This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HORTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/594.4 Message Board Post: I am interested in the HORTON surname that was on the Shiro Methodist Church membership rolls 1885-1911. Thank you very much.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/607.1 Message Board Post: No Headstones....

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/607 Message Board Post: Does Anyone Know Any Information On The Smith Family Buried In Mustang Cemetery. The Smith's Has A Family Plot. I Have Been Working On The Cemetery. I Know Nothing About The Family. There's No Headstone Just A Marker " SMITH FAMILY ".

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hudson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/606 Message Board Post: Looking for information on William Hudson family found in Grimes County, TX in 1870 census. William Hudson, physician, born @1836 in Florida, wife Josephine born @1844 in Georgia, son William born @1867 in Texas. They had Katy, Sam, Henry, and Mary Hudson living with them, all listed as black, ranging from 6 to 12 years of age. Any pointers or clues appreciated. MJ

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Guerrant, Christian Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JiB.2ACE/605 Message Board Post: 1920 Census has Daniel Guerrant and his wife Anna and daughter Ruby in Iola along with Joseph Christian and his daughter Susie and Will Christain. 1930 Census Had Joseph Christian and wife Claudia with Daphne and son Olaf. Joseph Christian was married to my Grandmother Susie Brock and Daphne and Olaf were their children. Would like any information on any of them.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JiB.2ACE/604 Message Board Post: I would love to share information with anyone researching the Stuckey family of South petherton Somerset England. I know that many emmigrated to Australia. My 3-x-great grand parents Thomas Stuckey & Phoebe Gifford had 12 children, sp their must be lots of family out their, please get in touch. Regards Jenny

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/603.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the reply, but I don't think this is the correct Knights. They may be connected. The Knights that I am trying to find is George Albert Knight and Sarah Elizabeth Sloan Knight. They appear on the Burlerson County US census in l870, and the l880 census. George Albert Knight is supposed to be buried in the Sand Grove Cemetary in Milam County, but I had a reply and said that there was not a listing for him in that cemetary. Thanks for all the help that you can give me. Winnie K. Hendrix

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/603.1 Message Board Post: Don't know if this is the same man you are looking for, but I also have a missing George Knight. He can be found in the 1880 census for Stephens Co., TX where he lives with his wife Ellen Ayers, next door to her parents Solomon and Martha. The Ayers were previously in Grimes Co., don't know why they went to Stephens Co., but did move back to Grimes Co. I also have lost track of George and Ellen Knight , but family lore says they may have moved to Waco, TX. I have never found them after 1880. Is this any help? Let me know if we are looking for the same person. Sharon

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/603 Message Board Post: I am looking for George A. Knight, who I believed to have lived in Milam or Burlerson counties. He could have lived in Grimes county. Also I am looking for Martha Lucinda Knight, she married James Willhelm on 9-25-l881. She was a sister to my ggreatdaddy. I would appreciate any information on these people. I am looking for Kershs. My ggreatdaddy was David Josh Kersh. He was married twice. His first wife was Polly ? and his second wife was Nancy Jennie Snead. Sometimes that names is spelled Sneed. Thanks Winnie K. Hendrix

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whited and Onstott Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/602 Message Board Post: I found Calvin Whited in the 1860 census in Grimes Co., TX. He was a Bar tender. On searching I found where he had applied for license to run a bar. In 1870 his wife was living with a policeman and his family in Brazos Co., TX which is right next to Grimes. Co., I am assuming that Cal was dead by this time. Wheather he was killed in the Civil War or if he was killed in a bar fight I can't tell. The childrens ages were 9 and 2 so he married in 1860 or 1861 and died around 1878. His wife was Mary Jane Onstott born 1842 in AR. I can not find them after 1870. I need someone to see if they are burried in Grimes or Brazos Co., TX and maybe if she married again. Any help would be appreciated. Rhodene

