KAREN: My father was LEE ROY BALLARD, b. 26 May 1898 in Lampassas but the family was living in San Saba around this time. He and my mother were married in 1920 in San Saba Daddy's mother and father were LAURA ELLEN BENTON and DAVID S. BALLARD. Thank you for the offer to check and I appreciate any help you can provide. Barbara (Ballard) Leedahl TXSSABA-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > TXSSABA-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 122 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [TXSSABA] Draft Registration Cards [KarenC5071@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from TXSSABA-D, send a message to > > TXSSABA-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [TXSSABA] Draft Registration Cards > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:06:20 EDT > From: KarenC5071@aol.com > To: TXSSABA-L@rootsweb.com > > After posting my note to this list about the microfilm showing all the Draft > Registration Cards for San Saba men during World War I, I received 18 look-up > requests. I found about 35% of the names you all gave me and have just > finished mailing out the copies to the lucky recipients. > > I still get to keep these microfilms another week; so if anyone is still > interested in giving me any names to look up I will be happy to do so. > > If you are researching any males born between approximately 1875 and 1900 > > and > > if they were living in San Saba County 1917 - 1919, > > ...then feel free to give me his/their names and I will gladly check the > microfilm I have on loan and see if there is a copy of the information they > filled out when registering with the then newly created Selective Service > bureau. > > Regards, Karen Gauny Crisalli

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QmB.2ACI/199.233 Message Board Post: I knew Lee Harkey, Hugh Harkey's son, he was my uncle. we lived inSab Saba.I think Hugh is buried in San Saba county.He was married to Molly Whitehead. Lou Harkey

After posting my note to this list about the microfilm showing all the Draft Registration Cards for San Saba men during World War I, I received 18 look-up requests. I found about 35% of the names you all gave me and have just finished mailing out the copies to the lucky recipients. I still get to keep these microfilms another week; so if anyone is still interested in giving me any names to look up I will be happy to do so. If you are researching any males born between approximately 1875 and 1900 and if they were living in San Saba County 1917 - 1919, ...then feel free to give me his/their names and I will gladly check the microfilm I have on loan and see if there is a copy of the information they filled out when registering with the then newly created Selective Service bureau. Regards, Karen Gauny Crisalli

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QmB.2ACI/251.334.2 Message Board Post: Hi Matt, I am researching the Arant family from Marshall Co, Ky. where your James Knox Arant was from. I will share what I have. Please write soon. Wayne

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/587 Message Board Post: I am seeking info on James Malcolm Callaway Knight and his wife, Susannah Womble Knight, who might have been listed on the 1870 census for San Saba County. They moved from San Saba to Taylor County about 1875. They moved to San Saba from Rock Mill, South Carolina via Arkansas, but I do not know the date. I will appreciate any info you can give me. Thank you. Ruth Sellers

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alma Hinde Carrell/Eli Milton Thomas Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/586 Message Board Post: Looking for Information on Alma Hinde Carrell married in San Saba county, 3 Oct, 1883

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/585 Message Board Post: Looking for Information on Alma Hinde Carrell married in San Saba county, 3 Oct, 1883

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/58.369.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a lot of info about Black Jack Ketchum's ancestors. Tell me all that you know about your James Ketchum and son Thomas E. Ketchum and their ancestors or descendants and I will see if I can match us up.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/584 Message Board Post: Please help me find my greatgrampa and grandmother on the 1880 census. I don't know what her name was, but his is John F. Garner.Also they are buried in SanSaba. She died in 1889.I really don't know when he died, but i do know he was alive when they did a census in 1920 in Uvalde Texas. I would love to hear anything please.I'm not sure if my grandpa was born there are not. But he was born 1851 abt.His name was George Washington Garner. thank you

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/58.369.1 Message Board Post: Hi!, Do u have any more info about black jack ketchum,s family.I am a descendant of the ketchums from Dalton Ga, whitfield co, Ga.James ketchum has a son Thomas E ketchum, I have some info to share, and I was wondering if this is the same family?Let me know. Betty

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hart, Sawyer, Mills, Robbins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QmB.2ACI/488.1 Message Board Post: I have heard the name Levi and the town of San Saba, TX. mentioned by my husband's family. I believe he may be either a gggrandfather or uncle. George Archie Hart and Carrie Bell Sawyer Hart of Muldoon were grandparent and I believe John and Sallie Hart are the ggrandparents...all buried in Bayler Cemetery(? Sp.) near West Point, TX. Any info would be welcome. All I have is a hand written list from a Bible belonging to Merle I. Hart Richards, personal knowledge as related to my husband's life with his grandparents and a few wondeful and colorful stories. I have video of the family graves that include Hart, Sawyer and Mills. I do not know how the Mills amy be related. Also may be connected to Robbins.

