This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5596 Message Board Post: Photograph of four children (surname unknown) with numbers written over their heads in photograph and first names & corresponding numbers and "Milano, Texas" written on back-side of picture. 1) Elmo 2) Ruth 3) Hazel 4) May

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5595 Message Board Post: Photograph of four children (surname unknown) with numbers written over their heads in photograph and first names & corresponding numbers and "Milano, Texas" written on back-side of picture. 1) Elmo 2) Ruth 3) Hazel 4) May

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hairston, Stevens Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5594 Message Board Post: Photograph of James Alvin Hairston, age 1 Born: 11 Oct 1941, Milam Co., Texas Father: Rush E. Hairston Mother: Helen Stevens

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/hkB.2ACE/3691.1 Message Board Post: This James whittington was my ggg grandfather. he was married to Miranda catherine Harrison. they had a son named benjamin elbert whittington, ,married nancy jane denman in march of 1880. they had a son named abe putnam whittington. He married vena Gregory. I am looking for information on Venas Parents. I believe her mother was Texanna Gregory. She is buried in this val verde cemetery. I am trying to fing out when my relatives came to Texas. This historical marker says that James whittington was a civil war veteran, yet I cannot find any war records on him. Does anybody have any information on this line of whittongton's or Gregory's. They seem to come from bell and milam counties. any information would be appreciated. Thanks Tammy Hensley

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/hkB.2ACE/5593 Message Board Post: Does anyone have information on the surname MILTON or MELTON families living in Milam County near Hog Creek back in the early to mid 1800's? If so please post here or email me direct thanks.

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/hkB.2ACE/5592 Message Board Post: Brenda, Just a thought. Maybe W. T. Dyer was married to someone from one of the families listed in the cemetery, therefore that would be the link for W.T. Dyer being buried there. Are there marriage records available for that time period? Doris

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/hkB.2ACE/5591.1 Message Board Post: There is no index to newspaper obituaries for any 1947. None of the newspapers for 1947 have been indexed or abstracted. Therefore, it would be impossible for anyone to help you without a full and complete date of death! You should first obtain the date of death from the Texas Death Index, available on microfilm at the Dallas Public Library, Clayton Library in Houston, State Library & Archives in Austin, etc. After you have obtained the date of death, you should go to the Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library where the Rockdale Reporter newspaper is on microfilm and beginning reading newspapers. The library does NOT have a microfilm printer and so, if you find an obituary, you have to hand copy all information.

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/hkB.2ACE/5591 Message Board Post: I'm looking for information on David B. Adams buried at Milano Cemetary 1947 in Milam County, Section 4, Row 7 # 7. I would really like to find the obit. to determine for sure if he is my great grandfather.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MARSHALL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hkB.2ACE/5585.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for letting me know. I will do that :o)

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/hkB.2ACE/5585.1.1 Message Board Post: There are no privately published marriage indexes for Milam Co., TX for 1900-1915. The only way to determine this would be for you to personally contact the Milam County Clerk's Office in Cameron, Texas and check the public records.

GREAT NEWS --- The Confederate / Military / Civil War gravemaker for Henry Goldsticker buried in the Jewish Cemetery, Rockdale, Milam County, Texas has arrived!!! YEAH!!! -- It only tool 1 & 1/2 - years to get it! It was shipped to Charles Hubert, President of the Milam County Gen. Society ... He lives in Milano, about 5-miles outside of Rockdale ... I'll try to go up to Rockdale in the next few weeks to see about getting it installed!!! I will go up on a Saturday to do this ... Lynna Kay ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Lynna Kay Shuffield P. O. Box 16604 Houston, Texas 77222 telephone: 713/692-4511 e-mail: friday@argohouston.com ---My webpages--- 'Our Loose Ends' Genealogy Column by Lynna Kay Shuffield http://www.geocities.com/lks_friday/COLUMN-001.htm 'My Loose Ends' Family Tree Database by Lynna Kay Shuffield http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi- bin/igm.cgi?db=friday Note above URL wraps around onto the next line, cut & paste it onto the end of the first line in the 'location box' on your browser. 'Milam County War Dead Project' http://www.geocities.com/lks_friday/ County Coordinator for the Milam County TXGenWeb http://www.geocities.com/milamco/ County Coordinator for the San Jacinto County TXGenWeb http://www.geocities.com/lks_friday/SANJAC-01.htm TX-CEMETERY-PRESERVATION http://www.geocities.com/lks_friday/CEMETERY-001.htm

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/hkB.2ACE/5444.1.1 Message Board Post: Brenda, If I had any information to share I would be more than happy too, however the information I posted is the extent of my knowledge. The other sur-names names you listed are unfamilar to me. My Dyer family tree has been a brick wall for me so if you discover anything I would appreciate you posting it. Thank you for caring. Doris

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MARSHALL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hkB.2ACE/5585.1 Message Board Post: Okay! I found them in the 1930 census and R. H. is now listed as what appears to be Rufus - but after finding a death record for a "Rexford", I'm not so sure of my translation. This IS my Marshall family :o) I can tell by the other children listed. I am now trying to find them in Milam County in 1910. Can anyone please see if there is a marriage record listed for Rufus/Rexford/R. H. MARSHALL to a Georgia Unknown in Milam County between 1900-1911? Their first child was born in 1912 in TX. Thanks so much!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Batte Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5590 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News – Wed., 27 February 1884, p. 1, c. 8 Accident - Cameron Herald: Ira Batte was thrown from a horse last Sunday and sustained serious internal injuries, though he is now able to be about.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kaiser Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5589 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News – Tues., 4 March 1884, p. 1, c. 6 Bar Mitzvah - Rockdale, Mar. 3 - The bar mitzvah celebration of their son Henry Kaiser was the occasion of an entertainment at the residence of Mr. & Mrs. Kaiser, yesterday, at which the best people of the city were assembled. The feast was, in point of abundance and excellence, one of the finest ever spread at a private residence in Rockdale. Master Henry, in an admirable address, acquitted himself nobly, and received the hearty plaudits of all. Among the visiting guests were Mr. & Mrs. Bernheim of Round Rock and Mr. & Mrs. Jackson of Austin. Champagne flowed in abundance and it was a late hour when the last of the guests departed. Mr. Kaiser is one of our leading merchants and the ovation tendered by the large assemblage on this occasion was a fitting tribute to an enterprising citizen.

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/hkB.2ACE/5019.1 Message Board Post: Moore Cemetery is in the NW quadrant of Milam Co. near San Gabriel. >From Thorndale take FM Rd.486 north almost 5 mi to Stigalls Store in San Gabriel and turn left on gravel CR 421, follow 421 for 1 3/4 mi and turn right at CR 418, follow for 1/4 mi there will be a white house on a hill to the right. The burial ground is in a corral and is about 100 yards to the southeast of the house. Brenda

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/hkB.2ACE/5323.1 Message Board Post: Do you know if this is the only obituary notice for Rev. Ross? Thank You Brenda

