Dad grew up with a Johnson family at Selden (or near and in church and school with them. ) There were several boys and one girl. ALL were athletes and used to be active in baseball at Selden school picnics- Thanksgiving & othere. The boys were all over 6 feet tall. Dad said during family dinners they would start horseplay the day before returning home, never mad, and wrestle until they damaged the stairs banister and took the front door down. They would all laugh, quit, and fix everything better than it was before they went to their own homes. The older generation I knew were CLIFFORD JOHNSON ( W.C.) Cliff had 2 sons, Royce Lee, my age, and Jimmy, younger, who worked in an Arizina service station and ended up owning it and a refinery near it. ELMER JOHNSON, married a Brown- I went to Pony Creek Church and Selden church some with Elmer and familyElmer had one son and some daughters. One day , about the last year the Riggs- Hollis thresher ran, on the Johnson home place I saw Elmer and Marvin Tolar each grab a broad seed fork. They would walk up to a 10 bundle shock of oats, hit it from opposite sides, and throw the whole thing in a bundle wagon, late in the evening. I have seen him take a sack of oats, about 60 lbs. and grab one with each hand in perfect rythem, without grunting and alternately fill a trailer. Dad started playing with him ( I was about 17}, and dropped some ice down his back. He grabbed dad and picked him up with one arm and gently rolled him over his shoulder and back. , both laughing the entire time. JOTT JOHNSON TIM JOHNSON retired from running a dairy across from the Carey land and joining his dad-s home place. May have been part of the home place to the Duffau Creek- was in Johnsville School Dist. but they attended Selden, now Stephenville Dist. Sid (ALBERT SIDNEY) JOHNSON ( No, this one was not Johnston). Scotty Johnston and parents lived on \Cedar Point Road from U.S. 67. Scotty ran an auto parts store in Stephenville. M.E. JOHNSON- the only girl- married Gail Stevens, a Primitive Baptist Preacher who had a sandy Peanut farm across the road from the Moncrief Dairy , home of Tom Arendell's log cabin, first house in that part of the county . Gail had fruit orchard and a vegetable farm. Their sons were WILLIE GAIl, 1 year older than me. I used to see him at State Vocational Teachers summer workshops. He was a basketball official and one daughter played on a team that went to Russell. He married a Tate about the time he retired. Sid Van, Vance and Charles were the other 3 brothers. Hope I did not miss one. Think it was Sid who married a Neblett and did Production Credit or some farm agency in Gatesville and Waco. I have lived in the Waco area for about 20 years and kept touch with Stephenville through trips to see parents on the farm and in the rest home and various reunions. My apologies if I left some out above. Johnsons had an arena between Salem and Johnsville , or, between Selden and Duffau, where they broke horses and rode calves for fun on Sunday afternoon. This is just north of the present Dutch owned Dairies which import some of their workers from Holland and had a banquet and dance a few years ago with a band from Holland. All dairymen met their assignments then the party. This road leads into Duffau. There was a Lee who ran Dr. Malloy's Chalk Mountain farm & ranch. He was black and well respected- he was raised by a white couple with 2 sons his age when his mom died. They had two boys his age. When he went to Stephenville hae wore a suit, checked vest, tie, hat, & dress shoes.as an adult. They shopped Dublin some. He was an expert in helping neighbors doctor and train horses. He used to help a Meadors or other school board members kill a calf and at midnight he would start bar B O in a wash pot for Johnsville school closings. If any woman wanted to rest from housework or field and entertain the small kids she might take the cotton to the Riggs Gin at Johnsville. Mr. Lee would not gin ahead of the women but the men would not get ahead of him. He was well liked. We called him, at his request, the name Martin Luther King used with pride, not the one Jesse Jackson uses.We meant nothing derogatory and he knew that. Derogatory remarks are more in the tone of voice and attitude than the actual centuries old words. We all had fun eating and playing baseball together. On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:51:25 -0500 (CDT) Don Cage <doncage@flash.net> writes: >I find myself anticipating mail from TXERATH. Thanks Mr. Wyly! >Thought I >would post some of my connects. > >THOMAS MCLEOD LEE, b. Sept. 7, 1857, Ala. married REBECCA ARIZONA >SALMON, b. >Dec. 8, 1870, Erath Co. 7 Children, among them my Grandfather, HOMER >P. >LEE. He married JESSIE M. JOHNSON, daughter of LEONIDAS K. JOHNSON and >ERIE >HERPS. All of these people lived in Clairette and surrounding >area...Alexander, Salem, Hico, Walnut springs. > >THOMAS MCLEOD LEE came to the area from Barbour Co., Ala. with his >parents >and 1 sister, LUCINDA ELIZABETH LEE. His father was ANDREW V. LEE, m. >NANCY >MCLEOD. > >I have the LEES back to 1700's in N.C. I am having trouble with the >JOHNSON >and HERPS lines in my family. Anybody have any clues? Mr. Wyly, do >you >know anything of any of these people? > >Many Thanks, > >Donna Lee Cage >Cedar Creek, Tx. > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ 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]