I just read Virginia Brown's email and I don't believe there are many local Sabine County people in this mailing! I emailed recently asking if anyone planned to attend the annual Settler's Day celebration in Milam last Saturday. I got only two responses and they came from other states! As you can imagine, there were no efforts in Milam to have any descendants meet or sign in or do anything to be recognized! For an area rich with history, they seemed have lost touch with our past. I found through our local library that some of the Sabine cemeteries have as many as 50 unmarked graves and most have a large percentage unmarked. My WEATHERRED's must be part of them because I could only find two and those two were honored by the State of Texas with a monument and both have footmarkers shaped like the state of TX with the Citizen of Republic of Texas Seal. I found many unmarked graves in the cemetery I visited. The dates would be after 1850 for the most part. Francis Marcus WEATHERRED came to Milam in 1835 and was a member of the First Congress of the Republic of Texas in 1836. That fact seems to go unnoticed in Milam now days! I live in Lufkin, Texas just about 60 miles to the east. Walter McLendon