Hi, I notice the name Daffin in your reply. Wonder if the Ghost town of Duffau could have been a bad reading of Daffin printed? The old Duffau had 2 story brick buildings , a railroad station- and taxi service to Stephenville, which had no early railroad. Duffau was on the Duffau Creek and was thought to have been named for an Indian named Duffau, do you suppose his name in Arkansas or other Cherokee background was really Daffin- just wondering. For Example- the Paytons of Payton- Frakes Dairy in Stephenville were descended from the Hewitt and Crawford area Patton families.The Patton community has a sign pointing towards Crawford from Hwy 6. a Patton told me this at a garage sale at an old house on I-35 in Hewitt. He had books from the Patton store before 1900 which had family charges of opium, paregoric, and other drugs which were over the counter, but now illegal or Rx only. I bought the book for $1.00 as I remember. Print Patton and if you wave the crossing of one T and you have Payton. Gen. Patton of WW2 had Texas connections besides Fort Hood & Camp Bowie. He even trained his mechanics to buy, with a million or so of Patton money , from wrecking yards, anything stripped from Wrecking yards that fit Army trucks, as he knew thatOrdinance depots were understocked and paperwork was too slow to chase Rommel across North Africa. Rodgers is the German spelling of Rogers and Spanish Rodriquez and other Spanish spellings. Col. Honzie Rodgers retired at Walnut Springs after Korea on a ranch across the road from Col. Buck Barry, Texas Ranger, and family, near East Bosque or Flag Branch. Lorene Wyly also married a Rogers or Rodgers in Detroit, Mich. before moving home to Stephenville, The cooks I knew most about were the brothers in Glen Rose- barbers, I think- at least they met a lumber truck operator who needed repairs and swapped them the lumber for truck repairs. This led to Cook Brothers Building Materials on loop in Stephenville. "Bud" cook had a home in Stephenville near our rent house and bought Dr. Hatchett's retirement home Dr. Hatchett fought as a short term Ranger in Mexican War- with abrother & several Ga. & Tennessee cousins, and organized churches, Gonzales to Waco to Stephenville. He was my great Great Grandad. Bud Cook's daughter married my cousin, David Carey, who owns land from the Selden Cook place to the Duffau Creek Johnsville. Hope this helps. Charles Wyly On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 12:42:17 -0500 Frank <frankjax@mediaone.net> writes: >I am new to genealogy and I've been on this list for about a month. >I thought I would put up some family history to see if my family tree >ties in with anyone else on this list. > >My grandmother Vada COOK was born in Dublin, Erath in 1915. >She had a brother Herschel COOK and sister Lera May COOK. > >My great grandparents were Rhonel Earl COOK and Myrtle SCHOOLER, they >were married in 1913 in Erath. >Rhonel (Ronald) was shot in a watermelon patch at a young age in 1917. >After his death, Myrtle married Robert RODGERS in 1920 in Erath. >Myrtle died young about 1925. > >The untimely death of my great grandparents led to my grandmother and >her siblings being reared apart. >Over the years my granmother has lost any contact with relatives in >the area. > >Through the limited research I have done I have connections to the >following surnames in Erath county: >CABE, COOK, DAFFIN (DAUPHIN), RODGERS, SCHOOLER. If you notice any >connections please feel free to contact me. > > ___________________________________________________________________ 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]