Mr. Lindsey, There will be a lot of people to write (respond) to your query about Tex Ritter. So, I stand corrected as you get better answers than this one. The four towns are on the same railroad line, quite close together. Someone else can tell you the name of the RR line. BoBo and Blair are extinct and at least one of them is between Tenaha and Timpson because there is a state marker there. Tex Ritter (and some Ritters today) are from the area of Panola County near Murvual Lake and probably had some land under the lake. This is not too far from these 4 towns. John Ritter, his son, still owns oil and gas mineral rights around Murvual Lake because we had to mail his lease to him in the early 1980's when wells were drilled in the area in the second East Texas Oil Boom. You might find it interesting to know that Jim Reeves and the lesser known, but talented CW singer Linda Davis (of the large Panola County Davis family) are also from Panola County, Texas. Jim Reeves remained more connected to Panola County and this precipitated the founding of the still new country western hall of fame in Panola County which honors Texans. Hopefully someone else will give you the phone numbers/web site for the new museum in Panola.... Best regards, Tony Lanagan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 24, 1999 6:57 AM Subject: Fwd: Tenaha,Timpson,Bobo,and Blair > >--part1_f5240e6e.251cbfc6_boundary >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >--part1_f5240e6e.251cbfc6_boundary >Content-Type: message/rfc822 >Content-Disposition: inline > >Return-Path: <[email protected]> >Received: from rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (rly-yc05.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.37]) > by air-yc02.mail.aol.com (v60.28) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 > 22:31:56 -0400 >Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by > rly-yc05.mx.aol.com (v61.9) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:31:41 > -0400 >Received: (from [email protected]) > by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA03453; > Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:29:14 -0700 (PDT) >Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:29:14 -0700 (PDT) >From: "Bill Lindsey" <[email protected]> >Old-To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Tenaha,Timpson,Bobo,and Blair >Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:40:55 -0500 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Priority: 3 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Message-Id: <[email protected]> >Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/4963 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >When I was a young lad ,my dad,Willie Lindsey, from Shelby county >was always saying Tenaha,Timpson,Bobo,and Blair.Up until after he >had passed away in 1963,I thought that he just made it up but someone >once told me that it was a song that Tex Ritter once sung.Does anyone >know if this is true and if it is, do you know all of the lyrics?. Also >does >anyone know why Tex Ritter would write a song about four small towns >in Shelby county? Was he from there?I also wonder if anyone still has one >of these old recordings I might listen to. >Thanks-------------Bill Lindsey > > >--part1_f5240e6e.251cbfc6_boundary-- > >