Hi, I have been lurking around the Montague list for some time to see if anyone mentioned by TOTTY family. My g g gmohter was Rhoda (Spradling) TOTTY, she wrote in her diaries from May 1876 until she died on Apr 9, 1899. I have the diaries and some have been transcribed and placed on my TOTTY Roots web site at: http://www.totty-families.org/diary.html In those diaries of 1878 she speaks of many people being sick and some dying. Many of the ROSS family are buried in the OLD TOTTY/BEAN Cemetery near Clear Creek in Montague Co. My gr grandfather John W. TOTTY owed the land where the Cemetery originated and was called the TOTTY Cemetery. He later sold the land to the BEAN family who were neighbors. In later years everyone started calling the Cemetery the Old Bean Cemetery because the old timers left now just called it that because it was on the Bean property. The Cemetery is in bad shape and is on private land, the cows run over it and have broken several stones and some are buried. We have offered to put a fence up around it, but the ower said he would take care of it. Last I heard it was still unfenced. There are pictures of this TOTTY/Bean cemetery in my photo gallery, just click on Cemetery if you are interested in viewing the pictures. My web site also has a Montague County web page under records for Texas. http://www.totty-families/records/txmontgu.html Some of these familes had moved to Upshur Co., TX at one time but returned to Montague Co., because the mosquitoes were so bad that some got malaria. From the way the diaries read, it was possibly the reason so many were sick and died from March and through the summer in 1878 Birdie (Totty) McNutt At 06:17 PM 8/17/2005, you wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Surnames: Ross Ulum Brady Henderson Moran >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ikB.2ACE/109.1.1.1.2 > >Message Board Post: > >Dear Vickie: > >I see you have Ross listed among your surnames. Were they in Montague, >Upton, Pecos, Tom Green Counties, TX; or in the Chickasaw Nation, IT; or >Greer County, TX/OK? Following is a query I left for K B Cook on the >Montague Message Board and part of which I posted on the Mailing List today. > >Are the names Charles Ross b.c. 1868 or James N. Ross b.c. 1863 familiar >to you? Details follow: > >Topic: What happened in Montague Family in Sept of 1878? > >Two of the Ulum family died that month, perhaps in Montague Co., Texas. >I'm trying to determine whether they were in Montague then or still back >in Missouri at that time. > >Elijah Ulum b. 1830 Greene Co., PA died 29 Jun 1878 >Mary (Henderson) Ulum b. 1834 KY d. 1884 > >Their children: > >Orlena Jane Ulum b. 1856 MO d. 1868 >Mary Esther Ulum b. 1858 Sullivan Co., MO d. 1938 Mercer Co., MO >Melvina Henrietta Ulum b. 1859 Adair Co., MO >John Alfor Ulum b. 1862 Adair Co., MO d. 14 Sep 1878 >Emma Roena Ulum b. 1862 Adair Co., MO >Violetta Ulum b. 1864 d. 1867 >Nancy Y. Ulum b. 1865 >William Marsellus Ulum b. 14 Feb 1867 Adair Co., MO >Elijah Darius Ulum b. 1869 Adair Co., MO >Salia S. Ulum b. 1 Apr 1871 MO >***Florence Ulum b. 1873 MO d. May 1940 Pecos Co., TX (m. Charles Ross) >Theodocia Nevada Ulum b. 1875 MO >Sterling Stephanos Ulum b. 1877 d. 16 Sep 1878 > >They were in Montague County for the 1880 Census. William Marsellus Ulum >later went up into Greer Co., TX/OK and settled. > >****Florence and her family lived for almost twenty years in McClain >County, Chickasaw Nation, OK, but, later, returned to TX settling in Upton >Co and Pecos Co. > >Her brother-in-law, James N. Ross married Selina (Moran) Brady, widow of >Robert Brady, about 1905 in Pontotoc Co., Chickasaw Nation, IT. James was >murdered by a man named Henry Burr or Burrows in Ada in 1913. > >Selina, then, took her family and went to live on the McClain farm that >Charles Ross and Florence had farmed. Charles and Florence wandered around >working here and there after James' death, finally landing in Upton Co., >TX. Selina was daughter of Marmaduke Moran, a Choctaw Indian. Both she >and her children were enrolled by the Dawes Commission. > >Any correspondence about this family will be much welcome. We've got the >Ulum line back to the 1700's in PA but would like to fill out the MO/TX/OK >adventures of this family as well as the Ross clan. > > > >==== TXMONTAG Mailing List ==== >Someday YOU'LL be an ancestor too! >List Administrator: owner@GerryWhite.net > >============================== >New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors >at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: >http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429