Al will be visiting his mother before we leave here (she's in Colorado) and I suggested he pump her for family information and stories, recording what she says. Her brother Raymond Epps lived across from the gin on the road leading out of Rugby, right by the Katie railroad tracks. --MaryK > From: DRtom_watson@msn.com> To: jimgidd@suddenlink.net; txredriv@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:18:59 -0500> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots> > Mary K> When I was a kid ,I was born in 1941, a claude Gray lived across the street, on Columbia St.. This would have been around the mid 40s. They had only one child at the time. They were a young couple.> Tom Watson> Heath, Tx> ----- Original Message -----> From: Jim Giddens> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:16 AM> To: txredriv@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots> > Mary K,> There was a Roy Gray that worked in the Clarksville post office in the > 50s when I was a teen. He is related to me somehow. I think he married > a sister to my grandmother that was a Crabtree. Roy's wife was Mary Gray.> He was well past middle age in the 50s. If you think Roy would be a > connection, I should be able to find out a little more about him.> Jim Giddens> Paris, Tx> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MaryK Croft" <marykcroft@msn.com>> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:57 PM> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots> > > >> > His name is Alvis Gray, and the family moved to Clarksville area a bit > > later. When the drought hit in '53 they sold their dairy cattle and moved > > to West Texas. We are currently in central Arizona. --MaryK> >> From: samples@1starnet.com> To: txredriv@rootsweb.com> Date: Thu, 20 Sep > >> 2007 20:51:16 -0500> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots> > >> > Welcome to the list, Mary.> > What was your husband's name? How long > >> did he live there? Where do you > live now?> > I bet you might find > >> somebody else on the list who was born in 1939.> > Cynthia Samples> > > > >> > -------------------------------> 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> >> >> > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message.> > Checked by AVG Free Edition.> > Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.27/1020 - Release Date: > > 9/20/2007 12:07 PM> >> > > > > -------------------------------> 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
Oops! Doggeone my ears, played loud music for 'way too long. Al says his uncle's name was Waymon (or Wayman) Epps, not Raymond. --MaryK > From: marykcroft@msn.com> To: txredriv@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:57:47 +0000> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots> > > Al will be visiting his mother before we leave here (she's in Colorado) and I suggested he pump her for family information and stories, recording what she says. Her brother Raymond Epps lived across from the gin on the road leading out of Rugby, right by the Katie railroad tracks. --MaryK> > From: DRtom_watson@msn.com> To: jimgidd@suddenlink.net; txredriv@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:18:59 -0500> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots> > Mary K> When I was a kid ,I was born in 1941, a claude Gray lived across the street, on Columbia St.. This would have been around the mid 40s. They had only one child at the time. They were a young couple.> Tom Watson> Heath, Tx> ----- Original Message -----> From: Jim Giddens> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:16 AM> To: txredriv@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots> > Mary K,> There was a Roy Gray that worked in the Clarksville post office in the > 50s when I was a teen. He is related to me somehow. I think he married > a sister to my grandmother that was a Crabtree. Roy's wife was Mary Gray.> He was well past middle age in the 50s. If you think Roy would be a > connection, I should be able to find out a little more about him.> Jim Giddens> Paris, Tx> ----- Original Message!> ----- > From: "MaryK Croft" <marykcroft@msn.com>> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:57 PM> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots> > > >> > His name is Alvis Gray, and the family moved to Clarksville area a bit > > later. When the drought hit in '53 they sold their dairy cattle and moved > > to West Texas. We are currently in central Arizona. --MaryK> >> From: samples@1starnet.com> To: txredriv@rootsweb.com> Date: Thu, 20 Sep > >> 2007 20:51:16 -0500> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots> > >> > Welcome to the list, Mary.> > What was your husband's name? How long > >> did he live there? Where do you > live now?> > I bet you might find > >> somebody else on the list who was born in 1939.> > Cynthia Samples> > > > >> > -------------------------------> 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 unsubs> cribe 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: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.27/1020 - Release Date: > > 9/20/2007 12:07 PM> >> > > > > -------------------------------> 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> > -------------------------------> 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
"Katie railroad tracks". I am not familiar with this railroad track near Ruby. Was not aware of a track in that area. Would appreciate hearing about it from anyone. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx ----- Original Message ----- From: "MaryK Croft" <marykcroft@msn.com> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots > > Al will be visiting his mother before we leave here (she's in Colorado) > and I suggested he pump her for family information and stories, recording > what she says. Her brother Raymond Epps lived across from the gin on the > road leading out of Rugby, right by the Katie railroad tracks. --MaryK
The railroad track at Rugby was not the Katie, but the "Pa and Ma," as the Paris and Mt. Pleasant Railroad was known. Sometimes, the nickname was warped: to Ma and Pa----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Giddens" <jimgidd@suddenlink.net> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 12:07 AM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Katie Railroad Track? > "Katie railroad tracks". I am not familiar with this railroad track > near > Ruby. Was not aware of a track in that area. Would appreciate hearing > about it from anyone. > Jim Giddens > Paris, Tx > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MaryK Croft" <marykcroft@msn.com> > To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:57 AM > Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] FW: Fw: Returning to roots > > >> >> Al will be visiting his mother before we leave here (she's in Colorado) >> and I suggested he pump her for family information and stories, recording >> what she says. Her brother Raymond Epps lived across from the gin on the >> road leading out of Rugby, right by the Katie railroad tracks. --MaryK > > > ------------------------------- > 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