Hi!, I just found my book, with some info. James and Edward Pendleton Gaines built the Gaines Ferry at the Camino Real crossing on the SAbine about 1805. They built the ferrying house about 1812. Until the ferry was built, some claim the first one was not a vehicular barge, but the crossing had to be negotiated over some large, squared stones that had been placed, probably by the Spenish in 1691, just above the site of the ferry. When James left the ferry in charge of his cousin Edward Pendleton Gaines, it became known was the Pendleton Ferry in about 1812. Kay McCary Kay Parker McCary, Milam, Sabine Co., TEXAS http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/c/c/Kay-P-McCary/index.html