Mr. Wyly, Thanks for the info. abt. culturally deprived.........I found it amusing abt. the singing and dancing. My grandmother told me that as a child (born and lived in Erath Co.) her parents were very religious and did not approve of dancing or singing other than for church. She said that dinner was generally sober and you used GOOD MANNERs or else! One day her father called the younuns to the table and one or more brother was late getting in........a young brother (always clowning and in trouble) sang out "You better hurry or you'll be in trouble." and WHAMM before anyone knew what happened her father had backhanded the boy without a word off his chair and onto the floor. She said they all knew better than to sing at the table so nothing further was said and it was the LAST time that young brother misbehaved at the table. Thinking of today's children (my own included) and watching them kid and clown with each other strikes me as ironic in comparison. I'm not sure if my MULLINS family was Baptist or other religion. Wm. Andrew Jackson HODO was a Methodist minister over in Coryelle Co. TX who was a great uncle to my grandma and he often visited them by horse and remained for awhile. His visits started a family joke which remained unknown as to origins until I began genealogy. My grandmother would often joke when a neighbor or anyone stopped at the house unexpected with the saying "Put on the coffee, here comes Mr. Hodo." Well, mom and her sisters use to say this to each other as they walked into the door of each other's homes. ..and they never knew what it meant exactly. Well, I began genealogy and found my grandmother's grandmother was Nancy Ardella HODO ADKISSON which when telling my mom I heard "OH, no that is a made up name"(Referring to HODO)......and then she reminded me about the family saying. My aunts and uncles seconded it saying "it couldn't be real". I had to pull out a death certificate to convince them it was REAL. Grandmother was still living then and I asked her about the saying and then told her my findings and she said "WELL, yes I think that was grandmother's name and Mr. Hodo who visited was related to us. That's where I got the saying from was his visits." What a good joke on my mom and aunts! DEBBIE