Hi, I went to high school with Elaine Bishop of Chalk Mountain, 1944-46. She and Dixie Stasey and several more were on the bus when it got to my stop. In Stephenville, you want to check the public library AND thge Farleton State University library. The 10 year collection of historic calendars by Dan Young for Town and Country Bank had daily notations with source for each. Many newspapers have come and gone, and don't forget Hico mail routes cover a lot of southeast Erath County, but all of Hico City limits is in Hamilton County. Their Historic society is on the Internet. Iredell and Walnut Springs are in Bosque County. Will check, but I don't see Bishops listed in Marilyn Mill Ewers's Three Way School PTA history. For a few years records in Erath County were kept in Waco, possibly Milam County before that. These Waco records in the McLennan County Tax office are very brittle but are available to r4esearchers. Most of my research has been in Waco Public Library Geneaology section, some in Texas State Library in Austin (especially good for Spanish and Republic of Texas History), and working and visiting in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee (Sevier Reunion), Georgia, and South Carolina, The University of North Texas in Denton has an unusually large collection of history of Texas Germans in both German and English, Sons of Hermann Lodges might help direct you to Texas German history and the SPJST lodges in Dallas, Ennis, West, Cameron , and Houston & Fayette County & El Campo can do the same for the Czechoslovakin researchers, sometimes reported as German, depending on when Germany was ruling the Moravian Provinces. The best research for Civil War period concerning Texas is the Confederate Research Center at Hill College, Hillsboro, Texas, next to a 100 store outlet Mall. Hood's Texas Brogade gatherred nearby and went east to disaster. Happy hunting,, Charles Wyly On Sat, 07 Nov 1998 08:22:54 -0600 "Kisha M. Dante" <kishad@hia.net> writes: >Helo all, >I am new to the list and wanted to introduce myself and let ya'll know >who I am researching. My name is Kisha and I have been doing >genealogy >research since this past summer. I have been incredibly fortunate in >my >research. One reason for this is that I live near Houston and have >access to a verry good genealogy library. The other reason for that >is >that I have stumbled across some very helpful people on the internet >who >have steared me in the right direction in my research. > >Here is the Erath Co. research that I am doing. My grandmother, >Francis >Aline BISHOP was born in Erath Co. in July 26, 1914. Her Father >Walter >BISHOP born December 1885 in Erath Co. Tx. His parents were Jim R. >BISHOP born july 1853 and Alvira/Elvire E. ? born June 1851 both in >Mississippi. They had six children that I know of: Alice b. 1874 in >Mississippi, Bula b. 1877 in Erath Co., Joseph/Robert b. 1880 in Erath >Co., Walter b. 1885 in Erath Co., Neffie b. 1887 in Erath Co and >Millie >B. 1890 In Erath Co. From what I understand, Walter left the family, >and my grandmother would never talk about him. I don't know if there >was a divorce or not, but I really don't have any information other >than >what I have written above. > >Frances Aline BISHOP's mother was Gertrude ELMORE b. 1893 in Indian >Territory Gertrude's parents were Francis ELMORE b. 1862 in Illinois >and Mary Ida ELLIOTT b, October 1875 in Erath Co. I beleive that >Francis ELMORE and Mary Ida ELLIOT were married in Erath Co. July >1892. >They had the following children: Gertrude b. 1893 IT. Seldan b. 1894 >IT, Goldie b. 1898 IT, Audrey b. 1900 IT, Jewell b. 1902 IT, Georgia >B. >1903 IT. Dovie B. 1907 IT and Fannie B. 1908 in Erath Co. The family >was still in Erath Co. for the 1910 census, but I believe they moved >to >Strawn, Palo Pinto Co. shortly after. Mary Ida (ELLIOTT) ELMORE died >1942 and in burried in Strawn. I have yet to be able to find any >death >information for Francis ELMORE. > >Mary Ida ELLIOTT's parents were Hugh S. ELLIOTT and Betty ROBERTS b. ? >in Arkansas. Hugh S. ELLIOTT was born May 24, 1849 in Missouri. I >have >found him on the tax rolls for Erath Co. starting in 1874. He died in >Erath Co and is burried in Mt Zion cemetery Mrch 24, 1924. He >re-married Maggie F. (?) ELLIOTT in 1888. I can find him listed on >the >census after he married Maggie, but nothing but the tax records when >he >was married to Betty Roberts. The story from my aunts is that Mary >Ida >ELLIOTT was 1/2 or 3/4 Cherokee. I think they may have been hiding >from >the census takers...who knows? > >Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to put as much information here as >I >had in hopes that it would ring a bell with someone and maybe tie in >with someone else's research. Also, can anyone tell me what type of >holdings the genealogy society in Erath Co. has? I would like to make >a >trip up there to dig around. And is it quicker to send directly to >Erath co for records than it is to send off to the state? That one >month plus turn around time from Austin is just too much for an >impatient person like me. > >Thanks for the read > >Kisha Dante > > ___________________________________________________________________ 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/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]