Dear Tami, Guess you saw the recent postings of the Ramsey House built at Swan Pond, Strawberry Plains, Holston, Tennessee, south of Knoxville. I do not know of Dr. J.G.M. Ramsey's connection to Erath County Ramseys I knew, but they had Tennessee roots. I also sent a posting of the murder of Crockett Ross in Stephenville when I was in Tarleton College. If you don't find it, let me know. Also the Ross family ran a service station at the intersection of U.S. 281 and Texas Hwy 6 in Hico, Hamilton County, Texas. The Hamilton County Historical society is on the internet. Guess you also know that one of the world's largest traders in Horses and mules was the Ross Horse and Mule Barns in Fort Worth, Texas. Could one say it was in God's timing that as the southern farmers bought tractors and got rid of their horses and mules, the Turkish and later the U.S.Army wanted hundreds of mules to backpack ammo in mountain trails? We supplied our tanks in India in World War 2 with American mules on the Burma Road. My wife's cousin said he had led them on the trail and had seen mules slip and fall hundreds of feet with the ammo on their backs exploding. He said to a Texas farm boy who had plowed with Texas mules and monthas without seeing anyone but other mule drivers, it was like loosing a family member. Some of the Ross buildings next to the old Hog barns may still be standing in front of Billy Bob's on Historic Stockyards Streets. A Spagetti Warehouse stands on the hill where Swift and Armour packing plants once stood. A major market for horses now is coastal slaughterhouses who process horse meat for human consumption and fly it frozen to Paris. Those people eat most anything. Check your Tarrandt County- Fort Worth pages for more Ross families. It's 65 miles from Stephenville. Happy hunting, Charles Wyly On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:39:14 -0500 "Tami Ramsey" <tami@i-plus.net> writes: >Would love to get more information about the ROSS families of Erath >County. >My GG Grandfather was Robert Mac ROSS b. 1858 d. 1890 ... he died two >weeks >before the birth of his son and was a preacher. He was half brother >to >Reuben Davis ROSS, a preacher in early days also known as Comanche >Rube ... >My Grandmother remebers visiting his "people" around Stephenville ... >Tami Ramsey >Dublin, VA > > > ___________________________________________________________________ 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/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]