In a message dated 5/29/07 7:09:22 PM Central Daylight Time, samples@1starnet.com writes: Mrs. Booker was a pioneer resident of Bagwell and had been ill for some time. She died Friday at the home of a daughter at Dallas and was buried in the family burial plot at Shamrock., If Mrs. Booker is a pioneer resident, does anybody know if there is a connection between her and the current Bookers? Since she only had daughters who came to Dallas, it doesn't seem promising, does it? I thought maybe W.T., (or Walter or Worler) might have had some brothers who came to Bagwell from KY. Wonder why they came to Bagwell anyway. .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) In loving memory of Elizabeth B. Post August 8, 2006 Co-Coordinator: 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 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

In a message dated 5/29/07 7:26:52 PM Central Daylight Time, samples@1starnet.com writes: Yeverton Booker, age 58, born in VA, is in Green County KY in 1870. No wife, son, David E., 18, dau, Malinda C. 17, son, Waler T. 16 .(could this be our Walter, Waller, everybody seems to spell it different). All the children born in KY There is a Sarah Jefferson keeping house, looks like she has a daughter, and two black farm workers, betcha they are former slaves. Yep, on some he's Waller and somewhere I found Worler (can't remember where). Surely his gravestone is correct! I saw that Sarah Jefferson. On one census, she is described as a seamstress. I'll try 1860. I research everybody in Old Shamrock. Do you have any idea WHERE the W.T. Booker grave is out there? .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) In loving memory of Elizabeth B. Post August 8, 2006 Co-Coordinator: 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 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

In a message dated 5/29/07 7:09:22 PM Central Daylight Time, samples@1starnet.com writes: MARRIAGE: Walter T. Booker married Mary I. Baker on 23 Dec 1879 in RRCo TX Book D page 506. Booker, Worler T., b. 10 Jan 1856, d. 2 Jul 1920, Cemetery, Old Shamrock. Death record index has name as W. T., death as 1 Jul 1920. Obit: Dep ort TImes 9 Jul 1920, Friday, from microfilm in the Clarksville Library: Walter T. Brooker who preceded John N. Henry as county commissioner from this precinct, died at his home in Bagwell THursday morning, where he had lived since 1872 and was buried at Shamrock Friday afternoon: This difference in names is what makes it so difficult. I wonder which is correct, Worler or Walter! I am including also this one, could this possibly be his father Yes, that is his father! Thanks a LOT! Please don't let there be snakes at Old Shamrock next week! .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

In a message dated 5/29/07 5:26:12 PM Central Daylight Time, samples@1starnet.com writes: Oh no, you don't have to wait. He is at Old Shamrock. That is the one I am photographing the markers, but I don't have that one yet. Mary is there also but evidently there is no marker for her. I have further information, will get back with you after I go eat. No kidding! I am going there to see that cemetery although the grave for Confederate E.P. Stone is not marked and is lost. It is so strange that my grandmother or her sister never mentioned their parents and my grandfather never mentioned his either. His father, Archie Stone, and his baby sister, Mary Louisa, died in Feb. 1899 in Itasca from eating poisoned apples (we do not know where these came from), but he never told us about this. He had a baby brother, William Wilmeth, who was three in 1900, and he has disappeared from the radar too. Gosh, our family of today knows everything about everybody. Sometimes that is a good thing; sometimes not! Thanks bunches! .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Yeverton Booker, age 58, born in VA, is in Green County KY in 1870. No wife, son, David E., 18, dau, Malinda C. 17, son, Waler T. 16 .(could this be our Walter, Waller, everybody seems to spell it different). All the children born in KY There is a Sarah Jefferson keeping house, looks like she has a daughter, and two black farm workers, betcha they are former slaves. I'll try 1860. I research everybody in Old Shamrock. Cynthia

