Welcome Gina I am searching for the parents of Winifred Cundiff who was born in Mexia, Texas in 1914. I can't continue my research without this information. I hope someone out there can help me. Charlene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gina Heffernan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:02 PM Subject: [TXLIMEST] Howdy > I appreciate all the welcomes and I hope I can help in some way even though I live a bit further east. > > I have been the list administrator for Milam County and 4 surnames for about two years, so I do have a little experience and I have some roots in Limestone which is why I asked for the job. > > My families in Limestone County include a few of my Armstrongs (distant cousins), my husband's families - O'Neal, Sparks, Puckett, Walker, Bell, McCook, and Hoffpauir - and my children's families - Gibbons and Sterling. Whew! I didn't realize there were so many. Most of these families were situated at or near Mexia. > > My children are distantly related to a fellow by the name of Hiram Sterling (aka Harry Walters) who was once written up in the local paper as "a Mexia legend". Harry was touted as the "Champion Trick Rider of the World". (The paper also says he was a bit of an embarrassment to the town.) > > Enough of the history, I just want to say that I am pleased to make your acquaintance! > > Gina Heffernan > - researching ARMSTRONG BRAZZIL DISNEY FORREY HEFFERNAN HOLDER MCKINNON MELLEN MILLS O'NEAL PUCKETT RICKERT SENN SHEPHERD SPARKS WILLS and related lines. > > Also ASHBY BAIRD DEE ERICKSON GARRISON IVY LANGLEY THOMPSON and ancestors. > > My genealogy site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heffernan/ > Our GenLists: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genlists/ > My personal site: http://www.dreamwater.net/ginagale/index.htm > My dog site: http://ginagale.freeservers.com/ > > "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert > Benchley (1889-1945) > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com~txlimest/ > List adminstrator is Gina Heffernan, [email protected] >

I appreciate all the welcomes and I hope I can help in some way even though I live a bit further east. I have been the list administrator for Milam County and 4 surnames for about two years, so I do have a little experience and I have some roots in Limestone which is why I asked for the job. My families in Limestone County include a few of my Armstrongs (distant cousins), my husband's families - O'Neal, Sparks, Puckett, Walker, Bell, McCook, and Hoffpauir - and my children's families - Gibbons and Sterling. Whew! I didn't realize there were so many. Most of these families were situated at or near Mexia. My children are distantly related to a fellow by the name of Hiram Sterling (aka Harry Walters) who was once written up in the local paper as "a Mexia legend". Harry was touted as the "Champion Trick Rider of the World". (The paper also says he was a bit of an embarrassment to the town.) Enough of the history, I just want to say that I am pleased to make your acquaintance! Gina Heffernan - researching ARMSTRONG BRAZZIL DISNEY FORREY HEFFERNAN HOLDER MCKINNON MELLEN MILLS O'NEAL PUCKETT RICKERT SENN SHEPHERD SPARKS WILLS and related lines. Also ASHBY BAIRD DEE ERICKSON GARRISON IVY LANGLEY THOMPSON and ancestors. My genealogy site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heffernan/ Our GenLists: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genlists/ My personal site: http://www.dreamwater.net/ginagale/index.htm My dog site: http://ginagale.freeservers.com/ "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gina Heffernan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 6:02 PM Subject: [TXLIMEST] Howdy > I appreciate all the welcomes and I hope I can help in some way even though I live a bit further east. > > I have been the list administrator for Milam County and 4 surnames for about two years, so I do have a little experience and I have some roots in Limestone which is why I asked for the job. > > My families in Limestone County include a few of my Armstrongs (distant cousins), my husband's families - O'Neal, Sparks, Puckett, Walker, Bell, McCook, and Hoffpauir - and my children's families - Gibbons and Sterling. Whew! I didn't realize there were so many. Most of these families were situated at or near Mexia. > > My children are distantly related to a fellow by the name of Hiram Sterling (aka Harry Walters) who was once written up in the local paper as "a Mexia legend". Harry was touted as the "Champion Trick Rider of the World". (The paper also says he was a bit of an embarrassment to the town.) > > Enough of the history, I just want to say that I am pleased to make your acquaintance! > > Gina Heffernan > - researching ARMSTRONG BRAZZIL DISNEY FORREY HEFFERNAN HOLDER MCKINNON MELLEN MILLS O'NEAL PUCKETT RICKERT SENN SHEPHERD SPARKS WILLS and related lines. > > Also ASHBY BAIRD DEE ERICKSON GARRISON IVY LANGLEY THOMPSON and ancestors. > > My genealogy site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heffernan/ > Our GenLists: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genlists/ > My personal site: http://www.dreamwater.net/ginagale/index.htm > My dog site: http://ginagale.freeservers.com/ > > "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." - Robert > Benchley (1889-1945) > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com~txlimest/ > List adminstrator is Gina Heffernan, [email protected] > >

