Thanks, Bill, Some of the Wylys of Ben F. Wyly's line worked in Thurber. John L. Lewis organized his first strike there- the strike that killed a town because Erath County (Lingleville- Desdemona) and Ranger (Eastland County) could pump California bound oil for fuel cheaper than coal. Some type of Farmer's Grange operated an academy and "College" in Huckaby. Some of the Morings and Tacketts, Wyly descendants worked there. Zelma missed the reunion this year. One of her cousins in Madison , Wisconsin said she could not find Thurber in that library there. Labor Union censorship????She contacted me a few months ago. The communities near Thurber with cemeteries are Thurber, the Johnson Ranch, Pea Ridge, south of New York Hill, where mom lived as a Stone- Copeland- Carey family member fresh from Arkansas, about 1904. (Wonder if Confederate Vets from Pea Ridge, Ark. named It? Others are Lipan, Caddo, Strawn, Mingus, Morgan Mill, Lipan, Ranger, Santo, and probably a dozen or more communities similar to Old Johnsville , Indian Creek , Little Duffau, Salem and Garrett Springs (Selden) have been bypassed by modern roads. I have a photo of my Great Aunt Susie Moxley as the teacher of the Pea Ridge school. on a woodpile with her students. One is a perfect image of Edwin Sullivan of Oak Dale and the Stephenville Country Opry (or is it Cross Timbers Country Opry. ?)Must have been about 1920. They were south of New York Hill. Czech and Irish Catholics in Thurber attended different Catholic churches because of a language barrier and different traditions concerning some "Saints", so Catholic Church records may show 1 or 2 Catholic cemeteries there. They did the same in New Orleans, where French landowners and merchants looked down on new Irish Immigrants. One man was buried on the Johnson Ranch in a glass coffin, immersed in Alcohol or Formaldehyde and the masoleum kept the door open. The Big Boys used to tell me about someone drinking too much in a Thurber bar and his Stephenville College or High School buddies would take him to the the cemetery by the glass coffin. He would awake with the sun in his face and the coffin by him. It was finally walled up to keep pranksters out. Thurber and Mingus were all one town, except the part in Palo Pinto was called Mingus, which still prospers. About 1950's there was a Black Invalid lady in Ranger who read palms and told fortunes. Some of the more venturesome party kids would go see her after a few hours in Mingus drinking and dancing. I was told one young man walked in with a group and she shudderred and refused to read his palm. He got a little vocally abusive and she said " I cannot read your palm because you have no future". He left laughing , got in his car and was hit broadside by a truck on old U.S. 80 somewhere near the Ranger Hill. Seems something similar happended to King Saul & the Witch of Endor in the Old Testament, didn't it? (Yes I know King Saul was not hit by an 18 wheeler, but he was just as dead). Take care, Charles Wyly