I am searching for any information concering the Hays people from around Baird and the Smartt family from around Admiral. Please reply to jlddn@hal-pc.org. Thanks for your time, research, and efforts. Good Huntin'. Jimmy Pillow

I don't know what the Clyde Enterprise means. However, this must be very important!. Hopefully they will help all of us who are searching for information. I am still searching for information on my grandfather and my mother. My grandfather was Isaac J. Williams. My motheer was Effie Mae Williams and married my father in a little Chapel located in Cottonwood, Callahan Co., Texas. I have very little information on mt grandfather and my Mother. Respectfully, Jack Clay O'Dell Callahan County Library wrote: > The Callahan County Library in Baird has just received 30 years (Aug. 27, 1926 to July 27, 1956) of the Clyde Enterprise on microfilm. Hardin-Simmons had these papers and microfilmed them and offered a copy to the library--we were thrilled to get them! I haven't had a chance to look at them, just wanted to let ya'll know we have them. > Sonia

Hello, I realize that Moran is located in Shackelford County, but since I'm sure there are MHS graduates in Callahan County, I just wanted to ask if anyone knows anyone who graduated from Moran High School before 1950, and if so, do they own yearbooks? I'm working on a webpage for the school and the alumni and I'm trying to compile a list of seniors, faculty, administration, staff, school board, and Mr. & Miss MHS for each year. The school has very few yearbooks prior to 1950 and the museum in Moran doesn't have many either, so I've been trying to contact graduates out there who graduated before 1950. If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Duston Brooks

Sorry Leslie and list, the Clyde Enterprise was the Clyde newspaper from Nov. 15, 1912 to...I don't know when it cease to exist I do know that in 1963 Clyde had a newspaper named Clyde News. Sonia ---------- > I hate to sound so dumb but humor me--what is the Clyde Enterprise? Your > answer will be appreciated and after I have your answer maybe I can give a > big cheer with you. Thanks, Leslie Jenkins ÿ

The Callahan County Library in Baird has just received 30 years (Aug. 27, 1926 to July 27, 1956) of the Clyde Enterprise on microfilm. Hardin-Simmons had these papers and microfilmed them and offered a copy to the library--we were thrilled to get them! I haven't had a chance to look at them, just wanted to let ya'll know we have them. Sonia

Hello list, I loved this exchange! I've been looking for years for information on early 1900's semipro baseball teams in the Erath, Hood, Eastland area .. with no luck. Revives my hope that someday I will run into information I'm seeking! My appreciation for sharing this with others. Sue in New Mexico KAYNLINN@aol.com wrote: > > Dear Callahan County List, > > Several people have sent messages wanting to know if I found out anything on > the basketball team. Yes, I received the following message from C. Lee Smith > through the help of Jo Ann Kendrick Robinson and I thank them so much for the > information. I read it to my father and he remembers all the team members > mentioned and it brought back lots of fond memories. > ...<snip> ...

Hello Again, Here's an update on the Eula basketball team. Would others with any info please post it? If you wish, send it to me and I'll post it for you! Thanks, Brit Ferguson >My father contacted a friend and we got the following answer: > >My name is C. Lee Smith. My Grandfather F. L. Smith operated the Eula Store >from 1911 to 1947. My father G. M. "Till" Smith graduated from Eula High >School, Callahan County, in 1928 and along with several other friends from >Eula High School played basketball around the area. Their trophies were >displayed for many years in my grandfathers store. According to my father >some of those players were: >Shorty Nance, Hubert Farmer, Duke Mackintosh, Vance Stephenson, Hilton >Edwards, and my father Till Smith. The Coach of this band of Eagles was Rush >Harrison. My father has the idea that perhaps Shorty Nance could be your >father since he can account for the other team members. If you can confirm >this I would appreciate it. I hope that this answere your query. C. Lee >Smith, Clyde, Tx > >It turned out that Shorty Nance was the writer's father. > > - Jo Ann Kendrick Robinson (PS) Sorry I forgot ... the name of the team was the Eagle Cove Eagles.

