The story piece this week will be that by Alice Callaway Moore of San Antonio and will be of "Lettie Haile Fox 1831-1931" who lived in the Purves vicinity and is buried at Turnbow Cemetery. Lettie Fox was Alice's great-grandmother. One sidebar of the story is whereby she shot and killed two Indians about 1877 as the Indians attempted to steal two saddle ponies. Surnames in the piece include Brown, Gilbreath, Hancock, Richards, Saddler, Deisher, Turney, Turnbow, Moore, Hilley, Roberts and Craig. Alice Callaway Moore has served as the president of the Turnbow Cemetery Association for many years and has published a book on "The Families of Turnbow Cemetery". She may be contacted at xmasmom@juno.com if anyone has any comments on the story piece. It should be on the website and available for viewing sometime Sunday. A picture of Lettie Moore, ca. 1880, will also be on the website. http://members.tripod.com/cindyradway/Erath/erath.html Bill McCarty Odessa, Texas

I know what you mean! It's happening here where I live. What used to be a quiet little country town, is now booming into a large country town. I'm afraid by the time my children grow up, there may be nothing left of this country town. My parents moved to the 'woods' about 13 years ago, to get away from it all. Now, they are developing that! :-) Is there no refuge for us who don't like the cities? Tonya Aultman-Harris mtharris@ev1.net Researching: Aultman (AR, TX, MS),Cox (TX, OK), Parker (LA, TX), Peyton (MS) ----- Original Message ----- From: Julia Brewer <juliab@flash.net> To: <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 6:28 AM Subject: [ERATH] Re: Changes in Stephenville > Well, let me add another 2 cents. It's happening all over Texas. > People are > moving to Texas in droves. They think they will live like kings in huge > houses > on tiny lots. All the beautiful countrysides of Texas are being leveled > for > chain stores and gaudy houses. I am in Weatherford and can see see the > boom > looming over us. Soon we will be leveled like Southlake and Keller. > Old will > be replaced by poor taste. Out-of-staters will insist on air > conditioned > shopping 24 hours a day. They will bring their overindulged children > and rude > mannerisms with them. Alas... > Julia > Sheila Pool wrote: > > > Oh, Connie.....I wish I hadn't read that.....that is awful....I get to > > Stephenville so seldom yet there are some things you always remember as > > being there and that was one of them. > > > > There is a rock ranch house on the South side of the road between Dublin > > and Comanche, I think, that I always loved, too. > > > > Sheila > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: connie reed [SMTP:prater_connie@hotmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 9:56 PM > > To: TXERATH-L > > Subject: [ERATH] Changes in Stephenville > > > > >Penneys and the Majestic Theatre and old Earl Weathers first >hamburger > > >stand has been bulldozed and was replaced by a Gren belt. > > > > I was shocked last year when they actually tore down the old "petrified > > wood" rock building that was the original store for Wolfe Nursey. I beleive > > it was actually the Wolfes' home when 1st built. I really thought the city > > would purchase it because of it's historic value. Now all that is left is > > the side road, named Wolfe Nursery Road. Not quite the same, now, going by > > that corner. > > Don't know what they did with the debris, but there was an article about it > > in the paper after it was torn down that said rock hounds would come from > > all over to look at the various types of fossils and rocks that made up the > > building, some were quite rare. I find it incredible in this day and age > > when it seems historic places are given more consideration than they once > > were that this wasnt saved. > > Connie > > Dublin > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > > -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved > > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > > -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved > > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > >

