I think all I have found so far are mentions of the BEARD name in the Williamson County Source I have, Land of Good Water by Scarborough. I will search through the sources I have at home and then when I can get out again, I will try at the Belton Library and the Bell County Courthous Annex. For those of you who may be able to come to Bell County, the records have been recently moved to the new "temporary" Annex and are in a huge room and accessable to anyone. Everything was moved from the first floor level and from the basement and any other place they had used to store this information. If you live near a library, you might check with them about interlibrary loans....Temple Library has a copy of The Story of Bell County, Texas...the one sponsored by the Bell County Historical Commission and The History of Bell County by George Tyler....and one called, I think, Revisiting Bell County. This last was someone's Master's Thesis as I remember and is not indexed. I believe this is the one that someone did an index on and it is under separate cover. Just some things to consider. Ann -----Original Message----- From: BevBeard <beards@gulfsurf.infi.net> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 8:54 AM Subject: [TXBELL-L] EPPERSON/BRISCOE | > Searching to no avail for information on my grandmother and |her | > family. | | > Maude Adell Epperson b. February 19, 1882 in Bell County or |Twnship, | > Grayson County,Texas, d. January 7, 1967 in Birmingham, Al. |She | > married in 1898 to William Polk Briscoe who was b. December 30, |1868 in | > Somerville, Morgan County, Alabama. Believe she had three |sisters: | > Essie Epperson, Jessie Epperson Orick Keithly (who married 2X |and moved | > to Naples, Fl. many years ago and died there) and Minnie |Epperson. No | > further information. | | > William Polk Briscoe was a Texas minor league ball player and |that is | > how he met Maude. He had a brother, Thomas Graham Briscoe, who |moved to | > Sherman, Texas and we believe he stayed there until his death. |No info | > on his family or death, etc. We have the name Nellie Kitchens |and we | > think that she may have been a daughter of Thomas Graham |Briscoe. Her | > last known address was in Jackson, MS. | | > Any information you may have will be appreciated. | | > Beverly in Florida | | | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |Boards Are Available At The Bell County Page To Post Bible Records, |Wills, Pensions, Obituaries, And Biographies, And For Surname Queries. | http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell |