Marilyn Ewers has your Gillentines her book "Some History of Johnsville, Pony Creek, and Chalk Mountain . They were in the Pizarro Post office area. /some are buried in same graveyards from Johnsville to Acton, apparently, or their kin- . This apparently includes Hollis, Crockett, Beach, Willingham, Some are buried in a cemetery no longer fenced or maintained in a thick cedar grove on Beach- Rumph land- the old Box/Pony Creek cemetery to the front and right of the church---Not the rock fenced Beech cemetery, nor the Box cemetery behind the church. Marilyn also lista associates of Beach family as Gillentine, Wood, Duke, Evans, Anderson, Rumph, Crockett, & Willingham. Get her book. She has good bgeneral info and has also read all headstones in the county. Across the Paluxy at Acton, Hood County, is the burial site of a wife of one who died at the Alamo. Think it was a Crockett. Between the Chalk Mountain hill and Glen Rose is the Nancy Smith Cemetery, widow of Deaf Smith of Alamo fame. There was a school named Crockett 3 miles west of Box Church, on the prairie west of Hurley and Riggs land. My great Uncle Ed Fleming, Missouri born, taught there. When he caught 3 boys chewing tobacco in the back of the room and spitting through a knothoke, he told them to wash their mouth at the pump. take a fresh chew, and stand with hands on knees and chew and spit 10 times. Each time the knothole was missed, the boy got a lick with a paddle. This school was so rough they ran several teachers off. One young lady, an attorney,s sister, took the job. At recess it seemed they were trying to hit her with the baseball. She tightened her hold on the bat, stepped back, swung, and split the bat. She had no more trouble. Happy hunting Charles Wyly On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:52:24 -0500 "Wayne Moyers" <wmoyers@flash.net> writes: > >Dee, > >I am a Gillentine descendant (my mother was a Gillentine) and have a >great >deal of information on the Gillentines. If you will visit our webpage >at >http://www.flash.net/~wmoyers/surnames.htm and look thru the Index of >Surnames and click on Gillentine, you will find my database. I have >much >more information that is not on the web so contact me if you want >more. Also >if you will visit http://www.hcnews.com/~landmark/tomgreen.htm and >look up >"Dove Creek Battleground" you will find where Captain Nicholas M. >Gillentine >of the Texas Militia (from Erath County) was killed in a battle with >indians >in Tom Green County. > >Frances Moyers DAR, DRT >wmoyers@flash.net >Granbury, Texas > > _____________________________________________________________________ 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]