Hi, if you don't get an answer, try the Nacticoches,La. library and Genealolgical society. and DAR chapter. Cousin Mattie Roberts Somerville, deceased, of West Monroe was a certified geneaologist and officer and charter member of the Natchitoches society and a DAR member. Her husband had me to pick up her research notes- 20 boxes. She claimed connections to Texas Roberts, Quillian, , McCarty, Telles, and many others in Texas, If Natchitoches sources don't do it, give me time to finish a reunion and I might scan her records. Why Natchitoches, La? because, during the huge log jam on th Red River, Natchitoches was a major river port on the Cane River, as was Caddo Lake and Jefferson, Texas. Nacodoches, Texas was the other end of the ox and wagon trains and some railroad freight from its sister city of Natchitoches. After the Civil War, surplus explosives were used by the army to blast the log jamb and the water level dropped at Natchitoches and Jefferson, Texas. Must have been a mess in New Orleans. Sawmill folk probably went wild and light boats probably hunted a clean stream to go up to avoid being sunk. . I- 20 was near the old "Bankhead" Highway, U.S.80, which would have been an earlier trail, like I- 35 follows an Old Spanish Trail and a Butterfield Stage route. Also, Natchitoches was near the wagon train route from Georgia and Alabama to Texas, by Vicksburg and Monroe. The Wagon train from Hico, Louisiana , Lake Hico, Louisianaand Arcadia, La. was composed of mostly Germans moving to Hico and Duffau, Texas, according to a business man in Arcadia who has cousins in this area of Texas. Take care, Charles Wyly