I drove by the Becknell area on my way to Clarksville and back to Paris Sunday afternoon. I was not looking for the actually marker but I did look to see if the step latter I placed over the fence was still there at the closest place to the marker. It is still there and to my surprise, a trail has been worn around the latter. Seems several must have walked the path. I feel certain the marker is still there but the weeds are up and I was not looking for it. It is on the south side of US 82 about 100 yards It is difficult to see from the highway because it is facing the west so from the closest point on the hwy (US 82) you are looking at the side edge of the monument. Approaching from the west, some time you can see it if from about 1/4 miles distant, you look across the creek (low area) about 100 yards to the small grove of trees, just to the west of the small grove are about 4 or 5 small trees, and if it is in the afternoon, you may can locate it easier because the Sun will lighten up the west side surface of the monument. It is about 3 ft wide and maybe 5 ft tall. These are the only trees in the pasture, the rest of the pasture is weeds. I have taken several picture of the monument and the few remaining markers I could find. If anyone want to see them, I can e-mail them to you or maybe Cynthia can add them to the web-site if she thinks there is enough interest. Jim G p.s. I hope he was not look where the historical marker and the old Becknell house is or looking where the old house use to set until around the 1960s when it was moved from a area on the north side of US 82 and about 1/2 mile back west from the monument. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cynthia Samples" <samples@1starnet.com> To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:48 AM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Becknell Marker > Hey, Jim or Tom or anybody that can help me. I have been corresponding > with a man in Georgetown, TX, who is obsessed with seeing the monument for > Captain William Becknell. He is not a descendant but he says he is > writing a paper. I gave him explicit directions, he drove down there and > said he couldn't find it. I have seen it many times so I didn't know what > his problem was. You can normally see it from Hwy 82 if you are looking > the right way(and not driving) or from CR 1290. > > Yesterday I drove down there and I couldn't find it either. The place is > grown up so badly that it could have weeds that are as high as the marker > all around it. I didn't walk out there, because I wasn't prepared to do > that and I was by myself. > > He questioned me about "could it have been removed". I think if anything > like that had happened some of us would have heard about it. Has anybody > seen it in the last few months? Any clues anybody could give me would be > appreciated. We have the gps coordinates, thanks to Lawrence Dale, but I > don't have a gps receiver. I don't know who owns the land now. > > Cynthia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.1/1141 - Release Date: > 11/20/2007 11:34 AM >

Hey, Jim or Tom or anybody that can help me. I have been corresponding with a man in Georgetown, TX, who is obsessed with seeing the monument for Captain William Becknell. He is not a descendant but he says he is writing a paper. I gave him explicit directions, he drove down there and said he couldn't find it. I have seen it many times so I didn't know what his problem was. You can normally see it from Hwy 82 if you are looking the right way(and not driving) or from CR 1290. Yesterday I drove down there and I couldn't find it either. The place is grown up so badly that it could have weeds that are as high as the marker all around it. I didn't walk out there, because I wasn't prepared to do that and I was by myself. He questioned me about "could it have been removed". I think if anything like that had happened some of us would have heard about it. Has anybody seen it in the last few months? Any clues anybody could give me would be appreciated. We have the gps coordinates, thanks to Lawrence Dale, but I don't have a gps receiver. I don't know who owns the land now. Cynthia

I was in Clarksville last Sun. and, as usual, visited my Gparents, Monroe and Ruth Cornett, grave site in Fairview. There is a grave, just above their marker and beside Lindsey McAllister's that is new. It has the metal ,temporary, marker but no info.. I was hoping someone might know something about this. The burial must have been in the last 6 months. I just drove up there for the morning (my roots were calling me home). The leaves were beginning to turn, some were on the roads-BEAUTIFUL!! Does anyone know who owns The Hart's Bluff Ranch, located near Cuthand, in the Sulfur River bottoms. Tom Watson-Heath, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: Sharon Black Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 12:41 PM To: Jim Giddens; txredriv@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Giles obit Murry Giles was the 2nd husband of a distant cousin of mine. His wife, Ida May Barton Jackson Giles, died in 2001. Ida May was a sister of the late Henry Burl Barton who was a well known auctioneer in Red River County. Henry Burl and Ida May were grandchilren of my grand uncle Burl Hastings. Sharon Black ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Giddens" <jimgidd@suddenlink.net> To: "Red River Co Tx Rootsweb" <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 8:42 AM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Giles obit Murry Browder Giles CLARKSVILLE - Murry Browder Giles, 76, of Clarksville died Friday, Nov. 16, 2007. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 in Lindeman Chapel of Clarksville Funeral Home. Burial follows in English Cemetery. The family receives friends from 1 p.m. Monday until service time. Published November 18, 2007 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I am surprised this is such a short obit. Murry was RR Co Judge some years back, in the 70s or 80s. Murry and I have talked together a few times. We have a genealogy connection. His mother or grandmother (I forget) was a Giddens. His middle name of Browder is rare to me but there is a Giddens grave at English that also has Browder for a middle name. I feel it was be a family name of the past. Browder raises my curiosity. Does anyone out there know of a Browder family. Murry was in the hospital recently after a fall. Jim G ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.31/1130 - Release Date: 11/14/2007 9:27 AM ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Murry Giles was the 2nd husband of a distant cousin of mine. His wife, Ida May Barton Jackson Giles, died in 2001. Ida May was a sister of the late Henry Burl Barton who was a well known auctioneer in Red River County. Henry Burl and Ida May were grandchilren of my grand uncle Burl Hastings. Sharon Black ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Giddens" <jimgidd@suddenlink.net> To: "Red River Co Tx Rootsweb" <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 8:42 AM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Giles obit Murry Browder Giles CLARKSVILLE - Murry Browder Giles, 76, of Clarksville died Friday, Nov. 16, 2007. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 in Lindeman Chapel of Clarksville Funeral Home. Burial follows in English Cemetery. The family receives friends from 1 p.m. Monday until service time. Published November 18, 2007 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I am surprised this is such a short obit. Murry was RR Co Judge some years back, in the 70s or 80s. Murry and I have talked together a few times. We have a genealogy connection. His mother or grandmother (I forget) was a Giddens. His middle name of Browder is rare to me but there is a Giddens grave at English that also has Browder for a middle name. I feel it was be a family name of the past. Browder raises my curiosity. Does anyone out there know of a Browder family. Murry was in the hospital recently after a fall. Jim G ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.31/1130 - Release Date: 11/14/2007 9:27 AM

Murry Browder Giles CLARKSVILLE - Murry Browder Giles, 76, of Clarksville died Friday, Nov. 16, 2007. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19 in Lindeman Chapel of Clarksville Funeral Home. Burial follows in English Cemetery. The family receives friends from 1 p.m. Monday until service time. Published November 18, 2007 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I am surprised this is such a short obit. Murry was RR Co Judge some years back, in the 70s or 80s. Murry and I have talked together a few times. We have a genealogy connection. His mother or grandmother (I forget) was a Giddens. His middle name of Browder is rare to me but there is a Giddens grave at English that also has Browder for a middle name. I feel it was be a family name of the past. Browder raises my curiosity. Does anyone out there know of a Browder family. Murry was in the hospital recently after a fall. Jim G

Yes, Rebecca Annie Thomas born 04 April 1871, burned to death January 17, 1883. Tennessee Thomas born 19 July 1879 died 16 October 1881. Bennie Thomas born 7 February 1882, died 15 September 1884 of menongitis. Jennie Thomas born 17 December 1886, died 14 January 1888 or 1889. Louisa E. "Rebecca or Bessie" Sanders Thomas born 5 September 1865 died??? before 1898 we believe. We have a letter written by Rebecca in August 1884 saying they had ordered rocks....they called the tombstones... for sister and sweetie that were suppose to be in November 1st. It is such a sad letter and a month later they lost the Bennie with menongitis. Rebecca is my Dad's aunt and we are trying to find where they are buried. Thanks for any help or suggestions you may be able to give. Lavonne Sanders Walker, 19603 13th Street, Shawnee, Ok. 74801 405-273-3326 email:lavonnew@flash.net Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a dream, today is a gift. BBIRDSWIFE@aol.com wrote: Do you know the complete names of the Thomas ancestors that you are looking for? ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Somebody please confirm the time and place (including directions) for the meeting. Thanks-- MaryK, DeKalb 667-7172

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I believe we may have relatives buried near Annona. Can anyone tell me the close cemeteries to that community? Wonder if it has been recorded and is on the internet? We have 3 Thomas graves that should be in this area in 1880s. Thanks very much for any information on this community. Lavonne in Oklahoma

