WYLY'S WISDOM
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FEBRUARY 10, 2009
There
was a wagon train from a Missouri oprmon group led by a Mr. Wight. They setled from Lampassas to Austin
and kerville area. Mr. Wight was the leader of some Mormons coming to
Texas before it became free from
Mexico--or before Texas became a State. Go into Austin, Texas on I-35 and the Mormon Road has a Highway sign
to grist mills used by Mormons
and used by German refugees freeing the Abortive Revolution in Germany. The Mormon Colony near Lampassas
was very antisocial to other settlers
of the area. Most of these died ffrom Flu and such, but one lived to get to Salt Lake City. Then men
from there came to Lampassas and
moved bodies back to Salt Lake City. Mr. Wight re- connected with a son
of Joseph Smith, and he went to
Utah while 3 of his children stayed in Texas. Some have ben on the internet. My
wife's step grandad from Cleburne was also a member of the LDS Stake in
Cleburne, but he traced to a group
in Missouri who looked to the non-polygamous group. He died in my wife's dad's home in Pettit, Texas
after he left Cleburne and is buried
in the Levelland Cemtery with his wife's Riley kin.
The Missouri wagon train to Indian
Creek--Pleasant Hill in Erath County--this
included Ogans, Moxley, Fleming, Higdon, and others around Selden and Indian Creek Cemetery. A Indian
scout joined them on his pony
and scouted for the wagon train and the settlers during the lawless days after the Civil War. He was buried
below the Dam by a gate to the cemetery
under a long flat rock-no markers. I could not see the rock
when I last visited my Great
grandparents--Moxleys and Flemings. Great Aunt Susie's diary is in my shelves, and
has several Quaker quotes on some
pages. She finished Tarleton and Mary Hardin Baylor and became a
teacher. In Erath County she
taught at Huckaby and Lingleville and Pony Creek schools. nnd A&M Consolidated and
Bloomington.
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
When school was out at Sel;den in
1944, John A. Bailey took his old 4-cylinter car with a rumble seat, and 2 on
each fender and we went swimming
just below the Gentry Bridge on The Bosque. It was upstream from the Indian Creek Cemetery area. I have
photos of it from my mom's collection when her generation sometimes went there
for picnics and photos. Another
bridge like it is between it and the
Stephenville City Park, across from
the W.T. Graves retirement home--also across the road and park from
Evergreen Baptist Church. near a
service station/home combo where the Broom family sold gas and snacks. We crossed he bridge, but there was just
enough road left to picnic there
and turn around. The road was cl;osed behind that. We entered the gravel road near State Roadside park.
Someone hung a sign in the courthouse
rest room which said "Please Flush==Hico needs the water." The water was so polluted a few years ago
that Waco declared war on polluters,
which includes some very large dairies and turkey barns. When they quit swimming there the
water was a little green and over 7
feet deep in some spots. This
was a steel bridge with iron banisters about 5 feet high and big thick wood planks
for the floor. Some of these have
sold to ranchers and amusement parks and such.
Today Waco has a wetlands filtration
system below Valley Mills, near Waco
Baylor Camp and China Springs. Volunteers, including student groups, roll their pants above their knees
and wade there to set out more water
purifying plants and vines. Sounds unhealthy to me. Other
polluters were Plantation
Foods turkey houses, a lime mining and shipping point below Clifton, and several old pit dumps
which are now drained. Huckaby now has a first one of the largest plants
to recieve daily truckloads of
dairy waste and they remove the Methane gas and sell it into a Natural gas cross country pipeline. The waste left
is composted or treated, and
placed in sacks and is sold in many grocery stores and garden centers as garden and flower pot soil sealed in
tight bags.
Also, check the Handbook of Texas on
line for more info and maps of the
area.
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
I may be thinking of thr Valley Grove
Baptist Church, which was moved, building and all, up Hico Highway to the
Stephenville South Loop Bypass Y.
It had a cemetery off the road to the east a few miles down nearer the old location, which is in plain sight
several hundred yards east- The first old Hwy 67--the dirt one--to Glen
Rose, left the Hico Highway and had
many sharp right and left turns to follow fence surveys.