This is from Lawrence and Sue's obit information. Booker, Mary I. Baker (Mrs. W. T.) born---- died 10 Mar 1933, Cemetery: Old Shamrock, Location: Unmarked. Obit: Detroit News Herald 16 Mar 1922 from Microfilm in the Clarksville Library: Mrs. W. P. Booker of Bagwell died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. A. Stone, in Dallas Friday morning after a several months illness. The body was returned Saturday for burial in Shamrock Cemetery. She had been a resident of Bagwell for many years and her late husband was a former commissioner of this precinct. She is survived by 2 daughters of Dallas and one brother, Sam Baker, of Seattle, Wash. Obit: Deport TImes 17 May 1933. Mrs. G. W. THompson, WIll THompson, MRs. J. H. Moore and Miss Nita Grant attended the funeral of Mrs. W. T. Booker at the old Shamrock cemetery near Bagwell, Saturday. Mrs. Booker was a pioneer resident of Bagwell and had been ill for some time. She died Friday at the home of a daughter at Dallas and was buried in the family burial plot at Shamrock., MARRIAGE: Walter T. Booker married Mary I. Baker on 23 Dec 1879 in RRCo TX Book D page 506. Booker, Worler T., b. 10 Jan 1856, d. 2 Jul 1920, Cemetery, Old Shamrock. Death record index has name as W. T., death as 1 Jul 1920. Obit: Dep ort TImes 9 Jul 1920, Friday, from microfilm in the Clarksville Library: Walter T. Brooker who preceded John N. Henry as county commissioner from this precinct, died at his home in Bagwell THursday morning, where he had lived since 1872 and was buried at Shamrock Friday afternoon: I am including also this one, could this possibly be his father? This is all the Bookers at Old Shamrock. Booker, Yelverton O. B. c/a 1808, d. 23 May 1879, Cemetery, Old Shamrock, Marker: Age 71 years. Epitaph: The memory of the just is blessed. That's all I have. Hope this helps. Cynthia

I am completely stumped in my efforts to locate the parents of my grandmother, Ella Genevieve Booker. We will be making the trip to Paris/Clarksville,Bagwell this weekend and I want to try to find as many markers as I can. My grandmother's father was W.T. Booker (either Waller Booker or Worler Booker) and her mother was Mary Ella Baker Booker. I found them on the 1920 census (Red River county) and then they just disappear completely. I found his death record (I think) that states he died on July 1, 1920, in Red River County. Until we get to Clarksville and I can see the book of all the burials, I have no idea where he is buried. Somewhere I found that Mary died in 1933, but I can't find her anywhere on the 1930 census. I know there are still Bookers in Bagwell where they lived in the old family home that burned several years ago. I am so curious why W.T. came to Red River county from Kentucky and if his other family members did also and this is where all the Bookers came from that still live around there. If there is a connection, I would love to meet them. .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Oh no, you don't have to wait. He is at Old Shamrock. That is the one I am photographing the markers, but I don't have that one yet. Mary is there also but evidently there is no marker for her. I have further information, will get back with you after I go eat. Cynthia ----- Original Message ----- From: <NANAREB@aol.com> To: <TXREDRIV@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:26 PM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Stumped >I am completely stumped in my efforts to locate the parents of my > grandmother, Ella Genevieve Booker. We will be making the trip to > Paris/Clarksville,Bagwell this weekend and I want to try to find as many > markers as I can. > > My grandmother's father was W.T. Booker (either Waller Booker or Worler > Booker) and her mother was Mary Ella Baker Booker. I found them on the > 1920 census > (Red River county) and then they just disappear completely. I found his > death record (I think) that states he died on July 1, 1920, in Red River > County. > Until we get to Clarksville and I can see the book of all the burials, I > have > no idea where he is buried. Somewhere I found that Mary died in 1933, but > I > can't find her anywhere on the 1930 census. I know there are still > Bookers in > Bagwell where they lived in the old family home that burned several years > ago. > I am so curious why W.T. came to Red River county from Kentucky and if his > other family members did also and this is where all the Bookers came from > that > still live around there. If there is a connection, I would love to meet > them. > > .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. > `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` > (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) > > > > > > ************************************** See what's free 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 > >

