In a message dated 10/23/99 6:45:24 AM Central Daylight Time, xmasmom@juno.com writes: << Shame on you----you didn't tell me you had information on Dora Head----check out page 72 in my book. >> Alice, You never asked me about the Head families.....Benjamin Wesley and younger brother William Washington Head (half-brother) are probably kin to half the people in Erath County today.....the Clairette cemetery has several of this family buried there......generally on the west side of the cemetery. As a youngster growing up in Clairette, I was told not to ever "badmouth" anyone who lived there because they likely were somehow kin to whomever you were talking to at the time. And that's pretty close to the truth as it was then.....and remains so today. Bill McCarty Odessa, Texas http://members.tripod.com/cindyradway/Erath/erath.html http://members.aol.com/texastag/mccarty.html