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/hkB.2ACE/5444.1 Message Board Post: I have almost no information on the Dyers, but, as almost all of the interrments in the Laughlin Cemetery are related in some manner, there is probally a connection. I have been researching all persons interred there ever since we found the cemetery, I want to have all genealogy information posted there by the time we get the cemetery restored. The surnames that are related there are Ross, Laughlin, McAninch, Neill, Whittington, Server, Bolin, Hampton, Winton, Bunting, Henington, Martin, Goynes, and Harrison. Let me know if you want to share information and I will help search. Brenda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cave, Bass Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5588 Message Board Post: Photograph of the "In Memory" gravemarker for Wayne Cave, son of Henry W. Cave & Nancy Bass Cave. = = = = All that is shown on his military records is that he died on 27 March 1862 in New Mexico. It is not known exactly where he died or the cause of death or place of burial. The gravemarker was placed by his family in 2002 at the foot of his father, Henry W. Cave's grave in the Hurt-Graham Cemetery in Elevation, Milam County, Texas (near Milano). = = = = = Rank: Private Joined for duty and enrolled: 18 Sep 1861 Mustered-in at: Cameron, Milam Co., TX By: Charles Buckholts At: Camp Sibley Unit: Co. C, 4th Cavalry, Texas (also known as: Capt. Charles Buckholts' Company, 1st Regiment, Shelby's Brigade, Texas Mounted Volunteers - Cavalry) = = = = = The following letter was found in the book, "History of Milam County, Texas" by Lelia McAnally Batte: In Camp, New Mexico Jany 13th 1862 Dear John: We are near Fort Thom, about 60 miles above Mesilla, and 90 minles below Fort Craig, where are some 3000 of the enemy. Today, five companies go on a reconnaissance to that point; my company is not of them. When they return, I expect we are to move upon it. The 2d regt. is below us 30 or 40 miles. We are surrounded by the Indians. Night before last a picket guard killed one of them. Last night I commanded a picket of 16 men; we lay in a canyon a mile from camp but we saw none. Below El Paso, I had one horse stolen, and above, 25 miles, I had 14 stolen, and at this camp, one -- sixteen in all. Other Cos. lost also. One had 23 stolen. The men have been very carless, but have now become very careful. The weather has been charming during our whole route -- no rain, no snow, or sleet, or cold. The weather has been that of spring. We have plenty to eat and in sufficient variety of health. Surely God is with us, and we must conquer. We are well armed and have a sufficiency of ammunition. No one many yet lost, and no casualty among the men save the accidential shooting of Wm. I. Springer through the hand. The company are now doing well. All seem cheerful and happy and eager for a fight, and they will do themselves and their country credit, you may depend upon it. I believe I have as brave a company of men as any Captain ever commanded. I have a fine Orderly Sergeant now; he is Tom Williams, and is a gentleman and a good officer, every inch of him. He and his brother, John, are the only ones who make music for us. They fiddle and the boys dance. The men who had horses stolen by the Indians are as follows: J. G. H. Abel, Winfred Bailey, W. CAVE, J. S. Wade, Richard Allday, R. S. Vancleve, W. M. Newsom, V. S. Ritchie, J. E. Long, G. I. Olive, Daniel Eckman, Mat Logan, James Bailey, A. I. Bigham, C. C. Sage, Thomas B. Fisher. I have enjoyed the service hugely, thus far. Your brother, Charles Buckholts. = = = = = Two Milam County companies saw action in New Mexico during the Civil War. In 1861 Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Silbey raised a Confederate force to drive the Federal troops out of New Mexico. Sibley's Brigade, as it came to be known, some thousand men mostly Texans, was formed in San Antonio. The brigade included Captain Charles M. Lesueur's cavalry company and another company from Milam County commanded by Captain Charles Buckholts. On March 28, the Federals defeated Silbey's Brigade at Glorieta, and Captain Buckholts was killed, as were, it is said, all but four of his company. = = = = = The 4th Texas fought a skirmish at Apache Canon on 26 Mar 1862. There was no action on 27 Mar 1862. The actual Battle of Glorieta Pass occurred on 28 Mar 1862. = = = = = Henry Hopkins Sibley: Confederate General of the West - p. 278-279 "Early on the morning of March 25 the Confederates filed through the narrow and dusty streets of the territorial capital and rode southeast along the Santa Fe Trail toward Gloreta Pass at the southern extremity of the towing and frigid snow-covered Sangre de Cristo. By the evening of the first day they had reached Johnson's Ranch near the mouth of Apache Canyon at the western entrance to Glorieta Pass." Henry Hopkins Sibley: Confederate General of the West - p. 282 "[On March 28] The defeated [Major Charles L.] Pyron retreated to Johnson's Ranch where a flag of truce was sent to [Major John M. ] Chivington [Union] who agreed upon a cease fire until 8:00 a.m. the following morning for the nursing of the wounded and the burying of the dead. There was little jubilation in the Confederate camp that night. Confederate losses were reported as four men killed and six wounded while Chivington reported the Southern losses at thirty-two killed, forty-three wounded, and seventy-one taken prisoner."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cave, Bass Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5587 Message Board Post: Photograph of the "In Memory" gravemarker for F. M. Cave, son of Henry W. Cave & Nancy Bass Cave. = = = = All that is shown on his military records is that he died in March 1862 in New Mexico. It is not known exactly when or where he died or the cause of death or place of burial. The gravemarker was placed by his family in 2002 at the foot of his father, Henry W. Cave's grave in the Hurt-Graham Cemetery in Elevation, Milam County, Texas (near Milano). = = = = Rank: Private Joined for duty and enrolled: 18 Sep 1861 Mustered-in at: Cameron, Milam Co., TX By: Charles Buckholts At: Camp Sibley Unit: Co. E, 4th Cavalry, Texas (also known as: Capt. Charles Buckholts' Company, 1st Regiment, Shelby's Brigade, Texas Mounted Volunteers - Cavalry) = = = = The 4th Texas fought a skirmish at Apache Canon, NM on 26 Mar 1862. There was no action on 27 Mar 1862. The actual Battle of Glorieta Pass occurred on 28 Mar 1862.