Hello, I am from the Campbell line, Pierra Louisa and Joseph Campbell. Does anyone have any information about Joseph and his family? Susan Candee

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/0.486.1.1 Message Board Post: Tried to directly email you at brooks@apex2000.net but it didn't go through. When I posted the message in March I was just getting started and had decided to work on the Tippens (my great-grandmother). I got a lot of info from the Church of Latter Day Saints site but hit a wall and had not done much for several months. Then picked it up again just yesterday when I came upon some info in the Tenessee GenWeb site. Would be interested to know if you have photos or stories on the Tippens. You can email me at belshaw@wcc.net.......Thanks for answering, cousin. Hope to hear from you soon. Isabel

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Biggs - Copeland Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/269.486 Message Board Post: Hi Sheila, Somehow I got to your message and see your family on the 1880 San Saba Co. TX census. They were not on the 1870 census. There are 2 other Biggs families as well. They look like both of them are the sons of W.H.& S.E. Biggs. Hope this helps you. June Page 2 Prect#9 Enum. on June 2, 1880 by D.D. Low San Saba Co. Texas FAMILY # 14 BIGGS, William H. age 56 farmer b.GA father b.VA moth.GA index lists him as Reverend. wife Susan E. age 50 b. GA father b. Mass. mother S.C. son William B. age 21 Ranch/laborer b. GA son James O. age 19 b. Ala ranch/laborer dau. Molley age 17 b. Ala son Charles H. age 14 works on farm b. Ala dau. Elda W. age 12 b. Ala Page 4 of Prect. #9 enum. on June 4, 1880 San Saba Co. Texas FAMILY # 31 BIGGS, Issac T. age 29 farmer b. GA as were his parents wife Pieaty age 23 b. Ala. father GA mother Ala dau. Salley E. age 3 b. Texas dau. Dora L. age 2 b. Texas dau. Nora E. age 2 b. Texas FAMILY #32 BIGGS, John H. age 27 farmer b. GA as were his parents wife Georgia E. age 27 b. Ala both parents b. GA dau. Susan E. age 3/12 in February in Texas

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Low, Bell, Brooks, Crider, Doss Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/269.485 Message Board Post: I have quite a bit on the Low family of San Saba and Llano counties - would be happy to swap with you. Bill Crider billcrider@usa.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Low, Crider, Brooks, Doss Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/18.1 Message Board Post: Did you have much luck in your Low research? I have a photo of Maggie Low Gaddy, and some info on the family including quite a bit of ancestry.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tippen, Godfrey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/0.486.1 Message Board Post: Isabel , you are one of my cousins,, would like for you to contact me email very much . thanks,

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Neal Cem. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QmB.2ACI/583 Message Board Post: I am interested in finding information on the Neal cem. I visited there and all through the cem. were concrete blocks with just Mr. Last Name , Mrs Last Name and Last Name Child. I am researching my Laird family and there stones are made this way Mr. Laird Mrs Laird and Baby Laird. I was wondering if any one knows the story behind this. I f maybe there was a sickness that spead through the area around the early 1900 since that is when My Lairds were supposed to have died. Or if maybe a storm silled them. Even an idea how i might find out would help this has gotten my curiosity in over drive. Thanks Susan

Hi to 'the list' - I have just received (on loan) some microfilm with some interesting research possibilities that I thought I would share with you all: At the beginning of WWI the U.S. government initiated the Selective Service Draft Board and required ALL men of a certain age to register for the draft - whether or not they were actually ever called to serve. There were, during a three-year period of about 1917-1918-1919, OVER TWENTY-THREE MILLION men who went to their newly established local draft board and filled out the required Registration Card. These TWENTY-THREE MILLION cards have all been microfilmed, by county, and are now available on loan for viewing at the National Archives Regional Branches or on loan through the Family History Libraries of the Mormon Church/LDS/Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. I just received - on loan - the two reels (out of over 4,000 reels!) that are for SAN SABA COUNTY. On these reels are the photocopies of the actual Registration Cards, front and back, for EVERY San Saba man who registered for the draft - literally hundreds and hundreds of them! ---Who had to register? Well, loosely speaking, any man born between ABOUT 1875 and 1900 was required to register sometime during 1917-1918-1919. This means all these men were between about 18 years of age and 42 or so at the time of registration. It didn't matter WHERE they were born - they had to register in the city/county they were living in at the time the draft was initiated. These Draft Registration Cards usually list most but not all of the following pieces of information: Name Date of Birth Place of Birth (County/State) Race Citizenship status Occupation Employers Name Place of Employment or Business Nearest Relative Physical description, including height, build, eye and hair color Any reasons for exemption OK, so ---- all that being said, here is my offer: I will gladly look up on these microfilms any name you want, and I will make and mail out photocopies of any draft registration cards I find. There are a couple of provisions that I ask you to please be mindful of: A) Your 'guy' MUST have been born (anywhere) between 1875-1900. Otherwise, I am spending time looking for someone who DIDN'T have to register. B) Your 'guy' MUST be KNOWN to have been living in SAN SABA COUNTY in 1917-1918-1919. Since I am doing this on a volunteer basis, please don't ask me to look up someone that you've lost and "hope maybe to find in San Saba" during that time. C) Please do NOT hit the reply button to request a look-up ---- otherwise everyone on this list (hundreds of peoplel) will be reading your message - which I'm sure you want to send to me PERSONALLY! Please send the first/last name you want looked up directly to me: karenc5071@aol.com. I only get to keep these microfilms for another 2-3 weeks, so this "offer" is only good NOW. If you read this message in the archives after mid-September 2001, please don't ask me for a look up because the microfilm will be long gone! If you e-mail me a name/names to look up, please include your MAILING address in your message. My plan is to send everything I find within two weeks. IF I DON'T FIND YOUR GUY LISTED I will e-mail you and tell you so. If I DO find him, you won't hear from me at all.....you'll just receive a copy in the mail within 2-3 weeks. I'm saying this because I have a suspicion I will get a LOT of requests and I am trying to cut my follow-up e-mails to a minimum! Once I am finished with all the look ups, I'll post yet another e-mail to the list explaining to all of you just how YOU can get these microfilms - since you can look up the Registration Cards from ANY county in the U.S.A. So, there y'all have it ... Hope this will end up helping some of you! Karen Gauny Crisalli

Cathie & cousins, I did correspond with Joyce some time ago on the Favors as well as anyone else who may shed some light on our family. The story about Jack's murder is correct. My mother was raised by Martha Jane [Oliver] Dawson until my grandfather, Ben Satterwhite remarried. Mother is buried between Martha, her grandmother and Bertha Dawson Satterwhite, her mother at Harmony Ridge Cemetery. From what Martha used to tell, Sam Owens's in-laws, George Long & family and the Dawsons had been close friends for years and even remained so after Jack's death. George Long bought the Dawson place from Martha in 1905. [I have a copy of the deed if you would like a copy.] I didn't know Fielding was a minister. Now I'll see what I can find in MO. Know what town or county? I have Feilding's birthday as 12 June 1827-d:12 December 1895. my source is [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 22, Ed. 1, Tree #2077, Delia Hopper George, Ray Graves who use Per Marshall Gorman's Family History - p10 - as their source.] I have not read Gorman's Family History, myself. I also got info from June Hamrick and Pat Jordan, & Lynn Blankenship. I found this and suppose they are referring to Harmon Smelser. "From the San Saba News November 26, 1897, [from the legal notices] We learn that Rev. Smelser has been sent to another field and that Rev.Broails will be on the Milburn circuit." I have been trying to find a connection between Samuel Riley Dawson and Fielding, but so far nothing. They were in Williamson County and San Saba Co. the same years and appeared to name their children with some of the same names. Just thinking they may be brothers. Lets keep in touch, Helynn