Hello List, My Uncle, Jack Ferguson, also attended Eula High School in the early 1940s before joining the Navy during WW2. He didn't remember a semi-pro team but did some checking for me. The following is from William Brock: > I was talking to R. Lee Webb today and asked him about the Eula >Professional Basketball team. > > He thought about it awhile, and then said he believed he had heard >something about it. He said he believed that Littleton Philips was one of >them, and then he thought Hoss Stephenson was one. He said he was to young >for them. He later said that it seemed like Eck Farr might have played some >for them. > > Hope this helps you. > > Brock > This was a most interesting message. Please let me know if you find out anything else about the team. Best regards, Brit Ferguson (great grandson of William Britton "Will" Ferguson, the first postmaster of Eula) -----Original Message----- From: KAYNLINN@aol.com <KAYNLINN@aol.com> To: TXCALLAH-L@rootsweb.com <TXCALLAH-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 7:16 PM Subject: Callahan County Basketball Team >Hi Callahan County, TX list! > >My father graduated from Eula High School, Callahan Co., TX, in 1930. Right >after high school he played semi-pro basketball somewhere right around there, >but he is now 86 years old and cannot remember the name of the team. Does >anyone have any information about a semi-pro basketball team that was in the >area in the 1930's? > >I would appreciate any help on this matter. > >Kay Linn >

Dear Callahan County List, Several people have sent messages wanting to know if I found out anything on the basketball team. Yes, I received the following message from C. Lee Smith through the help of Jo Ann Kendrick Robinson and I thank them so much for the information. I read it to my father and he remembers all the team members mentioned and it brought back lots of fond memories. " My name is C. Lee Smith. My Grandfather F. L. Smith operated the Eula Store from 1911 to 1947. My father G. M. "Till" Smith graduated from Eula High School, Callahan County, in 1928 and along with several other friends from Eula High School played basketball around the area. Their trophies wee displayed for many years in my grandfathers store. According to my father some of those players were: Shorty Nance, Hubert Farmer, Duke Mackintosh, Vance Stephenson, Hilton Edwards, and my father, Till Smith. The Coach of this band of Eagles was Rush Harrision. My father has the idea that perhaps Shorty Nance could be your father since he can account for the other team members. If you can confirm this I would appreciate it. I hope that this answers your query. C. Lee Smith, Clyde, TX." William Ernest (Shorty) Nance is my father and he got the name "Shorty" while playing on this team and is still called that today, at the age of 86. If anyone has any stories about this team, I would love to hear from you. Also, I am looking for any information on the "Enterprise" school which he attended in his younger years before entering Eula High School. From what I understand, this was a school established for all the farm kids in the area. Would love to know more about it. Thanks, Kay Nance Linn Midland, TX kaynlinn@aol.com

Hi Callahan County, TX list! My father graduated from Eula High School, Callahan Co., TX, in 1930. Right after high school he played semi-pro basketball somewhere right around there, but he is now 86 years old and cannot remember the name of the team. Does anyone have any information about a semi-pro basketball team that was in the area in the 1930's? I would appreciate any help on this matter. Kay Linn

Some time ago I lost almost all of my web page site locations. I especially need to know the sites for Brown County and Taylor County. Will someone please give me the address for these sites in order that I may resubscribe. Thank you, Ross Stuard ross-@worldnet.att.net

Hello Sonia, This is Jamie Buckner, Anchorage, Alaska. I have not sent you a request recently but saw your note regarding your computer crash. I am delighted to see that you are a resource for this rootsweb site! You are such a great resource, I am pleased to see that you are a contact for this list! Jamie

My e-mail has crashed and I have lost all my e-mail messages. if you have ask me to do a lookup and I have not replied please send it again. Sonia Callahan County Library callahancl@bitstreet.com

Hello everyone! I am a new member - let me introduce myself and my ancestors. I am Nancy Cason, and live in Garland, Texas. My Callahan County ancestors are John and Nancy Carlile, my great-great grandparents. They moved to Callahan County in the late 1870's, when they got a land grant. They lived in Belle Plain and later in Baird. I understand there has been a book written on Belle Plain: Belle Plain, Texas: ghost town in Callahan, by Thomas Robert Havins. Does anyone know if there are still copies available, and if so, where? Would love to hear from other Carliles. Also, Nancy Carlile's son by a former marriage, Mark Lucas Jones, was in Callahan County for about 10 years in the 1870's-1880's. He was my great-grandfather. His daughter (my grandmother), Nancy Florence Jones, was born in Baird in 1885. Any Joneses connect? Thanks, Nancy