RRCoGenSoc meeting tonight 7 p.m. in library (genealogy room) in Clarksville. Sorry I will not be able to make it, again. It is 2 blocks north of the square on Walnut Street, just before you get to the Post Office and the Courthouse. Walnut is a one way, the wrong way from the square. Go up Locust about 3 blocks and then over one block to the west to hit Walnut. Jim G ----- Original Message ----- From: "MaryK Croft" <marykcroft@msn.com> To: "Rootsweb Red River" <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 4:27 PM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Tonight? > > Somebody please confirm the time and place (including directions) for the > meeting. Thanks-- MaryK, DeKalb 667-7172 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.30/1126 - Release Date: > 11/12/2007 12:56 PM > >

I can see I did not proofread my last e-mail for spelling and grammar etc. Please excuse. Jim G ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Giddens" <jimgidd@suddenlink.net> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Fw: James Titus reenactment > I have notes I took when Lynn Titus came to speak to the genealogy > society on Apr 14, 2003 on the James Titus Family History. It was most > interesting (back to 1600s in England) then and I know that Monday will be > so much more so. Hope I can make it. My colander says Monday is the > 12th and not the 13th, which was in the Times. Anyway, I took a hold > page of notes that night.

I have notes I took when Lynn Titus came to speak to the genealogy society on Apr 14, 2003 on the James Titus Family History. It was most interesting (back to 1600s in England) then and I know that Monday will be so much more so. Hope I can make it. My colander says Monday is the 12th and not the 13th, which was in the Times. Anyway, I took a hold page of notes that night. (a little rambling now, so delete if not interested) Every time I hear the name Lynn Titus, my immediate thought is Lynn Holder. Lynn Holder is from Avery and I first met him at Paris Junior College in 1959. I bet there is a connection because there are Holder's buried at Savannah Cemetery as is Titus. Due to Lynn Titus's talk in 2003, I went to Savannah Cemetery (only a few miles from Avery) and made some notes and took pictures. Seems I remember Lynn in 2003 speak of confusion in the name. Now I am confused. I do not see James Titus listed on this Cemetery site and I do not have him in my notes, but he must be there somewhere. I took a picture of Andrew Titus's marker that Cynthia posted on the site. If I read my notes right, Andrew is a son of James. I am certain Lynn came give the correct answer. Now I a think I recall a conversation of James Titus being buried elsewhere, maybe Titus Co?. Sue hope I can be there Monday night to let Lynn set me straight. There was a Myrtle Titus (I think Myrtle is correct but I could be wrong), she worked for the Moore's in their grocery story in Avery when I had the drug store there in the 1970s. She told me she was related to me some how, my guess is it was through my Watson line and not the Titus. Hope to see some of you Monday night but I have been having trouble making the meetings lately. Jim Giddens Paris (Reno), Tx ----- Original Message ----- From: <TXROSE101@aol.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 7:56 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Fw: James Titus reenactment > > You will enjoy this. Lynn Titus has gone to great pains to put together > this excellent production. Rosalie/New Boston > > > > In a message dated 11/5/2007 7:49:26 P.M. Central Standard Time, > samples@1starnet.com writes: > > The Red River County Genealogical Society will meet on Monday evening, > November 13, at 7 p.m. in the Red River County Library. This month's > speaker will > be Lynn Titus of Grand Prairie, who will present a first person period > dress > reenactment of his ancestor, Col. James Titus. Col. Titus was born in > 1775 > in Virginia and was a senator in the Alabama Territory as well as in the > Republic of Texas. The time period will be early November, 1843 in > Clarksville, > as James Titus has left his plantation near Savannah to talk about his > life > with friends and town-folk from Clarksville and the surrounding area. > At his > death in 1844, he became the first person buried in what would become Red > River County's Savannah Cemetery. > All interested persons are invited to attend this meeting. > > > > > > > ************************************** See what's new at > http://www.aol.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.22/1111 - Release Date: > 11/5/2007 4:36 AM > >

You will enjoy this. Lynn Titus has gone to great pains to put together this excellent production. Rosalie/New Boston In a message dated 11/5/2007 7:49:26 P.M. Central Standard Time, samples@1starnet.com writes: The Red River County Genealogical Society will meet on Monday evening, November 13, at 7 p.m. in the Red River County Library. This month's speaker will be Lynn Titus of Grand Prairie, who will present a first person period dress reenactment of his ancestor, Col. James Titus. Col. Titus was born in 1775 in Virginia and was a senator in the Alabama Territory as well as in the Republic of Texas. The time period will be early November, 1843 in Clarksville, as James Titus has left his plantation near Savannah to talk about his life with friends and town-folk from Clarksville and the surrounding area. At his death in 1844, he became the first person buried in what would become Red River County's Savannah Cemetery. All interested persons are invited to attend this meeting. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

