RAMBLERS’ RAMBLINGS

Vol XXVIII Number TWO SUMMER 2019

More about the………

SIGNERS OF THE TEXAS DECLARATION OF

INDEPENDENCE

BY SHELBY ROWAN

At the end of my last column in the Spring issue of Ramblings, I said that I would tell you a bit about

some of the descendants of the Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Then in an earlier

column, I mentioned that only 51 of the 60 Signers (including Herbert Kimble, the Secretary) married

and had children and that the 49 who had families in Texas accounted for 281 children. Let me add the

five Badgett children and the six Kimble children and say that our Signers account for 292 children

total. So, now let me tell you a little about some of those nearly 300 children. (And perhaps I’ll throw in

some additional tidbits about the Signers as we go along!)

At least two sets of first-generation families had two Signers for parents/grandparents: John Bower’s

only child, Frances Bower, married James Power, Jr. and William Clark, Jr. married Amelia Taylor,

daughter of Charles Taylor. And in this group of double heritage descendants, one in a recent

generation married a descendant of Stephen Blount so that today there is one young man out there who

can claim three Signers as ancestors!

William Clark, Jr. (although his father, the Signer William Clark, also went by Jr.) was a soldier and

lawyer. He served in the Mexican War and later in the Civil War, where he was appointed a Lt. Colonel.

As a member of the Texas Legislature under Governor Sam Houston, Clark had voted in favor of

separating from the Union.

James Gaines had a total of nine children with three wives. His life itself is well worth Googling and

reading about, but some of his children had some wild experiences also. Gaines had purchased a ferry on

the Sabine River in 1812, a place that was the entry point into Texas at that time. If you came to Texas

then, this tall, redheaded man might be the first “Anglo” you met. His children were very much involved

in this ferry enterprise. Then, at least two sons, John B. and Edmund, had gold fever in 1849 and joined

by their father, found gold and opened the Mount Gaines Mine, which still exists. Edmund Pendleton

Gaines, named after both his famous uncle and cousin, one of the sons with third wife Susannah Norris,

was a doctor, practicing in the Sabine County area for over 40 years. At one point, Edmund was Chief

Justice of Sabine County, the first elected public official who had actually been born in Texas.

Jesse Grimes had moved his family to Texas about 1826, settling near the present Navasota. When the

Revolution began, his 17 or 18-year-old son, Albert Calvin, joined the Texas army and fought in several of

the major battles. Sadly, while his father was at Washington-on-the-Brazos signing the Declaration of

Independence, Albert was at the Alamo fighting for that freedom and was one of those killed during

that infamous battle.

Although I don’t find anything of great importance about the children of Augustine Blackburn Hardin, I

can’t resist pausing here to tell you a bit more about his arrival in Texas and the reason for it. Born and

raised in Tennessee, the Hardin boys, at least five of them, were good boys with decent reputations,

Augustine himself, a deputy sheriff. BUT when the son of a VERY prominent local family began bragging

about his conquests with Augustine’s young wife, the Hardins could do nothing less than protect the

family’s honor and a gun battle ensued! And the accused was shot dead! The story is that Augustine

scooped up his wife and their young son, deposited them on her father’s porch and took off for parts

unknown. Well, not too unknown. Legend has it that he went straight to his Aunt Sarah in Georgia or

Alabama, who supported his honor-seeking actions and helped him on the next leg of his journey –

TEXAS! And some of the Hardin brothers, as accomplices, had to flee also. There were some

extradition papers served, and Sam Houston did give them a once-over, but since you know the end of

the story – Hardin was a Signer – you can deduce that nothing much came of the extradition papers!!

They were all here by 1825 and their obituaries all include words like Judge, Surveyor, House of

Representatives, Signer – a definitely well-respected family in Texas history. (And just so you know the

end of the story, that son of the “locally prominent family” also eventually followed his father to Texas

and was a well-known member of the Lampasas community.)

Sam Houston had eight children with his third wife, Margaret, and at least three of Houston’s children

found their way into history books. The eldest, Sam, Jr. was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War,

even held prisoner for a time after the Battle of Shiloh, practiced medicine for a while, but his true love

lay in his drawings and writing. As a child it had been evident that Sam, Jr. was artistic, much to his

father’s disapproval! He devoted much of his later life to writing poetry and a collection of adventure

stories.