----- Original Message ----- From: <NANAREB@aol.com> To: <TXREDRIV@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:26 PM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Stumped >I am completely stumped in my efforts to locate the parents of my > grandmother, Ella Genevieve Booker. We will be making the trip to > Paris/Clarksville,Bagwell this weekend and I want to try to find as many > markers as I can. > > My grandmother's father was W.T. Booker (either Waller Booker or Worler > Booker) and her mother was Mary Ella Baker Booker. I found them on the > 1920 census > (Red River county) and then they just disappear completely. I found his > death record (I think) that states he died on July 1, 1920, in Red River > County. > Until we get to Clarksville and I can see the book of all the burials, I > have > no idea where he is buried. Somewhere I found that Mary died in 1933, but > I > can't find her anywhere on the 1930 census. I know there are still > Bookers in > Bagwell where they lived in the old family home that burned several years > ago. > I am so curious why W.T. came to Red River county from Kentucky and if his > other family members did also and this is where all the Bookers came from > that > still live around there. If there is a connection, I would love to meet > them. > > .··-.¸.-··. (`'·.¸(`'·.¸ ¸.·'´)¸.·'´) .··-.¸.-··. > `·. .·´ «..* Edith *..» `·. .·` > (¸.·'´(¸.·'´ `'·.¸)`'·.¸) > > > > > > ************************************** See what's free 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 > >

Thought this might be of interest to teh RR County Folks, Wynnell Beginning now through June 6th (D-Day), Ancestry.com will make its entire U.S. Military Collection free to the public. For more information on Ancestry.com' s U.S. Military Collection, visit www.ancestry.com/military. > including: > World War I and World War II draft registration cards > Prisoner of war records from the War of 1812, Civil War, World War II, and > Korea > Muster rolls (unit rosters) for the Marine Corps 1893-1958 and WWII U.S. > Navy Aircraft Carrier Muster rolls, 1939-1949 > U.S. Military burial registers 1768-1921 > Service Records from Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War > Civil War Pension Index > Casualty listings from WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam > WWI and WWII Stars and Stripes Newspapers > Young American Patriots Military Yearbooks (post WWII) > ************************************** To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TX-AGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Marilyn, By chance did these two dump truck ever hire out to a road contractor out of Paris named Bill Moser. Bill's brother-in-law, John Ford, was a foreman for him. Seems the drivers of the two trucks were out of Clarksville area in my thinking. I saw the 2 dump truck parked in a yard on Lamar Ave in Paris a few times. Maybe it was just a handy place to park them. This is when I was working for Bill Moser around 1960. Jim G p.s. I think I know Mrs Gena Genealogy. ----- Original Message ----- From: <MGShelby36@aol.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. (Who's Gena anyway?) > Well, okay, I'm right and you're wrong. I don't usually argue with anyone > that I don't even know but I have pictures that have 1956 on the side of > them > with my baby in my arms. And also of the red dump truck that we had. I > was 20 > yrs. old and we'd only been married a year. I don't know how LONG it may > have > taken to build the hwy. That is always a long drawn out procedure, but it > certainly started in1956. > > > > ************************************** See what's free 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

This probably started over something I wrote in. However, the question I asked to start with was did anyone know the difference in the mileage from Clarksville to Paris over the old road, rather than the new road. I don't know for sure how it changed to " WHEN" the road was built,because that was not my original question. Sam Paris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cynthia Samples" <samples@1starnet.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. (Who's Gena anyway?) > Probably did, and I wasn't trying to argue. I know they spent a long > time > clearing and getting the roadway ready before they ever started paving. > And, they spent years talking about it before they ever did anything. I > was eager for this to happen because it brought a paved road two miles > closer to my parents farm. By the time it was finally finished, however, > I > had graduated from PJC and was living in Dallas. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MGShelby36@aol.com> > To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:25 PM > Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. (Who's Gena anyway?) > > >> Well, okay, I'm right and you're wrong. I don't usually argue with >> anyone >> that I don't even know but I have pictures that have 1956 on the side of >> them >> with my baby in my arms. And also of the red dump truck that we had. I >> was 20 >> yrs. old and we'd only been married a year. I don't know how LONG it may >> have >> taken to build the hwy. That is always a long drawn out procedure, but >> it >> certainly started in1956. >> >> >> >> ************************************** See what's free 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 >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Probably did, and I wasn't trying to argue. I know they spent a long time clearing and getting the roadway ready before they ever started paving. And, they spent years talking about it before they ever did anything. I was eager for this to happen because it brought a paved road two miles closer to my parents farm. By the time it was finally finished, however, I had graduated from PJC and was living in Dallas. ----- Original Message ----- From: <MGShelby36@aol.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. (Who's Gena anyway?) > Well, okay, I'm right and you're wrong. I don't usually argue with anyone > that I don't even know but I have pictures that have 1956 on the side of > them > with my baby in my arms. And also of the red dump truck that we had. I > was 20 > yrs. old and we'd only been married a year. I don't know how LONG it may > have > taken to build the hwy. That is always a long drawn out procedure, but it > certainly started in1956. > > > > ************************************** See what's free 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 > >

