Shucks, Jim -- Why didn't you tell me that you wanted pictures of your family tombstones? I just got back from Texas and was in Lufkin -- researching your family! I'll be going back in October -- just give me the particulars about where your family is buried and I'll see if I can't take the pictures for you. Di Ann -----Original Message----- From: Jim Vick <vick29@iol.it> To: VICK-L@rootsweb.com <VICK-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 9:52 AM Subject: [VICK-L] Genaelogy work > >Hi Pat, > > > >Thanks for the offer of the state genealogy library if you do happen to find something you think I will be interested in I would appreciate hearing from you. I really wanted to find somebody that would take some pictures of the Arthur and Vick gravestones in and near Lufkin, TX. > > > >Don't know how close of cousins we are but quite likely cousins at that. I was the 7th child in a family of 16 children, 7 boys and 9 girls. My father Alva Lee Vick was 34 when I was born, he was born 21 Oct 1898 in Trinity County, TX, died 4 Oct 1972 in Albuquerque, NM. My mother Mary Evelyn Arthur Vick was born 11 Mar 1899 in Lufkin, Angeline County, TX died 7 Apr 1942 in Fort Stanton, NM. My grandfather James Albert Vick came from Lee County, TX and homesteaded in Richland, NM in 1916. My great-grandfather Joseph William Vick 1855-1944 moved from Lee County, TX and retired in Portales, NM for some reason when he died in 1944 he was buried in Richland, NM. I have quite a few ancestors buried in Lexington, Lee County, TX my grandmother Eva Magdeline Purcer 3 Mar 1880 - 7 Feb 1946 left relatives in Lexington, TX. My great-grandmother Margaret Ann Lyles Vick 1859 - 1932 also left relatives in Lee County, TX. > > > >I shall give you a big thank you in advance for anything you might come across and send to me. > > > >Regards, Jim Vick, Verona, Italy > >PS: I served in the US military (Army) here in Verona where I met and married my wife Giuliana Manini. I became total disabled in 1978 we moved here in June 1980 hand have lived here since. We still call Sierra Blanca County, Texas our home for voting. > > > > > > > > > > >