Last Friday night, a week ago today, my wife and I attended a dinner party in Winnfield, Louisiana. There were about ten or eleven people at this dinner party and we knew no one. The hostess was the vice-president of the Winn Parish Genealogical and Historical Association. The guests were speakers at a workshop held on Saturday. My wife, nee Winona Moorhead, sat next to a stranger named Houston Tracey, Jr. from Alexandria, Louisiana. Somehow, as always, the subject of "where did your family come from" came into the conversation and my wife said, "Coryell County, Texas". Houston Tracey, Jr. said his great great grandfather, one Pat Gallagher, had lived in Coryell County about the time of The War to Stop Northern Aggression. Houston told a story about his great great grandfather being in an Indian fight over some stolen horses. I recognized that story as the same one I had heard about my wife's great grand- father during his days in Coryell County. Sure enough, I found the story in print in the book, Indian Depredations in Texas by Wilbarger. There were four men engaged in this running gun fight with a band of Indians who had stolen 36 horses. The horses were recovered and no one of the Texians were injured. Now what are the odds on two descendants meeting by chance 135 years after those four men were engaged in a fight with Indians. ?A million to one? Wilkie Wilkinson, husband of Winona (Moorhead) Wilkinson