----- Original Message ----- From: "Billy G Albritton" <bil.dot-alb1404@juno.com> To: <TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [TXWISE-L] Early Wise Co. : I went to school with your grandmother, I remember the Caraways. : I know Boy Kid, and his brother Jim, my brother Ted budded with them : some. : : Some of the people that I budded with was Bobby Starnes, Billy King, : (Willie Taylor he is still alive) : Jack McNiel, Willis McClary, and a bunch more, I can't remember all their : name. Billy and Dusty : Jeter. Raymond Bird. All of those people are dead now, I don't know for : sure about Raymond Bird. : : Billy : : I remember a lot of the people Billy mention. We left Bridgeport in 1934. I was in the room with Addie & Doris. Still visit & talk to Addie.( School room in 1st grade) I live in Bedford,Tex. I remem ber the depression so very well. Ione Counts Smith. P.s. I read Texwise every day...
My Great-grandfather, Samuel Martin West, was a rural mail carrier around Bridgeport from around 1907-1834. At first he delivered the mail with his horse and buggy. Later in a Model-T. In the winter time different people on Papa West's route would heat flat rocks on their hearth and put them in his buggy for him to warm his feet. They would carry in the cold rock that was in the buggy and put it by the hearth for another day. These rocks went all over Wise County. What a wonderful story of community!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ione R. Smith" <ionesm@nww.net> To: <TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 5:06 PM Subject: Re: [TXWISE-L] Early Wise Co. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Billy G Albritton" <bil.dot-alb1404@juno.com> > To: <TXWISE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:01 PM > Subject: Re: [TXWISE-L] Early Wise Co. > > > : I went to school with your grandmother, I remember the Caraways. > : I know Boy Kid, and his brother Jim, my brother Ted budded with them > : some. > : > : Some of the people that I budded with was Bobby Starnes, Billy King, > : (Willie Taylor he is still alive) > : Jack McNiel, Willis McClary, and a bunch more, I can't remember all their > : name. Billy and Dusty > : Jeter. Raymond Bird. All of those people are dead now, I don't know for > : sure about Raymond Bird. > : > : Billy > : > : I remember a lot of the people Billy mention. We left Bridgeport in 1934. > I was in the room with Addie & Doris. Still visit & talk to Addie.( School > room in 1st grade) I live in Bedford,Tex. I remem ber the depression so > very well. Ione Counts Smith. P.s. I read Texwise every day... >