Hi,Carl and Sharon My sources include- besides growing up in a county where my great Grandad had 14 of his 23 Siblings from Georgia in the county with him- and Mom's Carey, hipp, Copeland, Stone, Carey and other Arkansas cousins in Erath County: SOME HISTORY OF THE JOHNSVILLE, PONY CREEK, AND CHALK MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES WHO CONSOLIDATED TO FORM THE THREE WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS-285 pages of photos and family group histories, by Marilyn Giesecke Mills Ewers, 900 Glen Rose Road, Stephenville, Texas 76401 254-965-4984 ERATH COUNTY CEMETERY READINGS by Marylin Giesecke Mills Ewers, above GRAND OL' ERATH, 1974, Volume 1. by H.Grady Perry, Texas House of Representatives and Johnsville store owner on U.S.67, not the old post office. MEMORIES OF CLARA STIGLER ATKINS- CAN-T FIND EXACT NAME NOWS sHE WAS JOHNSVILLE, MERIDIAN, LINGLEVILLE, AND GRANDBURY TEACHER BORN IN CHALK MOUNTAIN. COPELAND FAMILY HISTORY, 1937 for reunion in Huricane Baptist Church, Clinton, South Carolina- Old Laurens District- some records in Mecklenburg County. Had me and younger cousins in Erath County, Texas listed. Included Vaughn- Vaughan, Nabors- Neighbors, German Hipp, White, Dillard, Carey, and others- from mom's scrapbook. HANDWRITTEN MOXLEY- FLEMING- MURPHY-AND OTHER MISSOURI AND INDIAN CREEK NOTES FROM 5 GENERATIONS WHO LIVED IN AND VISITED THE INDIAN CREEK MOXLEY HOME. SEVIER FAMILY HISTORY- With the letters of Gen. John Sevier (Rev. War Col., Governor of Franklin, 6 times governor of Tennessee at Knoxville) 550 pages by Cora Bailes Sevier and Nancy Sevier Madden. Includes Clarks, Kay, Wyly, Rampley, King, Sevier, & others in Central Texas. CLEVELAND GENEAOLOGY OF 1899 prepared for President Grover Cleveland in several volumes. Includes some Wyly, Clark, Cleveland, & Sevier descendants in Texas.sOME DATES AND PROVEABLE MARRIAGES ARE QUESTIONED BY dar SINCE 1970, BECAUSE ONE MAN HAD A TYPESETTING ERROR- HE WAS BORN AFTER HE DIED. TENNESSEE COUSINS, AN OLDER BOOK WITH FAMILY GROUPINGS. sOME DATES AND CONNECTIONS NEED CHECKING, NOTABLE SOUTHERN FAMILIES- DOUBLE CHECK ALL DATES. KNOXVILLE, 1958, by Betsy Beeler Creedmore. Includes Ramseys, Jack, Gillespie, McAllie, Sevier, Carey, Rankin, Cherokee Nancy Ward, Blont, and many more. YESTERDAY'S ATLANTA, 1977, BY Franklin M. Garrett. Many photos. THE PATRIOTS AT KING'S MOUNTAIN, 1990 by Bobby Gilmer Moss. The guides are now researching who the Black soldiers in N.C. , Ga, & Tenn. & S.C. militias were. Toby Cleveland , Col. Ben's gunsmith and blacksmith is probably one. It separates those known to be there from probables and those standing by at Burke Courthouse waiting for reinforcements. James Wyly was in this group but fought at Shallowford and Cowpens and made Banastare (?) Tarleton, British Officer, pay for massacreing Colonial Rebel families in the Carolinas TENNESSEE, A SHORT HISTORY 640 PAGES.W ELL RESEARCHED. BY STANLEY j. FOLMSBEE AND OTHERS. FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE THE CHEROKEE INDIAN ROLLS IN WACO GENEAOLOGY LIBRARY. anyone in Arkansas before 1900 had Cherokee blood or a close kin who did . 1/64 or less got eligibility for land. Sam Houston, Texas President said all of mixedotr full blood of any INDIAN tribe could settle on reservation north and east of Tyler.Pres. Lamar said no reservation but they could stay on their own farms . Thus, Cherokee County, and Alabama -Coshuta Reservation. THE TRAIL OF TEARS- BOOK- GIVES EXAMPLES OF ONES WHO HAD BOTH gone west early living in Anglocultur and those who were forced to go. Names many who were ancestors of Present day Oklahoma and Arkansas. TEXAS STATE LIBRARY- AUSTIN STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS- best for records of war with Mexico. If your ancestor was in Texas and volunteered to Scout for Taylor's ARMY, THEY MAY BE LISTED AS DESERTERS ACTUALLY, MEN LIKE DR.HATCHETT AND HIS BROTHER WERE PART OF THE TEMPORARY TEXAS RANGERS UNDER TEXAS JURISDICTION FOR 3 MONTHS. AT THE END OF THAT TIME, Army CONSIDERRED THEM awol EVEN THOUGH TtEXAS LAW CONSIDERRED THEIR TIME UP. Only Capt. Ben McCulough and his men from the Waco area stayed with the Army and saved them from slaughter by scoutiong. These Ranger volunteers were the