Kay, I missed your original post but I have a collateral connection to BRUMBELOW/BRUMBELOS. One of my great uncles, ie. Chana MULLINS md. Leucy KEITH whose mother was a BRUMBELO. I have several generations back on the BRUMBELOs and from memory they came from TN. BTW,the name Chana can be traced back to Chana BRIGGS who came from SC. Many of his descenants carry the name as a 1st or 2nd name.. ..so if it appears in your tree anywhere, esp. if you're from Erath Co. let me know.....we probably have a connection. COOKS are also related, Chana's sister Sarah Eliz. MULLINS md. into the COOK family. I can dig this up if anyone has an interest. Her first husband died and she later md. HEIDLEBERG. While I'm tossing out family connections two of the MULLINS md. BRAMBLETTs from this area. Great granpa William Henry "Willie" MULLINS md.Sarah Parthenia ADKISSON whose surname often shows "N" instead of an "S", and "T" instead of "D".....Sarah's parents and several sibs are buried at Old Dublin and Dublin Cem.'s Am I getting close yet to anyone? <G> DEBBIE

Looking for cemetery record for Robert Lee Thurman & wife Nancy, Nancy died 1970,

Kay; You wrote: >I am looking for information on the following families: Barbee, Capell, >Henderson, Ramsey, Brumbelo, Keith, Reynolds and Ross. Many of them were >in the Dublin area by the 1860's. > I believe we had spoken a year or so ago about the ROSS family in Dublin. Since then I have found a lot of information that ties my Reverand Robert Mac ROSS in with Reuban ... he was his half brother ... all of the information follows ... let me know if you might have anything to add. Tami Ramsey Dublin, Virginia Descendants of James Ross Generation No. 1 1. JAMES2 ROSS (JOHN1) was born 1790, and died 1868 in Comanche County, Texas. He married (1) MARGARET (PEGGY) YOST August 13, 1812 in Rowan County, North Carolina. He married (2) SARAH BURNS April 30, 1829 in Lauderdale, Alabama. Notes for JAMES ROSS: In 1859 moved to Harrison County, Texas In 1865 moved to Comanche County, Texas Served as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Sheriff Notes for SARAH BURNS: 1870 Comanche County, Texas Census ROSS, Sarah 60 FW Keeping House SC William 21 MW Stockherder AL Children of JAMES ROSS and MARGARET YOST are: 2. i. REUBEN DAVIS3 ROSS, b. September 26, 1824, Lauderdale County, Alabama; d. December 29, 1908, Erath County, Texas. ii. DANIEL ROSS, b. Unknown. Notes for DANIEL ROSS: Died in Alabama iii. MARY ROSS, b. Unknown; m. LITTLETON ROSS, Unknown. iv. RACHEL ROSS, b. Unknown; m. JOHN WALKER, Unknown. v. JOHN ROSS, b. Unknown. Notes for JOHN ROSS: Died on a visit to Texas vi. JACOB ROSS, b. Unknown. Children of JAMES ROSS and SARAH BURNS are: vii. ZILPHA3 ROSS, b. December 20, 1842, Tennessee; d. July 04, 1932, Eastland County, Texas; m. PLEAS CROSSLEY, Unknown. Notes for ZILPHA ROSS: Buried in Eastland Cemetery viii. WILLIAM ROSS, b. Abt. 1849, Alabama. ix. ALLIE DAVIS ROSS, b. February 23, 1853; d. August 07, 1891, De Leon, Commanche County, Texas; m. FRANK M. BROWNE, Unknown. Notes for ALLIE DAVIS ROSS: Buried in the Old section of Oakwood Cemetery 3. x. ROBERT MAC ROSS, b. 1858, Alabama; d. January 02, 1890, Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas. xi. ELIZABETH ROSS, b. Unknown; m. JESSE DAVIS, Unknown. xii. FRANCIS M. ROSS, b. Unknown. xiii. GEORGE ROSS, b. Unknown. xiv. JANE ROSS, b. Unknown. Notes for JANE ROSS: Died young xv. MAETHA ROSS, b. Unknown. xvi. MARTIN