If anyone can help Dennis, please let him know at dennis-c@tamu.edu . They would like to invite any of her relatives to the ceremony which will be sometime in 2005. He would also like to know the correct pronunciation of "Neveille". Eleanor Colson Grimes County list admin. " We are planning to honor Neveille Colson for her contributions to transportation in Texas.  Can you give me any guidance as to where I can locate living relatives?  Let me know if you have questions, thanks. Dennis Christiansen Deputy Director Texas Transportation Institute 3135 TAMU College Station, TX  77843-3135 979/845-1713 979/845-9356 (fax) dennis-c@tamu.edu http://tti.tamu.edu"

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harrison Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JiB.2ACE/456.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The Sam Houston State Teachers College yearbook also includes a photo of a Willie Harrison, a sophomore, who is listed as being from Bedias.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harrison Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/456.1.1 Message Board Post: Don, Thanks for the reply regarding family photos. Glad to get the information about the 1929 yearbook picture of Loree Harrison. Would it be possible to have you make me a photo-copy of the page containing her photo or scan me the page ??? I would love to get a copy of her picture. Thanks for your great help. Malcolm Hunter dydx@artelco.com 1208 Dave Creek Pkwy. Fairfield Bay, AR 72088

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harrison Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JiB.2ACE/456.1 Message Board Post: There is a photo of Loree Harrison of Bedias in the 1929 yearbook of Sam Houston State Teachers College. She is a junior in college so probably born about 1905-1910.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mc Lewis, Smith, Webster, Harrington, Randle Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JiB.2ACE/98.118 Message Board Post: Do you know if Henry married anybody by the name of Margaret Mc Lewis and they had 3 children?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/601 Message Board Post: Trying to fine out who owns the land Bethal Cemetery is on

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JiB.2ACE/594.3 Message Board Post: I would appreciate information on the Norman surname listed on the church rolls. My Great Grandfather [1861-1942] lived in the Shiro area, but I don't know when. I wil gladly share any info with you.

Would the person who sent the message on George Hammond email me direct, _BanC36@aol.com_ (mailto:BanC36@aol.com) . Thank You Barbara Sherwood Crow

24 May 1899 Death of J. O. Eakins An Awful Lingering Death Alone in the Woods - Dogs the Last to Leave Particulars are now arriving from the Bedias precinct relative to the death of J. O. Eakins, which was mentioned in the Examiner of Saturday, and indicates that his death was one of lingering torture and slow ebbing. Mr. Eakins was an extensive dealer in cattle and had gone out Wednesday on a drive. Thursday his horse came home without the rider and later his dogs got home. Friday a search was made for him and the lifeless body was found on the side of a small road. Surroundings seem to show that his horse had attempted to run between two trees and that he had been caught and violently thrown to the ground, in which he had both his legs broken and was unable to move from the spot wehre he fell. He had, with his pocket knife, dug a hole in the ground a foot or more in depth; presumably, to search for water or to obtain damp dirt, with which to relieve his burning thirst. But after long hours of waiting no relief from neighbors or passers-by came and his elderly constitution could no longer retain the spark of life within the body so he died. He was also probably weakened by the fact that he had but a short time before recovered from another broken leg and able to get out. Some farmers near the place of the accident are reported to have heard Mr. Eakins hollowing for help; they were busy plowing, paid little attention, and thought that the man wanted someone to help him with his cattle and being without horses and saddles they naturally did not go that way, but were horrified afterwards to learn of the facts in the terrible and lonesome death. ***************** Baby's Now an Angel After a long and trying illness Maymee Leah, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moore, died at the family home at 2.50 o'clock Sunday morning and the body was interred in the city cemetery yesterday afternoon. The little one was but thirteen months and five days of age and a bright spark of heavenly light in the now darkened household. ***************** 29 May 1899 A child of Will Beohme died at Anderson yesterday and will be buried this evening. ******************* 30 May 1899 Death of Mrs. Gamble Mrs. Rebecca Elizabeth Gamble, mother of Mrs. Eura Lawson, died at her daughter's home, this morning at 4.45, aged 63 years and 25 days. Mrs. Gamble was born in Alabama May 5th, 1836, and removed to this city a few years ago to reside with her daughter. She has been for a long time a great sufferer from rheumatism and the past year or more has been helpless. She bore her great suffering with remarkable patience and welcomed death as a happy relief from her unfortunate condition. Mrs. Gamble was a woman of noble traits of character, an humble and consistent christian. Mrs. Lawson, is, we believe, her only relative in the county, and she has the profound sympathy of the entire community. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock from her late residence. ****************** 01 Jun 1899 Killed By Well Damp John Hawkins, Colored, Meets Instant Death This Morning. This morning a servant at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Doerge attempted to throw a bucketful of broken glass into a dry 16-foot well near the house. In doing so, the [sic] accidentally dropped the pail in also. John Hawkins, a colored fellow about 35 years old, and handy man about the place, secured a short ladder and, against instructions, went for the bucket. When at a point three or four feet from the bottom of the well he gave a long groan and fell over lifeless. A doctor was dispatched for and the man drawn from the hole but nothing could be done for him, more than according the body decent burial, and Justice Forrester was notified to view the remains before disposition. Mr. Doerge twice afterwards let a lighted lantern into the well and it immediately went out - proving conclusively that the hole was deadly charged with well damp, in which human life could not exist for a moment. The body was drawn out by a looped rope being thrown about his waist. Eleanor Colson