To All Whom It May Concern: The purpose of this message is to inform all genealogists & researchers who subscribe to TEXAS Rootsweb Lists, of a very important web site that now has a searchable database of over 1,650 U.S. Regular Army soldiers who once served at the short-lived Buffalo Barracks, between 1835 and 1846. Many of these soldiers had fought in the Indian Wars in Florida and also the War with Mexican, and then the Civil War. It is without doubt that some of the descendants of these men are most likely in every county of the great state of Texas. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT: The 1840 Census of Buffalo, NY lists Colonel James M. Bankhead, of Virginia, and a total 'quantity' of 671 individuals, ranging in age from 1 to 60, as being under his command and/or responsibility. Unfortunately, the census does not list each of these barracks residents by name....only by 'quantity.' (ie. 426 males 20-30 yrs, or 34 females 20-30 yrs) HOWEVER, The Buffalo Barracks Historical Web Site has turned most of the 'quantities' into actual names. The list of these officers and soldiers (and some of their wifes and dependants...see the Barracks Notebook section) are available, free of any charge. The URL for this outstanding web site is: [ http://www.buffalonet.org/army ] There, you will discover the "Descriptive & Historical Register Data of Enlisted Soldiers in the U.S. Army," for those who served at this federal military post on the Niagara Frontier. Also available is a wealth of rare and interesting information pertaining to the Buffalo Barracks and it's unique historic value. I encourage everyone to take the time to visit this site. Perhaps you have an ancestor who once served there? Enjoy your visit, Cliff Williams 104740.372@compuserve.com buffalobarracks@hotbot.com

I am french. I have recently learned that I am Franco-American. My name is Claude Richard and I live in the southern part of France. The circumstances surrounding my birth were concealed from me until recently. My father is Richard Gray and this is what I know about him:        1. He was in Oran, Algeria, during few months until end November, 1943 .        2. He may well have been in the US Army. His provisional camp was not near the harbor or the airport.        3. He was almost 6 feet, with light brown hair, and blue eyes.        4. His military base was situated southeast of Oran, between the Choupot area and the Cuvelier area (near Cite Petit). A road separated the base from a big Algerian market hall.        5. His dress uniform was a khaki jacket made of silky cloth. He had a cap and wore high shoes and gaiters. 6. My father was an "MP" (military police).        7. His friends called him Dick and he had a friend called Mike.        8. He apparently came back to the States, it seems before the end of the war. 9. He was in Oran until around 15 November - beginning December 1943. He came back in Oran : he had a few days'leave at the end of December 1943. Last day I saw my uncle (my mother's brother) and he has remembered that, in Oran at that time, rolling stock (jeep, truck, motor-driven, etc..except tank or plane) were unloaded in Oran (Oran harbor or Mers El Kebir harbor) then conveyed to the camp where was my father in Oran. This rolling stock were conveyed (by boat) from US in separate pieces. In this camp, there was a very large shed (named Les Halles) where american soldiers and french men re-assembled rolling stock. In my uncle's opinion, they were around 4.000 - 5.000 soldiers in this camp. My father was MP in this camp. I have tried to find my father without success. The results of my research are condensed below. In the fall of 1943, an American soldier named Richard Gray, between 19 and 23, was based at Oran in Algeria. There he met a young woman, my mother Lucienne Martin, 17 years old. They became very fond of each other and planned to be married. Richard received wedding dress photos from his sister who lived in the U.S. At the end of 1943 (end november or beginning december) Richard Gray was transfered to another, unknown to me, place to continue the war. He should have been informed by mail of my birth, probably in September, 1944. This story might be common place, but some troubling, complicating events intervened in this love story. Richard wrote often to my mother during the war and after he returned to the US. He said that he wanted to marry her; he expressed it in his letters. Unfortunately, my grandmother intercepted and destroyed all of his letters. She did not want this marriage to take place - it would mean that her daughter and grandson would move to the USA. I recently learned in March, 1998, from my mother the circumstances surrounding my birth. During this 54 year period, my mother thought she had been deserted, in a cowardly manner, by her fiance . To be deserted pregnant at a tender age was very difficult. I made several inquiries in my family in 1998 and I began to learn several things from an aunt. Before her death in 1977, my grandmother confided to my aunt that she had destroyed all correspondence between them as well as a few papers belonging to my mother. While she never knew Richard Gray, the account of my aunt was a good one and all of her explanations were later verified. In September, 1998 I finally learned the truth to my mother (the destroying of letters). The burdening facts that she was a deserted woman and an unmarried mother were out and, at that time, she told me my father's name. The passing years and the efforts to forget have resulted in fading memories. I have created this site, attempting to look for my father. Here I have placed a photo of my mother at that time. I have written lot of emails to Gray Families who have adress email on the web. I continue to use all the opportunities of the internet in my search. The surname Gray is a very common one in the US. If Richard Gray can be located, if he wishes, he will be able to contact me. I only want to know if he is alive, any details of my American family, and if he has been informed of my search. It's VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW the name of his Army. Is there a veteran who was in Oran during the WWW II and would answer me ? Please excuse me for any improprieties. I would like very much to find him still living If you have no knowledge of my father, if you could forward this request to veterans , and ask them to do the same, Thank you very much for all your help. Yours sincerely, Mr. Claude Richard PAEZ Allee du Vent d'Est - Les Vautes N° 7 83320 - Carqueiranne - FRANCE phone : +33 4 94 58 75 09 My Story site : http://aa-ienet.com/RICHARD.htm e-mail : marie-francoise.vincent-paez@wanadoo.fr ******************************************************* Thank you your help. WHAT I HAVE MADE I subscribe to lot of veterans web site, missing persons, forums, genealogics sites, all sites Army, news, shows, etc .. I or lot of people have inserted my letter to all sites. Without my father birth date, it's difficult to write from the all families who have an Richard Gray dead. I don't have more informations about my father. COULD YOU HELP ME ? Only : I ask you to forward my letter to people you know, and ask them to do the same, it is possible that this message will eventually reach some one with knowledge of my father I have tried all the solutions, it is the last attempt to find my father or my Gray family ***************************************************************