V. ROSS, b. Unknown. xvii. SAMUAL ROSS, b. Unknown. Generation No. 2 2. REUBEN DAVIS3 ROSS (JAMES2, JOHN1) was born September 26, 1824 in Lauderdale County, Alabama, and died December 29, 1908 in Erath County, Texas. He married (1) MARTHA ANN THOMPSON 1849 in Alabama, daughter of GEORGE THOMPSON and MARY. He married (2) NANCY ANNAH HOWELL May 25, 1876 in Erath County, Texas, daughter of SPARKS HOWELL. Notes for REUBEN DAVIS ROSS: He grew up in Franklin County Alabama on a farm. Rev. Reuben Ross lived along Armstrong Creek between about 1865 and 1908 when he died. Notes for NANCY ANNAH HOWELL: Texas Death Certificate #27514 Children of REUBEN ROSS and MARTHA THOMPSON are: i. GEORGE R.4 ROSS, b. February 11, 1850; d. March 07, 1930, Erath County, Texas. Notes for GEORGE R. ROSS: Texas Death Certificate #12365 ii. JAMES R. ROSS, b. Unknown. iii. REUBEN B. ROSS, b. Unknown; m. WILLIE T. COLVIN, February 10, 1880, Comanche County, Texas. Marriage Notes for REUBEN ROSS and WILLIE COLVIN: Comanche County Texas marriage records Vol. B page 171 iv. JACOB ROSS, b. Unknown. 4. v. JOHN THOMPSON ROSS, b. October 07, 1862, Arkansas; d. March 05, 1914. 5. vi. SAMUAL C. ROSS, b. January 14, 1865; d. January 26, 1896, Erath County, Texas. vii. RACHEL POTIA ROSS, b. 1868; m. ED RIPATO, Unknown. Children of REUBEN ROSS and NANCY HOWELL are: viii. INFANT4 ROSS, b. June 20, 1877; d. June 24, 1877. ix. GRAVES L. ROSS, b. 1878; d. February 21, 1948, Erath County, Texas. Notes for GRAVES L. ROSS: Texas Death Certificate #6995 x. INFANT ROSS, b. January 06, 1884; d. January 06, 1884. xi. VIRGINIA ROSS, b. January 09, 1886; d. February 18, 1963. xii. BERTHA ROSS, b. May 25, 1888; d. April 23, 1980. xiii. MILTON H. ROSS, b. Unknown. xiv. MORGAN DAVIS ROSS, b. January 15, 1882; d. June 03, 1955, Comanche County, Texas; m. CORA E., Unknown. Notes for MORGAN DAVIS ROSS: Texas Death Certificate #27405 3. ROBERT3 MAC ROSS (JAMES2 ROSS, JOHN1) was born 1858 in Alabama, and died January 02, 1890 in Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas. He married (1) NANCY J. WILLIAMS December 24, 1879 in Hot Springs County, Arkansas. He married (2) BERTHENIA IDA JANE LEE December 01, 1887 in Comanche County, Texas, daughter of COLUMBUS LEE and PERMELIA YANDELL. Notes for ROBERT MAC ROSS: Mr. Leslie Floyd, clerk of the Fairplay Church,Hot Springs County, Arkansas, located the old records. The minutes show as follows; "Bro. R.M. Ross was ordained at Fairplay Church, to preach the Gospel, on the Third Lord's day in February 1885. The Presbytery was composed of Eld. D.K. McKay, Eld. R.M. Thrasher, and Eld. Taylor." He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in De Leon, Texas August 1887 to May 1888. Hot Springs County, Arkansas land records ROSS ROBERT 26 6S 16W 0 1859/06/01 ROSS ROBERT 26 6S 16W 120 1859/06/01 Notes for BERTHENIA IDA JANE LEE: Was living with daughters Vestie and Lucy when she died Marriage Notes for ROBERT MAC ROSS and BERTHENIA LEE: Married By J.M. Burrow, Minister Children of ROBERT MAC ROSS and NANCY WILLIAMS are: 6. i. IRA4 ROSS, b. Unknown. ii. IDA ROSS, b. Unknown. Children of ROBERT MAC ROSS and BERTHENIA LEE are: 7. iii. WILLIE FRANKLIN4 ROSS, b. September 27, 1888, Dublin, Erath County, Texas; d. September 09, 1960, Mojave, Kern County, California. iv. ROBERT LEE ROSS, b. January 16, 1890, Eastland County, Texas; d. January 22, 1914, McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.