Well, let me add another 2 cents. It's happening all over Texas. People are moving to Texas in droves. They think they will live like kings in huge houses on tiny lots. All the beautiful countrysides of Texas are being leveled for chain stores and gaudy houses. I am in Weatherford and can see see the boom looming over us. Soon we will be leveled like Southlake and Keller. Old will be replaced by poor taste. Out-of-staters will insist on air conditioned shopping 24 hours a day. They will bring their overindulged children and rude mannerisms with them. Alas... Julia Sheila Pool wrote: > Oh, Connie.....I wish I hadn't read that.....that is awful....I get to > Stephenville so seldom yet there are some things you always remember as > being there and that was one of them. > > There is a rock ranch house on the South side of the road between Dublin > and Comanche, I think, that I always loved, too. > > Sheila > > -----Original Message----- > From: connie reed [SMTP:prater_connie@hotmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 9:56 PM > To: TXERATH-L > Subject: [ERATH] Changes in Stephenville > > >Penneys and the Majestic Theatre and old Earl Weathers first >hamburger > >stand has been bulldozed and was replaced by a Gren belt. > > I was shocked last year when they actually tore down the old "petrified > wood" rock building that was the original store for Wolfe Nursey. I beleive > it was actually the Wolfes' home when 1st built. I really thought the city > would purchase it because of it's historic value. Now all that is left is > the side road, named Wolfe Nursery Road. Not quite the same, now, going by > that corner. > Don't know what they did with the debris, but there was an article about it > in the paper after it was torn down that said rock hounds would come from > all over to look at the various types of fossils and rocks that made up the > building, some were quite rare. I find it incredible in this day and age > when it seems historic places are given more consideration than they once > were that this wasnt saved. > Connie > Dublin > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com

In a message dated 10/21/99 11:21:26 PM Central Daylight Time, juliab@flash.net writes: << Please tell me about your Pruitt line. My gg-grandmother was Sarah Susan Pruitt married to Alfred Cargill and they lived in Alexander. Her father was William V. Pruitt. Julia >> Thomas William PRUITT (1825-1912) was born in Oldham County, KY but was in KS at the time of the Civil War and served as bugler/musician in the Union army. He married Lavinia POTTS about 1859 probably in Bourbon Co., KS----divorced her in 1865. They were parents of two: Andrew and William (b. 1862) who was living in Johnson Co., TX in 1880. He is one that I don' t have a clear trail afterwards. T.W. PRUITT married 2nd to Margaret Elra "Maggie"NEWTON (1850-1938). She was brother to William Ray Newton, the father of 14, who lived at McGirk. Traditionally he gave his children three first names all of the same letter of the alphabet----thus N.N.N. Newton, O.O.O., J.J.J., E.E.E., I.I.I.---even the daughters Z.Z.Z. as in Zoie Zephry Zenoba "Zia" Newton, who married William Crawford. Thomas William Pruitt had nine children by the second wife: Thomas Franklin, Cashus F., Benjamin Newton, Lovie L., Louisa Elizabeth "Betty", John Isaac, Addie Bell, Maggie Elra, and Beulah Mae. Addie Bell Pruitt, married first John Elias McCarty, later divorced and married Elon Holley. Travis Holley of Hico is a son of 2nd marriage. Maggie Elra married John Davis and is GGM of my DIL. If your William was born in KS, then he is likely a son of Thomas William Pruitt. T.W. Pruitt's Union army pension application of 1898 lists nine children living but omits the 2 children by his first wife. Andrew, the oldest, is known to have been living in Frio County at the time. His wife, Alice Newton, was the younger sister of his step-mother, Maggie Newton. If you desire more, NEWTON or PRUITT info, let me know and we can exchange off list. Bill McCarty Odessa,Texas http://members.tripod.com/cindyradway/Erath/erath.html http://members.aol.com/texastag/mccarty.html

