I've sent your question to my mother, Linda Herring. Besides being an Erath County decendent, she is a school teacher and was just telling me the other day that she has a ton of Texas History stuff she is bringing home from school. She is retiring after this year (in 4 days!) and is cleaning out her classroom. Sarah :) --- PJHDNH@aol.com wrote: > My late husband's grandparents were William Avery > "Pappy" Huckabee b. 1875 > AL, d. 1962 Morgan Mill, Erath Co. Tx., married > Lamora Elizabeth Herring, > daughter of Mark Herring and Malissa Francis > Hightower. All of these were early > settlers of Morgan Mill area. I have heard many > stories about them, and would love > to hear more stories. > What I really want to find is a book that was > probably written in the late > 1950's about 'old time cowboys'. A young man came > to Ft. Worth, Texas and > interviewd "Pappy" Huckabee about his life as a real > cowboy as a young man before > and about the turn of the century ( late 1800's and > early 1900's). I was there > when the young man came for the interview but I > didn't get his name or who he > was from. And I did not hear the interview. > If anyone knows the name of the book etc, I would be > ever so grateful to know > this and where I can get a copy. I have heard that > "Pappy" actually was on > trail drives on the Chisholm and Goodnight trails. I > would like to have this > story for our grandchildren and no one in the family > seems to know who it was > that was writing the story. > Thanks for any help... > dh > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com > http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: > TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > ARCHIVES: > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > Sarah Herring Claburn http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=sarclaburn Researching: Herring - Thornton - Sechrist - Lammert - Timian - Torrans - Squyres - Claburn Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html