Good idea Carol; I have grandparents, William P. and Heleon(Garner) MITCHELL lived on a farm on Ovilla route near Midlothian/Waxahachie. Their daughter Effie Cordell Mitchell was my Mother. My great grandparents, Robert P and Laura (Anderson) MITCHELL lived immediately East (I believe that's what I was told) of my grandparents. They came to Ellis County around 1875. They, and other family members are buried at Shiloh Cemetery. To the immediate West of Grandpa Will Mitchell lived my Father's uncle, Wallace (Wallis) and Fannie HAYES. When my father visited Uncle Wallace from Fisher County, he and my Mother met. My grand father , Oscar Henry HAYES, and great grandfather, John Wesley HAYES, has Ellis County roots. Many members of the HAYES family are buried at Midlothian Cemetery. I still have relatives that live in the area, but don't know most of them well. I know their names, they know mine ( or my Mother's). Most do not share my obsession with genealogy, so I am seeking information through other channels. MITCHELL names include (2 generations) James(?), Grover, Dewitt, Hattie*, Carrie*, Mary(called Babe)* (* all married LAVENDAR brothers) Maggie (married Albert THOMPSON); Bertha (m1 Bliss Cavendar, m2 Charlie Bailey), Jesse, Bob, Herman. HAYES names Lillie Etta, Molly, Dona, Fred, Edgar, Fay, Ira, Glad to share any information I have. ----- Original Message ----- From: Carol Couch <ccouch@ancestry.com> To: <TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:29 PM Subject: [TXELLIS] E mail > I have really been interested in all of the activity on this list lately. I would like to offer a challenge that has benefited others in the past. Why not take a few minutes to tell what family you are researching in Ellis County. If everyone on the list would take a few minutes and do this, I think that many of us would find others researching the same lines. My family ties to Ellis county are through John Meredith Couch who died in Italy, Texas 06/14/1900. He was a coowner of the Couch Bros. & Hamlett store in Italy. I hear the building still stands. > I also am related to the George Washington Underwood line. he died in Waxahachie, Texas 07/16/1956. If you are researching either of these lines I would like to hear from you. Now everyone else, who are you researching? > > Carol Couch > > > Get Your Free E-mail at Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com) > Ancestry.com -- For all your Family Correspondence! >

I need off this list how do I do that thanks all Marcia Cussins wrote: > > re: Tom Mote message: > I'm new to the Ellis County list - and lists in general- but isn't why we > selected the option of getting every message rather than the digest, so that > no opportunity was missed? I don't have anyone in Milford, but it happens > that a non-subscribing fellow internet researcher is interested in Milford > and I've been able to pass info on. Please folks, keep hitting the "reply > all" button unless your communication is really "private". I don't want to > miss anything that I didn't know I needed until I saw it posted. And if I > don't want it - I'm really good with the delete key! Thanks. > > Marcia > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom Mote <cstom@texas.net> > To: <TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:23 PM > Subject: Re: [TXELLIS] Milford, Texas > > > I have just finished deleting a couple of dozen TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com > > responses from folks who have requested Milford info. I suspect that in > almost > > > > every instance the business could, and should, have been conducted by > sending > > a private response message to the other individual rather than sending a > public > > > > message to all members of the list. I recognize that I am just as guilty > of > > this > > error as are those whose messages filled my incoming mail box. Therefore, > > in the future, I will try to remember to click on the email address of the > > person > > for whom my message is intended. > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > >

