Your email id will not accept mail, so I am sending this to the Limestone list. I have additional information if you are interested. Pat Wade ----- Original Message ----- From: "Skip & Pat Wade" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [LIMEST] TXLIMEST-D Digest V01 #45 > Patti.....Hi! I am Pat Wade from Limestone Co, Tx....also sister in law to > Nona Faye. > > Here's some info I received from her today.... She tells me that her > mother's name was Lillie rather than Lillian. Also that Lillie's first > husband was Jess Stephens. Jess had a brother who lived in the LaSalle area > and died in the 1980's. Also a brother Tom who lived in Louisana. > > Who died in 1975 of cancer? > > I looked for Jeff Stephens (soundex) in limestone county death records for > yrs 64-98 without any results. However, I did find.... > Stevens Jeff 03-21-1987 FREESTONE M > ...perhaps you could have someone check Jeff's death certificate to > determine Jess's father and mother's names..... > > Let me know if you have any luck...I have been looking over various sites > without much luck today. > > Pat Wade > La Salle area...between Groesbeck and Mexia > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 1:13 AM > Subject: [LIMEST] TXLIMEST-D Digest V01 #45 > > > > I'm trying to find out about my grandmother's father who was from > Limestone > > Co. Groesbeck area. Minnie Ola Stevens Frazier d/o Lillian Arenda Brown > > Stevens Sanders. Her father was a Stevens and I believe he had a sister > > named Katherine and a brother that lived in Groesbeck until his death > around > > 1980's. Minnie had one sister Mildred who is in the nursing home at > > Groesbeck. Mildred married a Cox. Lillian divorced Stevens after he > > went to jail for writing checks or something. This was in the 1920's and > she > > never saw him again. Asked her uncle and aunt but they said she was > better > > off not knowing him. She died of cancer in 1975 still wandering what ever > > became of him. Lillian married George Rumulus Sanders and had several more > > children. Georgie Ruth, Ella Pearl, Nona Faye, Ion, Thomas and William > > Sanders. Lillian died in 1957 and is buried in Fort Parker Cem. next to > > George R. Sanders who died in the 60's. Several of my grandmothers > > half-siblings still live in the area but know nothing of Minnie and > Mildreds > > fathers family. Mildred is the one that told me he went to jail and it > cost > > her mother $2 to get a divorce but that is all she remembered. After her > > mother married Sanders they lived close to Oletha where they were share > > croppers. Minnie Ola and John Frazier met and married in Navarro Co. > where > > she had gone to visit with family near Streetman. Have you ever heard any > of > > these families. Don't know Lillians parents either. > > Thanks I'd like to find out and complete that side of my family history. > > Patti Cantrell > > >