i just returned saturday from THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS and some great places. i stayed one night in johnson city and met pat althaus tuesday at her ofice in the courthouse. she is a fine lady and pretty well versed on blanco county and its history. she helped me find post oak cemetery where i located the grave of a 3d great grandfather and i took pics of quite a few headstones there. i also photographed stones in gillespies stonewall and trinity lutheran cemeteries. spent the next night in fredericksburg. went to llano for cooper's bbq. could not find anyone to help with the stadt friedhof or greenwood cemeteries so i left the next morning for mason. located and stopped at the gooch cemetery but could not locate my relative's grave there and i went on to coleman to meet up with a cousin who works with me on family history. in mccolloch county i stopped at fife cemetery and photographed almost all stones in it - a few were unreadable. we went on to abilene and while there i was in anson and stamford. took a few fotos in stamford's cemetery but we failed to locate the gravesite of our relative there. i returned to louisiana saturday via gustine in comanche county. stopped in at gustine and met a distant cousin and quite a few of his folks. i took a few fotos in the evergreen cemetery there and later took a lot in the hazeldell cemetery. i wanted to stop in gatesville to visit a lady but was just too tired and ready to get back here. me and my cousin are researching: westfall, cauley, blanco county smith, george webb slaughter and i am researching mother's family - feeler, from callahan, crane, upton and ector counties. lewis westfall