This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EhB.2ACE/782.917.1.1 Message Board Post: After reading in the Temple Telegram in 1989, about a memorial service marking the 150th anniversary of Battle of Bird's Creek, I spoke by phone with a lady who helped to get this recognition. She was a descendant of Mellissa Bird Zahr. Her married name is Walker. She said the Zahr family is buried somewhere near Cyclone, which is just East of Temple in Bell County. I seem to recall seeing her listed as a descendant of John Bird in Heroes and Partiots of Texas, published by Daughter of The Republic of Texas several years previously..