Sorry...I have "The Families of Turnbow Cemetery" by Alice Callaway Moore and your Robert Lee Thurman & wife Nancy are NOT listed. Joy Goade Zowie -----Original Message----- From: lana <lana@chatlink.com> To: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com <TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, August 06, 1998 8:39 PM Subject: [ERATH] Cemetery records >Looking for cemetery record for Robert Lee Thurman & wife Nancy, Nancy died >1970, >

I am looking for information on the following families: Barbee, Capell, Henderson, Ramsey, Brumbelo, Keith, Reynolds and Ross. Many of them were in the Dublin area by the 1860's.

Still can't find Bertha Arnold's family on computer, but think she wasa Higdon before marriage. Dolly and Ross Higdon and the Arnolds used to come out on weekends from Dallas and help Aunt Susie Moxley. Great Grandad had Arnold grandkids somewhere down the tree- not Arendells. One Arendell would have been their uncle. Concerning the Marks family, guess you knew Dr. Marks of Marks- English Hospital in Glen Rose, Texas, 1960's About Cook families- two Cook Brothers, barbers, in Glen Rose, bought a load of lumber so a driver-owner could repair his truck and go home. Out of this grew the Cook Brothers Lumber and Building supply in Stephenville. Bud Cook lived or lives in a climate control allergy free home by Dr. W.P.Hatchett's 1900 2 story mansion, restored by Bud Cook. His daughter married my second cousin David Carey, who lives on next farm south and owns from there east to Duffau Creek, where 3 to 5 families used to live. David's son finished High school last year and is working in Stephenville now. David's wife's sister, (a Cook) married James Nolan of Selden. Will check back if I can straighten out the Arnolds, but they were Great Grandad George Milton Moxley's descendants, and separate from Arendells, unless you know something I don't. See you later if I find details Charles Wyly On Wed, 05 Aug 1998 08:46:09 -0500 Mike & JoAnn Brown <mikeb@dfw.net> writes: >I am searching the surnames of >Mefford,Arendell,Bolling,Manahan,Marks,& >Cook. >I have alot of information on the Meffords & Bollings.I really need >help >on the Arendell, Marks,Cook & Manahan families.All of these families >lived in Erath County,some as far back as 1850. > I would be more than willing to share my information with others. > I am also seeking information on the Davis,Sanders & Lott families of >Erath & Bosque Counties. > Any information on any of these families would be greatly >appericated. > Thank you, > JoAnn > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

