Hi Shirley, These are some of the people I am looking for and yes I'm down to long shots and other desperate measures.lol Edna Berry married to Benjamin R Miller Navarro Co William Taylor Berry married to Mary Catherine Powers Navarro Co. Amanda LeCroy married to Job Sosebee Jr. died in Parker Co., TX (originally from GA) Gordon Horton married to Helen Reamy TX John L Cantrell born in Grand Saline, TX married to Mollie Towry Alice Cantrell in Georgia Rayna

I'm researching surnames: Frazier, Young, Crain, Crane, Fitzgerald, Higginbotham families from Navarro County and surrounding area. Patti Cantrell Jewett, TX

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Hi Debbie, my Cantrell brick wall is my GAunt, Cora Lee Cantrell who married GUncle, William Pinkney Hightower. She was born in 1886 in Polk Co., GA, died 1971 in Whitney, Bosque, TX & is buried at the Hillcrest Garden of Memories in Hillsboro, Hill, TX. William was born in 1875 in Frost, Navarro, TX, died 1957 in Waco, McLennan, TX & he is also buried at Hillcrest Cem. Their youngest child, is still living (Hillsboro), is elderly & in very bad health. I do not correspond with them, but I have a cousin who visits them every so often & if he is having a reasonable day, she is able to get bits of info now & then, but it is definitely just bits. Most of my Hightowers are buried at Frost Cemetery in Frost, Navarro, TX. Cora & William had 8 children. Do you have Cora listed in your files? Shirley in Houston SRJ652@pdq.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie & Jim Frazier" <txldy@xit.net> To: <TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [TXNAVARR] Surnames Shirley, Hello, I am researching the Cantrell's of Navarro Co. Also. Since I only know of one very large family from there can you share with me which one you are researching? Mine are Henry and Emily Cantrell and their descendants. I am currently working on putting together our family reunion to be located in Navarro Co. for next year would be glad to share the information that I have and it is considerable. Thanks, Debrah Cantrell Frazier > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Shirley Johnston" <SRJ652@pdq.net> > > To: <TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:13 PM > > Subject: Re: [TXNAVARR] Surnames > > > > > > > Hi, here are some of the surnames I am researching in Navarro County& other TX counties: Hightower, Shelton, Berry, Cantrell, Vaught, Gray, Fergus, Horton, LeCroy, Hyer > > > > Shirley Hightower-Johnston > > SRJ652@pdq.net > ==== TXNAVARR Mailing List ==== > To see what Navarro County resources are available on RootsWeb, go to: > > http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TX/Navarro/

Rayna, I have COPEs from IN to MS to TX. Elaine

The Corsicana Library (Genealogy Room)has some back issues for sale. I think they are about $3.00 (THREE DOLLARS) each. Their eMail address is roots@corsicana.lib.tx.us If there are specific articles you are looking for, you may be able to get them copied. They should have a full set. Edward L. Williams Navarro County TXGenWeb www.rootsweb.com/~txnavarr ewilli01@flash.net -----Original Message----- From: Elaine Tasker [mailto:tasker@tri-lakes.net] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:24 PM To: TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TXNAVARR] Leaves and Branches Does anyone know how I might be able to purchase a few of these publications? Elaine ==== TXNAVARR Mailing List ==== To see what Navarro County resources are available on RootsWeb, go to: http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TX/Navarro/

Shirley, Hello, I am researching the Cantrell's of Navarro Co. Also. Since I only know of one very large family from there can you share with me which one you are researching? Mine are Henry and Emily Cantrell and their descendants. I am currently working on putting together our family reunion to be located in Navarro Co. for next year would be glad to share the information that I have and it is considerable. Thanks, Debrah Cantrell Frazier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shirley Johnston" <SRJ652@pdq.net> To: <TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [TXNAVARR] Surnames > Hi, here are some of the surnames I am researching in Navarro County& other > TX counties: Hightower, Shelton, Berry, Cantrell, Vaught, Gray, Fergus, > Horton, LeCroy, Hyer > > Shirley Hightower-Johnston > SRJ652@pdq.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rayna" <Raytiques@charter.net> > To: <TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:40 PM > Subject: [TXNAVARR] Surnames > > > > HI All, > > > > I'm new to this list and was wondering if anyone else was searching for > > any of the surnames listed below. > > COPE, WALKER, ESLICK, SAWYER, HENSON, HARDIN, CLARK, FOX, SMITH, FREEZE > > and BERRY > > Most of them have been in the area from the 1870's to the present. Any > > information on these families would be helpful and appreciated. > > I can be reached at: raytiques@charter.net > > > > Thank you, > > Rayna > > > > > > > > > > ==== TXNAVARR Mailing List ==== > > To see what Navarro County resources are available on RootsWeb, go to: > > http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TX/Navarro/ > > > > > > ==== TXNAVARR Mailing List ==== > For more Navarro County genealogy and history, visit the GenWeb site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txnavarr/ >