Andrew Jackson Houston, sixth child and second son, was a well-respected lawyer and very active in the

politics of the new State of Texas. He was also known to be a bit of a tease and once, as a child, he

discovered his rather stout grandmother was “stuck” while “trying out her coffin” and could not help her

get out until he stopped laughing!

The last child and fourth son, Temple Lea, probably has the most notorious reputation of all the Houston

children. The first child to be born in the Governor’s Mansion, he was an orphan by the age of seven,

Sam having died when he was three and his mother only four years later. Temple went to live and be

raised by his sister, Nannie, who was married by that time. Words like colorful and flamboyant as well

as brilliant are used in history books when describing Temple Lea. At age 13 he joined a cattle drive to

give that life a trial then on to life on a riverboat and after meeting an old acquaintance of his father’s,

Temple ended up as a page in the Senate in Washington, D.C. From there he decided to become a lawyer

and colorful and flamboyant really enter the picture! He was often dressed rather colorfully, some

might say even eccentrically, and as a gifted speaker he was sometimes noted as a “silver-tongued orator

with unorthodox behavior.” He was also an expert marksman and was known to have carried a pearl-

handled pistol, which he occasionally used. At least once, shooting blanks in the courtroom for effects!

Needless to say, his behavior also attracted enemies, and fortunately, one time, the booklet in his

pocket took a bullet that was aimed at his heart. A very colorful character indeed. If, by chance, you

are familiar with Edna Ferber’s novel, Cimarron, you might recognize the character Yancey Cravat as

Temple Lea.

William Demetris Lacy (or Lacey) had four children and two of his three daughters married two

brothers, Jonathan Edwards Pierce and Abel Head Pierce. You know the name Abel Head as “Shanghai

Pierce, The Cattle Baron of Texas.” When he stowed aboard a ship headed to Texas in 1853 and landed

in Indianola, he was – as one history book noted – “poorer than skimmed milk,” but with a determination

to own cattle. By the end of the Civil War, he and his brother, Jonathan, ruled over cattle that roamed

their more than 50 square-mile ranch, Rancho Grande. His premise about the cattle business was that

one had to have a market for one’s product and he certainly did. His cattle deals all over the United

States were well known. (Note: “Shanghai” Pierce is also mentioned in Henry Hanson’s “My Mother’s Best

Friend” story in this issue of Ramblings.)

Albert Hamilton Latimer married three times and had a total of 19 children with those three ladies.

When Albert’s biography did not give any noteworthy comments about his 19 children, I decided to

search the census records to see what I could learn. I can only state that two died in infancy although

there are another four or five that I cannot trace beyond their childhood. Five of the boys claim farm-

related occupations as adults, another a saddlemaker, another an insurance salesman, another just

salesman without any specific type, another a real estate agent. Just ordinary folks going about

ordinary lives. This did not surprise me, but then I decided to count grandchildren because, I said to

myself, with 19 children, Albert must have had a BUNCH of grandchildren. I was surprised to count only

23 on the Latimer file. And that left me with the concern that my file might be missing some children

and I need to do more research!!!

And it is on that note that I’m going to stop here, halfway through the list of Signers, and save the

other half for the next column. See you at a Ramblers meeting soon.

THE SEARCH FOR JAMES MAGILL

BY JANE MAGILL

It’s hard to find an ancestor if you don’t know his first name, especially if he has a common surname.

That was the case with my husband’s second great grandfather, James Magill.

When I started to do my husband’s genealogy, his paternal line seemed to stop with David R Magill, a

Civil War veteran, wounded in 1862 at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, defending a railroad bridge

with his Illinois infantry unit. The genealogists in the family had been searching for David R’s father

for years, three generations of them and what they had found was that his name was Henry, James or

William Magill and they didn’t know where he was born or where he had died. They did know he had

married a woman named Nancy Lagoon, born in Ireland in 1806 and died in Coshocton, Ohio in 1898.

Nancy and her brother claimed to have stowed away on a boat bound for the US when they were young

teenagers, about 1820.

The couple had six children James, Henry, William, David R,

Sarah and Ella. My husband is descended from David R., born

in 1844 in Lockport, N.Y. The family story was that David R’s

father emigrated from N. Ireland around the time Nancy

came and was an engineer working on the Erie Canal. Googling

the timeline for the Erie Canal shows that it was finished in

1825 so that part of the family story may or may not be

true.