I believe it was Salmon Brothers who ran a store- groceries and or dry goods in Hico, Hamilton County, Texas when my parents used to grimd feed and shop in Hico. Not sure about Stephenville. Seema they had Duffau, Erath County Roots- that was the first train station in Erath County south of Thurber up on I-20 West- Okd U.S.80, The Bankhead Highway, or Lancaster Avenue section in Fort Worth was called The Great White Way . Aman in a business in Arcadia, La. told me 3 years ago that his cousins lived in Duffau and Hico, Texas. he claims the town is named by a group of Germans in a wagon train from Hico and Arcadia and Lake Hico, La. The operator of the Hico Billy the Kid museum claims it was named for Hico, Kentucky. I can find Hico, La. on the map but not Hico, Ky. There was once one. Perhaps they left Kentucky, stopped north of Arcadia, and did not like the Black- French and Indian intermarriage of those who were already there. The Ku Klux Klan has shown up in Hico, Texas and Arcadia, La. and Kentucky. I asked the man if Clyde Barrow, who had Hico connections and used to camp out on Bosque and Duffau Creekas a kid, if Clyde and Bonnie might have been hunting kin when killed at Arcadia, La. He smiled and said no more. Guess you saw the one about John Wilkes Booth recoverring from a badly infected leg in a cabin still standing between Hico and Iredell, then tending Bar in Granbury, as Jesse James supposedly did. Booth died in Enid, Oklahoma Grand Hotel with TB or similar and an overdose of pain medicine. His dental records matched, according to Enid folk. This was on Unsolved Mysteries on TV but I heard it several years before that. Booth was redheaded. The soldiers who buried a man in his grave back east stated the man they buried was not red headed. He came to Hico with help of a friend hunting Dr. McNeil. A Dr. Mcneil was in Stephenville. His grandaughter Daisy married one of mom's Stone cousins and they shared a Rest home Room together a few years ago. Dr. Mcneil had problems of doing surgery on stray Stephenville Boars found in his garden, much to the shagrin of the hog owners. Confused yet"?? No telling what stories the first Salmon Brothers in Hico knew. Charles Wyly Charles Wyly On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:50:15 -0700 "David Salmon" <dsalmon@salmon.org> writes: >My great-great-grandmother was Martha Ann Mefford, b. 24 Dec. 1844, d. >13 >May 1885, Erath Co., Tx, who married Joseph Salmon, Jr. (b. 20 Aug. >1837 >Ark, d. 29 June 1910, Erath Co., TX). I have not yet traced her >roots, but >I imagine that she or her family came originally from Greenup Co., Ky, >because (1) Joseph Salmon, Sr., came from Greenup Co., and (2) Many >Meffords >lived then along a creek a little west of Joseph Sr's area. They had >seven >children; I can provide descendant data if you want it. Joseph >Salmon, Sr., >was reputedly the fourth settler in Erath County, arriving (from Waco >area) >in 1854. > >David > >-----Original Message----- >From: TXERATH-D-request@rootsweb.com <TXERATH-D-request@rootsweb.com> >To: TXERATH-D@rootsweb.com <TXERATH-D@rootsweb.com> >Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 9:52 AM >Subject: TXERATH-D Digest V98 #42 > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

My great-great-grandmother was Martha Ann Mefford, b. 24 Dec. 1844, d. 13 May 1885, Erath Co., Tx, who married Joseph Salmon, Jr. (b. 20 Aug. 1837 Ark, d. 29 June 1910, Erath Co., TX). I have not yet traced her roots, but I imagine that she or her family came originally from Greenup Co., Ky, because (1) Joseph Salmon, Sr., came from Greenup Co., and (2) Many Meffords lived then along a creek a little west of Joseph Sr's area. They had seven children; I can provide descendant data if you want it. Joseph Salmon, Sr., was reputedly the fourth settler in Erath County, arriving (from Waco area) in 1854. David -----Original Message----- From: TXERATH-D-request@rootsweb.com <TXERATH-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: TXERATH-D@rootsweb.com <TXERATH-D@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 9:52 AM Subject: TXERATH-D Digest V98 #42

According to family stories, Loretta Ann was born September 30, 1832 in Osceoloa, Missouri. She married Samuel Wintermute Snell ca. 1852 in Texas. Loretta is supposed to have died on October 22, 1875 in Erath County, during childbirth. She had 8 other children before her death. For over 20 years, I have been looking in Erath County for any grave for her. Can someone help me to locate her grave?

