I disagree that the burial would have taken place only a few miles from where the murder occurred. The trip from San Saba back to Burnet would have been made as long as the victim was identified. There are no Traylors in the 1854 or 1855 Burnet tax records which indicates that they did not own property at this time. However, sometimes property owners disappear from the lists for two or three years and reappear again. The tax records are online at familysearch.org. I have both volumes of the _Burnet County History_ digitized and a search turned up 'Traylor' only once. William Roy Munn m. Jennie E. McDaniel, d/o 'Dan (George Traylor) McDaniel.' The McDaniel family was buried at Shady Grove. I know that cemetery well and the markers are indexed in _Burnet County Cemeteries_; no Traylors were found in a digital search of that book. Shady Grove burials include William Roy, Jennie E., Alta Royena, and Sam Pollard Munn; and Dan, Sophronia, and Edward Bruce McDaniel.. See Darrell Debo, editor, _Burnet County History_ (Burnet County Historical Commission, 1979), p. 2: 219 and Burnet County Historical Commission & Burnet County Heritage Society, _Burnet County Cemetery Records, 1852-1982_, (Austin: Eakin, 1988), p. 114. I also checked the tax records of San Saba County for 1854 (the first complete year) and 1855. No Traylors were recorded. A check of Williamson County for 1854 proved negative also. If the Munn and McDaniel families are of the same family group, then I would also look at the possibility that Champion lived in the Bertram area. Williamson County papers did cover news for that part of the county also, however, I do not believe you are going to find any extant newspapers outside of Austin. I I checked the Texas Newspaper Collection at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin and found no extant paper for that time frame in Waco. You may want to check the San Antonio papers, however, that might be stretching it. A murder in San Saba would not be likely to be considered news. It would depend on whether they needed to fill space. Bertram had a very active newspaper at one time. The microfilm can be purchased from the Briscoe Center or the library in Waco. (They make a duplicate copy for you.) This might be helpful if you had family stay in the area in later years. My suggestion is to use your local Family History Center and look at the court records that have been filmed for Burnet County. If the murder took place in San Saba, then only a probate would exist and even that is a low probability without landownership. Checking the San Saba, and then Burnet County, court records for criminal charges may be helpful. However, San Saba court records were not filmed. They are publicly accessible if you can go there or have someone else go in your stead. The FHL microfilm for the Burnet County court case papers, boxes A-L, 1854-1861 is 1671779, item 2. The probate records in Burnet for 1854-1876 are on FHL 978761. A reasonably exhaustive search would include the court and probate records of both counties. Try to remember that oral history gets muddled as it is passed down. There is normally some truth in all oral tradition, the trick is to pan for it and be patient. It is possible that you are in the correct area, but the wrong county. Do you have evidence besides oral history that indicates your counties are correct? If not, please consider looking at surrounding counties for evidence of the family I hope this is helpful. Good luck in your search. Rondina _______________________ Rondina P. Muncy Ancestral Analysis 4008 Linden Avenue Fort Worth, Texas 76107 682.224.6584 rondina.muncy@gmail.com www.ancestralanalysis.com On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:28 PM, gc-gateway@rootsweb.com < gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: wmbadenpwl > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.texas.counties.burnet/2781.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Janet: Very thoughtful answer, and thank you. My understanding is the > family lived in Burnet, which in 1855 would still have been called > Hamilton. I learned about the event from my late uncle, who heard about it > from his own grandfather, Champion Travis Traylor, the son of the deceased. > I got the actual date from another relative who is a genealogist and have > seen the date in Internet genealogies as well. > The murder was apparently unsolved as it was blamed on Comanches -- or on > ruffians who tried to make it look like a Comanche act. I have checked the > Austin papers for this through the Texas history portal, but found no > mention. > Will check the San Saba list too. > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you > would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link > above and respond on the board. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXBURNET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >