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    1. [TXSSABA] RE: Bagley-MEDDERS-Jennings
    2. Hello! I saw your recent note on the San Saba County webpage asking about the MEDDERS line. I have ONE "MEDDERS" in my personal file. Although I am not related to the MEDDERS line one of them did marry into my GAUNY line in the early 1900's as follows: Chester "Chic" MEDDERS married Eva Lee GAUNY in San Saba County in 1922. They had one son - Claude Murray MEDDERS - born in 1923. "Chic" Medders wife Eva died a year later, in 1925. For whatever reason, Eva's parents took charge of raising young Claude, and he was adopted (formally or informally I do not know) by them and from that time on his went by GAUNY rather than MEDDERS. I believe that his grandparents took sole responsibility for raising him, and he possibly didn't know his father very well. I heard - and this is only family lore - that Chester "Chic" Medders remarried and moved out of San Saba, leaving the son with his former in-laws. The son, Claude Murray Medders Gauny married Elsie Ireta Sutton in San Saba in the 1940's. He died in Bell County in the 1970's. Are Chester and/or Claude part of your MEDDERS line? If so, I'd love to share what little additional details I have with you. Where are you located? Is anyone else on this list connected to this MEDDERS line (or to Elsie Ireta SUTTON or any GAUNY'S?) Regards, Karen Gauny Crisalli

    12/10/2001 04:47:19