Attention: Jimmy Walker Joseph Ryan Waldrop lived in Georgia, DeSota County Mississippi. Tate County, Arkansas, South Carolina, Louisana and Alabama. I need to talk Jimmy Walker. Mr. Walker and I was talking about a year ago about Joseph Ryan Waldrop living in Martagorda and also being married in in Powder Horn. Mr Walker wasn't sure where Powder Horn was. Dr. Joseph Waldrop of Martagorda was written about in a book called Victorian Lady on The Texas Frontier. This book was written by Ann Raney Cikenab of Whiteheaven Ann Raney Coleman was the mother of Victoria K. Thomas Waldrop. My gr grandpapa Joseph Ryan Waldrop was also a Physician, noted in the History of Washington County-Alabama. Also a State Rep. of Washington County, found in the Archives of Montgomery, Alabama. He was also a Minister found in newspapers in Alabama. He is mention in the Book "Public Men In Alabama{ in local Libraries. Powder Horn is where Victoris K. Thomas of Matagorda, Texas married JRW. JRW and Victoria had a son Joseph Mark Henry Waldrop born in 1858. JRW left Victoria with child and went back to Arkansas where he already had a wife named Sarah Cathrine Alexanders, no children. Then he moved Washington County , Alabama and married my gr grandmother age 25 and JRW was 41. In 1870 he was ambushed and killed in Washington County, Alabama. His Obit was in the Mobile Register. (Alabama) Sara Baxter and Joseph R. Waldrop marriage lisc. December 7, 1867. My gr grandmother. We have no idea where JRW was in 1860. There is a Physician in Tippah County, Mississipp wife Emily and children. ?? we don know. I have heard from a member of Emily's family who claims our JRW. But we have to remember our JRW was ambushed and killed in 1870. So if the JRW goes pass 1870 we know they aren't the same person. JRW was in and out of states, so he just might have been in Tenn. Tenn wasn's as far away as Texas and South Carolina. So far JRW has children in DeSota/Tate County, Mississippi, Matagorda County, Texas, one marriage in Arkansas and two sons in Washington County, Alabama. Power Horn, Texas in Calhoun County, was a depot for Indianola in the 1850s, located south of that town at the site where Powder Horn Lake connects with Matagorda Bay. It began as an addition to the already established Indianola and was known as Brown's Addition. It was at the site of the old German immigrant campsite. As Indianola grew, many businesses moved to the Powder Horn area, and citizens increasingly regarded Powder Horn as a pard to Indianola. The settlement and development of the Powder Horn area was expected to replace Port Lavaca s the major por in South Texas. It succeded for a while in becoming a transshipment point for supplies to the interior of the state, particually San Antonio. In 1853 the depot had five structures for supplies, a small blacksmith shop and a stable.