Evelyn, Have you read the delightful story that Kathryn Hermann posted on the Rootsweb Brown Co. TX. website? An ancestor of Kathryn's, Dr. James 'Fred" Harrell wrote a book titled Missouri to Texas by Covered Wagon 1884. It mentions a Lafayette in it. Perhaps you'll find some useful information in it. It is a wonderful story of what life was like resettling in Texas during the 1880s. Dianne