Some bridges are still there
on the old route, which I was born on. That year they were building the present
straighter highway 67. When I was born, farmers, like Dad, used their horses
to pull graders and slide dirt
dump scrapers, under County supervision, and got county tax credit for their work. Some old
Caterpillars and drag scrapers and graders were being bought. The
road went from the old Valley Grove area to the Evergreen Church, then across Selden
and Johnsville School districts,
to Skipper's Gap. Go east on Hwy 67 from Stephenville to Parham's Wrecking Yard. and at the
next bridge turn right. The Valley Grove Church was a mile or so down the dirt
road . The Evergreen School was
between the church and Selden. Mom said when she was young, they sometimes were caught in rain or a cold
norther in wagons or buggies and
old Model T's and they stopped at the Church for the night for shelter. Other families had also
stopped there some, and they built a fire in the wood heater and slept on the
benches onquilts. I remember one adult play on an outdoor stage there to
raise money for school supplies--they
had kerosene and gas lanterns for light. The Crockett School was a few miles farther down the new Hwy
67, across from the Selden turnoff.
Great Great Uncle Ed Fleming of Pleasanmt Hill taught there.
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Ever hear of Charlie Pack of Woodway,
Texas, between Hwy 84 and Lake Waco?
He is a musician, I think. but you might have seen him on TV on the "It's Fishing time" usually sitting in his
boat with a guest, fishing in Lake Waco, mostly. It is on one tv
network. He is a Baylor Graduate and active in First Baptist Church,
Woodway, off Hwy 84. He is also an insurance salesman and is
reporterd to have sold Group insurance to small business and small factory owners,
his guest while fishing.
Several years ago we owned a house in
Stephenville near HEB Grocery, in the Conger addition and it was rented for a
time to a Pack. Our kids did not
go to Tarleton, so we sold it.
MARCH 8, 2009
Seeking information on Fronea McGee,
second wife of Robert Augustine Wyly.
He was born in Towns County, Georgia,
April 01, 1847 and his first wife was Ella Atalissa or Atasia Hatchett who died about
1901 and is buried in Selden Hatchett
Cemetery with at least 8 generations of Stevens/Stephens, Hatchett, Wyly, and other kin.
He married Fronea McGee and later
moved to Sapulpa, then Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then they died of Typhoid Fever from an old
contaminated water well. Great
Grandad Robert was at Battle of Shiloh, age 13, as a drummer or flag bearer. His brother was an
officer in the Confederate Army and was wounded and disabled in the battle.
Great Grandad died when I was
9. He dedicated the Tulsa Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Morer Cemetery, Morer
Funeral home, when he was past 90.
He and his brother William Sevier Wyly
had adjoining farms in Selden, connected
to other Kay, Hatchett and Wyly farms from Selden to Highway 67 at one time.
Was Fronea part Cherokee? Did she have
kin in Oklahoma.? Were they married in the Hico or Selden area??
Great Grandad had some nephews in Tahlequah who had Georgia Cherokee and
Anglo blood back to before the Revolutionary
war. I cannot find Cheroee connections for Great Grandad, unless Fronea was Native American.
One of his brothers came to the Tyler, Texas area, and some of his descendants married
into several lines of Cherokee. That line was descended from Susannah
Graves and her sister Mary Graves. My line traces to Mary Graves only.
MARCH 10, 2009
Burton Phillips bought part of
Grandad's Selden land, and when Comanche Peak plant was finished, he moved to one
near New Orleans. His dad lived on
Hwy 67 below Grady Perry's Johnsville store.
I was born in Erath County ,
and Great Great grandad was Gen. James Rutherford Wyly ( War of 1812) in Florida
who married Sarah Hawkins Clark in
the Governor John Sevier's home in Knoxville, Tennessee. Sarah
was his granddaughter, and he
was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War North Carolina Militia--NOT GEORGE WASHINGTON'S
ARMY. John Sevier had served 3 terms as Governor of Tennessee, and before that,
he was governor of the failed State
of Franklin. James R. and Sarah bought the Traveller's Rest Inn
at Toccoa, Ga, below
Clarkesville. This Georgia State Park is found on a Google Search--it is now a Georgia State
Park, with some summer skills reenacted,
like horseshoeing and quilting and spinning by Clemson University. Jesse Walton had started
the Inn, and the Wylys sold it to a Jarrett Lucas family. Sarah's Uncle was on
the Lewis and Clark expedition of the Missouri River. Also several
Coffee and Cleveland records are connected to the above.
Some of these Seviers came to Milford
and Itasca, Texas by covered wagon.
Valentine (Vol-In-Tin) Sevier rode ahead and told them to meet them at the Mill on the Ford.
His grancchildren lived in Itasca and Killeen, Texas, and some live in Waco now.
Frank Sevier, a retired Naval
officer, and sons ran a boat repair shop in the old Richfield Air Force hangar. His descendantss now
run a boat yard in Robinson, Texas. Go to your local library and ask for an
interlibrary loan for a copy of the Sevier Family History by Cora Bailes Sevier
and Nancy Sevier Madden, second
printing, 1982. It has 6 or more Phillips family members listed,
and a Phipps. Sometimes the
Sevier Family History book is sold on eBay. I got my first look at one through the Waco
City Library from Clemson University.
Noted names include the Conway records and Coat of Arms; same for Craig, Davis, Douglas, Eskridge,
Ewing, Hawkins, Sawyer, and Warren.
The crest for St. Francis Xavier of The Castle of Navarre (Basque between France and Spain today)
Xavier records were kept in Navarrre,
Aragon, and Pamplona in the Basque language. Some of St. Francis's siblings left for Hugenot Country
in France and were warned to avoid
the massacre of guests in the St. Valentine's Day banquet. They came through Belgium to England. When Henry
IV took over as French King, he
wanted no other members of the Bourbon Royal family to be a threat to him. Other Seviers were already in
England.
Will check the book KING'S MOUNTAIN
AND ITS HEROES by Bobby Gilmer Moss of Blacksburg, South Carolina, near King's
Mountain. It lists those in the battle, those who should or may have
been there, and those on the way.
James Wyly was waiting at one of the Burke Courthouses for reinforcements, but after the victory, he
and others went to the Battles of
Cowpens and Shallowford.
BANASTAIRE TARLETON and his British soldiers had killed all men, wonmen, and children
and buried them in a common pit
grave.
MARCH 24, 2009
I attended Stephenville High with a
Charles Gilbreath. 1944-1946. Was there more than one Gilbreath who served as
sheriff? Handbook of Texas Online
should have a list of all former sheriffs in all counties. Try a Google search. Grady Perry's GRAND OLE ERATH lists all former postmasters, including Galconda, in the
Mitchell Creek/Pony Creek area. I have a copy of his Grand Ole Erath that my dad got
from him when he ran the
Johnsville Store near Three Way School. I also have an index prepared later by a member of his family.
He also quotes some writings of Mr. Foshee of Stephenville.
If I am not badly mistaken, there was
a Sheriff Gilbreath of Erath County, 1920's, when Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker were on the run and sometimes
slept in a Johnsville/Three Way area church. Wasn't he the one who knocked on the door of a farmer
there, when Clyde and Bonnie hid in a closet while the farmer talked to
Sheriff Gilbreath through the screen
door, and Bonnie was holding a sub machine gun, in case he came into the room and started searching?
Seems the sheriff turned and left. Possibly he knew if Bonnie was in the
house, she would -- or might -- kill all witnesses. Clyde grew up on a
Midlothian Cotton Farm and his dad went broke during the Depression and moved to
Dallas and opened a 2 pump service
station and tire and auto repair service. Clyde was rumored to, when he visited his Hico kin, have
camped out on Duffau Creek and the
Bosque, fishing with older boys from Johnsville. He once escaped from Hillsboro Jail and stole the sheriff's
pistol, then hid near present Lake
Whitney. The sheriff was searching for him when he stood up
behind a fallen tree and tried
to shoot the Sheriff, but the gun would not fire. Law officers should take better care of
their pistols.
Clyde's sister lived in Dallas and
died a few years ago, wealthy. She and her husband lived in the wealthy part
of Dallas near SMU and the new George
Bush Presidential Library building site.
MARCH 29, 2009
Mary
Josephine Mefford and Frederick Wyly: they were married
either in Stephenville or Green's Creek. I do not have the dates or family tree from them.
Fred was born July 15, 1867 and they were maried in 1890.
I did find an old statement of Walnut
Springs Public schools when Roy Millford
was apparently Superintendent. The old Texas Central Railroad was running shops and roundhouse, a lake for
steam trains, a Central College
in the present City park. The Morgan Railroad and steamship lines sold out to Katy Railroad. Contrary
to info that they were destroyed by fire. One old shop building was moved
by the WPA to the 2 story brick school
and became the gym, a stage, and a Home Economics and Vocational Agriculture classroom and shop
under the stage. Others on the
internet say the trains quit running in the 1930's. In 1960, the train was running a few times
a week from the Albany area Sheetrock
mill and it had a 5 mile speed limit through Walnut,
Iredell, Hico, Dublin and on.
I was Principal there in the 1960's,
and in the old rolltop desk, I found a 4 page Discipline guide, with Roy Mefford
as head of the Judicial Department,
and the enacting Department. With a set number of demerits, both boys and girls in primary, elementary,
and high school earned possible paddlings
from designated teachers, or the parent, or dismissal. Maximum for boys was 17 licks and for girls, 11 licks.
Other Erath County names listed in
Walnut Springs were Ira Hurley (born
in Crockett or Pony Creek area), School Board chairman, Sam Rose, and a Mrs. Crouch. Also
Fretwells and McCartys. Jim Tom Harris had worked at the Johnsville cotton
gin several years in 1930's.
There must have been a train track
there in the 1860's, as Iredell legend has it that John Wilkes Booth, with a
broken leg and a friend, rode in an empty boxcar and got off in Iredell, and
taught school there under another
name. Dad knew where the cabin was in the 1950's. He taught
school at Harmony one year.
Anyone have any pieces to the puzzle
above?
JUNE 12, 2009
[Rev.] Dr. [Homer] Kluck funeral in
Fort Worth. He had 2 degrees- in music through Perkins School of Theology and was a
Methodist pastor. He was born
1928 in Perry, Texas. Was this the H. Grady Perry and/or the Governor Perry whose family had Erath
County roots??
Mr. [Emroy W.] Knudson was 87.
He was born in Hamilton County and attended Cranfils Gap schools , was a iron worker on
Houston Buildings, and will be
buried in Walnut Springs, Texas.
Ida Head of Erath County married Ned Gristy who had a farm adjoining
the one I grew up on in the
Selden-Johnsville area. They owned the rent farm where Mr. Snow killed 3 generations of a
family from Waco who lived in the
cabin with Mr. Snow when there was cotton to pick, and some other farm
work. He was burning their body parts
in the fireplace. The trial was
well covered in the Stephenville and
Fort Worth Newspapers. The Fort Worth Star Telegram archives are now in the Arlington
State University library. The trial drew such a crowd that the
Stephenville Courthouse wall on the west side [collapsed?] because of the crowd
standing in the balcony. Look closely today and you can see a large threaded rod with a
washer and nut on it, which braces
from the east wall. Bernie Conolly's head was found in a sack across from the old Crockett School site,
across Hwy 67 from Selden Road and
Hwy 67. This was less than a mile from the Gristy home place.
A Bailey cousin from Selden married a
granddaughter of Ned and Ida. They had identical triplets, both under
21. They moved to Rockport. Now, one is a school teacher in Wsco, but had
moved back to /Bronwood area. She recognized me when she was doing
student teaching and I was a substitute
after I retired. Ida and Ned and others of their family were good on the guitar and the piano. We had a
party or two there, and we
came in from outside Irish Swing Games and gathered around the piano and sang and ate ice
cream--hand frozen Ida Head
Gristy and mother had worked a few
times as midwives.
Balma Gristy maried Paul Killion, and
they used to sing as a duet in the local Southern Gospel Singings.
Prentice Lee Gristy never maried;- he was a good mechanic and used to buy
wrecked cars and cut the body off to the frame and use them for pasture driving
and such.
HICKEY: one used to be my barber
in Stephenville. He told me once he had some Cherokee blood.
JUNE
13, 2009
Was Sallie Keith Head part of the
Keith family of Dublin-Pontotoc area? One of these Keiths led the Keith kin
against the Turnbow family kin and
Col. Buck Barry, Texas Ranger. Both sides were armed to attack, but one lady rode into Dublin full speed on her
horse to the Dublin Baptist
Pastor (was it "Choctaw Bill" Robinson or Reubern Davis?) and she rode back at full gallop, waving his
hat and asking for a peace parley.
Then they discussed how some cows showed up in the wrong pasture. Col. Buck is buried between
Iredell and Walnut Springs.
Ernest Rippetoe and the Keiths were
Misionary Baptist--BMA--not Southern Baptist at that time. Choctaw Bill
pastored in Stephenville one or 2 Sundays a month and Dublin one or two
Sundays a month. Dublin records of this era are in the hall behind the
auditorium of the Dublin Church, where our nephew Joe Mack Riley attends,
now. William Robinson got his
nickname from the Choctaw Indians who
were camped out in Stephenville City Park and campground. He was preaching to
them when one old Chief, leading them back to Oklahoma after the Civil War,
stood and grunted, and said "White
Man must be lying, he talks too much," and walked away. Bill Robinson assisted Great Great Grandad
William Pinckney Hatchett, when Dr.
Hatchett had organized 17 churches on the Duffau Creek and Bosque
River, from Valley Mills to
Pony Creek and Paluxy churches. Dr. D.D. Tidwell of Iredell was a college history
teacher before he came to Baylor University . He read the first records of
the Pony Creek Baptist Church, where
I attended some in my teens. Howard Keith was pastor at Pony Creek after the Stephenville Church had ordained
him when he was past 50. In the
summer they had night meetings under the cool oak trees, and in the winter we used a wood stove--one brought a
box with a blanket in it to keep
her feet warm.
Dr.
Tidwell did an extensive, heavy book of the Robinson family, which included some
Belchers and Moxleys of Erath County.
I saw one of these in the home of Mamie Belcher Davis of
Johnsville- Does anyone know where to
find another one???
The BMA Baptist children's home in
Corsicana is now under the Southern Baptist umbrella.
JUNE
18, 2009
Worth reading on cemeteries and
graveyards: Know the diffenrnce? Webster's
Dictionary does not, but DAR does. Hope this might
help some from Alabama to
Texas. At one time John Sevier had many Wyly and other descendants.in Erath County. Other
Seviers settled in Hill and other Texas counties. He served in the first and
two other Sessions of U.S. Congress,
first Governor of Tennessee, and led the North Carolina Volunteer State Rebels in several battles,
including King's Mountain Battle
against British Major Partick Ferguson, who was trying to get loyalist troops at Cornwallis's Camp. Wyly,
Gillespie, McCallies, Clevelands
and many others were with the Rebels at King's Mountain. See Google, then find the book With the Patriots at King's Mountain. Ferguson was killed and buried by Rebel
Scotsmen in Kilts. His above ground
Kairn of rocks is still in the Federal Park at King's Mountain, Carolinas. The Seviers were from Xavier
families of Navarre, Avalon and Pamplona.
Xavier records in the Basque language are in a Church library in Pamplona. Now if there were
Spanish Basque in the Spanish Army explorers, I sonder it the name Bosque
could trace [back to] the Basque Spanish and French soldiers.
JUNE
22, 2009
Great Great Grandad William P.
Hatchett came to the Valley Mills-Hog Creek area of Bosque County after the War with
Mexico, where he was a 1 year contract
Texas Ranger in a group of short term rangers who went into Mexico to teach the U.S. Army how to use 2
six shooters and a pump rifle
riding at full speed into Indian attacks, rather than leave their horses and set up a bipod single shot rifle
and taught Army soldiers how
to scout for hostile Indians. He returned to Vaalley Mills and started 17 churches up the Bosque River and Duffau
Creeks. He was also a Doctor and
had a pharmacy in old Velley Mills east of the River, where a flood and some fire wiped out the old town.
He had a daughter, Rena (Lorena )
Hatchett who married a Charles Kuykendall
, 1892, and their children were Shelly, Bob or Rob, Kathy, and
Lee. Another sibling
married a Womack.
Now, in a recent 2004 502 page book
EIGHTEEN MINUTES: THE BATTLE OF SAN
JACINTO, Stephen L. Moore lists 10 Kuykendalls in the Texas Army under Sam Houston. I also had a distant kin
there- Capt. Alfred Henderson
Wyly, who, with his Balch first cousins, deliverred the TWIN SISTERS cannons to Sam Houston before the
attack on the Mexican Army,
asleep in their tents. He also
has more details on the YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS, a free born mixed blood YOUNG LADY,
who spied in Santa Ana's camp
and delivered his food to him and had ways to contact Sam Houston when to attack before Santa Ana's
reinforcements got there.
Texas Black Cowboys sang the Yellow
Rose of Texas song to cattle when they were restless. Bob Wills made the song
famous, and the Yellow Rose Hotel
today, behind the Alamo, has a museum room about her. We learned this song in Johnsville Elementary
School, and in 1936 Centennial year
we sang in the Stephenville studios of KFPL Dublin radio. One of our teachers was an Atkins who was a
Hatchett descendant from Chalk
Mountain, Erath County. She taught in Lingleville, Johnsville, Meridian, and Grandbury. The book 'EIGHTEEN MINUTES" has an
extensive bibliography and names of Texas Soldiers and their units. Several of
the rebels had the middle name
of Wyly--McCartys, Hollingsworth, and others. Some are on Google.COM.
AUGUST 24, 2009
My wife was Jeannie Riley. We
met at Tarleton. Her parents were born in the Cleburne area. His dad, James Whitcomb
Riley (O'Riley), ran away from an Irish race horse stables and farm. The Sea
Captian who found him let him work
for the trip and took him into a Tinker' (Sheet metal ) Apprentice until he was 18 or 21, whatever the age for
immigration said. Jeannie's
dad died in Clyde, Texas but had
raised his children in the Levelland- Pettit area. Joe Mack Riley of Dublin is her
nephew. Her granddad was married in New York, but his second wife was Alice
Marie Renfro of Johnson County.
Jeannie's grandad was born as James
Whitcomb O'Riley- He would not attend his Catholic Church as he was afraid one of the Redheaded Irish
Priests might contact his family in Ireland and he would have to return to
Ireland. He is buried in old Cleburne
Cemetery on old Hwy 67. The
James Whitcomb Riley, born in the U.S., also had Irish roots. Her mom had roots in the Jack,
Gillespie, McCallie families of Knoxville,
Tennessee. We attendewd one Sevier Family Reunion in Gatlainburg, Tenn. My ancestor, first
Governor of Tennesee, had appointed her ancestor, Jeremiah Jack, to be first
sheriff of Knox County, Tennessee and a County Commisioner. Some Rileys at
the reunion were also kin to
the Gillespie and Jack family. This proves that family trees are not
trees, but more like tangled Kudzu or other vines.
OCTOBER 22, 2009
The Geneaology Department is
still in the basement of the Waco-McClennan County Library on Austin Avenue.
Plans are for it to move to the
Dunlap's store site which was once part of the Lake Air Mail off Valley Mills Drive on Bosque Blvd. It
will be part of the enlarged R.B. Hoover branch Library in Waco. The Hoover
Library has several computers which are on line to some records but not
on the Internet otherwise . If you are doing geneaology research also check
the Bosque County Library on the
old Clifton College campus. I bought a book there
called JUANA, about Juana
Cavasos Bernard, wife of George Bernard of Glen Rose, Texas. She was born on a Spanish Land Grant and
captured by Comanches and was later traded to Torey's Trading House Creek
frontier store near Waco when George
met her and married her and moved to Glan Rose and built the old
Bernard's Mill between the Paluxy Eiver and old Hiway 67. Texas
Rangers left Cynthia Ann Parker with Juana and George for a few weeks as they
both spoke the Comanche language.
The old Mill became the first Hospital or clinic. It was powered by a water wheel.
NOW WHAT WAS THE CONNECTION OF
GEORGE BARNARD TO UPTON BERNARD WHO RAN A CAFE IN STEPHENVILLE IN THE 1950'S?? He
sold me a book he wrote called Jake Bell (Or Upton Bernard), Range Rider.
He said it covered his life in
pioneer days. Also check the
locations below. Hewitt and Moody also have city libraries of their own.
1.Texas Ranger Museum and Library
2. Baylor University Library for
crests and general info.
3. The Texas Collection Library on
Baylor University with rare and not widely published info.
4. The McLennan Community College
library
5. Hill college in Hillsboro for
Confederate Research Center and Records of Hood's Texas Brigade. Also the Audie
Murphy Gun Museum is there by
the museum and research center. They are online.
6. Mary Hardin Baylor-Belton has
records of some John Tarleton Junior College grads, like my Great Aunt Susie
Moxley.
JANUARY 28, 2010
Seeking information on Balch
family and connections to Capt. Alfred Henderson Wyly and his Balch cousins in San
Jacinto. Also, some records say Sam
Houston's mom was a Balch--others have another [surname] listed. Also,
When Sam Houston was
adopted by John Jolly, a Cherokee chief of the east coast, he left for Arkansas before the
Trail of Tears. Sam Houston visited in Arkansas with his old Cherokee friends
from Georgia and Tennessee. Some list a marriage of s Cherokee who married
an Indian lady and did not divorce
his Anglo or his Cherokee wife, as the law of the Indians were not registered with the State at first.
State records did not list divorces
unless they had County birth certificates. Divorce among some tribes was
when a squaw would roll up her blankets
and move out and away from her husband.
Most sources on Google do not match
the Sam Houston records in Baylor in Independence or Waco. Temple Houston
graduated from Baylor and became an attorney in west Oklahoma and ran for
governor there. Can
anyone check these dots??
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