Well, okay, I'm right and you're wrong. I don't usually argue with anyone that I don't even know but I have pictures that have 1956 on the side of them with my baby in my arms. And also of the red dump truck that we had. I was 20 yrs. old and we'd only been married a year. I don't know how LONG it may have taken to build the hwy. That is always a long drawn out procedure, but it certainly started in1956. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

"Bo Harris died this a.m." Below is sad news I received this a.m. about a dear friend I went to high school with in Clarksville. His full name is William Clayton Harris, but everyone in Red River Co called him "Bo". We use to rabbit hunt together, played football together, when to church together, (skipped out sometime to eat at Coleman's BarB-Q) and he use to throw our Texarkana Gazette from his bi-cycle. I may have told you guy about a campfire outing I went to about a week ago in the woods of Red River County with several of my school-mate. Bo was one of them, he live in the north Dallas area. Bo is a half brother to W.F. (Babe) Higgins of Clarksville. I think he is related to the Stringer/Sinclair family also. Our high school e-mail group is full of fond memories this morning of Bo and what a inspiration he was to all. None of us knew of Bo having any medical problems. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx ----- Original Message ----- ; dzet@starband.net Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:50 AM Subject: Sad News Just received some of the saddest news of my life. Babe Higgins just called and told us that Glenda found Bo Harris dead this morning. It just seems like our life long friends just keep leaving. More when we know more. EP

Well, I'm right and you guys are wrong about when the road was built between Detroit and Clarksville. My son, Alan Shelby, was a little new baby and my husband picked up roots on that dirt strip until he got a dump truck and starting hauling for Jeff Howard, who had the contract for the road. Opie Hollaway was the foreman or superintendant. My dad, Sidney Trapp, also had two dump trucks on that job. In 1957 we moved our little family to Amarillo, I'm positive of this. Marilyn ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Construction on the highway between Detroit and Clarksville was started in 1957 and completed and officially opened to traffic sometime in 1959. I witnessed every phase of it. A lot of people cheated and drove on it before it was ready. Sometimes it worked and sometimes they got turned back. I am absolutely sure. Cynthia ----- Original Message ----- From: <MGShelby36@aol.com> To: <jimgidd@suddenlink.net>; <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. > Well, I'm right and you guys are wrong about when the road was built > between > Detroit and Clarksville. My son, Alan Shelby, was a little new baby and > my > husband picked up roots on that dirt strip until he got a dump truck and > starting hauling for Jeff Howard, who had the contract for the road. Opie > Hollaway > was the foreman or superintendant. My dad, Sidney Trapp, also had two > dump > trucks on that job. In 1957 we moved our little family to Amarillo, I'm > positive > of this. > > Marilyn > > > > ************************************** See what's free 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 > >

Cynthia's right. We were on the Becknell place until 1958 and I'd walk down to watch the caterpillers. Mary From: "Cynthia Samples" samples@1starnet.com Construction on the highway between Detroit and Clarksville was started in 1957 and completed and officially opened to traffic sometime in 1959. I witnessed every phase of it. A lot of people cheated and drove on it before it was ready. Sometimes it worked and sometimes they got turned back. I am absolutely sure. Cynthia ----- Original Message ----- From: To: ; Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. > Well, I'm right and you guys are wrong about when the road was built > between > Detroit and Clarksville. My son, Alan Shelby, was a little new baby and > my > husband picked up roots on that dirt strip until he got a dump truck and > starting hauling for Jeff Howard, who had the contract for the road. Opie > Hollaway > was the foreman or superintendant. My dad, Sidney Trapp, also had two > dump > trucks on that job. In 1957 we moved our little family to Amarillo, I'm > positive > of this. > > Marilyn > > > > ************************************** See what's free 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 > > ------------------------------- 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

