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 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 >