Elaine: My great grandmother's aunt, Willia Edith Dawson, was married to George Augusta "Gusty" Lewis. I know some of my Dawson family ended up in McCurtain Co, OK. Is there a connection with your Lewis' Beverly Bakersfield, CA

Beverly, although I am not aware that he was George and although I had always thought she was Willie and Willia is such a pretty name now that I think about it, yes, Uncle Gusty is my great uncle, my grandmother's brother. I have a picture from the 1920s, as I recall, of your Aunt Willia, Uncle Gusty, and their daughter Dorothy. My brother Larry and, at a later time, I commented to our mother how pretty Aunt Willia was then. We had only known her as older and with crippled hands from arthritis. We used to go over to visit them, sometime picking up pecans from their huge pecan trees. My husband, mom, dad, and I tried recently to get to Uncle Gusty's house, but as Mom had warned us, the road had been rerouted, leaving no access to the way we used to travel from Gusty's to Nola's and on down to Caroline's. AND we didn't think we would ever make it to Briggins' Cemetery, which is down a one-lane road through the paper company's trees. When we did get to the cemetery, we found that someone had it neatly cleaned. I took some nice pictures there. Grandma would tell of growing up there with her mom, dad, brothers and sisters; of dances and courting; and about the various families that had lived in the houses that we passed going and coming "over to Red River," as we called those trips to visit. Aunt Nola lived down the road from Uncle Gusty as did Aunt Caroline. I remember Aunt Caroline's and Uncle Harry's "swept" yards, no grass but flowers around the house in summer; the hand pump in the yard for that red, iron-tasting water; the unpainted, clapboard house that filled with people as we visited and ate those fine meals that would materialize when we would show up on a Sunday. Beverly, I don't know if they would mean anything to you, but if you want a copy of the family picture that I mentioned above or of the Briggins' Cemetery pictures, I would be glad to scan or copy them for you. Aunt Willia must be buried in Clarksville as the Briggins' Cemetery is much older. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:11 PM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Re: Lewis > Elaine: > My great grandmother's aunt, Willia Edith Dawson, was married to George > Augusta "Gusty" Lewis. I know some of my Dawson family ended up in > McCurtain Co, > OK. Is there a connection with your Lewis' > > Beverly > Bakersfield, CA > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > Visit Red River County GenWeb site http://www.rootsweb.com/~txredriv > > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > >