Most Keiths were between Dublin, De Leon, and Proctor in good peanut and now dairy country. Most attended BMA Missionary Baptist Churches, nor Southern Bro. Ernest Ripetoe was raised near them at Pontotoc and other small churches. Howard Keith was a Grocery truck driver who was ordained by the Rev. Emil Becker, pastor of First Baptist in Stephenville when Bro. Keith was well past 40. He pastored at Pony Greek Baptist , across a brach from the Box Methodist church, school, and Lof=dge Hall, all now gone but for the Baptist and it is inactive. Bro. Keith was a strong doctorinal pastor with 1 hour or more sermons, but no one dozed- he was too interesting. His wife, on the front seat, was Methodist. Once he bought a retired minister from a rest home on Sunday and deliberately misread the scripture. The older man shouted NO! Bro Keith said- What's wrong- The old man told him to read it right or don't read it. Then Bro, Keith said "That's Right- some of the rest of you said nothing. A Communist could misread scripture and make you believe it. Don't believe anything a preacher says unless you study the scripture and decide you agree, but let it be your decision, not his. "We all laughed, and he said they had planned this lesson on the way from the Nursing home. In Scotland The Clan Keith was near the castle of Clan Gunn, which included Wylys. They were enemies at one time. A Gunn was planning her wedding and the Keiths raided and took her captive and locked her in a castle tower. She died jumping from a window rather marry a Keith. Some of the Stone kin in Stephenville were Gunns- mom-s distant Arkansas cousins in Stephenville. We all got along great in Erath County except when the Whites and Blacks got their rifles and barricated the Comanche Hwy and stopped a Comanche Lynch mob from burning Black homes in Dublin- The Dublin party sent the Vigilantes home . They had left both black farm hands and a white drifter or two for the murder of a farm wife. Murderrer was never proved- the black farm hand was in the field working when she was killed, some neighbors said, but the Central Texas Rangers under John R Baylor had learned how to stage raids and blame Caddo Indians to have an excuse to send them to Caddo Oklahoma via Fort Phantom Hill in Abilene. Happy hunting, Charles Wyly On Sun, 9 Aug 1998 02:22:07, -0500 SYLB26A@prodigy.com (MS DEBORAH L WOOLF) writes: >hi again. > > Leucy KEITH I think goes back to Nickodemus KEITH also, but >I do not show him to be an immigrant so maybe we are talking >different generations. I could be wrong and it is a Nickodemus >BRUMBLEOW line. I have to pull out this data and get it together for >you before I can be sure of anything. I have not worked it for >several years but looked up much a few years back for a cousin who is >direct descendant of the Leucy KEITH md. Chana MULLINS. Abijah KEITH >is also familiar, and I'm thinking this was father of my Leucy.....so >let me get back to you okay? > >Chana MULLINS was born @ 1865-69 ARK to Wm. Maston "Willie"MULLINS >and Nancy Lue BRIGGS FERGUSON (widow of Ward FERGUSON). The >FERGUSON children she had md. in TX and some remain ni Erath Co. area. > > >Coincidentally I have a TN THOMPSON line which is rather hard to >trace. I see your have it as a middle name for ROSS....perhaps >someday we'll find a connection to that line as well. > my THOMPSONs were the children of Elizabeth "Betsey" LONG who md. > unk. THOMPSON man and > lived in Ivy Long, Union Co.GA 1850. Her son James M. (Manuel?) >THOMPSON md. Sarah (Louisa > or Matilda) LEATHERWOOD and moved to Marshall Co. ALA by 1880 >and then into OKLA and TX. > James M. THOMPSON listed as widower in 1920 Live Oak Co. TX >living with son Hiram Virgil. > sibs of James M. included: Louada Ann \ > Caroline / unsure >if they came to OKLA or TX but names they > Lavada / may have >md. include: FORTNER and HUNLEY > children of James M. included: Sarah Louada "Ada" md. (1) Lee >ANDERSON (2) ESSARY > Cordelia "Della" md. > MOORE > Cinda Arvie/Orvie >or Cintha md. John ? > Florence md. Will >or Arthur DUNN > >so if these THOMPSON look familar please respond. I've very >interested in the CHerokee connections to THOMPSON for several >reasons, one is that LEATHERWOOD is reportedly mixed heritage and (2) >Eliz. LONG THOMPSON family lived close to many mixed heritage >families in Ivy Log, GA including David THOMPSON group. This group >descends from the STARR and RIDER/RYDER lines. >I'm leaving for about one week and will look for Brumbelo then. > >Thanks,Debbie > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ 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]