The sad fact is that James? Henry? or William? Magill, or whatever his first name was, left Nancy in

1848 to raise six children by herself.

CORINTH, MISSISSIPPI 1862

Early last spring I decided that I would attack this brick wall and asked my husband to send in his

DNA sample to Family Tree DNA, hoping we might learn of a linkage to another member of the

Magill family whose descendants could tell us something about Clint’s great, great grandfather,

James or Henry or William Magill.

About the same time, I created three different trees on Ancestry, each with the same Magill data

except for the top male. On one tree the oldest male was James Magill, another Henry Magill and the

third was the William Magill tree.

In a few weeks the Y DNA results came in and a few matches were found that had as the oldest

known ancestors, men named McGill, Magee or Gill as the family name. There were just two Magills,

Henry, but he was born 12 years after his son, Henry Magill in our line and Samuel, who was born in

1788. There were various MaGills, but none of them fits the birth date and place either. I was

tremendously disappointed.

A week or two after the DNA results came in, I found a leaf on James Magill’s tree, one of the three

identical trees I had created on Ancestry. It was on James himself. The leaf directed me to an

Ancestry member, Steve B, who had a tree for James and Nancy’s youngest daughter and her family.

The tree owner asked that I contact him. He is descended from James and Nancy through the

youngest daughter, Ella. He gave me a lengthy and detailed description of James and his life after

leaving Nancy and their six children.

In 1846, James left to fight in the Mexican War with an Ohio regiment where he served with honor in

the Battle for Mexico City. He returned to the family in early 1848 for a brief visit and then left for

good. He never stayed in any one place very long after leaving his family. James married a widow in

Indiana in 1850 but left her within a few years and lived with his daughter Ella on and off for most of

the rest of his life. He married at least one more time before he died in 1887.

We know now from Steve B. that James Magill was born in Orange, New York on 6 June, 1812 and died

2 April 1887 in Jennings, Indiana. Except for information kept by his youngest daughter and passed

down through her descendants, there is no record to show James and Nancy were ever married or

even if this James is our James. After corresponding with Steve B. for almost a year, I believe we are

chasing the real James Magill.

And for the next brick wall: who were the parents of James Magill? I have searched the N.Y.

Archives and his birth record is not there. Will I have to go to the county clerk’s office in Orange

county N.Y. to find out? Suggestions for finding James’ parents are welcome!

“One never knows when one tiny piece will pull the puzzle

together.”

GALVESTON,“THE ELLIS ISLAND OF THE WEST” BY MARY JANE MILLENDER

Whether historians call Galveston , Texas “The Ellis Island of the West” or “Ellis Island #2,” it is a

documented fact that the port of Galveston was the second busiest immigrant entry location in the US.

If you have ancestors who entered the US through the port of Galveston beginning in 1846, there’s a

“one-of-a-kind” database from 1846-1920 in a Galveston museum that you might want to check. It’s

waiting for you on a computer terminal in the Seaport

Museum, 2200 Harborside, Galveston and on it you’ll find

important genealogical information listing over 130,000

immigrants, who traveled from Europe,Asia and Africa to

settle in the US. Ships loaded with immigrants docked at

Pier 29 in those early days; the museum is located on Pier 22

in a two-story building with an upstairs gallery that tells

Galveston’s nautical history with photos and early artifacts

of that area.

From 1837 to 1867 Galveston was ravaged by nine yellow

fever epidemics that killed thousands of Galvestonians, many buried in large, unmarked graves. No one

knew what caused yellow fever, but some Galvestonians believed it was brought into their city by

already-ill immigrants., especially those from warm weather climates. Immigrants probably looked sick

due to so many days at sea. Some ships were reported to have taken over 50 days to complete their

journey to Texas. Windless days caused too many days of delay. Food and water supplies were

depleted and passengers and crew members suffered.

In 1875 the US Government stopped unrestricted immigration and began medical examinations,

baggage inspections and formal processing of all immigrants entering US ports. Those ill were

quarantined away from the city. Many in poor health were deported.

THE 1877 TALL SHIP ELISSA

Sometime after you visit the museum and its one-of-a-kind database, take time to explore both the

main deck and the lower area of the 240 ft. tall sailing ship, The Elissa, docked at Pier 22, just a few

yards from the museum’s entrance. The three-masted (she carries 19 sails) Elissa, launched in 1877 in

Scotland, is one of the oldest tall ships sailing today and is now a floating National Historic Landmark.