Bill, Please tell me about your Pruitt line. My gg-grandmother was Sarah Susan Pruitt married to Alfred Cargill and they lived in Alexander. Her father was William V. Pruitt. Julia Texasdog@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 10/21/99 9:32:16 PM Central Daylight Time, wyly1@juno.com > writes: > > << Also, Clyde Barrow's Uncle ran the Barrow- Rutledge Funeral Home in Hico, > Hamilton County and did a lot of business for the folk who used the Hico > Hospital. from Erath County. Thurber must have once had a Funeral home- > or did Ranger, Strawn, and Stephenville do theirs? >> > > Charles, > My DIL is a BARROW descendant....and I have doused this rumor. The > owner-operator of the funeral home was Grady Martel Barrow (1896-1949) > who was the youngest of eleven children of Jeremiah "Jerry" Barrow > (1849-1918) and Mary Jesstina (1857-1925) who came to Hico about 1894 from > Notasulga AL. There were four other Barrow brothers that came along > including David (1846-1922); Burrell or "Doc" (1854-1934); Jimmie > (1856-1901), and William (1861-1918). They had one sister, Virginia Barrow > Willis (1852-1909). All six of these are buried at Hico Cemetery. > Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie & Clyde fame, was born at Telico, near Ennis, > in Ellis County. Later he grew up on the streets of Dallas where his father > ran a gas filling station. > The Barrow family of Hico were a furniture business family. Archie > Barrow, Grady's older brother, (1877-1961) oversaw an operation that was > flung from Fort Worth to Lubbock to Odessa with stores in as many as ten > or 12 towns. Archie or A.B. resided in Abilene----never married----except > to the business. Grady Perry in his book "Grand Ol' Erath" talks about > a time that coffins and caskets were featured in the furniture stores before > about 1920 when the funeral homes were coming into prominence. So > it was somewhat natural to go from the furniture business into the funeral > home business, I suppose. That way the furniture chain had an outlet for > the caskets. > > In any case, Clyde Barrow used to stop into the Barrow Furniture store > as well as the funeral home at Hico when he was travelling about. He had > many "friendly" folks all about; the old Bath (railroad) Hotel at Llano sells > tee shirts with a posed picture of Clyde out front during his outlaw heyday. > I have dug his roots and they lead to LA and perhaps he was distantly kin > to the Barrow family of Hico-----but not anywhere close as in 1st or 2nd or > even 3rd cousins. But Clyde Barrow isn't a nephew to any of the Barrow > Hico-Clairette families. > > My DIL is a DAVIS and her Hico ancestors include PRUITT, BARROW, > HAINES, SANDERS, NEWTON lines of the Duffau and Hico area. The > PRUITT family was at Duffau and this family married into McCarty lines > so that my DIL and my son have some relatives that are cousins to each. > > Regards, > > Bill McCarty Odessa, Texas > > http://members.tripod.com/cindyradway/Erath/erath.html > http://members.aol.com/texastag/mccarty.html > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com

Are you serious? There really is a Chigger Hill Church? My mother was born in Carlton and raised close to Hico and I have heard her mention Chigger Hill Church bunches of times.....but I thought it was a joke.... -----Original Message----- From: Charles A. Wyly [SMTP:wyly1@juno.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 9:54 PM To: TXERATH-L Subject: Re: [ERATH] Funeral records or funeral homes Hi, one Crockett is buried in an iron fence in open pasture- a cedar tree covers the headstone .It is in a clump of cedars in front of the Pony Creek Church with 10 or 12 more- no longer maintained. Not sure if any Crocketts are in new Pony Creek Church but may be some in the private Beach- rumph cemetery with a rock fence, all 3 cemeteries are within a half mile of each other, but watch for rattlesnakes, especially in the unfenced one. The Crockett School was off the U.S. 67 across the Hwy from the Selden Farm to Market road. I think one Crockettor close kin to one may be buried in Selden Hatchett cemetery on Duffau Creek and some Crocketts with Missouri roots are buried in Indian Creek Cemetery behind the Pleasant Hill- Chigger Hill Church on Hico Highway. The old school there was moved to Selden- quiet a task for moving that far with horses. Take care, Charles Wyly ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== --- Author Retains Copyright --- -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com

Oh, Connie.....I wish I hadn't read that.....that is awful....I get to Stephenville so seldom yet there are some things you always remember as being there and that was one of them. There is a rock ranch house on the South side of the road between Dublin and Comanche, I think, that I always loved, too. Sheila -----Original Message----- From: connie reed [SMTP:prater_connie@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 9:56 PM To: TXERATH-L Subject: [ERATH] Changes in Stephenville >Penneys and the Majestic Theatre and old Earl Weathers first >hamburger >stand has been bulldozed and was replaced by a Gren belt. I was shocked last year when they actually tore down the old "petrified wood" rock building that was the original store for Wolfe Nursey. I beleive it was actually the Wolfes' home when 1st built. I really thought the city would purchase it because of it's historic value. Now all that is left is the side road, named Wolfe Nursery Road. Not quite the same, now, going by that corner. Don't know what they did with the debris, but there was an article about it in the paper after it was torn down that said rock hounds would come from all over to look at the various types of fossils and rocks that made up the building, some were quite rare. I find it incredible in this day and age when it seems historic places are given more consideration than they once were that this wasnt saved. Connie Dublin ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== --- Author Retains Copyright --- -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com

Hi, one Crockett is buried in an iron fence in open pasture- a cedar tree covers the headstone .It is in a clump of cedars in front of the Pony Creek Church with 10 or 12 more- no longer maintained. Not sure if any Crocketts are in new Pony Creek Church but may be some in the private Beach- rumph cemetery with a rock fence, all 3 cemeteries are within a half mile of each other, but watch for rattlesnakes, especially in the unfenced one. The Crockett School was off the U.S. 67 across the Hwy from the Selden Farm to Market road. I think one Crockettor close kin to one may be buried in Selden Hatchett cemetery on Duffau Creek and some Crocketts with Missouri roots are buried in Indian Creek Cemetery behind the Pleasant Hill- Chigger Hill Church on Hico Highway. The old school there was moved to Selden- quiet a task for moving that far with horses. Take care, Charles Wyly

Hi, I have info and 2 books and E mail which has info on John Crockett, a former Quantrell leader and old Tennessee Rifleman in the Civil War. I do not of his connection to the earlier Davy Crockett of Alamo fame, but Davey's wife is buried at Acton, hood County, across the Paluxy and Richardson Creek a few miles from where John Crockett lived at Pony Creek, now Three Way District. Another of Quantrill's raiders lived at Chalk Mountain without a name change- one of his kin was hanged in Missouri. Brushy Bill Roberts AKA William Bonney AKA Billy the Kid knew him and J. Frank Dalton( Jesse James of Grandbury? his headstone says so). Bill Roberts's dad rode with The James Bros. and Daltons and/or the Quantrills after he returned to Buffalo Gap and found his wife's grave and his sister in law - Bonney and McCarty connected, had carried his son to Oklahomam, then New Mexico. Brushy Bill died in Hico a few years ago in his nineties. Happy Hunting, Charles Wyly

Hey, Don't forget , Stephenville had 2 funeral homes. One was the Truett or Truitt on North Graham across the street from the present Harris Methodist Hospital and Graham Street Church of Christ. The other was the Higginbotham Brothers , on the back side of the hardware and clothing store, which faced the court house. Corporate offices were and are in Comanche, Texas . The Comanche store faces the courthouse across from the Corporate offices. I did a contract for credit card logo and was told the Higginbotham- Bartlett stores all over the Rolling Plains and the High Plains were owned by the same Corporation, but do not know if Comanche is their Corporate HQ. Also, Clyde Barrow's Uncle ran the Barrow- Rutledge Funeral Home in Hico, Hamilton County and did a lot of business for the folk who used the Hico Hospital. from Erath County. Thurber must have once had a Funeral home- or did Ranger, Strawn, and Stephenville do theirs? Some around the old Dublin and Pontotoc farms would have used Dublin or De Leon or Comanche funeral homes. Dad was talking to Paul Higginbotham and others one day in front of the store and Paul was campaigning against the U.S. 377 and 67 being widened through Stephenville for trucks. He said people would drive faster and not stop at his store. Dad told him if they didn't widen it the State would build a loop around town and his business would really be dead. Now his old store is the site of the expanded Court house and court rooma andoffices and the loop is a good wide road. Penneys and the Majestic Theatre and old Earl Weathers first hamburger stand has been bulldozed and was replaced by a Gren belt. Bosque Square and the loop is the busiest part of town. Take care, Charles Wyly