Sam, I have to take exception to you on the new 82 from Detroit to Batesville being built in the 40s. It just had to be between 1957 and 1960. I was in high school (or maybe PJC) and driving a car. I drove my 1954 Plymouth one night out on the construction site of the cut off (bypass missing Bagwell) being built. I recall it still being only the dirt work at that time. I had about 4 other guys in the car with me. I did not get my license until 1956 or 57. I graduated in 1959. I drove a few miles onto the new work. Came upon a bridge being constructed. We decided to try out our empty gasoline can in the truck of my car. We drove up beside a parked bulldozer. I stopped to look around. As we looked upward, there was Buck Cagle setting in the dark on the seat of the dozier. It was a freighting moment. He was the night guard. I guess they had had some trouble, Dah. Anyway, we shot the breeze with big Buck and filled our can with gasoline (not out of the dozier). I don't know about other sections of 82, but this section is very clear to me. The bridge was probably crossing Scatter Creek. Those were the good old days. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx ----- Original Message ----- From: "sam embrey" <sre795@suddenlink.net> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. >I was basing my guess on the extra miles by thinking you have a few miles > South of Detroit to the Turkey Ranch, and you also have the mileage from > Bagwell to Batesville that you don't have to travel now to get from > Clarksville to Paris, plus several other shorter strips of road we had to > travel then, but I will drive it out soon. The road from Detroit to > Clarksville was built in the 40's, because I remember getting a job > putting > out the night flares, and I moved from Detroit in 1950, so I can pretty > well > remember working on that road. > Sam > Paris. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MGShelby36@aol.com> > To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:58 PM > Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. > > >>I think I could pretty well find and follow the road from Clarksville to >> Paris or vice versa. I'll bet the difference in the mileage wouldn't be >> that >> much, it's just cut a good deal of crooks and turns. I remember when I >> was about >> 6 and we made a trip to Paris in a small Chevy coupe. I surmised that I >> could >> probably walk all the way to Paris because I stood up all the way while >> we >> drove to Paris. Kids? ? ? >> >> About 5 years ago, my daddy wanted me to come to see him at the nursing >> home >> to take care of some business. He asked me if I had to drive from >> Detroit >> [I >> did, of course, we live here] and he said he was sorry that I had to >> drive >> the >> old bumpy road. I inwardly laughed. He worked on that road as the >> highway >> was being built new in the 1956 era, I believe. Our son was just a baby >> then. >> >> Marilyn Trapp Shelby >> >> >> >> ************************************** See what's free 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 >> > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

I was basing my guess on the extra miles by thinking you have a few miles South of Detroit to the Turkey Ranch, and you also have the mileage from Bagwell to Batesville that you don't have to travel now to get from Clarksville to Paris, plus several other shorter strips of road we had to travel then, but I will drive it out soon. The road from Detroit to Clarksville was built in the 40's, because I remember getting a job putting out the night flares, and I moved from Detroit in 1950, so I can pretty well remember working on that road. Sam Paris. ----- Original Message ----- From: <MGShelby36@aol.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Not Gena. >I think I could pretty well find and follow the road from Clarksville to > Paris or vice versa. I'll bet the difference in the mileage wouldn't be > that > much, it's just cut a good deal of crooks and turns. I remember when I > was about > 6 and we made a trip to Paris in a small Chevy coupe. I surmised that I > could > probably walk all the way to Paris because I stood up all the way while we > drove to Paris. Kids? ? ? > > About 5 years ago, my daddy wanted me to come to see him at the nursing > home > to take care of some business. He asked me if I had to drive from Detroit > [I > did, of course, we live here] and he said he was sorry that I had to drive > the > old bumpy road. I inwardly laughed. He worked on that road as the > highway > was being built new in the 1956 era, I believe. Our son was just a baby > then. > > Marilyn Trapp Shelby > > > > ************************************** See what's free 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 >