Hi, Ever hear of MILES THORNTON? He was retired from Texas Highway Patrol early and was head Coach of football and Basketball at Walnut Springs High Schol. They had outstanding teams and his son GLEN and 3 McCARTY'S got football scholarships to College. Glen graduated when I was Principal and he was in the group we carried on a Senior Trip. Miles remarried to the daughter of a Dr. Calhoun- wANDA, Who had inherited her dad's Calhoun Ranch where there were Indian Burial grounds on top of one mountain and another Indian Burial Grounds in a valley nearby. also. JENNA THORNTON was a sophomore in Stephenvolle High and lived with parents in Chalk Mountain- Plainview area on their ranch near Moore families. I was a Senior that year, and they had a scotch- irish famil;y party with ring games for all ages, mostly single, while parents sat under trees and made ice creasm, then we all ate together and listened to Country folk band music played by rural amateur musicians. We rode the same cus, and she had a 1 or mote bus ride. Oscar Parham owned his School bus and contracted to Stephenville High for student transportation. He ran about 100 miles a day, and between Runs he worked at Stephenville International Harvester tractor and truck House. MR. PARHAM WAS RAISED in Chalk mountain and knew about the cavern entrance which was filled in by locals who were tired of loosing hounds who chased Bobcats into it. The part visible today has rock overhand which would be dry shelter for a few hundred sheep."Bull"ADAMS, a retired Rhodes Scholar, also found 4 indian burials under one overhang of hill creek. this was where homer Stephen's uncle lived when he ran the ox cart supplies from Waco to Fort Graham and Fort Griffin . Charles Wyly On Thu, 19 May 2005 15:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Sarah Herring Claburn <sbclaburn@yahoo.com> writes: > Hi all! I haven't posted in awhile…been busy with my 2 > kids. Anyway, I had a WONDERFUL experience. I got to > see my Grandpa, Tullie Herring, for a few days. He is > 98? now and still has fairly decent hearing and a good > memory. I got him telling me stories - like when he > and Grandma Clara got married in a cotton field in > Erath County for $2, and when he got 3 of his toes run > over by a train down in Willis, Tx. > > Anyway, my mother has her Thornton trilogy being > re-published. Cindy knows about these books - it's the > story of the Daniel and Mary Anna Thornton settling > into Erath County. They should be on sale any time now > - they are in a set of 4 called "Texas Dreams" and you > can find them in Christian bookstores as well as > WalMart. Oh, and her name is Linda Herring. > > Take care! > Sarah Herring Claburn > > Sarah Herring Claburn > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=sarclaburn > > Researching: > Herring - Thornton - Sechrist - Lammert - Timian - Torrans - Squyres > - Claburn > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail Mobile > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail > > > ==== 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 > >