Linda, I checked the Limestone County Cemetery Books. I found no Robert Willis. Don McFarland ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 11:46 AM Subject: [TXLIMEST] Cemetery lookup > I am trying to find where my great-great grandfather is buried. He was on > the 1920 census for Dallas Co at age 68. > I was sent a list containing several possibilities. Some I elimenated because > of the date. This one is the closest: > > Robert Willis > Died: 5 Apr. 1930 > Limestone Co. > > His wife's name was Sally. > > Thanks, > > Linda > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ >

Billie, I checked the Limestone Cemetery Books and found no listing for any MOCK. Sorry, Don McFarland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Billie Nichols-Bennett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 4:47 PM Subject: [TXLIMEST] George Young MOCK b.1840 GA (son of Joel) to Texas Jan. 1879. Hunt Co., TX 1880 - Freestone Co TX 1900 - Limestone Co TX before 1920. > Looking for information on the George Young MOCK family that appears on the 1880 Hunt Co., TX census: > > MOCK, George Y.; age 40; born GA; father born GA; mother born GA > Leanna; wife; age 37; born AL; father and mother born AL > Sarah E.; daughter; age 13; born TX > Rosa; daughter; age 9; born TX > Addie; daughter; age 5; born TX > un-named Mock; daughter; age 1; b.TX > MOCK, Sion; brother; age 43; b.GA > MOCK, Joel; father; age 72; born GA; father born SC; mother born GA > > George Y. MOCK apparently died about 1898/1899. > > His widow, Leanna MOCK, is on the 1900 Freestone Co. TX census living in the household of a married daughter and son-in-law, Charles F. (Charlie) PICKETT. This Charlie PICKETT and parents were living in Franklin Co., TX for the 1880 census. > > Before Leanna MOCK's death in 1920, the PICKETT family and she moved to Limestone Co., TX. > > Sion MOCK, brother of George Young MOCK is listed on the 1900 Franklin Co., TX census. > > Would appreciate any information on this line. > > Billie Nichols-Bennett > EAST TEXAS > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com~txlimest/ > List adminstrator is David Morgan, [email protected] >

good luck david

Patricia, thank you for the offer. On the 1870 McLennan County Texas census, "East of the Brazos River", page 97, house #605 Malone Thomas 38 b.TN William 18 b. LA Kathryn 17 b. LA Elizaee 16 b. LA Frances 12 b. LA Mary 8 b. LA Carter George 18 b. LA Tabitha 16 b. LA William 13 b. LA Wilson William 15 b. LA McDonald Alpha 65 b. TN Who is the William Wilson, age 15 in 1870, b. about 1855 in Louisiana living with the Malone family? I know that Thomas Malone moved his kids to this area after the civil war. His first wife Simantha Leonard had died, and they moved from Monroe, Ouachita Parish, LA. Possibly the Carter kids and William Wilson moved with him since they were all born in LA. Thomas Malone had other Malone relatives already living in Limestone county. This George Carter is my greatgrandpa and they later lived around Elk and Hallsburg which is on the McLennan/Limestone county line. George Carter is my brickwall. Finding who William Wilson is may give me further clues? I also know that Alpha Bumpass McDonald is the mother of Thomas Malone. Thank you, Sandra Denton County ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia Oates" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:47 AM Subject: [TXLIMEST] Wilson Family > Anyone who has a connection to a Wilson family that came to Limestone Co. > before 1860 may want to email me & see if I can tie your family to the one > I am working on. I have just connected many of the William & Marcus > Wilson families together. These are some of the Wilsons that were in the > Box Church area which is on the east side of the county. > These Wilsons have connections to the Anglin family before & after they > arrived in Limestone Co. They were also married into may of the families > in this area including > Hillman/Oates/Ferrill/Durham/Roundtree/Anglin/Stanford/Wilkinson/Cunningham > just to name a few. > Just an interesting note on this is to never give up hope when searching > for a family connection. I found a living daughter of the youngest son of > William Wilson b: 1820 & she is sharp as a tack. She was able to confirm > all the information I had found in census & other places. > Pat Oates in TX. > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ > >

Sorry also that David is leaving. My best wishes and a big hello to Gina! Lou Shugart Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Strickland" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 2:39 PM Subject: RE: [TXLIMEST] New webmaster for Limestone county. > David - sorry to see you go. Thanks for a job well done! > > Gina - welcome aboard. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David W. Morgan [SMTP:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:51 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [TXLIMEST] New webmaster for Limestone county. > > > > Gina Heffernan has volunteered to take over as the county coordinator > > for Limestone county. So she has this list and the county web site > > at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ and also the archives at > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/limestone/limetoc.htm > > > > Give her a little time to get settled in. She is also the state archives > > manager for New Mexico, the archives file manager for our section of > > Texas, and she also lives in Texas! That's gotta be a bonus, right? > > > > C ya! > > > > David > > > > [email protected] David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm > > > > > > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > > http://www.rootsweb.com~txlimest/ > > List adminstrator is Gina Heffernan, [email protected] > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ > >

WELCOME Gina and we must *talk* sometime as I am in New Mexico with roots in TX. GOOD BYE David, the best to you. Come back to see us sometime. Wanda [email protected]

Patricia-My grandfather was Jasper W. Ferrill, my grandmother was Effie Wilson Ferill. My great-grandparents were Calvin Jefferson Ferrill, Margaret Ridge Ferrill and Robert Franklin Wilson, Jenny Williams Wilson. What else you have? Thanks in advance for your help. Kirk Farmer ([email protected]) Patricia Oates wrote: > Anyone who has a connection to a Wilson family that came to Limestone Co. > before 1860 may want to email me & see if I can tie your family to the one > I am working on. I have just connected many of the William & Marcus > Wilson families together. These are some of the Wilsons that were in the > Box Church area which is on the east side of the county. > These Wilsons have connections to the Anglin family before & after they > arrived in Limestone Co. They were also married into may of the families > in this area including > Hillman/Oates/Ferrill/Durham/Roundtree/Anglin/Stanford/Wilkinson/Cunningham > just to name a few. > Just an interesting note on this is to never give up hope when searching > for a family connection. I found a living daughter of the youngest son of > William Wilson b: 1820 & she is sharp as a tack. She was able to confirm > all the information I had found in census & other places. > Pat Oates in TX. > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/

THANKS DAVID FOR A GREAT JOB, AND WELCOME GINA !!! Alaine in California ----- Original Message ----- From: "David W. Morgan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:50 PM Subject: [TXLIMEST] New webmaster for Limestone county. > Gina Heffernan has volunteered to take over as the county coordinator > for Limestone county. So she has this list and the county web site > at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ and also the archives at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/limestone/limetoc.htm > > Give her a little time to get settled in. She is also the state archives > manager for New Mexico, the archives file manager for our section of > Texas, and she also lives in Texas! That's gotta be a bonus, right? > > C ya! > > David > > [email protected] David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm > > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com~txlimest/ > List adminstrator is Gina Heffernan, [email protected] >

David - sorry to see you go. Thanks for a job well done! Gina - welcome aboard. > -----Original Message----- > From: David W. Morgan [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TXLIMEST] New webmaster for Limestone county. > > Gina Heffernan has volunteered to take over as the county coordinator > for Limestone county. So she has this list and the county web site > at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ and also the archives at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/limestone/limetoc.htm > > Give her a little time to get settled in. She is also the state archives > manager for New Mexico, the archives file manager for our section of > Texas, and she also lives in Texas! That's gotta be a bonus, right? > > C ya! > > David > > [email protected] David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm > > > > ==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== > http://www.rootsweb.com~txlimest/ > List adminstrator is Gina Heffernan, [email protected]

