Hi Paul, Don't know if you've yet received a response yet. The Brazos River does run through Palo Pinto Co., TX. However, I'm unsure about the tornado between 1877 and 1880. What surnames are you researching? Good luck and happy hunting, Debi pvance wrote: > > Family stories are that my grandmother was a young girl living with her > brother and his family"on the Braxos River" in Palo Pinto Co. in the late > 1870's. > The story goes that a tornado destroyed the tent in which they were living. > This would have been between 1877 and 1880, > Is Palo Pinto on the Brazos River and does any one have records of tornados > that long ago. > Thanks > Paul R.L. Vance