Dear Friends, The Benjamin Lyon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is offering a free lineage workshop on Saturday, September 4th, from 10:00 A.M. until 3:00 P.M. It will be held at the Denton Public Library North Branch, located at North Locust Street and Windsor Drive. The library is a short distance south of North Loop 288. Bring a brown bag lunch; soft drinks are available in the library snack bar. Part of the workshop will cover resources that will help a prospective member locate records needed to prove lineage. The other part of the meeting will provide information about DAR and its many programs and activities. All DAR members are welcome to attend, as is anyone who is interested in knowing more about DAR. You may register for the program by calling Judy Weir, 940-484-8302, or by sending an email to her, judy.weir@worldnet.att.net, to have your name added to the list. Diana White

James W. Fulgham, Texas Ranger James W. Fulgham was born about 1854, in Uvalde County, Texas, to Andrew James "Tom" Fulgham and Lucinda B. Holcomb. The Grandparents of James were Texas immigrants Ezekial Taylor Fulgham and Katherine M. Kirkwood. His Great-Grandparents were Rev. Micajah Fulgham and Rachel Taylor, who were both born in the Isle of Wight County, Virginia, and died in Lawrence County, Mississippi. James W. Fulgham married Mary Patsy Cunningham of Mississippi (1849 to 1926). The couple settled in Wise County, Texas, where they had children Walter Fulgham (1875 to 1878); Mary Lena Fulgham (1881 to 1939); James Murray Fulgham (1883 to 1958); Lizzie B. Fulgham (1888 to 1893); and Shellie B. Fulgham (1885 to 1979). These dates were all taken from headstones at the Chico, Little Norwood and Deep Creek cemeteries in Wise County, with the exception of James W. Fulgham who lies in an unmarked grave in the family plot in Chico. According to records from the Texas State Archives and Library, James W. Fulgham is recorded as having been a Texas Ranger in the Frontier Battalion from 1892 until at least 1896. Additional research of archive, Texas Ranger records and newspaper records by former Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Mike Cox and I indicate Fulgham was a Texas Ranger into the early 1900s. Archives records indicate that James Fulgham was mustered into Company D, Frontier Battalion, under the command of Captain John R. Hughes, on December 14, 1892. Fulgham served under Captain Frank Jones in 1893. Fulgham then served under Captain Hughes again in 1894, 1895, and 1896. Records indicate that Fulgham served throughout much West Texas to include Pecos, Reeves and El Paso counties. Records indicate that Fulgham was involved in cases involving the famous Judge Roy Bean and an illegal fight that he had arranged on the Rio Grande River; and the apprehension of alleged killer Victor Ochoa in 1894. There is at least one documented gunfight, in 1893, in which Fulgham shot and killed and unidentified cowboy that pulled his revolver on Fulgham and a Reeves County Deputy Sheriff. I have also found a record in the Arizona Genealogical Abstracts indicating the Arizona Republican newspaper reported, on December 7, 1915, that James Fulgham presented requisition papers for the return of kidnapper J. G. Adams from Cochise County, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas. NOTE: I have already posted Mike Cox's article "Surly Stranger" about the shootout involving Fulgham. I will soon be posting information on Fulgham and the capture and recapture of outlaw Victor Ochoa. Mike Cox had gathered the information for his book "Texas Ranger Tales," Republic of Texas Press, 1997. I am also going to obtain some more research from the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco, Texas, to do further posts of his exploits to include the information on his interaction with Judge Roy Bean.