Bill, Please tell me about your Pruitt line. My gg-grandmother was Sarah Susan Pruitt married to Alfred Cargill and they lived in Alexander. Her father was William V. Pruitt. Julia Texasdog@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 10/21/99 9:32:16 PM Central Daylight Time, wyly1@juno.com > writes: > > << Also, Clyde Barrow's Uncle ran the Barrow- Rutledge Funeral Home in Hico, > Hamilton County and did a lot of business for the folk who used the Hico > Hospital. from Erath County. Thurber must have once had a Funeral home- > or did Ranger, Strawn, and Stephenville do theirs? >> > > Charles, > My DIL is a BARROW descendant....and I have doused this rumor. The > owner-operator of the funeral home was Grady Martel Barrow (1896-1949) > who was the youngest of eleven children of Jeremiah "Jerry" Barrow > (1849-1918) and Mary Jesstina (1857-1925) who came to Hico about 1894 from > Notasulga AL. There were four other Barrow brothers that came along > including David (1846-1922); Burrell or "Doc" (1854-1934); Jimmie > (1856-1901), and William (1861-1918). They had one sister, Virginia Barrow > Willis (1852-1909). All six of these are buried at Hico Cemetery. > Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie & Clyde fame, was born at Telico, near Ennis, > in Ellis County. Later he grew up on the streets of Dallas where his father > ran a gas filling station. > The Barrow family of Hico were a furniture business family. Archie > Barrow, Grady's older brother, (1877-1961) oversaw an operation that was > flung from Fort Worth to Lubbock to Odessa with stores in as many as ten > or 12 towns. Archie or A.B. resided in Abilene----never married----except > to the business. Grady Perry in his book "Grand Ol' Erath" talks about > a time that coffins and caskets were featured in the furniture stores before > about 1920 when the funeral homes were coming into prominence. So > it was somewhat natural to go from the furniture business into the funeral > home business, I suppose. That way the furniture chain had an outlet for > the caskets. > > In any case, Clyde Barrow used to stop into the Barrow Furniture store > as well as the funeral home at Hico when he was travelling about. He had > many "friendly" folks all about; the old Bath (railroad) Hotel at Llano sells > tee shirts with a posed picture of Clyde out front during his outlaw heyday. > I have dug his roots and they lead to LA and perhaps he was distantly kin > to the Barrow family of Hico-----but not anywhere close as in 1st or 2nd or > even 3rd cousins. But Clyde Barrow isn't a nephew to any of the Barrow > Hico-Clairette families. > > My DIL is a DAVIS and her Hico ancestors include PRUITT, BARROW, > HAINES, SANDERS, NEWTON lines of the Duffau and Hico area. The > PRUITT family was at Duffau and this family married into McCarty lines > so that my DIL and my son have some relatives that are cousins to each. > > Regards, > > Bill McCarty Odessa, Texas > > http://members.tripod.com/cindyradway/Erath/erath.html > http://members.aol.com/texastag/mccarty.html > > ==== 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