Hi. Dewayne, I was born in the old Reed Cox home at Johnsville where Charlie and Mamie Belcher Davis rented until Grandad Wyly bought it. Our barn may have been the original Reed Cox home- it had been a residence at one time, and had rooms but no ceilings. We milked under the shed that resembled a front porch. George Cox's pasture was across the old dirt U.S. 67 from our house. The Ed Cox I knew was still married to "Aunt Marthy" who used to give us kids walking to school, coughing, a spoon of honey and whiskey. "Uncle Ed" was a beekeeper. Don't ask about the whiskey- may have been from neighbors. I understand a Frances Wallace. Clarkesville, Ga. was the second wife of Gen. James Rutherford Wyly, war of 1812. He and Sarah Clark were divorced after 13 children. He and Frances were raising a young John Cleveland, Absolam's son, about 1850. Frances's daughter was Emily Bradshaw. Henry Wallace lived across the road from State Rep. H. Grady Perry's store at Johnsville on the new U.S. 67. I was told there were 3 Cox brothersin the civil war.. Robert E. cox was a merchandiser and ran R.E. Cox on west side of square at Stephenville. The store is now closed . The Waco branch store closed a couple of years ago, and the one in Fort Worth became a Cox- Stripling store on East lancaster- "The Great White Way" on the Bankhead Highway- U.S. 80, replaced by I-20. Now does I-20 sound all that adventuresome to you? Reed Cox was a farmer. Doc and sister were still at home when I was in Elementary school and Reed was raising his grandson, Dr. Morris Johnson. Guess you know about the Jess Salter tradegy which left Morris an orphan. "Granny " Cox turned us boys in for smoking Bull Durham sack tobacco- that's another story. It cost me a cow and a calf and free pasture until I was 21. I understand the third Cox brother became an Indian agent in Oklahoma and married one of Quannah Parker's daughters. in Oklahoma. One Cox , age 94, had run a Cox jewelery storein Waco for years and missed none until the last year or so. It is still family owned. A Cox grandson from Oklahoma is manager now- no known connection to the 3 brothers, but the present manager looked at me rather puzzled when I told him some of the above. Suzibelle and Ceburne Cox were an outstanding duet in Gospel Singings. , 1940's I can still hear Mrs. Reed Cox in the summer under the Johnsville Church of Christ tabernacle, singing in a high voice- "There's an All Seeing Eye Watching You".Bet you could hear a quarter mile down the creek. -1930's. There was no noise or light polution and the Duffau was safe to baptize in- some drank it on camping trips. Frank Latham, of Stephenville and present Chief of Police here in Hewitt, is part of the R.E. Cox family tree. This church was one locally known place where Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and Raymond Hamilton their sometimes driver, slept when running from the law. Seems they "lost the law every time they crossed the Brazos. Clyde had camped out on the Duffau with Johnsville and Duffau boys while visiting his Hico kin. Ring any bells, or do you have all of this? The Town and Country Bankers historic calendar by Dan Young has a full page photo of 20 or more neighbors of Reed Cox with cotton sacks picking his cotton while the family was bedfast with Smallpox or some epidemic- In the 1930's some of them had long ponytails and sure could have passed for an Indian. One appears to have a feather in his hair, but we always clowned around putting them in our hatbands. Take care, Charles Wyly. ___________________________________________________________________ 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]