Hey all I just finished another Census for 1850 Collin Co. Texas. For those who haven't visited yet. I also have the 1850 Anderson, Ellis and Kaufman Co Census for Texas there and the 1850 Sunflower Co. Mississippi Census. Marriage, Death, Births and Cemeteries for Johnson Co. Texas. I have also started the FITZGERALD mailing list for those interested. http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html "Let's keep Genealogy free on the Internet" Lesley lesley@eznet.net Batavia, New York (NEW) Mail List FITZGERALD-L@rootsweb.com http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html Lesley's Family Tree: census's, births, deaths, marriages, cemetery's,churches, and seven surname pages( Adams, Baird, Barnett, Fitzgerald, Lang , Lassiter Stone and more)

Hello everyone, I have just finished the 1850 Anderson Co. Texas Census and it is on my web page. Take a look and let me know what you think. For all those just getting back from the holidays I have also put on the 1850 Ellis and Kaufman Co census for Texas and the 1850 Sunflower Co. Mississippi on as well. Happy Hunting.... http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html Go to the bottom of the page and click on which link you want. "Let keep Genealogy free on the Internet" Lesley lesley@eznet.net Batavia, New York http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html Lesley's Family Tree: census's, births, deaths, marriages, cemetery's,churches, and seven surname pages( Adams, Baird, Barnett, Fitzgerald, Lang , Lassiter Stone and more)

Hey all, I have finished another census for all to share. It is the 1850 Sunflower CO. Census for Mississippi. Take a peak there may be someone there for you. For all those just getting back from the holidays, I also recently put up Ellis CO. Texas and Kaufman CO. Texas Census's for 1850 as well. http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html Take Care and Happy Holidays Lesley lesley@eznet.net New York http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html Lesley's Family Tree: census's, births, deaths, marriages, cemetery's, churches, seven surname pages and more to come.

Hey Everyone, I have just finished the Kaufman CO. Texas Census for 1850 if you would like to take a look. Merry Christmas All. http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html Go to bottom and click on Kaufman CO. Census. Take Care and Happy Holidays. Lesley lesley@eznet.net " My intentions are always good, it's my actions that need lessons" Lesley's Family Tree http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html