My ties to Ellis county are with my gg grandmother who family folklore indicates died in Ennis TX in 1920. Her name was Emma? or Emaline? or possibly Telitha E. Kennedy (possibly maiden name Sargent). She was b. Yates City, Knox Co. IL in 1848. Married Robert J. Kennedy and in 1870 they were in Elba Twnsp, IL. They moved to Kansas City, MO. (possibly Shelby Co. MO first) where Robert died in 1894. They had 3 children -- George Elmer -- b. 1873, Nettie or Nellie b. 1875, and Martha R (Rosia or Rose) b. 1877 all b. in Yates City, IL. I do not have any marriage dates for the daughters but believe that Nettie (Nellie) may have married a Nylen? I think that Emma might have gone to Ennis to be with siblings or children. She may also have remarried? Patti gsellenr@cyberhighway.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Couch" <ccouch@ancestry.com> To: <TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:29 PM Subject: [TXELLIS] E mail > I have really been interested in all of the activity on this list lately. I would like to offer a challenge that has benefited others in the past. Why not take a few minutes to tell what family you are researching in Ellis County. If everyone on the list would take a few minutes and do this, I think that many of us would find others researching the same lines. My family ties to Ellis county are through John Meredith Couch who died in Italy, Texas 06/14/1900. He was a coowner of the Couch Bros. & Hamlett store in Italy. I hear the building still stands. > I also am related to the George Washington Underwood line. he died in Waxahachie, Texas 07/16/1956. If you are researching either of these lines I would like to hear from you. Now everyone else, who are you researching? > > Carol Couch > > > Get Your Free E-mail at Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com) > Ancestry.com -- For all your Family Correspondence! > >

Thanks Janice , Good info. Especially for us new users. Marcia ----- Original Message ----- From: Janice Mauldin Castleman <castle96@flash.net> To: <TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [TXELLIS] Re: E mail > If you haven't searched ROOTS-L archives - it's a wonderful tool. Use this > URL: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > and enter (using all upper-case letters) TXELLIS. Once there, just put in a > word that will bring up your interest; i.e. - Ennis or Waxahachie or Jones > or whatever. This search engine can be used for all the mailing lists run > by ROOTS-L. If you want to check any county in Texas, just enter TXKAUFMA > for example. It's always the state first, then six letters of the county > name. But wait <grin> there's more. Use this search engine for surnames > too, or special interest lists. If in doubt, go to the main ROOTS-L webpage > and see what all they can do for you. > > You people who do volunteer work for these lists are top-notch folks! > > > Thanks, > Janice Mauldin Castleman > >

I have really been interested in all of the activity on this list lately. I would like to offer a challenge that has benefited others in the past. Why not take a few minutes to tell what family you are researching in Ellis County. If everyone on the list would take a few minutes and do this, I think that many of us would find others researching the same lines. My family ties to Ellis county are through John Meredith Couch who died in Italy, Texas 06/14/1900. He was a coowner of the Couch Bros. & Hamlett store in Italy. I hear the building still stands. I also am related to the George Washington Underwood line. he died in Waxahachie, Texas 07/16/1956. If you are researching either of these lines I would like to hear from you. Now everyone else, who are you researching? Carol Couch Get Your Free E-mail at Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com) Ancestry.com -- For all your Family Correspondence!

Hello All, None of this information posted recently has benefited me in the least. However, I just delete what doesn't pertain to me. I would like to remind everyone that what you post is kept in the ROOTS-L archives. So a year from now or whenever, if someone checks those archived messages and finds something that was posted to this list that helps them with solving their family mysteries - isn't that what it's all about? Please keep posting all this wonderful information - you never know when it will help someone else. If all this valuable data is sent only to the person who inquired about it - that data will not be posted into the archives to help future researchers. If you haven't searched ROOTS-L archives - it's a wonderful tool. Use this URL: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and enter (using all upper-case letters) TXELLIS. Once there, just put in a word that will bring up your interest; i.e. - Ennis or Waxahachie or Jones or whatever. This search engine can be used for all the mailing lists run by ROOTS-L. If you want to check any county in Texas, just enter TXKAUFMA for example. It's always the state first, then six letters of the county name. But wait <grin> there's more. Use this search engine for surnames too, or special interest lists. If in doubt, go to the main ROOTS-L webpage and see what all they can do for you. You people who do volunteer work for these lists are top-notch folks! Thanks, Janice Mauldin Castleman

Susie, Did you get my request for a lookup of MCKAY, RITCHEY, and DOBBS? Thanks, Helen

