Bel, Thank you very much for replying to my query. I really appreciate all the information that I have gotten from all of the people on the Parker County mailing list. Living in South Texas, I don't have much opportunity to come up that way. Thanks again, Paul Bel Wise wrote: > Ballew Springs Baptist Church was a WWII casaulty as the pioneer church and > its burial grounds were located in the area of the Camp Wolters firing > range. It is located 8 miles east and north of Mineral Wells. The burials > were made in the cemetery there after the commanding officer of Camp Wolters > issued an order for cease firing for a definite period of time to allow > people to bury their dead. There is a picture of the Ballew Springs Church > taken in 1947 in the History of Parker County published in 1980 and a pcture > of the Old Ballew Springs School House taken in 1912. There is a nice > article about the community of Ballew Springs written by Lula Sullivan. The > only mention of the Moore Family is as follows: "After the was (Civil War) > was over, the people came back and other families came in also; among them > were the Walkers, Wagners, Garrisons, Padgets, Lindseys, Moores, Sprys, > Dobbins, Throckmortons, Staggs, Masters, Massies, Blacks, Holders, Lamkins, > Taylors, Bud Bakers and Coles." > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <TXPARKER-D-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <TXPARKER-D@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 2:52 PM > Subject: TXPARKER-D Digest V99 #147 > > ==== TXPARKER Mailing List ==== > Visit the TXGenWeb Project website associated with Parker County, TX at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txparker/