Dear Joe, Marilynn Mills Ewers book , begun as a Three Way PTA project of history of all communities in Three Way School District, East Erath County, quotes from May/June 1992 issue of American Geneaology Magazine, published by James Plyant of Stephenville concerning the Crockett family and their feud with the Beaches, when one crockett shot from under his horse's neck and killed Tyne Beach. The Grand Jury cleared Mr. Crockett and he moved to Quannah, Texas Cage Beach followed him and married his daughter in Quannah. Later, Cage and Crockett went hunting and Cage Beach came in and reported Crockett was killed accidentally. Nothing else was done. Crockett had shot at Tyne Beach's left nipple and mised an inch or so. John Crockett was a Tennessee Rifleman who served under Jackman, an officer under Quantrell. After Civil war they went to Old Mexico until after reconstruction, as carpetbag rule ignored Lincoln's blanket pardons. John and party refused to pay Ferry at Rio Grande and cleared old shallow crossing. An armed band forced them to use ferry for $10.00 A few years later, the gang leader was running a toll bridge and Crockett demanded the $100.00 he said he would someday claim. He got the money and raced away on Tennessee Trail.We would assume he used a gun to recover his money with interest. Relation of John and James Crockett and Davey Crockett, Alamo hero, is not known but some are buried in Beach Cemetery, Old abandoned Pony Creek Church Cemetery in front of present Pony Creek Baptist Church, or behind it in "New" Pony Creek- Box Cemetery, or in Mitchell Creek, Cedar Point, Rocky Point, and seems like some are in Indian Creek Cemetery behind Pleasant Hill (Chigger Hill) Methodist Church on Hwy 281 to Hico. Davey Crockett's wife is buried in Acton Cemetery, Hood County, not far from Erath County Squaw Creek. This is the cemetery where a boy was left for dead by his mom's boy friend. His sister was killed and he lived to testify against the killer.(Within the last 2 years) The Crockett School between Selden and Pony Creek (now gone) was across the road from where the head of Mr. Snow's stepson was found in a tow sack by Elvis Riggs. I have heard him tell some of the story. Mr. Snow had dismemberred his wife, stepson, and mother in law, put them under his house, and was burning them in his fireplace when the head was found. The crowd was so large at the trial that the walls at balcony level in present Stephenville Courthouse began to crack, and large steel rods were added to hold walls straight. Great Uncle Ed Fleming taught there once. He caught 2 or 3 boys chewing tobacco and spitting through a knothole. He sent them to the pump to wash their mouth. Then he told them to chew, put hands on knees, and spit 10 times each. Each miss was followed with a swing of the paddle, in the presence of other students. This school hired several young Tarleton grad students who thought they wanted to be teachers. Next time you go into the cellar like record rooms in Stephenville courthouse basement, or catacombs.look at rock colums and remember this. Ah, Good Old Erath- so calm and peaceful.Until 1950-s no one ever locked their doors. We had small chunks of bacon disapear from our smokehouse, but no one ever took much- just enough to survive during the depression. You mentioned the Indian connection- Most of Erath County citizens had traces of Cherokee, Choctaw, or other Indian blood or had married some who did. In my family, Cherokee Rolls show Stone, Carey, Copeland & many others as intermarried or to 1/64 blood who claimed Arkansas Land in Cherokee Nation. Remember, Sam Houston's childhood friend John Jolly was in Arkansas & Anglo appearing Cherokee kept Houston out of trouble as he dried out again from drinking. Pres. Houston, Republic of Texas, during Trail of Tears wind down, declared all north and east of Tyler, Texas as Cherokee Reservation, outside the U.S. Pres. Lamar said no reservation, but said those who had farms were welcome to stay if they were loyal to the Republic of Texas. Cherokee County, Texas is far south of this. Eugene Wyly, one of O.C. Wyly's 23 children from Habersham Co. Ga. married a Loudelia Bateman of Mecklenburg County, back East. They married in Stephenville or Breckenridge- recorded in Stephenville. She was on Cherokee rolls in Arkansas. I am descended from Sarah Bateman and James T Stone of Arkansas.These Stones were moving to Huckaby and Pea Ridge, Texas before 1900. The "Pig Trail" they came on is a Federal Park road today from Mena, Arkansas for 45 miles west then south through Oklahoma , crossing Red River at a shallow crossing and dodging the swamps and Caddo Lake . >From there through Greenville, Texas or Dallas it is a good travel area to Stephenville. In Mena, Federal Highway signs call it the Pig Trail. Take care, Charles Wyly On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:00:51 -0500 "Joe L. Freeman" <JJJFreeman@worldnet.att.net> writes: >According to family stories, Loretta Ann was born September 30, 1832 >in >Osceoloa, Missouri. She married Samuel Wintermute Snell ca. 1852 in >Texas. > Loretta is supposed to have died on October 22, 1875 in Erath County, >during childbirth. She had 8 other children before her death. For >over 20 >years, I have been looking in Erath County for any grave for her. Can >someone help me to locate her grave? > > ___________________________________________________________________ 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 or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]