Alice Moore, My relative was Cos Turnbow who married my great-Aunt Clara Whisenant in the Dublin - Purvis area. Would you please send me a picture by e-mail of the cabin before it was dismantled? I would be very appreciative. It would add a lot to my genealogy records. If I can fill in any information for you, I would be very glad to do so. Theresa ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:13 PM Subject: [ERATH] Barbee Cabin in Dublin > Dana, > > Actually, that cabin in downtown Dublin was built by Chesley Turnbow and > later sold. I have never understood why credit was not given to the > Turnbow family as being the originator. It was a much larger cabin, but > when it was moved to Dublin only about a third of it was used. I was > given a small (foot long) portion on one of the logs that was left over > and in turn gave it to James William Turnbow, former professor of > engineering at Arizona State University ,a descendant of Chesley > Turnbow and Sabra Rose. > > >From Delma Turnbow Freeman's book "Our Kin Past and Present" > > Great grandfather brought his good Tennessee horses to Texas and traded > two mares for five hundred acres of land valued at five hundred dollars. > This was before Erath County was created out of Bosque and Coryell > Counties in 1856, and the land was originally a part of McLennan County. > The tract was purchased from James Stephen, and was out of the original > grant to Sion Blythe. This property was approximately seven miles south > of the present town of Dublin. > > The site chosen for their new home was on the west side of Resley Creek, > and near a good spring of water. Here they built a double log cabin with > open dog trot through the center. Immense fireplaces were built at the > east and west ends of the house. The walls, built dovetail fashion, were > of oak logs, and underpinnings were found to be six inch long wood pegs. > > Uncle Jim Turnbow, once s aid that great grandfather went to the Leon > river and cut bur oak timber for the hand hewn roof boards. For some > reason, bur oak was believed t make a superior roof. > > On September 25, 1858, Chesley and wife, sold the Resley Creek place of > 500 acres and the log house, to Mr Jones Barbee for $1,250.00 (Erath > County Deeds, book C--pg 35)............The house was dismantled about > 1970 and is now in the process of being restored, in Dublin, as a small > museum." > > I'm not trying to take anything from the Barbee family, but I do believe > that Chesley Turnbow should get credit for building the cabin. I have a > photograph of it before it was dismantled---just the fireplaces had been > removed. > > Alice Moore > President, Turnbow Cemetery Association > > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2002 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: [email protected] http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: [email protected] > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >