Thanks for the history lesson, Sue!! Interesting! One of my White's hid John Wesley Hardin when he was on the run...but that was in Pisgah Ridge in Navarro Co. Texas. Get's better and better, doesn't it? LOL I just can't imagine why none of those ancestors would have wanted us knowing about any of this! Rilla At 05:25 PM 5/14/2000, you wrote: >actually they like to hang out north of Kentucky Town in Grayson and sometimes >on the Choctaw Creek bottoms, (these are in Grayson county west of the Bonham >Post office area) Same area that John Wesley Hardin was born in. >Kentucky town was about between the Sherman/ Bonham area , I live there. > The Boley's were Cherokee or Choctaw I can't remember which tribe > ,and they >were Freemen ,their papers are available in the NARA website. The founded a >town in the Indian Territory. >Many of their relatives are here in the area. >so many historical things happened around here! Kentucky Town and Pilot Grove >were major towns in Texas at the time. here before Bonham or Sherman . >We had so many troubles after the war especially with local feuds and >hangings. >Quantrill camped just above KentuckyTown which is NE of where Tom Bean >Texas is >today about 3 miles. There was a church Camp ground where people camped for a >month for revivals in spring and fall. It has perfect water, woods and is on >high prairie. Also not too far from the freightlines which is where all >the news >of the area traveled from. Rumors got here first. Even back in the War between >the states riders could get word about the yankee movements and quickly slip >from place to place. The bad times after the war drew the whole place apart >though and it was only safe at times. > >From what I can tell Kentuckytown was mainly of pro Confederate, while Pilot >Grove had both sides and had a feud called the Lee-Peacock feud tearing it >apart. > >Red Anthony wrote: > > > Hello List: Someone asked about the name Boley being connected to the James > > Gang,,,and I have not found it so far. Texas was a favorite place for the > > Civil War Guerrillas and later after the war, for the James Gang. I have > > found several references to Bonham, Texas as a winter quarters for the > > Guerrillas. The men that rode with Quantrill were probably born before > 1850, > > as he started in 1861 and was killed in early 1865. Frank James was > with him > > most of the time, and was there in Kentucky when the war ended and > Quantrill > > died. Jesse James, just 16 when he joined the raiders, had left them and > > went with a group to Texas. After the War is when the James Gang was > > started. Jesse learned his trade from the best, or worst, the likes of > > Quantrill, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, and George Todd, who was probably the > > best and smartest of the Raiders. Todd was probably the bravest, and > was the > > best with a hand gun. He took over the raiders and drove Quantrill away at > > gunpoint, this is when he took a small group and went to Kentucky. > > Jesse's gang started about 1866-67, and lasted over 15 years. He had many > > different members, and was in contact with hundreds of people in this > length > > of time,,,guess that's the reason there are so many Jesse James stories. > > With the common surname , White, there were surly many who met Jesse. I > hope > > our list owner doesn't get tired of the James Gang. LOL Red Anthony > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com