Hi, May add to your confusion- will try to shed a little light on your request. Oldham County, Texas is west of Amarillo. The present county seat is Vega, 658 people. The old county seat was old Tascosa, the historic cattle town. Cal Farley's Boy's Ranch was started with the old Tascosa courthouse as the first dorm. It is still slightly rolling ranch country on the Canadian River. Vega is beautiful flat Irrigated country when anything is growing. Elton Wyly did live there- a descendant of Capt. Alfred Henderson Wyly, with Sam Houston at San Jacinto. Concerning Higginbothams, I believe the Corporate offices of Higginbotham Lumber , Hardware, and in the past some International Harvester dealerships is still in Comanche, Texas. The Higinbotham store is across the street facing the court house and the historic log house. We traded with Paul Higginbotham in Stephenville. He had clothing, shoes, and hardware next door. The first Farmall dealership was in the front of the lumber yard paint building, They had the old cables with cups hanging from rollers. To make change, the clerk gave a rope a sharp pull and the cup went flying up the cable to the cashier in a second story balcony office. The change came back in the cup. Grandad bought his first tractor - a 1936 BLUE (not red or Gray) F-12 farmall with red wheels from them It is still sitting on the Selden farm. Later they moved the tractors and trucks to a new building on Fort Worth Hiway. The county courthouse annex is now in the old corner location on the square. Paul fought widening the hiway through town- he was afraid the people would not slow down and shop. I heard dad tell him if he didn't quit fighting wider streets, the State would build a loop around the town. They did. The Funeral home was in the back of the hardware store- separate entrance.Ewell Jones ran it over 1/2 of my life. , a brother to Azalee Little. . It is now on the South Loop and is now Stephenville Funeral Home. I think Higginbotham Burial insurance is still in Comanche offices. Cross Plains and several other towns had a Higginbotham's . Cross Plains is nearly like the origionals. On the High Plains or Staked Plains there were a bunch of Higginbotham- Bartlett building materials stores and yards. A store manager told me, when I contracted to Discover card, that were thee same family ownership as the ones I knew, Don't know if Comanche office ran them too or not. Someone in the county office or in the Vega courthouse might could answer questions or point to someone who could. On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:55:54 -0500 Joan Gardner <jgardner@arlington.net> writes: >Between 1870-1880 the above families came to Dublin, Erath Co, Tx. >Looking for any info on AW Townsend who was married to Mary Martha >Weaver Townsend....their son, Frank W. Townsend was my ggrandfather. >Franklin C. Olham(1st postmaster in Dublin) who was married to >Virginia >Higginbotham Oldham, their daughter Pearl married the above Frank W. >Townsend. She was my ggrandmother. >John J. Higginbotham who was married to Lucy Ann Taylor >Higginbotham...their daughter was the above Virginia "Jenny" >Higginbotham Oldham. >Also, Mary Martha Weaver Townsend had a brother Stephen J. Weaver who >also came to Erath Co....his wife was Eunice. >Appreciate any help , Thanks, Joan > > _____________________________________________________________________ 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]