first force in the world to charge the enemy with a six gun in each hand , fireing 12 times. U.S. Army rode forward, stopped horses, got off, fired a single shot, loaded, tamped, remounted, and charged again. This has been on recent PBS TV stations, explaining Austin records people find , fail to understand, and some ignore. Waco- mclennan county library is better than the one above for Texas immigrants after Mexican war, 1845. THE TEXAS COLLECTION- Baylor University, Waco NOT THE MAIN LIBRARY THE SONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS LIBRARY- AUSTIN-was in the old Land Office Building on capitol grounds. THE ALAMO LIBRARY- San Antonio. First records I found of Capt. Alfred Henderson Wyly of East Tennessee and his East Texas Redlanders- mostly Balch in laws or cousins from Greeneville Tennessee- and Henderson, Texas. They joined Sam Houston with 2 other Groups at Groce's Crossing the day Sam Houston turned and fought. He knew the Texas and Yucatecian Navies had kept Santa Anna's navy from meeting him in Texas rivers with food and ammo. Santa Anna's navies never got out of Vera Cruz and he was hungry and low on supplies Texas Admiral Moore settled in San Angelo, Texas. after New Orleans businessmen had repossessed much of the navies. THE TEXAS NAVIES by Rear Admiral Robinson, Eulogy, Texas. . THE SAN JACINTO RECORDS IN THE MONUMENT- pLAQUE IN THEATRE ROOM HONORS THOSE ABOVE. Sevier Reeunion and records- Gatlainburg, Tenn and Wyly Reunion shared records, Stephenville, Texas. AND TARRANT TUGGLE, HERNDON, HATCHETT, WYLY , Mitchell, Eddins, Yowell and related info exchanged with Jim Hatchett, Baird, Texas Velma Kay Hutchins, Houston, Texas Janice Ranee Clark, Houston, Texas for Wyly, Clark , Tarrant, Tuggle, herndon, Hatchett and other info in Ga. and central Texas. (Dr. Hatchett's mom Liza Tuggle and Rev. B.T.Stevens & wife, his wive's parents of Georgia are buried Selden Hatchett Cemetery- In Belgium Tuggle was Tugglestine a few centuries ago. Tarrant, Tuggle and Herndon families made navy Uniforms 300 years in Bradford England. One gave the present Christ Church to Bradford congregation). ) Mattie Roberts Somerville, Clinton, La. Margaret Budd Stephenson, Covington, Georgia, Jerry Taylor, Hiawasse Georgia Lemuel David Wyly, Jr. , Atlanta, Ga. Van Hipp, Charleston, South Carolina Dr. Sandra lee, Dallas, Georgia. cemeteries and historic homes in Tennessee and Georgia Janice (Kay) Furman , Albequerque, New Mexico (Family of John Kay, first Selden postmaster and Stephenville businessman) Janice Wyly Slaughter, Stephenville born, Siblings Atlanta born, dad had Stephenvolle and other stores and cotton yards. including Mineola, Dallas, Galveston Compress, and Comanche, where Ben F. Wyly is buried. He lost an eye in Civil War Battle of Knoxville & granddaughter janice Married Georger Slaughter of Slaughter Ranch. , Roswell headquarters. She traced family back into Europe, I think. Jan Shaw, Erath county roots & Oklahoma researcher of Eugene Wyly and Loudelia Bateman, married Stephenville, Texas. She is on Cherokee Rolls & from Mecklenburg County, Va to Augusta Ga. for Scotch Irish roots. Rex Carey for exchanging Erath County, Arkansas, and Tenn. & Sc roots of Carey, Stone, Bateman, Copeland, Hipp and related families. and last but definitely not least - the personal contact with so many Erath County folk at Pony Creek and Selden church centenials, and other church and school activities Thresher, combine, harvest and hay crews, and knowing neighbors who did not lock their doors and dug the graves of friends until I was grown. . Pardon me if I missed someone. On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:36:05 -0500 Carl and Sharon Bean <ceb@xit.net> writes: >Hi: > >We are really enjoying your stories about the families. We were just >there in Dublin, Lingleville and Stephenville finding and taking >photo's >of headstones in the cemetaries. We did our hunting, early evening, >when it was not QUITE so hot. > >The information you are sharing, is it from a publication that can be >purchased? Would you check these surnames for any entries. > >Sharon >Texas Panhandle > > _____________________________________________________________________ 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]