This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Newton, Jones, Crutchfield Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZkB.2ACI/10.478.1.2 Message Board Post: Feel the Newtons were close to these people. I looked up the newspaper article about Martha Alice West Floyd and see the date was March 24 that the news came to the DMN from Abilene. Can you confirm that it was 1945 as that is the time period it is in the scrapbook? For the Crutchfield connection. Just located the picture of Thomas Crutchfield that was made in Nashville, TN. A relative has identified him as Uncle Tom Crutchfield and that he died 3/29/1886. Believe I told you he was married to Amanda Elmire King, sister to my great, great grandmother. Our historian in the Jones family wrote this many, many years ago about Thomas Crutchfield. Thomas Crutchfield was descended from a Virginia family who was originally from Scotland. He was a man of fine ability, in addition to his other business interests . He for years managed with marked success the noted Crutchfield House at Chattanooga, Tenn. Anticipating war's devastation and embarrassments, he in 1860 sold the hotel and purchased a farm of about 2000 acres which he named Amnicola, located on the forks of the Chickamauga Creek and Tennessee River near Chattanooga, Tenn. He proved himself one of the most advanced and successful farmers and stock raisers of the state and was appointed a member of the State Board of Agricultural Commissioners. He was a frequent and valued contributer to the agricultulral periodicals, and with all took an influential role, though not a prominent part in state and national politics. His information was extensive and he was a fine conversationalist, a kindhearted genial man at home with every class of people and was universa! lly esteemed by very many people. Thomas Crutchfield died March 29, 1886, and Amanda E. King Crutchfield died Dec 21. 1891. There is more on their desc. if you are interested. Some of it is confusing as it reads and I would need to sort it out on a chart. Does this still seem to have a connection to the Dallas line? Natalie