Hi, sorry if I have repeated this before, but Paul Killion married Balma Gristy, both about 15-20 years older than me. We farmed the Ned and Ida Head Gristy place in Johnsville during WW2. He died rather young and Balma re married Homer Davis. You mentioned the Mills family. Was this the same family as Marion Mills of Johnsville who married Minnie Little of Johnsville? Most of their sons worked for dad in seasonal farm work at one time or another. One of Marion Sr.'s sons now runs the Mills Construction Company and is now doing a new lake near the Bosque - possibly on it, for either the City of Clifton or Meridian- both have similar projects since Waco pulled of the proposed Lake Bosque. A brother to the one who has the Construction Company is now a Texas Highway Patrolman in Hamilton, Texas. Their mom was Marilyn Giesekie Mills Ewers who gatherred the Three Way School District History for their PTA project. Their dad used do work for my dad and Marilyn assisted mom in cooking for thresher crews of 25 to 30 men. In case you think the small schools are dead, Three Way Common School District with a gym and several buildings for elementary school grades is doing fine. They have earned the rating of an Exempleary School under the Texas Education Agency rating system.Their High School students attend Hico Schools. When I rode Oscar Parham's contract school bus to Stephenville High, it was about 55 miles to the back of the route north and east of Chalk Mountain and doubling down gravel roads. (Not sure if that was one way or round trip, but he made it round trip twice a day for many years. ) Also, 200 years ago in Laurens District, South Carolina, mom's ancestors included the Copeland and Hipp families of Clinton , Greer, and Greenville. One was named POLLY MILLS COPELAND.(SCOTTISH) I wonder about that connection, but haven't had time to chase that rabbit. Cousins of theirs in Huricane Baptist And Duncan Creek Presbyterian cemeteries are DILLARD, HIPP( Moravian German), VAUGHN-VAUGHAN, NABORS-NEIGHBORS Jim Neighbors Ancestors and Newbury , S.C. is just down the road). (In both cases the last two pair of names had the same common ancestor and one spelling is on individual graves overshaddowed by a larger family marker with the other spelling). Also included are WHITE cousins. COPELANDS and their kin fought in The Revolutionary War and the Civil War and family members died in each war. They just woke and looked outside and the war was in their back yards, so to speak. A few hundred of the descendants of those in these two cemeteries still live there, in Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas and other points- possibly a few thousand. living today. Take care, Charles Wyly On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:01:57 -0500 "HOMER M SIMMONS" <PETESIMMONS@prodigy.net> writes: >James M Killion b Apr 13, 1829, Blount Co., AL (son of John Anderson >Killion and Nancy (Moore) Killion) was buried in Aug 1915 in Valley >Grove Cemetery, Stephenville, Erath Co. His first wife was Elizabeth >Palmer, daughter of Samuel M. Palmer and Susanne Wideman. Elizabeth >died >before 1888 but no other information known on her. > >James M Killion and Elizabeth (Palmer) Killion had the following >children: >Benjamin Franklin, Jack A., William Fulton, Samuel M, James Marion, >Sarah J (married first George Herricks and second ? Chenault), >Elizabeth >C (died age 4), and Henry Marshall. > >James M Killion secondly married Eliza Lucinda (Lindsey) Mills (b MS >in >1830). Eliza had the following children from her first marriage to >John >Mills: Nancy Ann, Henry H, Thomas C and two others. >This second marriage for both produced the following: Martha C >(married >J.D. Fenley), Gibson Gaston and Henrietta Rebecca (married William >Alonzo Thompson--son of M. A. (Evans) and stepson of Charles Starley >of >Duffau). > >I am interested in communicating with anyone who has an interest or >knowledge in any of the above names. > >Pete Simmons > >PS--I too am enjoying VERY MUCH the history remembered by Charles >Wyly. > > > > > >==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== >--- Author Retains Copyright --- >-- Copyright 1999 Author -- All Rights Reserved >Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com >Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com >