......dad knew a Roy Mefford in Erath County. I am 69 and can't remember much about him except dad said he was a good farmer and well respected. When you mentioned Arendells, we may be cousins. Tom Arendell was one of the first settlers between Selden and Pleasant Hill (Chigger Hill Methodist Church) about 7 miles out of Stephenville south on Canadian- Mexico trunk Route 281- the American Legion WW1 Memorial Highway used for shipping out troops. Seems Roy held a county office, maybe precinct commissioner. Some old histories said Tom Arendell is buried in Hamilton County. I can show you his grave in Erath Countyon the Moncrief Dairy near the Selden Road. His log cabin- one room- was on the north of the present road and my dad's first cousin'husband has moved it to his home a mile northeast of Selden and completely restored it with dirt floor, fireplace, and hanging hooks. He is a retired dairyman and when hot weather, feed, and milk prices used to bother him, he would go set in the cabin and rock a while- still does. When he built his cabin the Indians had returned to the area during the Civil War absence of men, and many Caddo were friendly. Many Whites had Cherokee blood from the Carolinas and Georgia. Most of these were settled farmers, but Stephenville City Park was used by Choctaw and Comanche Indians for camping on their way to Oklahoma after Texas joined the Union. Before that, Pres. Sam Houston declared all north and East of Tyler as Indian Territory. Pres. Lamar said it was not a reservation but no one had to move if they had personal land and were law abiding. Intermarried Cherokee settled down to the Alabama-Coshuta reservation of today. This was one escape from the Trail of Tears before 1845. Rev. John R. Baylor led the Central Texas Rangers (mostly vigilante, sometimes deputized temporarily) out of Stephenville and Comanche and forced all Caddoes and Lipans- farmers with homes- to Oklahoma. He became the first Governor of Arizona. My Grandmother Ida Kathryn (Moxley) Wyly had a sister, Minnie Olivia Moxley, born 1879 who married Minnie Russell Arendell . They had 6 children, Louis, Belle, Ida, David, and Elmo. I have their birthdates and some children. One Moxley married a Darnell. Dorothy Scrimsher Suitt's mom was their daughter. Dorothy is still in Selden. If I am on the right track, let me know and I can send you more. Must stop now ands attend a former student's funeral. Charles Wyly- also at Wyly1@mci2000.com On Wed, 05 Aug 1998 08:46:09 -0500 Mike & JoAnn Brown <mikeb@dfw.net> writes: >I am searching the surnames of >Mefford,Arendell,Bolling,Manahan,Marks,& >Cook. >I have alot of information on the Meffords & Bollings.I really need >help >on the Arendell, Marks,Cook & Manahan families.All of these families >lived in Erath County,some as far back as 1850. > I would be more than willing to share my information with others. > I am also seeking information on the Davis,Sanders & Lott families of >Erath & Bosque Counties. > Any information on any of these families would be greatly >appericated. > Thank you, > JoAnn > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

I am researching the DENNIS family. Angeline DENNIS moved to Erath Co, around 1894. Some of her children were: William K., Herbert, George(?), Cynthia Ann/Fannie, Mary (Mollie), Ellen, S.E., and Margaret. I would like information on any DENNIS. I think she may have moved to Erath to be near reletives. Phyl -- Mailto:fvvpjv29@idt.net

I am searching the surnames of Mefford,Arendell,Bolling,Manahan,Marks,& Cook. I have alot of information on the Meffords & Bollings.I really need help on the Arendell, Marks,Cook & Manahan families.All of these families lived in Erath County,some as far back as 1850. I would be more than willing to share my information with others. I am also seeking information on the Davis,Sanders & Lott families of Erath & Bosque Counties. Any information on any of these families would be greatly appericated. Thank you, JoAnn

I was born in Erath County and still own 93 acres there. i am 69 and a retired teacher. I ddid not know any Fulfers, but a Fulcher family ran Dr. Vance Terrell's ranch. My double first cousin married Kay Fulcher and they had one daughter, Kathy. . .she is past 30 now and works for the Hutto, Texas News.If this connects, let me know and I can send more. Take care and happy hunting, Charles Wyly On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:21:29 EDT GRH9999@aol.com writes: >I am new to the Erath County List and a VanBibber family researcher. >Olive >VanBibber married Thomas I. Fulfer and many of their descendants >settled in >Erath County. They had the following children: Jacob - 1846, John - >1848, >Isaac - 1850, Newton - 1854, George - 1858, James - 1860, Texanna - >1862, and >Jefferson D. - 1864. > >I would greatly appreciate any information anyone may have on the >Fulfers of >Erath County. Thanks! > >Gary R. Hawpe.......San Diego, CA. > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Searching for information on my GG grandfather, Albert J. Jackson. Presumably, he was born abt. 1871 in Alabama (Limestone or Madison County?) He moved to Texas, (maybe to the Marlin, Kosse, Thornton area) at some point. He married Annie? (Nan?) Rochelle. Not sure if they married in Alabama or Texas. Albert and Annie had six children. Oran Bennie Rawls Shelly Birdie Rabe Cora Any help will be greatly appreciated. Pat

