died 1890. They had a son William Crawford MOORE |who married Mattie ????. This family could have moved to |Bell Co. from Mineral Springs, AR circa 1881-?? I know that |William Crawford Moore and wife Mattie went to Smith |Co., TX (where Mattie died) from Bell Co. William C. had |previously been married to Zillibia BEACHAMPS. |I have no idea where in Bell County they would have lived. | |Any help would be greatly appreciated. |Jackie | | | | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |The Bell County Genealogy And History Page Is At: |http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell |