Hi, it's me, old forgetful again. I forgot to tell you there are photos of Womack Church & hall, Hog Creek school with Kuykendall , Hatchett, Womack, I think, snd others. Many attended church at Searsville, the church Dr. Hatchett and Valley Mills members of Searsville Baptist Church who left and started the first Valley Mills Baptist Church on the east side of the Bosque, where the old town burned out and flooded. This church met under trees and in homes the first few years. The present Valley Mills Baptist Church apparently claims to be first with no connections to the old Congregation across the river, but most of the Present Valley Mills was built later after the present Highway 6 was built towards Dublin. The old mud, now paved road was on the East of the river from Waco to China Springs to Valley Mills to Meridian. Belle Starr had a cabin on the East of the river. Rosebushes are still there. Dr. Hatchett and "Choctaw" Bill Robinson were active in organizing the Central Texas Baptist Convention before there was a Texas Baptist organization. All this info is in the Bosque County History published in the last 20 years. The Harmony School is where dad taught 4 grades is in it and hew said all the first grade knew little English- just German or Norwegian. He went to farming the next year but always had fond memories of the area, between the Meridian State Park and Cranfil's Gap- Fairy road. Great Great Grandad performed marriages of his kids to several Wylys and a Kuykendall and possibly many others. . Rev. Hurley of Pony Creek refused to have formal fellowship with them. He was a Primitive Baptist. They differred over whether footwashing was one of the 3 church ordinaces, or a form of spontaneous outpouring of love and humility to fellow Chistians. Frontier Methodists had spontaneous footwashing, as do Episcopals today, on special occasions. . Perhaps, since Methodist and Baptist sometimes shared a building before building their own and alternated preachers, each picked up some habits from the other. The Bosque County History is in the library on the old campus of Clifton Junior College, a Lutheran school, now closed and used by the Sunset Residence and nursing home. Other libraries should have it if they have a Geneaology section. Happy Hunting, Charles Wyly On Sat, 8 May 1999 15:53:10 -0700 (PDT) womackin@webtv.net writes: >howdy listers, >my mom's family mostly located around dublin, erath co. texas...WOMACK >is my mom's surname, she was born in 1907 and is still living.. her >father was david leonardis WOMACK and her mother was minnie mable >STRACENER d/o john? henry STRACENER s/o benjamin STRACENER and nancy >j.KUYKENDALL.... i am looking for any documented info. on any/all of >these families...i have seen a book about barbee cemetery in >dublin, >erath co. tx..in which many of the STRACENERS are buried... i would be >most grateful for help on these ancestors..thank you.. >on the trail, >joeann >