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]