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Re: Getting to Texas

Posted: 4 May 2009 4:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
Let me look through my graphics files and see if I can find it. I have an entire hard drive of genealogy info. You can email me at au.beatbama@gmail.com so I'll have your email to send it to.

Betty

Re: Getting to Texas

Posted: 19 May 2010 4:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Many of the people entering East Texas came through Louisana, now Hwy. 7, across the Sabine River by ferry via the Kings Hwy./the El Camino Real, now Hwy 21. Many prominent citizens stayed at the Gains-Oliphant house, just across the river in Texas, then ventured on to San Augustine. They may have visited the Sublet home along the way. After leaving San Augustine where they had done business with hotels, saloons, livery stables, eating establishments and general stores, they may have stayed at the Halfway house on the way to Nacogdoches. If they had not reached their destination, they may have continued on to Austin.

I had always assumed that everyone came by trail to Texas but have learned that many came from other states by boat which may have entered Sabine Pass and came up the Sabine River at least as far as Logansport.

I am researching the following families: John and Charity Sanders, Spanish land grants, Texas 1820s; Sam and Mollie Lee Moore, Ennis, Texas late 1800s; Benjamin Franklin Bell b. 1898 family, Uriah Oliver family, Joe Neal family, and Gooch, Youngblood families.

Re: Getting to Texas

Posted: 29 May 2010 5:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
I would love to get some of the information you have on John and Charity Sanders. Charity is a GGGG of mine and I have not been able to get past her because we could never find our her maiden name or heer husband's first name.She was listed as a widow in 1835 census. What information do you have that shows John as her husband? And do you know Charity's maiden name? Also what happened to John?

Thanks

Keith Youngblood
kybloodtytx@juno.com

Re: Getting to Texas

Posted: 1 Sep 2011 7:28PM GMT
Classification: Immigration
Edited: 1 Sep 2011 7:30PM GMT
Richard,

I too have relatives that started in Georgia and rode via covered wagons to Alabama and boarded a vessel they referred to as the "Little Mayflower" and took it around the Gulf of Mexico where they then boarded another vessel that took them up the Sabine river to Jefferson, Texas.All this taking place around 1875. My relatives then took a wagon to Dalton,Texas which is close to Marietta,Tx the birth place of my father. I have not been able to find any information on the "Little Mayflower", but a lot of vessels were probably renamed. I am looking into one that changed it's name to "Silvie" . Good luck with your search.

Re: Getting to Texas

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 3:31AM GMT
Classification: Query
I was just looking at a relatives info and ran across your note. Please send me the PDF my folks seem to travel that route into Texas.

Re: Getting to Texas

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 12:15AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Thacker, Stewart, Cawthon, King
I too have ancestors who migrated to east Texas from Alabama and northern Florida during the 1840s - 1870s. During previous generations they lived in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Their surnames were Thacker, Stewart, Cawthon and King. I plan to go to Texas next spring and do some local research. I'd like to know how they got there. Were there any well-known southern pioneer trails, including water routes?

Re: Getting to Texas

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 2:00AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hey Betty, can you send a copy of that map you've referenced to me? My email is heather.r.puckett@gmail.com. Thank you!

Re: Getting to Texas

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 4:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
BTW folks, what most people used was called the Old Federal Road. if you search for that you can find lots of info. I've attached a couple of maps with some useful info on getting around in the Southeast and toward the "western territories" during the early days.
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