charles a Wyly wrote: > > Hi, > > I mentioned to you or someone about my Great Aunt Etta Robinson Moxley > and her cousin Lela Belcher Hurley telling me about Jesse James hiding > silver in Johnsville or Pony Creek and the efforts of some to find it. > Now , does this seem that ridicilious when we consider that John Crockett > of Pony Creek , Texas and Pizarro Post office area had ridden with > Quantril's Raiders and Jesse James was associated with them during the > Clvil War? > > Mr Crockett had gone to Old Mexico during Reconstruction abuses with > some of Quantril's Raiders. Some say some of Jese james's crew went to > Mexico with them and some visited Argentina or Brazil at that time. > > IF Jesse settled at Blevins, Texas or Grandbury, Texas or Grosebeck, > Texas why is it so amaxing he might have stopped in Pony Creek and > visited his friend from the Civil War, John Crockett ? He and or Crockett > could have later dug the silver up as needed. > > Going west from the Grady Perry (Three Way) store, the first draw going > north across U.S. 67 is Pony Creek or a branch of it. Over the next hill > is the Hurley branch of the Duffau, running South. . Most digging in > 1930'ds was on Duffau west of old Johnsville store and postoffice. on > old U,S, 67. The Three Way Store did not exist in Crockett's day. Aunt > Lela and "Aunt Lela" said the site was on a northwest slope of Pony > Creek, betewwn Box Church and school and the Three Way School. What you > bet it has been found? I doubt the finder would have publicized it. > > Any suggestions or other tales of this treasure and John Crockett and > Jesse James? > > Thanks, > Charles Wyly > Charles, I found your letter very interesting. I just read in JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS A PICTORIAL HISTORY Vol.I by Dan Leach and Billie Anne Leach, about Jessie and Frank James in Johnson Co. TX. Frank and Jessie often would go to Texas to hide out. One of the stories in the book is that "Jessie and Frank James had a sister they used to visit in Grayson County. In Johnson County the local Angel family legends held that the James boys hid in the barn behind their home near present day Lillian. The maiden name of the matriarch of the Angel family was James." Members of my family were Bushwackers from MO. They were cousins to my ancestor, Wm.Marchbanks, from Johnson Co, TX. Robert Marchbanks rode with Quantrill, and his brother William Marchbanks was a Capt. in the Confederate Army. Frank James rode with Quantrill, and Jessie rode with Bloody Bill Anderson. My grandfather William F.Emler, from TN and later from Johnson Co,TX told my father often that he had known Jessie James when he was a young man. The Marchbanks family were my grandmothers line. I am very interested in Quantrill as my husband and I are from Lawrence, KS. Phyl Vance -- Mailto:fvvpjv29@idt.net