Hi, that sounds right. I just didn't remember him working around the gin or the thresher crews, but remember him in the commonity. These Stones also had a gasoline and wind boosted 32 volt D.C. Delco power plant in Selden on the school grounds which supplied the church, school, cotton gin, Tom Hatchet store and 2 or 3 Stone homes. Of course, not all were used at the same time- school and Church were not used when folks were home. I have photos of several membersof both the Selden and the Huckaby Stones. Take care, Charles Wyly

I found some posts on Gen Forum, (great research site), submitted by someone with the addy of "mobil00l@aol.com". The person who submitted the posts is researching the same HUGHES family I am ... Samuel Smith HUGHES in eastern TX. I attempted to send e-mail but that address is no longer good. Three names were used with the same address: C.L. HUGHES, Mary Denny HUGHES and M.C. HUGHES. Does anyone know how I may be able to contact those people? I surely want to compare data with them. Thank you very much, Karen in CA I am a Pottawatomie Co., OK Genie Angel http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/6878/ My gedcom: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=Kilee Maternal; B.U.R.T.O.N - C.O.L.E.Y - D.U.N.L.A.P - E.L.L.I.O.T.T - E.M.M.S - F.L.A.C.K - H.E.S.T.E.R - H.I.C.K.E.Y - H.U.G.H.E.S - L.O.V.E - M.O.R.R.E.L.L - P.A.C.E - P.E.A.R.S.O.N - P.O.R.T.E.R - S.M.I.T.H - T.A.Y.L.O.R - V.I.N.E.Y.A.R.D - W.A.R.D Paternal; A.R.M.S.T.R.O.N.G - C.L.A.R.K - C.R.E.S.S.Y - F.L.A.C.K - H.O.L.M.E.S - H.O.U.L.T - M.O.RS.E - N.E.L.S.O.N - S.P.R.O.U.S.E.N - W.O.O.D.B.U.R.Y

In a message dated 10/21/99 9:32:16 PM Central Daylight Time, wyly1@juno.com writes: << Also, Clyde Barrow's Uncle ran the Barrow- Rutledge Funeral Home in Hico, Hamilton County and did a lot of business for the folk who used the Hico Hospital. from Erath County. Thurber must have once had a Funeral home- or did Ranger, Strawn, and Stephenville do theirs? >> Charles, My DIL is a BARROW descendant....and I have doused this rumor. The owner-operator of the funeral home was Grady Martel Barrow (1896-1949) who was the youngest of eleven children of Jeremiah "Jerry" Barrow (1849-1918) and Mary Jesstina (1857-1925) who came to Hico about 1894 from Notasulga AL. There were four other Barrow brothers that came along including David (1846-1922); Burrell or "Doc" (1854-1934); Jimmie (1856-1901), and William (1861-1918). They had one sister, Virginia Barrow Willis (1852-1909). All six of these are buried at Hico Cemetery. Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie & Clyde fame, was born at Telico, near Ennis, in Ellis County. Later he grew up on the streets of Dallas where his father ran a gas filling station. The Barrow family of Hico were a furniture business family. Archie Barrow, Grady's older brother, (1877-1961) oversaw an operation that was flung from Fort Worth to Lubbock to Odessa with stores in as many as ten or 12 towns. Archie or A.B. resided in Abilene----never married----except to the business. Grady Perry in his book "Grand Ol' Erath" talks about a time that coffins and caskets were featured in the furniture stores before about 1920 when the funeral homes were coming into prominence. So it was somewhat natural to go from the furniture business into the funeral home business, I suppose. That way the furniture chain had an outlet for the caskets. In any case, Clyde Barrow used to stop into the Barrow Furniture store as well as the funeral home at Hico when he was travelling about. He had many "friendly" folks all about; the old Bath (railroad) Hotel at Llano sells tee shirts with a posed picture of Clyde out front during his outlaw heyday. I have dug his roots and they lead to LA and perhaps he was distantly kin to the Barrow family of Hico-----but not anywhere close as in 1st or 2nd or even 3rd cousins. But Clyde Barrow isn't a nephew to any of the Barrow Hico-Clairette families. My DIL is a DAVIS and her Hico ancestors include PRUITT, BARROW, HAINES, SANDERS, NEWTON lines of the Duffau and Hico area. The PRUITT family was at Duffau and this family married into McCarty lines so that my DIL and my son have some relatives that are cousins to each. Regards, Bill McCarty Odessa, Texas http://members.tripod.com/cindyradway/Erath/erath.html http://members.aol.com/texastag/mccarty.html