SEAPORT MUSEUM, GALVESTON

When leaving the Seaport Museum and while still on Harborside, continue driving

east and within a few blocks you’ll find an historical marker standing inside a

large enclosed area. At first glance you’ll only see concrete stairs standing

alone; they were once part of a large house built over the remaining basement

and wine cellar of Maison Rouge, the home of the notorious pirate Jean Lafitte,

who lived in Galveston from 1812 until 1821 when sometime in 1821 Lafitte and

his followers decided the Karankawa Indians were too “unfriendly” to their

settlement and the US Government too ”unhappy” with their attacks on Federal

ships so a torch was put to Maison Rouge and to 200 buildings alongside the

Harborside area. Jean Lafitte waved goodbye to Galveston and sailed away.

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TRAVELING WITH HENRY HANSON ON…………

HIS GENEALOGY TRAILS

In the Spring 2019 issue of Ramblings, I mentioned going to the Chriesman Community Center with

Nancy to listen to a local C&W band and now in Ramblings’ Summer issue, I have

another family genealogical story to tell from a visit to the same place, the

Chriesman Community Center in Chriesman, Texas. However, this encounter occurred

on a different night in January, 2019.

But before I begin this story, I want to acquaint you with the tiny (almost ghost)

town of Chriesman, which is located in northern Burleson County, only a few miles from Caldwell, Texas.

Originally the town was called Yellow Prairie, but in 1885 was renamed to honor Horatio Chriesman

(1797-1878), one of the surveyors of Stephen F. Austin’s Old Three Hundred colony and later, an

important settler well-known in early Texas history. While working for Austin from 1823-1836, Horatio

“Remember me in the family tree.

My name, my days, my strife.

Then I’ll ride the wings of time

And live an endless life.”

Linda Goetsch

Chriesman was commissioned a captain in the Texas colonial military, fought in several Indian conflicts

and later served in Sam Houston’s army.

In 1824 Chriesman became a large Texas land owner when he received one league and two labors (a total

of 4782.6 acres) in what is now Fort Bend and Austin counties; later he settled on land acquired in

Washington County.

In 1837 the Republic of Texas wanted to move its capital from Houston to a more centrally located area;

Chriesman was one of only five members of the commission chosen to select a permanent site and during

the search he offered to donate 700 acres near Washington-on-the-Brazos for the capital. His offer

was turned down. Years later Hector Chriesman left Washington County and moved to Burleson County

where he died in 1878.

Now back to my second Chriesman Community Center story: When I was working for a living, I was

employed by Phillips Petroleum Company. I started working for Phillips on the 5th of September 1969,

only 17 days after I was discharged from the US Navy.

About three months after starting to work in the Maintenance Department, I

bid on a position as a Boilermaker and began a four-year apprentice program.

In 1979, I was offered a salaried position as a Field Supervisor, which I

maintained until I was promoted to Team Leader in 1989. I retired from that

position in March 2001.

While I was in the Boilermaker apprentice program, I worked with all the First

and Second CLass Boilermakers until I made Second Class Boilermaker. At that

time the most senior First Class Boilermaker was a man by the name of Johnnie

August Wilhelm. Johnnie was born and raised in Chriesman, Burleson County,

Texas. Another First Class Boilermaker, Melvin Polase, was born and raised in

Caldwell, Burleson County and a Shift Superintendent by the name of Dave Kornegay was born and raised

near the Mix Community in Burleson County. All those years at Phillips Petroleum, I heard stories of

these men’s lives in and around Burleson County.

On another evening in January 2019, Nancy and I returned to Chriesman Community Center to enjoy a

local C&W band. We sat down at our regular table and, shortly after, I was introduced to a lady, Delores

Faye (Drahem) Shirley. After the introduction, Delores asked me where we lived and I said, “College

Station.” As our conversation continued, I told Delores that Nancy and I moved to College Station when

I retired in 2001; she next asked me where we moved from and I said, “Sweeny, Texas.”

Immediately after I said “Sweeny,” she asked if I knew a Johnnie Wilhelm? I told Delores I had worked

with Johnnie Wilhelm for 20 years or more and that Johnnie and I were both beekeepers, that we

attended the same church and we even shared some stories about our children with his daughter.