Oneta: These are instructions copied from my subscription confirmation. 1. How to unsubscribe. Send a message to TXELLIS-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe ----- Original Message ----- From: oneta henry <mun03518@nortexinfo.net> To: <TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.comt> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [TXELLIS] Milford, Texas > I need off this list how do I do that > thanks all > > Marcia Cussins wrote: > > > > re: Tom Mote message: > > I'm new to the Ellis County list - and lists in general- but isn't why we > > selected the option of getting every message rather than the digest, so that > > no opportunity was missed? I don't have anyone in Milford, but it happens > > that a non-subscribing fellow internet researcher is interested in Milford > > and I've been able to pass info on. Please folks, keep hitting the "reply > > all" button unless your communication is really "private". I don't want to > > miss anything that I didn't know I needed until I saw it posted. And if I > > don't want it - I'm really good with the delete key! Thanks. > > > > Marcia > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Tom Mote <cstom@texas.net> > > To: <TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:23 PM > > Subject: Re: [TXELLIS] Milford, Texas > > > > > I have just finished deleting a couple of dozen TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com > > > responses from folks who have requested Milford info. I suspect that in > > almost > > > > > > every instance the business could, and should, have been conducted by > > sending > > > a private response message to the other individual rather than sending a > > public > > > > > > message to all members of the list. I recognize that I am just as guilty > > of > > > this > > > error as are those whose messages filled my incoming mail box. Therefore, > > > in the future, I will try to remember to click on the email address of the > > > person > > > for whom my message is intended. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Tom > > > >

Hello list: I'm Peggy Brannon from Mesquite,Tx. My main focus for Ellis Co. ancestors is the GEASLIN line; some of the others associated with the GEASLINS are FARRAR, PACE, EPPS, REAVIS, MOXLEY, WICKLIFFE, WELCH and on and on. Would welcome sharing information. peggybrannon@hotmail.com ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

No McClains listed in Milford Cem. Book. Any other names? Susie

re: Tom Mote message: I'm new to the Ellis County list - and lists in general- but isn't why we selected the option of getting every message rather than the digest, so that no opportunity was missed? I don't have anyone in Milford, but it happens that a non-subscribing fellow internet researcher is interested in Milford and I've been able to pass info on. Please folks, keep hitting the "reply all" button unless your communication is really "private". I don't want to miss anything that I didn't know I needed until I saw it posted. And if I don't want it - I'm really good with the delete key! Thanks. Marcia ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Mote <cstom@texas.net> To: <TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [TXELLIS] Milford, Texas > I have just finished deleting a couple of dozen TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com > responses from folks who have requested Milford info. I suspect that in almost > > every instance the business could, and should, have been conducted by sending > a private response message to the other individual rather than sending a public > > message to all members of the list. I recognize that I am just as guilty of > this > error as are those whose messages filled my incoming mail box. Therefore, > in the future, I will try to remember to click on the email address of the > person > for whom my message is intended. > > Thanks, > Tom >

Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:20:23 -0500 From: David & Kathy Tidwell <dkmct@ectisp.net> Subject: [TXELLIS] Surnames To: TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com Reply-to: TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com My husband's family were early settlers of Ellis County Texas. Some of the surnames I'm researching in Ellis County are - (husband's family) IRWIN, STEWART, TUCKER, MOORE, BIGHAM, EDMONDSON, TIDWELL, RINEHART, PETTY, MORROW, CARROLL and HEINE. My family has been in Ellis County since the 1880's. A few surnames are - HUNSUCKER, SUTTON, ADAY, CLAY, HILL, CRAIG and POWERS. Kathryn Tidwell Waxahachie, Texas In the "Milford, Texas" book I found a Bundy Moore who was a barber in Milford and a Zela Bigham who had a cafe in Milford in the early days.

From: "Lesley" <lprey@rochester.rr.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:37:21 -0400 Subject: [TXELLIS] Milford Cemetery Lookup To: TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com Reply-to: TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com Is there any Barnett's or Brumley's listed in Milford? Thanks Lesley Baird Prey lprey@rochester.rr.com (originally from Cleburne, Texas) now in Batavia, New York. Lesley's Family Tree http://www.angelfire.com/ny/LesleysWorld/index.html Census, Marriage, Birth, Death,Church, Military, and Cemetery Records from Texas, Mississippi, and South Carolina and much more. Come take a look!!! Not in the Milford book

Hello Carol, thank you very much for checking on my Edmondson, McCrory and Barnett's. Pat McCrory

