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We highly recommend that you use the boards at Ancestry.com to post your queries but we're happy to put a copy here if you like. I think this one is pretty old but I'm including it in case it helps someone or in case someone can help Henry.BENNETT, MCKINNEY, BATES
Henry Prather
unknown date - before 2006
Hello John, my great great grandfather Hamilton Bennett's grave site is, from Pearsall to Divot, [located] on 1581 before crossing the Leona River, to your right, by a deer blind. He is buried there with his wife and daughter. His wife Margaret was his second wife. She was a McKinney, sister to Ellen Jane McKinney Bates who was my great great grandmother. If you pull up the Tarrant County 1850 Census Hamilton Bennett was on it. Have you read the Trail Drivers of Texas? The book "Road Agents and Rattlesnakes" that stated that "Max Franks" outran the Indians; that was my great grandfather, Maxwell Franks. That letter you sent to my wife, I just read today, Charlotte Bennett is buried by her mother. She was supposed to have hung herself after they came to Frio County in 1858.
I need information as to where William Bennett is buried. Anyone connecting to the above families, or having information as to where William Bennett is buried please email me.
Henry Prather
unknown date - before 2006
Hello John, my great great grandfather Hamilton Bennett's grave site is, from Pearsall to Divot, [located] on 1581 before crossing the Leona River, to your right, by a deer blind. He is buried there with his wife and daughter. His wife Margaret was his second wife. She was a McKinney, sister to Ellen Jane McKinney Bates who was my great great grandmother. If you pull up the Tarrant County 1850 Census Hamilton Bennett was on it. Have you read the Trail Drivers of Texas? The book "Road Agents and Rattlesnakes" that stated that "Max Franks" outran the Indians; that was my great grandfather, Maxwell Franks. That letter you sent to my wife, I just read today, Charlotte Bennett is buried by her mother. She was supposed to have hung herself after they came to Frio County in 1858.
I need information as to where William Bennett is buried. Anyone connecting to the above families, or having information as to where William Bennett is buried please email me.
Felix Taylor
Jenniffier Shields Hawes
unknown date
My great-grandfather was Felix Taylor (1865-1951) who is thought to have come from Frio County, TX. His mother, Sarah Taylor (1844-?) is thought to have been born in Kentucky. Sarah is listed as Taylor in the 1870 Census. There are land sale records from her second marriage to G. W. Sadler listing the sons; these records were from Frio County. There are family stories of Felix's father having fought in the Texas Revolution and being buried in Big Foot, TX. I was struck by the fact that there was a Felix Taylor in the DeWitt Colony.
Jenniffier Shields Hawes
unknown date
My great-grandfather was Felix Taylor (1865-1951) who is thought to have come from Frio County, TX. His mother, Sarah Taylor (1844-?) is thought to have been born in Kentucky. Sarah is listed as Taylor in the 1870 Census. There are land sale records from her second marriage to G. W. Sadler listing the sons; these records were from Frio County. There are family stories of Felix's father having fought in the Texas Revolution and being buried in Big Foot, TX. I was struck by the fact that there was a Felix Taylor in the DeWitt Colony.