05 May 1899 Union Mentioned Yesterday Married, in Biloxi, Miss., May 3rd, '99: Prof. B. C. Bauguss and Mrs. E. J. Polland, of that town. Prof. Bauguss is a resident of Grimes county and is extensively known throughout Grimes county, having been engaged in school teaching in this county for the last twenty-five years. Mrs. Polland is a native of Mississippi and both the contracting parties formerly resided in the same neighborhood in Panola county, Miss.; hence they were not strangers. ********************* 16 May 1899 The Reaper's Work Yesterday evening the Grim Reaper, Death, came into the comfortable home of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Nowlin, of Prairie Plains, and stole away the soul of their beautiful 18-year-old daughter, Miss Mamie, who has been sick but a short time. The funeral services were held at the old Henderson cemetery. Miss Pink Stewart daughter, of J. E. Stewart, is very sick at the same place. ******************** County Capital Notes Anderson, May 16 - Senator Geo. D. Neal, Capt. Gordon Boone, Hood Boone, Haynes Shannon and Capt. J. Earl Preston, attorneys from Navasota, were attending court yesterday. Jno F. Martin and H. H. Wilson were witnesses before the court yesterday. The Anderson Dramatic club will place before the public the play "Lady of Lyons" about May 24, or as near that time as possible. County Clerk C. B. Nichols has been sick with chills several days. ************** County Court Notes The civil docket was taken up yesterday and the following jurors empaneled: W. W. Kennard, H. P. Cobb and Eli W. Ballard. The case of L. W. Levy & Co. vs. A. S. Blumenthal; defendant's demurrer sustained; plaintiff declines to amend and give notice of appeal. A. S. Winsted vs. J. O. Davis. The death of H. H. Boone suggested and Mrs. Susan Boone to be made party and cause set for Thursday, 24th of August, next. ********************** Commissioners Court Notes . . . The following report of officers approved, to wit: W. H. Bagby, J. P. Pre. No. 8; W. M. Forrester, J. P. Pre. No. 3; W. R. Vickers, J. P. Pre. No. 4; Ed Grissett, Con. Pre. No. 2; G. L. Scott, sheriff; R. G. Deadrick, treasurer; F. N. Thomas, Con. Pre. No. 8; Gifford Smyth, district clerk; A. M. Campbell, Co. Att'y.; W. H. Forrester, Con. Pre. No. 3; R. H. Jones, Con. Pre. No. 5; W. H. Fry, J. P. Pre. No. 5; H. C. Jones, Con. Pre. No. 1; ******************* 20 May 1899 A white man, named Jim Eakin, is reported to have been found dead on the side of a road in the Bedias precinct. No particulars of how he met death were known to the reporter's informant; but that Jim went out from home Wednesday morning; his horse came back Thursday and he was found and the justice of the peace went out Friday to hold an inquest.