This is from Johnie about the next RRGS program. Just a note to send this to you all. This is the notice that I sent to the papers about our next meeting. Johnie The Red River County Genealogical Society will meet on Monday evening, November 13, at 7 p.m. in the Red River County Library. This month's speaker will be Lynn Titus of Grand Prairie, who will present a first person period dress reenactment of his ancestor, Col. James Titus. Col. Titus was born in 1775 in Virginia and was a senator in the Alabama Territory as well as in the Republic of Texas. The time period will be early November, 1843 in Clarksville, as James Titus has left his plantation near Savannah to talk about his life with friends and town-folk from Clarksville and the surrounding area. At his death in 1844, he became the first person buried in what would become Red River County's Savannah Cemetery. All interested persons are invited to attend this meeting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You! Get 'em!

Speaking of Don Henley. Did you see that the Eagles have released a new studio album? The first one since 1979. And they are going to start touring next year. Gene At 01:33 PM 11/5/2007, TXROSE101@aol.com wrote: >_Click here: Induct James Kirkland into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame >Petition_ (http://www.petitiononline.com/jkirk/petition.html) > > >James Kirkland, Linden Texas native son and great bass player, is being >considered for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - where he would >join fellow Linden native sons Aaron "T-Bone" Walker and Don Henley. > >Please forward this email to your friends. And go to the ABOVE website and >sign the petition. The petition will provide you some of his resume. > >Rosalie > > > > >************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

_Click here: Induct James Kirkland into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Petition_ (http://www.petitiononline.com/jkirk/petition.html) James Kirkland, Linden Texas native son and great bass player, is being considered for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - where he would join fellow Linden native sons Aaron "T-Bone" Walker and Don Henley. Please forward this email to your friends. And go to the ABOVE website and sign the petition. The petition will provide you some of his resume. Rosalie ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

There was a Captain John Schuyler SUTTON, for whom Sutton County was named after. He was a captain in the Republic of Texas army, a Texas Ranger, and during the Civil War was lieutenant colonel of Col. William Steele's Seventh Texas Cavalry of Henry H. Sibley's brigade. Charles At 03:50 PM 11/1/2007 , you wrote: >If there is anybody who is interested in Civil War history, does the name >Captain C.B. Sutton, TX Confederate Army, ring a bell? > >.··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. >`·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` >(¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸)

Texas Mounted Rifles, who went to Arizona Territory? Sounds a bit familiar. I read up a lot on that subject. The re-enactment is done every March at Picacho Peak, northwest of Tucson. --MaryK> From: NANAREB@aol.com> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:50:35 -0400> To: TXREDRIV@rootsweb.com> Subject: [TXREDRIV] Captain C.B. Sutton> > If there is anybody who is interested in Civil War history, does the name > Captain C.B. Sutton, TX Confederate Army, ring a bell?> > .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··.> `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·`> (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nanareb/> Co-Owner: Heartmade Blessings Comfortghan Program> "Caring Hearts, Touching Lives, One Stitch at a Time" > _http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/_ (http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/) > A Member of CrochetList Admin> Proud Member of Patriot Guard Riders www.patriotguard.org> > > > ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In a message dated 11/1/07 2:57:53 PM Central Standard Time, marykcroft@msn.com writes: Texas Mounted Rifles, who went to Arizona Territory? Hmm, let me try that! Thanks! .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) http://www.flickr.com/photos/nanareb/ Co-Owner: Heartmade Blessings Comfortghan Program "Caring Hearts, Touching Lives, One Stitch at a Time" _http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/_ (http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/) A Member of CrochetList Admin Proud Member of Patriot Guard Riders www.patriotguard.org ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

If there is anybody who is interested in Civil War history, does the name Captain C.B. Sutton, TX Confederate Army, ring a bell? .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) http://www.flickr.com/photos/nanareb/ Co-Owner: Heartmade Blessings Comfortghan Program "Caring Hearts, Touching Lives, One Stitch at a Time" _http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/_ (http://www.heartmadeblessings.org/) A Member of CrochetList Admin Proud Member of Patriot Guard Riders www.patriotguard.org ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com