Dear Hales, I was born 1929 in Johnsville, Erath County, Texas 10 miles from Stephenville on U.S.67 towards Glen Rose (The sulphur water resort of 1900-1950's)I knew of 3 Hale families- and do not know if they were connected. I attended Johnsville now Three Way) elementary, Selden high 2 years and Stephenville High 2 years. There was a Grover Hale- a deacon at Selden Baptist church where I attended until I was 14 or so. He had a son Halford a year older than I was. I think Halford is still living. They had a farm with a newer rock home just across the cattleguard where the Selden main street turned left to circle the school ground. I think Halford had older sisters. I remember dad talking about Grover buying neighbors cotton for 30 cents per puond, expecting it to go above 50 cents. In 1929 when the European depression finally rippled through farm comodoties markets in Texas, the cotton dropped to 5 cents a pound, when the bankers finally found out what some farmers already knew. Mr. Hale survived and kept his farm. He lived next door to Alfred Scrimsher. His daughter Dorothy can fill you in on the family and I will forward a copy of this to her. You can contact her at Mutt and Dorothy Suitt Route 3 Box 169A (Selden) Stephenville, Texas 76401. There were two Hale sisters in high school at Stephenville High about 1950. They attended elementary school at Chalk Mountain (Now part of Three Way School District). They, the Laney sisters, and Donna Brock and 2 more girls from Huckaby-Oak Dale area were on the Stephenville High girl's Basketball team which went to State finals and later won State. Stephenville girls dating Tarleton State University considerred basketball as childish and unspohisticated. Today most Texas colleges give girls athletic scholarships. Anyhow, this winning girl's team silenced parents who wanted to eliminate Girl's sports as unladylike. Stephenville now has the highest paid football coach and athletic director in Texas public schools, and the Principal gets $1.00 per year more than the coach. The Laneys, Hales, and Donna Brock and friends rode long bus runs and had played with or against each other for 8 years. Donna Brock is now (Dr. I think) Donna Spross, counselor at Lorena High School,Lorena Texas. Her dad had a dairy and an Auto shop on north side of Stephenville. I taught with her for 6 years in Midway High, in Hewitt, Woodway, Speegleville, Harris Creek,, and Waco, Texas (Not part of Waco Schools) I think, if my memory isn't short circuited , one of the Laney Girls or a Hale married a Hill man who moved to Chalk Mountain. He had excellent but old equipment and used to cut Oats, Barley, and Hairy Vetch and Wheat for my dad and others with a a Regular Farmall with no variable speed throttle and an Allis Chalmer Combine when Super M farmalls and John Deere combines would not cut the stuff without constant binding and choking problems. There was another Hale in Stephenville who was a working carpenter and contractor. He built several homes in the Riverside Edition of Stephenville near the Bosque River where a tornado had cleared some scattered buildings and a farm home a few years before. I knew several Cox, Wright, and others who retired from the farm, and bought one of his painted frame houses with wood floors and all conveniences but air conditioners. Some added evaporative coolers for cooling. All had garden Spots. I had no first hand work experience with this Hale. The houses reminded me of some of Jimmy Carter's Habitat for Humanity homes and were wonderful to the generation who lived in log or box houses , carried their water, and had outhouses like most 1930's house in Texas farms had. Some had gravity fed cold water for the kitchen fro a windmill and overhead tank. They heated bath water on the stove or in a stove resivoir, actually part of the stove. "Aunt" Celia Shaw, 112 lived with "Aunt Marthy" and Ed Cox there. She told me she got married when 13 or 14 and sat on a stump darning socks watching Ed cut logs and build their first log cabin and they started marriage out of debt. Habitat for Humanity was actually started in Georgia near the Carter home by the Koinia Fellowship- a communal group similar to Amish, Mennonite, and the Homestead Heritage community near Waco. Jimmy