Have you tried the genweb site: http://www.usgenweb.com for Jack County? There might be someone there who knows the answer to your question. Margaret McCleskey, Arlington, TX > Are there records for around 1892 Jack County, Texas? My great grandpa had > a son who became a doctor in 1890 and died in 1892 at age 30. I'd like to > know "wha happened?" He did not go to medical school, but "read medicine" > at night studying under an older doctor. Ann > > ---------- > > From: RegBlair@aol.com > > To: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [ERATH] Funeral records or funeral homes > > Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 7:44 PM > > > > Vynette, > > The best I can recall, records at the funeral home start in 1910 or 1912. > > > They did not have a record I was looking for from 1907. They are very > nice to > > share the information and simply gave me the old record book to sit down > with > > and read. > > Regene Blair in CA. > > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > > -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved > > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com >

You sound like a very nice person, so glad you are on the list.:) I love the smell of fresh hay, the smell of the diaries can't be as bad as the smell from the Southeast Water Treatment Plant just a few miles from us. The Public officials would have you believe the "buffer zone" and the precautions they take eliminate all odors, but they don't live out here where we are, I'm sure it would be much different if they were living in our area. Supposedly they have an air release system to "deodorize" the air when anyone calls in. Yea, right. There is sometimes a strong ammonia smell which creeps into the house and you know better than just to open your window or doors, your skin will turn green if it doesn't fall off. So enjoy sitting on your front porch watching those milk trucks go by, we have gravel haulers rumbling down our streets, waking the dead and destroying our little rural streets. Yes, I guess we all have trade offs, it is only a matter of minutes to anywhere I want to go in Dallas, Mesquite, Duncanville, Seagoville, ect. It is not uncommon for my sister and I to travel completely around Dallas sometimes a couple of hundred miles and never leave Dallas on one of our busy days.:) We never think about it, just get on the freeways and go! ----- Original Message ----- From: Peggy McCleskey Broughton <peggyj@our-town.com> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [ERATH] Small Towns -Big Towns > Sunday gets right busy, JO, and the milk tank trucks can make you forget you > were on your way to church, and the trucks with the big round bales of hay > as just as bad, you ca't pass because you can't see beyound the truck and > some mornings, all you can smell when you open the door is the daries that > sourrand you. > but I like living here... but it has it disadvantages also, like being far > from a doctor,, but that is enough for now. > > Peggy in Purves >

>Penneys and the Majestic Theatre and old Earl Weathers first >hamburger >stand has been bulldozed and was replaced by a Gren belt. I was shocked last year when they actually tore down the old "petrified wood" rock building that was the original store for Wolfe Nursey. I beleive it was actually the Wolfes' home when 1st built. I really thought the city would purchase it because of it's historic value. Now all that is left is the side road, named Wolfe Nursery Road. Not quite the same, now, going by that corner. Don't know what they did with the debris, but there was an article about it in the paper after it was torn down that said rock hounds would come from all over to look at the various types of fossils and rocks that made up the building, some were quite rare. I find it incredible in this day and age when it seems historic places are given more consideration than they once were that this wasnt saved. Connie Dublin ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Peggy, Your offer is so generous-- Would you please check for HALLMARKs and WALLACEs circa 1902 to 1918? TIA Bee in TX ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