Hi, here are some of the surnames I am researching in Navarro County& other TX counties: Hightower, Shelton, Berry, Cantrell, Vaught, Gray, Fergus, Horton, LeCroy, Hyer Shirley Hightower-Johnston SRJ652@pdq.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rayna" <Raytiques@charter.net> To: <TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:40 PM Subject: [TXNAVARR] Surnames > HI All, > > I'm new to this list and was wondering if anyone else was searching for > any of the surnames listed below. > COPE, WALKER, ESLICK, SAWYER, HENSON, HARDIN, CLARK, FOX, SMITH, FREEZE > and BERRY > Most of them have been in the area from the 1870's to the present. Any > information on these families would be helpful and appreciated. > I can be reached at: raytiques@charter.net > > Thank you, > Rayna > > > > > ==== TXNAVARR Mailing List ==== > To see what Navarro County resources are available on RootsWeb, go to: > http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TX/Navarro/ >

Rayna, Which Walker family interests you? My great-grandfather was German Walker, who moved from Mississippi to Rice in the 1870s. His grandmother was from the Berry family in Simpson County, Mississippi. Roger Bartlett Austin > -----Original Message----- > From: Rayna [mailto:Raytiques@charter.net] > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:40 PM > To: TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXNAVARR] Surnames > > > HI All, > > I'm new to this list and was wondering if anyone else was > searching for > any of the surnames listed below. > COPE, WALKER, ESLICK, SAWYER, HENSON, HARDIN, CLARK, FOX, > SMITH, FREEZE > and BERRY > Most of them have been in the area from the 1870's to the present. Any > information on these families would be helpful and appreciated. > I can be reached at: raytiques@charter.net > > Thank you, > Rayna > > > > > ==== TXNAVARR Mailing List ==== > To see what Navarro County resources are available on RootsWeb, go to: > http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TX/Navarro/ >

This is from the Handbook of Texas. I am researching McCarters in the Rural Shade area . RURAL SHADE, TEXAS. Rural Shade, a farming community on Farm Road 635 twenty miles southeast of Corsicana in southeastern Navarro County, was first settled in 1850 by Hugh and Washington Ingram. A post office was established there in 1858. Around 1870 James Ingram, one of Hugh's sons, built the first steam-powered gristmill in the area. By 1885 Rural Shade consisted of a blacksmith shop, a sawmill, three gristmills, three general stores, four cotton gins, and an estimated population of seventy-five. Two schools were in operation by 1906, with a total enrollment of 145. During the 1930s Rural Shade included a school, two churches, and five or six stores. After World War IIqv its school was consolidated with the Kerens school, and the stores closed. By the mid-1960s only a church and a number of scattered houses remained. In 1990 Rural Shade was a dispersed rural community. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Annie Carpenter Love, History of Navarro County (Dallas: Southwestern, 1933). Wyvonne Putman, comp., Navarro County History (5 vols., Quanah, Texas: Nortex, 1975-84). Alva Taylor, History and Photographs of Corsicana and Navarro County (Corsicana, Texas, 1959; rev. ed., Navarro County History and Photographs, Corsicana, 1962). Christopher Long

Does anyone know how I might be able to purchase a few of these publications? Elaine

HI All, I'm new to this list and was wondering if anyone else was searching for any of the surnames listed below. COPE, WALKER, ESLICK, SAWYER, HENSON, HARDIN, CLARK, FOX, SMITH, FREEZE and BERRY Most of them have been in the area from the 1870's to the present. Any information on these families would be helpful and appreciated. I can be reached at: raytiques@charter.net Thank you, Rayna

Hi, I am looking for HARDING (IN/EN) and HOLLOWAY in Navarro Co, TX. Sincerely, Elaine