I asked Delores if she was a Wilhelm and she said no, but that her mother, Bessie Hein, was a sister to

Johnnie’s wife, Estelle Hein. There were ten Hein children living in and around Caldwell Texas at that

time.

Johnnie and Estelle’s youngest son, Shelley Waltine Wilhelm, married Deloris Keszler and they had two

daughters. The eldest daughter, Kimberly Lynette Wilhelm, married a relative on my Nancy’s side of the

family, John Steven Finley.

One thing I’ve learned during the past 18 years researching genealogy, you never know what relative you

might find just sitting next to you or doing whatever, wherever!

MAPS IN GENEALOGY, Part II

BY MARY ANN THOMPSDN

Maps are an important research tool in genealogy. If you’re a newcomer just starting to look into your

family history, a good place to start is the United States Geological Survey (USGS):

https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/mapsgenealogy.pdf

This site offers a great deal of information on using maps in genealogy and lists resources available for

further research.

George G. Morgan (productive writer of genealogy books and articles) wrote an article “Building Your

Personal Map Collection” in which he listed the specific maps which should be your core reference

collection:

o A contemporary world atlas

o A contemporary national atlas for the countries in which your ancestors lived

o Individual maps of states, provinces, territories, counties, provinces, etc. that are related

to your family

o A gazetteer or place name dictionary for the country or area where you are conducting

your research

There are many online sites about state maps that could be valuable resources for your research.

Geographers, historians and urban planners all enjoy the Sanborn maps, which were produced from 1867

to 1977 by the Sanborn Company of Pelham, New York. Some examples of these sites which offer a

snapshot of the built environment of the area it covers (information about fire alarms, water mains,

sidewalks, frontage, and a host of other details that could be used for insurance purposes):

1. Texas Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (1877-1922) (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection)

https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/sanborn/texas.html

2. North Carolina Maps: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

https://web.lib.unc.edu/nc-maps/ Maps from the 1880s to the 1950s, covering more than 150

cities and towns across the state. Includes original, printed maps of North Carolina published prior to

1923.

3. New Hampshire Maps: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/digital/collections/ (Check MAPS) The maps date from

the 1880s to the 1920s

4. Digital Sanborn Maps of Milwaukee 1894 and 1910

http://uwm.edu/libraries/ (Browse the Digital Collections)

5. Penn State University Maps Library https://libraries.psu.edu/about/collections/sanborn-

fire-insurance-maps A nearly complete collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps for the state of

Pennsylvania

The production of fire insurance plans of North American cities was dominated by two companies, the

Sanborn Map Company of New York and the Charles E. Goad Company of London. Another was the Dakin

Publishing Company of San Francisco. Dakin was in existence from about 1885 until the early 1960's, and

also worked to create similar insurance maps in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The University of

Hawaii has created a digital collection of 79 Dakin maps that document major cities in Hawaii, including

Oahu and Honolulu. https://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/maps/index.php?c=1

MY MOTHER’S BEST FRIEND, LOUISE MCCROSKY

BY HENRY HANSON

My mother’s best friend was Louise McCrosky and this is a story about my researching Louise’s family

ties, which I found included not only a member of Stephen F. Austin’s Old 300 group, but also a signer of

the Texas Declaration of Independence, an early Texas rancher and a soldier in the Civil War.

Louise’s Texas story begins with John McCrosky, a tanner by trade, who came to Texas with Stephen F.

Austin's "Old 300," and received in 1824 one league of land bordering on Cedar Lake and west of the San

Bernard River in western Brazoria County, Texas. His home, a log cabin in Brazoria County and was

recently restored by the Texas State Historical Association.

It is doubtful though that John McCrosky was ever interested in his original league of land as I

discovered his land interests were in other parts of Stephen F. Austin’s colony. He probably only had

the minimal presence to qualify for his league of land, which required him to make improvements within

two years of receiving his land grant.

But on July 10, 1824 I found he was active in the San Felipe de Austin area and on that date was elected

third lieutenant of a company of militia stationed there. Sometime during the early days of Texas, John

sold his land in Brazoria County to a Joseph Reese and in 1946 McCrosky’s original cedar log home was

purchased and saved by Mrs. R. E. L. Stringfellow and restored by Percy T. Beacroft.