Peggy are you talking about your husband -are you sure you don't have him mixed up with mine. LOL. Well. only thing he had the hip replacement, back surgery, & had an eye removed - this takes the cake - Doctors were positive he had cancer of the eye - had to come out now. Good news & bad news - he did not have cancer or anything wrong with his eye - bad news ----no eye!! He is 78 yrs & a truly good person, very kind, good natured and before all of this happened - best dancer that ever hit the floor - loved ever minute of it - so did I. We traveled & enjoyed life - had a traveltrailer - beat up old pick-up but it ran like a jackrabbit - & solid as a rock. We looked like the "hillbillies" with our two dogs - LOL. We had so much fun. I do lose my patience & as such, spend lots of time on my computer. I have had it for a year. Just had to do something as we had sold our home and moved into a condo so would not have yard work to tie us down - now sometimes I wish I had our old home back. I live about two blocks off I-10 going West - all day and all night!! Hope to meet you someday. I have been around that area when I was working my Parker book. Lots of relatives from Brownwood to Erath co. Do you happen to know Alta Claunch - we are related thru the Chamberlains. My gr. grandmother, Frances Chamberlain married William D. Parker. Alta related to the C's & I am from the P's. Golly. didn't mean to talk so much - I hear my dtr now. talk to you later. Nita

Are there Crocketts or Danleys listed in the Erath County book. Thanks, will appreciate any info on the two families. nitauno@aol.com

Hope the lady with her husband in ER has my blessings. I just went through that in July. We are pulling for you......Jane -----Original Message----- From: Peggy McCleskey Broughton <peggyj@our-town.com> To: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 7:25 AM Subject: Re: [ERATH] Erath County book >no Nash or Tyler that I could find > >Peggy in Purves > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Phyllis Garner <sasilady@erols.com> >To: <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 5:13 AM >Subject: Re: [ERATH] Erath County book > > >> Could you check and see if you have NASH or TYLER in the book. Thanks. >Phyl >> >> >> >> At 03:48 PM 10/18/1999 -0500, you wrote: >> >I have the Erath County book you mentioned if you need something looked >up. >> > >> >Peggy in Purves >> > >> > >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: <Texasdog@aol.com> >> >To: <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> >> >Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 2:41 PM >> >Subject: [ERATH] Erath County book >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >>>>>ACCESSION: 6775315 >> >> TITLE: History of Erath County : >> >> a pictorial, limited edition, family history of the people >of >> >> Erath County, 1878-1980 / >> >> PLACE: Dublin, TX : >> >> PUBLISHER: Erath County Historical Commission, >> >> YEAR: 1980 >> >> PUB TYPE: Book >> >> FORMAT: 176 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm. >> >> SUBJECT: Erath County (Tex.) -- Biography. >> >> Erath County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. >> >> OTHER: Erath County Historical Commission.<<<<<<<< >> >> >> >> Peggy at Bridge City----- >> >> The above book is that which I had mentioned as one published on >> >> Erath County families. It had limited circulation but is in Dublin & >> >> Stephenville libraries. For the most part, the families in the book >> >would >> >> have been those in and around Dublin. >> >> >> >> Bill McCarty Odessa, Texas >> >> >> >> http://members.tripod.com/cindyradway/Erath/erath.html >> >> http://members.aol.com/texastag/mccarty.html >> >> >> >> >> >> ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== >> >> --- Author Retains Copyright --- >> >> -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved >> >> Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com >> >> Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com >> >> >> > >> > >> >==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== >> >--- Author Retains Copyright --- >> >-- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved >> >Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com >> >Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com >> > >> > >> Phyllis Garner >> Virginia Beach, VA >> ICQ #6544793 >> sasilady@erols.com ^i^ I Believe In Angels >> CCLov-A-ghan Co.-Aquisitions/Collections Co. >> http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/CrochetCrafts >> >> >> ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== >> --- Author Retains Copyright --- >> -- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved >> Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com >> Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com >> > > >==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== >--- Author Retains Copyright --- >-- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved >Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com >Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > >