--part1_e2e445a.2527f07a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_e2e445a.2527f07a_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zd04.mx.aol.com (rly-zd04.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.228]) by air-zd02.mail.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP; Sat, 02 Oct 1999 15:44:50 -0400 Received: from raven.sat.net (raven.sat.net [207.224.54.10]) by rly-zd04.mx.aol.com (v61.13) with ESMTP; Sat, 02 Oct 1999 15:44:38 -0400 Received: from dpike39.sat.net ([216.63.86.50]) by raven.sat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA29605 for <[email protected]>; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:44:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "David Pike" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Tenaha,Timpson,Bobo,and Blair Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:42:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Hi Bill Tex Ritter was born just north of Gary (Panola) Texas in what was, and still is, known as Murvual Community. Timpson at that time was the largest town in the area. It isn't anymore. U.S. Hwy 59 runs from Laredo thru Houston on to Texarkana and on north. Coming north from houston (about 150 mi) on Hwy 59 you would be in downtown Timpson. Continuing on north you would pass thru the community of BOBO. About 5 mi further north would put you in Tenaha (State Champs last year in "A" football). What happened to Blair???. Well you would have to get off Hwy 59 about a mile before Timpson on a FM road toward Lake Timpson. Where you cross over the railroad tracks---that's Blair. And these communities are not extinct, as one of your responses indicated. I don't know all the words to this song (I have that packed away somewhere), but it goes " hey conductor, engineer, stop the train 'cause we are near. Tenaha, TIMPSON, Bobo and Blair " There actually was a man named Bobo. Timpson was named after a relative of the owner of the first railroad, which hit this area in 1885 (6). I believe Blair was also named after RR official. Tenaha is an Indian word meaning muddy water (in a nearby creek), this entrie region was known as the Tenaha Muncilipalty (sp) back in Spanish days, long before Texas gained its independence from Mexico. Hope this helps. David Pike of Timpson Texas 1958 Graduate of Timpson High School TIMPSON BEARS Descendants of Jesse Barry Ritter Jr. Generation No. 1 1. JESSE BARRY RITTER1 JR. He married SARA ELIZABETH CARTHAGE. Child of JESSE JR. and SARA CARTHAGE is: 2. i. EVERETT S.2 RITTER, b. Abt. 1810, Tennessee; d. 04 Dec 1873, (VanZandt) Texas. Generation No. 2 2. EVERETT S.2 RITTER (JESSE BARRY RITTER1 JR.) was born Abt. 1810 in Tennessee, and died 04 Dec 1873 in (VanZandt) Texas. He married ANNA GOODWIN 20 May 1828 in (Hardeman) Tennessee. She was born in Tennessee. Notes for EVERETT S. RITTER: Occupation-Farmer Children of EVERETT RITTER and ANNA GOODWIN are: 3. i. ELIZABETH A.3 RITTER, b. Abt. 1832; d. 1866. ii. WILLIAM A. RITTER, b. Abt. 1834, Tennessee; d. 1864. Notes for WILLIAM A. RITTER: Occupation-Farmer 4. iii. BENJAMIN FRANKLYN RITTER, b. 11 Jun 1834, Tennessee; d. 03 Nov 1902, Murvaul (Panola) TX. iv. SARA ANN RITTER, b. Abt. 1840; m. (1) HIRAM ADAMS; m. (2) AUGUSTUS BARNETT. v. JAMES HENRY RITTER, b. Abt. 1843; d. 24 Jan 1915, (Panola) Texas. vi. SUSAN CAROLINE RITTER, b. 1848; m. REUBIN SOLOMON SESSUM, 13 Oct 1869, (Panola) Texas. vii. EVERETT SOLOMAN RITTER, b. Abt. 1849, Tennessee. viii. MARY FANNIE RITTER, b. 1850, (Panola) Texas; d. 1925, (Panola) Texas. ix. MARTHA JANE RITTER, b. Abt. 1852, (Panola) Texas; d. Abt. 1866. Generation No. 3 3. ELIZABETH A.3 RITTER (EVERETT S.2, JESSE BARRY RITTER1 JR.) was born Abt. 1832, and died 1866. She married GOLDEN. Children of ELIZABETH RITTER and GOLDEN are: i. SUSAN J.4 GOLDEN, d. 1870; m. B. A. NAIL. ii. GEORGE GOLDEN. iii. REBECCA GOLDEN. iv. SARAH A. GOLDEN. 4. BENJAMIN FRANKLYN3 RITTER (EVERETT S.2, JESSE BARRY RITTER1 JR.) was born 11 Jun 1834 in Tennessee, and died 03 Nov 1902 in Murvaul (Panola) TX. He married MARGARET A. BALL 14 Jan 1858 in (Panola) Texas. She was born 1840 in GA, and died Abt. 1919 in Murvaul (Panola) TX. Notes for BENJAMIN FRANKLYN RITTER: Buried-Mt Bethel (Panola) Texas. Children of BENJAMIN RITTER and MARGARET BALL are: 5. i. JAMES EVERETT4 RITTER, b. Abt. 1861. ii. WILLIAM F. RITTER, b. 1862. iii. SARAH RITTER, b. 1860. iv. THOMAS RITTER, b. Apr 1866. v. JOHN P. RITTER, b. 1868. vi. LULA B. RITTER, b. 1872. vii. BENJAMIN Z. RITTER, b. 1877. viii. JESSIE B. RITTER, b. 1879. Generation No. 4 5. JAMES EVERETT4 RITTER (BENJAMIN FRANKLYN3, EVERETT S.2, JESSE BARRY RITTER1 JR.) was born Abt. 1861. He married MARTHA MATTHEWS, daughter of PINKNEY MATTHEWS and CATHERINE BALL. Child of JAMES RITTER and MARTHA MATTHEWS is: i. WOODWARD MAURICE "TEX"5 RITTER, b. 12 Dec 1905, Murvaul (Panola) TX; d. 02 Dec 1974, Nashville ( ) Tennessee; m. DOROTHY FAYE SOUTHWORTH. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, September 24, 1999 6:53 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-- > > --part1_e2e445a.2527f07a_boundary--