> In what part of the county was Rural Shade located? Doris

Anyone having any information on W.C. Robertson family I would appreciate some information and pictures if at all possible. I know it was a large family that lived in Dawson, Texas. My grand father Nathan Hale Daughrity married Martha Robertson in 1878 or approximately that time. My dad was born January 23, 1879 in Dawson. We have looked for my grandmother's grave and cannot find it. If you are related or have any information I would be delighted! I know his brother Sam Married Jane Robertson. I have been searching since in the 60's and have been to Dawson and the cemetery several times. Hoping I will find some one searching also . Louise Sears

I am trying to find information on Tom HENDERSON who lived near the Rural Shade area. He was m. to Julia Vaughan (from Freestone Co.) who was b. Oct. 1, 1872 in Hickman Co., Ky. They had one daughter, Lena, who m. Tom Moore. Tom and Julia were alive in the late 1930s and probably early 1940s. Any help on locating their dates of death and burial sites will be appreciated. Joan Singletary josing@juno.com

Yesterday's online edition of the Corsicana Daily Sun includes a news story on recent vandalism at the Eureka Cemetery. If you have connections to this cemetery, you might want to read this story, which includes a photograph of some of the damaged tombstones: http://www.corsicanadailysun.com/display/inn_news/news10.txt The above link probably will be reassigned in another day or two, after which you should be able to find the story through the site's archive function, although I expect the picture will not be archived.