Carter took that ball and ran with it and now Opra Winfrey is running interference for him, in football terms. It's 107 here today- drove by the giant Waco Flea market today and most dealers were gone by 2 pm.In cooler weather Corpus Christi and Houston antique collectors are there buying. Even stray dogs avoided the place today. My cousin planted hybrid hay in our 93 acres at Selden as soon as constant spring rains stopped and it is so dry the seed has nor sprouted. Cattle being sold off are not going to Wyoming, Kansas, or West Texas feed lots or grazing, but, under Nafda- to Mexico feed lots where they spray them with DDT and bad corn. Dairy cows cannot eat the dead corn stalks with a tablespoon of grain on each cob instead of a cup full- It has Aflotoxins. I understand it is legal in Mexico if not too toxic or clay is mixed with it to bind up the Aflotoxin. It isn.t worth cutting. First time in my life I have seen people shred and rake and bail dead corn stalks. A cousin closed his dairy and is now hauling cull and broken Frito and Potato chips to Mexico from Dallas. We now have 10 to 20 Federal Fire fighters, some from Wyoming, and Helicopters stationed in the Barracks the ATF and FBI stayed in during Mount Carmel on the Texas State Technical College on the old James Conally Air Force Base. They are making 2 or 3 runs a day as local firefighters need them. Two farmers not only lost all their grass and fence posts to fire, but each lost over 100 big round bales of hay each in the fire. It burned 30 acres of Cameron Park, the largest City park in the U.S., but did not get near the zoo nor buildings, thanks to the Forrest service service Heloicoptors dipping from the Brazosand their bulldozers. 4 or 5 other local departments also sent trucks to help Waco, but you didn't ask about all of this. Take care and happy hunting, Charles Wyly P>S> If you know any Wyly families, let me know. One in North Dakota , an attorney, goes South to Denver to get warm in the winter. Folks here go up there to cool off. 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1. Harvey Homer(Dock)1 Hale (son of John P. and Nancy J. Brook/Brock Hale), born Nov 1871 in Texas; died 1946. He married in Erath Co. to Pearl May (Jones) Hale, born Sep 1878 in Iowa; died 1949. They were in Erath for the 1900 and 1910 Census Children were as follows: 2 Howard D.2 Hale, born Mar 1898 in Texas. Jeweler Fort Worth. 3 Roxie2 Hale, born Dec 1900 in Texas. She married Hennings (---), died bef. 1965. 4 Rollin T.2 Hale, born Est 1902 in Texas, USA. He married Nina ((---)) Hale. 5 Eugene W.2 Hale, born Est 1903 in , , Texas, USA. 6 Ina Bell2 Hale, born Est 1905 in , , Texas, USA. She married William Walton Adams. 7 Alonzo R.2 Hale, born Est 1907 in , , Texas, USA. He married GayNell ((---)) Hale. 8 Irene2 Hale, born aft. 1910. Never married? 9 Beulah2 Hale married Jimmie L. Meek. 10 Lucille2 Hale married R. Shelton Mayes. Any information or connections welcomed Sheila I Hale Fort McMurray,AB,Canada cshale@home.com

I am new to the Erath County List and a VanBibber family researcher. Olive VanBibber married Thomas I. Fulfer and many of their descendants settled in Erath County. They had the following children: Jacob - 1846, John - 1848, Isaac - 1850, Newton - 1854, George - 1858, James - 1860, Texanna - 1862, and Jefferson D. - 1864. I would greatly appreciate any information anyone may have on the Fulfers of Erath County. Thanks! Gary R. Hawpe.......San Diego, CA.

Hello, all. Do death certificates exist for Erath Co., in the early 1900's? I am trying to find some info on my great-grandmother, Lula Bell STEWARD, who died in Dublin in 1913. All I have from family records is that she was supposedly nee BIRD (Byrd), and born around 1882, probably in AR. Her husband, my great-grandfather, Will STEWARD, died in 1906 and is buried at Comyn. If anybody has any ideas, leads or research, I would be most appreciative. My grandfather was 10 when his mother died, and went to live in Navarro County with his grandparents, Robert STEWARD and Sidnie (pick a spelling) OWENS STEWARD. Help! I need HELP! Thanks, John -- “I remember the Alamo, but I forgot where I parked...” Howdy from John in San Antonio!

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