Hi, Re. Pruitt & Leatherman Cled Pruitt was one of my teachers in the "Big" (4 &5 grades). he had a 1937 Ford Coupe . We went to baseball games with other rural schools, part sitting 2 deep in the front and part of us sitting in the back with the trunk lid up. We coughed up chalk & gravel dust the first 4 or 5 innings. One Pruitt today runs a Glen Rose Real Estate office with a Hico branch. He is on the internet. Chalk Mountain hills are popular with some American Airlines pilots for luxurious home locations. M. D. Pruitt was our Pony Creek pastor while he attended the seminary. There was a Pruitt Ranch. Some of them lived at Selden. the Box (Pony Creek) church was active 120 years but is inactive now. He became a pastor of a large and still growing church in Mesquite, Texas and his men there restored and painted the Pony Creek church building. Think he is semi retired now. He once said he used to stand outside at Pony Creek and look across Rough Creek & the Paluxy towards the present Comanche Peak nuclear plant and see smoke from 4 or 5 stills. Times change- Propane doesn't smoke. Tennessee habits were hard to break. Some moonshiners did not allow their kids to drink until they were 18 and they were good neighbors. I never had a problem with a child of a moonshiner or a bootlegger, . Can't say that about some legal club owners. Ever hear of the 40 gallon Baptist Church in West Virginia, where they were building a church and members pledged 40 gallons of Moonshine a year as their tithe to the budget? It was legal then and roads from Knoxville to Virginia & S.C. were single Indian trails for 1 pack mule only. Corn in the jug was easier to transport and sell in a jug than a wagon load of ear or shelled corn. I have photos of Marable and other schools in them (from books) with Pruitts in them. Also, The Leathermans lived at Cedar Point. I remember two or more brothers with large families. We attended Cedar Point singings and sometimes a revival with dinner under the Brush Arbor. One Leatherman from there married a sister of my Double Cousin 's husband Melvin Tarpley. Christine Leatherman married a Mills- brother to Marilyn Giesekie Mills Ewer's first husband. Christine worked for Jake (Roach) and Dorothy's cafe in Stephenville for over 30 years. Will try to recopy the Cedar Point history to make it dark enough to read. Many Leathermans were in the photos. T ake care Charles Wyly. On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 12:08:56 -0600 Julia Brewer <juliab@flash.net> writes: >Hi again, >I wanted to post this separately. > >My GG-grandfather, Alfred CARGILL m. Susan PRUITT (both from Claiborne >Parish, La) >He served in the Confederate Army and joined up in ERATH Co. with >Company F. 8th Texas Infantry. > >My ggg-grandparents were Derostus CARGILL and Delilah LEATHERMAN. from >La. > >Many of the PRUITTs LEATHERMANs HEADs and all CARGILLs in Erath Co. >may >be related to me. They all moved from Louisiana to Milam and Erath >Counties in the mid 1800s. >Thank you, >Julia > > ___________________________________________________________________ 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]