Hello fellow researchers, It has been several months since I last offered to share some of the more important research items discovered during my study of the Scotch-Irish.  Because of the amount of time required to copy and mail these items I will only be able to do this once a year. ( I make my living selling real estate)  You will find three new items listed below as well as the original items listed in my January post. Rockbridge County, Virginia Notebook, Compiled from Articles by Dr. George W. Diehl as published in the News-Gazette, Lexington, Virginia.  Additional charts and notes have been added as well as a surname index.  Compiled by A. Maxim Coppage III, 242 pages. For a number of years, the late Dr. George W. Diehl contributed historical and genealogical articles to the News-Gazette, Lexington, Virginia, published by M.W. Paxton, Jr.  The clippings from the paper were sent to Mr. Coppage for the "Virginia Collection"  In many instances information may be found showing where families originated in Scotland or Ireland, the places lived before settling in the Rockbridge County, Virginia area and the relationships between various clans or as Dr. Diehl so aptly named this phase of pioneering, "A Rockbridge Seed-box." "A Tribute to the Principles, Virtues, Habits and Public Usefulness of the Irish and Scotch Early Settlers of Pennsylvania," Chambersburg, Pa. Printed by M. Kiefer & Co. 1856, 171 pages. >From the prefece the following:  "The writer of the Tribute contained in this work, had long desired to see from the Historical publications in Pennsylvania, a vindication of the character and principles of the Irish and Scotch early settlers of this great State and their descendants against reproach, as well as aspersion, cast upon them in some modern publications having pretensions to Historical accuracy"....Lots of detail on the early members of the church as well as problems with the Indians and the struggle over land rights during the westward expansion. The Scotch-Irish In The Colonies: 1750-1790 A Thesis Presented for the Degree of Master of Arts by Kathryn R. Aikin, A.B., The Ohio State University, 1933 Contents include Introduction, Early Settlements, Daily Life on the Frontier, Educational and Religious Activities, Military Pursuits, and Political Participation and Conclusion.  Also a GREAT Bibliography, the most important part of any thesis. Listed below are the other books and manuscripts previously offered to the various surname lists that are predominately Scotch-Irish: The Laggan and its Presbyterianism and In the Days of the Laggan Presbytery, 1905,1908, by the Rev. Alexander Lecky, B.A., member of the Royal Sociey of Antiquaries of Ireland, Belfast, Davidson & McCormack, 54 Kings St.  211 pages    On our recent trip to Donegal we met J.B. Shannon, age 90, who assisted in the 1975 reprinting of this book.  He is the last living person who had anything to do with these books and he says they are still the BEST source for Ulster Presbyterian research.  From Lecky I quote, "The lists of names of former generations of Lagganeers, and their places of abode, that are given in the Appendixes, and which NEVER before appeared in print, whilst they may of necessity prove dull reading to those who have no acquaintance with the locality, will not, I hope, be altogether uninteresting to those who bear the same name, or live in the same places..." Fighters of Derry, Their Deeds and Descendants, being a Chronicle of Events in Ireland during the Revolutionary period 1688-1691, by William Young, Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 350 pages.    One of the most difficult sources to locate, in fact almost impossible.  Months worth of reading and packed with great genealogy.  Contains the following biographical sketches:    1.  The leaders of the County Associations who, with their levies, took part in the preliminary operations and contributed much of the man power for the Defence. 2.  The Apprentice Boys and those responsible for shutting the gates on the 8th Dec. 1688. 3.  The actual Defenders during the 105 day siege (over 1200 genealogical sketches) 4.  Those engaged in the relief of the city A History of the Siege of Londonderry and Defense of Enniskillen in 1688 and 1689, with Historical Poetry and Biographical notes, by the Rev. John Graham, M.A. Rector of Magilligan in the Diocese of Derry.  Includes the Battles of the Boyne, Athlone, and Aughrim and the siege and Capitulation of Limmerick by Lord McCaulay, Toronto, 1869    The historical poems are family genealogies about those who were at Derry and where they came from.  Along with "Fighters of Derry" these two sources contain more actual genealogical information than any others I have seen. Three Hundred Years in Innishowen, Being More Particularly an Account of the Family of Young of Culdaff with Short Accounts of Many Other Families Connected with Them, by Amy Young, 1929, The Linenhall Press, Belfast, 311 pages.    Some of the names included are Young, Hart, Harvey, Cary, Vaughan, McLaughlin, Skipton, Richardson, Knox, Ussher, Smith, Nesbitt, Chichester, Ball, Lawrence, Crofton, Boyd, Stuart and many others. The Laggan and its People, by S.M. Campbell, privately printed. A look at the history of the Laggan (Presbyterian Derry/Donegal) through the eyes of a local historian. Draws on local lore, Abercorn papers, records from PRONI. The Tinkling Spring: Headwater of Freedom, A Study of the Church and Her People, 1732-1952, by Howard McKnight Wilson, 1954, Fisherville, Virginia 542 pages    The best source of information on the Scotch-Irish of Augusta/Rockbridge Counties in Virginia.  Includes the Baptismal Records of the Rev. Craig.  In-depth study of the early families of the Shenandoah Valley. Castle's Woods: Frontier Virginia Settlement, 1769-1799, a thesis presented to the Faculty of the Department of History, East Tennessee State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of master of Arts, by James W. Hagy, 1966, 150 pages.    The most popular of the documents offered, this covers the families who settled in Russell county, Virginia when it was considered the frontier.  If your ancestors came through southwestern Virginia, this document is the history of your family.  Contains information on specific families as well as the farmers, speculators, artisans, and preachers who resided there.  Lots on the Indian battles that were a daily feature of life on the frontier.  Names like Russell, Walker, Porter, Cowan, Houston, Boone, Montgomery, Fraley, Thompson, Anderson, Kilgore, and 50 or so other "Scotch-Irish" families make this an invaluable resource for your family history. The Reverend Samuel Houston, V.D.M., by George West Diehl, 1970, McClure Publishing Co. 125 pages History of the early Virginia Presbyterians through the life of the Rev. Samuel Houston, kin to Sam Houston of Texas fame. The Stirling Merchant Gild and Life of John Cowane, founder of Cowane's Hospital in Stirling, by David B. Morris, Town Clerk, Stirling, Jamieson & Munro, LTD. 1919, 367pages. This is really two books in one.   The first part deals with the Gild. Laws, history, struggle with Unfreemen and with the Crafts, Administration, Merchandising, Conditions of entry, etc. and the second part which is about the life of John Cowane, Dean of the Gild and his contributions to it. Well there you have it.  The best documents I have found.  If you are interested in obtaining any of the above items (I would like to make copies for free but I can't) contact me at cscunc@aol.com for  details. Regards, Robert Cowan 525 Harrogate Rd. Matthews, North Carolina 28105

I'm searching for Sherri Lynn Harper Coker for a high school reunion. She was born on 2/21/52, and was last known to be living in Barry, Texas. Any help would be appreciated. John Adkins johnadkins@ev1.net Houston, Texas

Would someone please do a look up for me in Marshall, Harrison Co. Tx. I need the date of death for Mary Elizabeth Wallace Ethridge and the name of the cemetery in Marshall where she and her husband, Waller Maurice Ethridge are buried. If I can ever do a look up for anyone in Benton or Washington Co. Ar. I will be glad to do so. Anne Walton Wilson anne-wilson@juno.com