Forwarded by TxHood-L list moderator. Subject: Re: [TXHOOD-L] Granbury Square Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 20:30:48 -0500 From: Bill Caddell <bcaddell@hcnews.com> To: Frank Saffarrans <opa@hcnews.com> Frank, I have been so glad to find Hood County home page and List. You referenced "http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/SquareUses.htm". I am interested in history of the "Sellars Building" which was in 1964 the "Hood County News", now the "Downtown Store" on the north side of the square. In examining the misc files at the Hood Co. Library, I find a reference "Various old pictures show the downstairs of the building occupied at various times by Geo. & Henry Wright, meat market and restaurant; and the Icicle Restaurant with 'meat market' in small letters below." I have seen the pictures in Ewell's "History of Hood County" and on the wall in the "Ice Cream Parlor" on the west side of the square. Re: my previous msg of May 8th "I recently found out that my grandfather, Jasper Pinkney GREER (b. 15 Nov 1874, Ringold, LA) had a restaurant and meat market in Granbury, Hood Co., TX during the 1890s - 1905. My 82 yr old mother" (Jasper's daughter now residing in the Granbury Meadows Senior Citizen Apartments) "said she knew nothing about the details." Jasper Greer of Miller County (Texarkana), AR came to Granbury sometime in the 1890s and my mother seems to remember was in partnership with another man in a restaurant and meat market on the square. He was single, about 20 years old and, apparently, "came out west to make his fortune.". In checking tax and other records I noted there were about a dozen GREER listed, but not a Jasper. I suspect that Jasper was related to one or more of these GREERs. For whatever reason, he left and in 1906 married in Sulphur Springs, OK and moved to Miller County, AR where his parents and siblings lived. His father had previously settled in Miller County in about 1880 from Ringold, LA. That's all I have been able to glean from very limited info. Bill Caddell ============================== -- Frank Saffarrans Home Page Editor Hood County Genealogical Society http://www.hcnews.com/~ancestor opa ['opa] masculine noun, colloquial German: grandpa