Joe Lee wrote (Hi Cousin-in-law!) <<Mr Wyly, Do you happen to know where Squaw Creek is? I am aware of the one by Glen Rose but this one must be somewhere around the Duffau, Johnsville, etc. area.Looking fwd to hearing from you...Joe Lee in Evant, Texas>> Good Question! My ancestors Ellis Ragsdill, Sr. and his son John Milligan Ragsdill** are shown the 1860 census as living at Squaw Creek, Erath County. As two of John's siblings turn up at Glen Rose by 1880, I had thought originally that Somervell may have been formed from Erath and it was basically the same creek. NOT SO, apparently. Somervell was formed from Hood and Johnson counties, neither of which were formed from Erath, so it must have been a different squaw creek. One thought occurred in doing a GNIS search, however. Erath County is full of dams. Any chance that Squaw Creek could have been a tributary of a larger creek like Duffau Creek or Green Creek, etc etc that has been lost by having been dammed up or its source being dammed up or something like that. Just a thought. I know VERY little about hte county and am handicapped by never having BEEN there. Can Mr. Wyly enlighten us on when these dams were built and on any lost place names, etc. resulting from this? I'll bet if we looked in land records, Joe, for our respective ancestors who lived on Squaw Creek, we might get some latitude and longitude coordinates that would tell us where these places were?????? Or were the grants like colonial ones, with the boundaries being landmarks like "the hollow tree" and "the corner of Jones' place" Kathryn Coombs