My great grandmother was Mollie Butcher. She married Jessie Baltis Hinkle. My grandmother Maggie Hinkle married my grandfather William Paris Briley in Ellis County. The Briley's were on there way to Grayson County after the civil war. They left White Oak, Tennessee (Perry County) and stopped in Waxhachie for how long I am not sure. I am interested in the Butcher line, Hinkle and Briley. I am Carol Brily Gust

I have just finished deleting a couple of dozen TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com responses from folks who have requested Milford info. I suspect that in almost every instance the business could, and should, have been conducted by sending a private response message to the other individual rather than sending a public message to all members of the list. I recognize that I am just as guilty of this error as are those whose messages filled my incoming mail box. Therefore, in the future, I will try to remember to click on the email address of the person for whom my message is intended. Thanks, Tom

Hello listers, My ties to Ellis County are in Waxahachie and Mc Kinney through my grandparents and great grandparents. My great grandfather, Peter T. CRISLER, I have not been able to find his birth/death date. He was married first to a Laura J. (do not know her last name) March 05, 1853, - February 11, 1890. They had two (?) children, Jimmie H. CRISLER, August 02, 1883, - February 03, 1890, and CRISLER, July 09, 1877, - January 21, 1886. All the dates are from their tombstones in the Waxahachie City Cemetery. Peter T. CRISLER married (second) my great grandmother, Laura Sophia NYCUM KENNEDY, Abt. 1864 - Abt. 1944. They had two children, Walter CRISLER and Vera Mae CRISLER. Vera Mae CRISLER, Abt. 1893 - December 28, 1980, married Bolivar TIDWELL, December 09, 1887 - September 1963. P. T. CRISLER was a grocer in Waxahachie and Bolivar TIDWELL was a jeweler and optometrist. Any information on these people would be greatly appreciated as I am not having much luck! Rhanks so much, Denise

I am researching the Smithwick, Sims, and recently the Car Forrest family. My Grandfather was born in Milford (probably on a farm) later moved to Forreston where he grew up. After his marriage to Minnie Walker he moved briefly to San Saba County. Then to Sterrett where several of the children grew up. Later they moved back to Forreston where they lived until their deaths. His in the 1970s, and hers in 1994. I don't have much information on the Sims, but my grandmother had a niece that was a Sims. Car Forrest married a Virginia Sims. Forrest keeps showing up in many of the reference materials that I have read so I am wanting to know more about this gentleman, who founded the little town given his name, "Forreston". Let me hear from you if you have info on these families or the Forreston community. Carol Vincell

Hi Pat, My husbands family was Elias Harrison Clemons(Clements) born abt. 1852 in LA went to East Texas them on to Dallas and maybe Ellis Co. by 1882. He had a sister Joanne McCarver, and maybe two more brothers Augustus and ?. They were orphaned while young and lived with a family that ended up changing the spelling to Clements I've been told.) Do these sound familiar to you? Robin In a message dated 4/26/00 8:41:17 AM Central Daylight Time, pkimathi@earthlink.net writes: << To: TXELLIS-L@rootsweb.com Hi, Thank you so much. My family names are John Clemons (Clements) married to Mattie Zollicoffer. Her father was William Zollicoffer. on the other side Thomas DeKalb Beaty and wife Ada Hines Beaty. Her father was R. Hiram Hines Any information on the Hines, Zollicoffers, Beatys and Clemons would be appreciated. Is there any way I can purchase the book. And again thank you. Pat Kimathi --- >>

Thanks I appreciate the help. Rob Richardson ----- Original Message ----- From: Glenn & Susie Toal <glensuzy@airmail.net> To: <> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 10:36 PM Subject: [TXELLIS] Milford > I have an ECGS Volume IV which has Milford cemetery in it. It was done in > 1984. I will look up a name or date if it will help. > > One name I noticed on the "web" was Leary. > > There is only one listed: > > LEARY, Margerite Ellen 12 June 1853 / 16 Mar 1920 > > SANFORD, B. O. 26 Dec 1825 / 27 Feb 1899 > SANFORD, E.A. 20 June 1837 / 7 Nov 1907 > SANFORD, R.E. 4 Sept 1867 / March 1894 > > WHITENER, Frances C. 4 July 1855 / 5 Oct 1922 > WHITENER, R.I. 29 Sept 1852 / 11 Mar 1917 > > Perhaps this will be of some help in your research. > > Susie > > ______________________________