JOHN MCCROSKY'S CABIN

John McCrosky married Sarah Ann Bright in 1828 and the couple had a son, William Hart McCrosky, born

May 9, 1830 in Colorado County, Texas. John McCrosky was deceased by 1832 as records show that Mrs.

Sarah Ann McCrosky married William Demetrius Lacey in 1832 and they had four children.

William Demetrius Lacey served as one of the two delegates representing Colorado County in

the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos, where he signed the Declaration of Independence.

on March 2 of that year. After the convention, Lacey escorted his family and other refugees to

Galveston Island. On April 18, 1836, he joined the Texas army and was stationed at Galveston

under James Morgan until May 12, 1836.

Upon retiring from the army, Lacey settled on the Tres Palacios River in Matagorda County. In May 1848

he moved his family to Paducah, Kentucky, where, only five months later, he died on October 14, 1848.

After William Lacey’s death, his wife, Sarah Hunter McCrosky Lacey, brought her children back to

Texas to live where her daughter, Nannie Lacey, later married Jonathan Edwards Pierce and another

daughter, Fanny, married Abel “Shanghai” Pierce, who was born June 29, 1834 in Compton, Rhode Island

to 7th generation Mayflower Puritan parents. His father was a farmer and blacksmith; after his mother

died, the family moved to Virginia. Pierce dislikeshis parents’ stern Puritanical supervision.

As a result of his feelings toward his parents, “Shanghai” developed a rebellious attitude and decided to

leave Virginia. and on June 29, 1853, Abel Head Pierce stowed away on a schooner bound for Indianola,

Texas. At nearby Port Lavaca, Texas he met Richard Grimes and started working splitting rails and

learning the trade of a Texas cowboy. After serving in Augustus C. Buchel's Confederate cavalry during

the Civil War, Pierce returned to find his holdings evaporated, but continued in the cattle business and

branding on the open range. He and Fanny Lacey, daughter of William Demetrius Lacey, married on

September 27, 1865. “Shanghai’s” wife gave birth to a daughter, Mary Frances Pierce, on July 17, 1867

and a son, Abel Head Pierce, on July 17, 1870; both his infant son and his wife Fanny died in 1870.

Before Fanny died in 1870, she asked “Shanghai” to send someone to Kentucky to bring her half-nephew,

John Harrison McCrosky, back to Texas. Soon after “Shanghai” and John’s return to Texas, John

married Mattie Kuykendall, daughter of Thomas Kuykendall and Sarah Ann Gainer. The Kuykendall family

was another original “300” in Austin’s Texas Colony.

John Harrison McCrosky and Mattie Kuykendall’s son, Thomas Kuykendall McCrosky, married Asa E.

Griggs in El Campo, Texas in 1914 and they had four children. Those children were: Thomas Griggs

McCrosky, Thomas Kuykendall McCrosky, Peggy McCrosky and John Voss McCrosky. For more on the

Kuykendall family, reread Ramblings’ Summer 2014 Newsletter.

John Voss McCrosky married Louise Lloyd of Tennessee and they settled down in Matagorda County,

raising a family of four. The McCrosky family was always involved in the Matagorda County Livestock

Show and Rodeo. As stated earlier, Louise McCrosky was my mother’s best friend.

UPCOMING RAMBLERS PROGRAMS

BY JERRY NELSON

31 JULY 2019 – Election of Officers & Summer Pot Luck Heritage Luncheon

AUG 2019 – “Preserving German Heritage” by Walter Kamphoetfner

SEPT 2019 – “DNA” by Jane Magill

BY JERRY MARKOWICH

GENEALOGY COMPUTER USERS GROUP

17 JULY 2019 – “Portals of Texas”

21 AUG 2019 – “Tips for Remembering Childhood Adventures”

18 SEPT 2019 – “Creating a Family History Book”

BY JANE MAGILL

FAMILY HISTORY WRITERS GROUP

10 JULY, 2019 - “Broken Down Brick Walls”

(NOTE: The Genealogy Computer Users Group and the Family History Writers Group are now

meeting in the Meyer Senior Center, 275 Dartmouth Street.)

STAFF:

Mary Jane Millender........Editor

Henry Hanson..........Asst. Editor

Shelby Rowan.............Columnist

Mary Ann Thompson......Columnist

Jane Magill….…Contributing Writer

Clint Williams...............Website