Hi Pat, haven't heard from you in awhile. I just read your email on the Wilson Family and noticed that you tied them into some other families in the area. One of them was Durham. As you know, I am researching the Beard families and one of my brick walls is finding out about Samuel J. Boyd, son of Ellen (Cox) Beard. He married Amy Durham in 1900 in Limestone County, Tx. Would you have any information on her line that may lead me to her or Sam. Samuel J. Boyd was a Baptist Minister and he and Amy had a son named Joe in 1904 who also became a Baptist Minister. My mother thinks they moved to the Dallas area but visited Thornton all the time. In fact Sam married my grandmother, Annie Lee Beard, to Thomas Albert St.Clair on 23 Aug. 1908. Any help would be appreciated. Shirley Orem, Corpus Christi,Tx. -----Original Message----- From: Patricia Oates <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:47 AM Subject: [TXLIMEST] Wilson Family >Anyone who has a connection to a Wilson family that came to Limestone Co. >before 1860 may want to email me & see if I can tie your family to the one >I am working on. I have just connected many of the William & Marcus >Wilson families together. These are some of the Wilsons that were in the >Box Church area which is on the east side of the county. >These Wilsons have connections to the Anglin family before & after they >arrived in Limestone Co. They were also married into may of the families >in this area including >Hillman/Oates/Ferrill/Durham/Roundtree/Anglin/Stanford/Wilkinson/Cunningham > just to name a few. >Just an interesting note on this is to never give up hope when searching >for a family connection. I found a living daughter of the youngest son of >William Wilson b: 1820 & she is sharp as a tack. She was able to confirm >all the information I had found in census & other places. >Pat Oates in TX. > > >==== TXLIMEST Mailing List ==== >http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ >

Gina Heffernan has volunteered to take over as the county coordinator for Limestone county. So she has this list and the county web site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ and also the archives at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/limestone/limetoc.htm Give her a little time to get settled in. She is also the state archives manager for New Mexico, the archives file manager for our section of Texas, and she also lives in Texas! That's gotta be a bonus, right? C ya! David [email protected] David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm

Anyone who has a connection to a Wilson family that came to Limestone Co. before 1860 may want to email me & see if I can tie your family to the one I am working on. I have just connected many of the William & Marcus Wilson families together. These are some of the Wilsons that were in the Box Church area which is on the east side of the county. These Wilsons have connections to the Anglin family before & after they arrived in Limestone Co. They were also married into may of the families in this area including Hillman/Oates/Ferrill/Durham/Roundtree/Anglin/Stanford/Wilkinson/Cunningham just to name a few. Just an interesting note on this is to never give up hope when searching for a family connection. I found a living daughter of the youngest son of William Wilson b: 1820 & she is sharp as a tack. She was able to confirm all the information I had found in census & other places. Pat Oates in TX.

Looking for information on the George Young MOCK family that appears on the 1880 Hunt Co., TX census: MOCK, George Y.; age 40; born GA; father born GA; mother born GA Leanna; wife; age 37; born AL; father and mother born AL Sarah E.; daughter; age 13; born TX Rosa; daughter; age 9; born TX Addie; daughter; age 5; born TX un-named Mock; daughter; age 1; b.TX MOCK, Sion; brother; age 43; b.GA MOCK, Joel; father; age 72; born GA; father born SC; mother born GA George Y. MOCK apparently died about 1898/1899. His widow, Leanna MOCK, is on the 1900 Freestone Co. TX census living in the household of a married daughter and son-in-law, Charles F. (Charlie) PICKETT. This Charlie PICKETT and parents were living in Franklin Co., TX for the 1880 census. Before Leanna MOCK's death in 1920, the PICKETT family and she moved to Limestone Co., TX. Sion MOCK, brother of George Young MOCK is listed on the 1900 Franklin Co., TX census. Would appreciate any information on this line. Billie Nichols-Bennett EAST TEXAS

I am trying to find where my great-great grandfather is buried. He was on the 1920 census for Dallas Co at age 68. I was sent a list containing several possibilities. Some I elimenated because of the date. This one is the closest: Robert Willis Died: 5 Apr. 1930 Limestone Co. His wife's name was Sally. Thanks, Linda

I am sorry, too, David, that you feel compelled to move on. but I can understand burnout. I think you have done a very good job as list manager. I am not volunteering -- I just don't have the computer savvy, but I will welcome anyone who has been as fair and dedicated to the job as you have been. love joan

Dear Dave, What a bummer and if I don't miss my guess--- we have ancestry.com to thank for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The queries before were a pleasure and now they are not. I have some computer savy, so I can image what it's like for those who need to keep things uncomplicated. To me, this change appears to be just a way to glean more email addys with an eye to more sales. I am concerned that Rootsweb will slowly be absorbed as to have less and less that is free. God bless and many thanks for all the hard work, all of the help given, and for being just an all-around heck of a nice guy. Barb in MS

Sorry David you are planning on leaving us, hate to see you go. Limestone Mail List has not been active lately but this List as helped me a lot in my research. No, I am not volunteering for your job. sorry. Wanda