I thought you might find this post interesting since it mentions the Carr
surname in Texas. I forwarded it from the Southern Trails genealogy list.
Carole Colquehoun
Genealogyresearch(a)prodigy.net
I am not a professional genealogist (by any means).
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Sent: Wednesday, 16 May, 2001 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Introduction
Hi,
There were several Strickland, Lowry- Lowery- and Carr families in Erath
County, Texas. Mother had Strickland childhood friends in the Selden
Community. One was a Baptist pastor and one was a school teacher in
Erath County. Carrs who lived in Selden and some in Carleton, Hamilton
County Both counties have much on these families in the Rootsweb
archives. In my family George Wyly married Effie Carr and moved to
Friona, Texas then to a Roswell Apple Orchard and store, then to
Virginia.
One Carr owned the land near West which had the Panther Cave or Mart Cole
Cave. Mr. Cole was a fund raiser for Baylor University and his granddad
Carr had a stagecoach station and a rock quarry, which furnished rock for
many Hillsboro, West, Abbott and other buildings with brick fronts. Mr.
Carr's brother was a Judge Carr of El Paso who backed Judge Roy Bean,
"Law west of the Pecos".
Now, former Texas Attorney General from Hillsboro, Texas is on retainer
and part of the family who claims the heritage of Jesse James AKA J.
Frank Dalton, Bartender in Grandbury, Texas and was in Waco less than
10 years ago with Texas Rangers observing as 2 James descendants- one from
Australia, tried to recover a safe Jesse had shipped to Waco, then came
and buried it in the Quicksand mire of the Brazos River Bottoms, There
was not much money expected but many legal documents , which could prove
his true identity The steel vault was visible to Sonar and other test
equipment, but seemed to move each time a Diesel engine for back hoes and
drag lines were cranked. The search was finally discontinued. Digging
seemed to cause the safe to move. On that side of the river Mr. Roebling,
before building the Brooklyn Bridge, had dug 90 feet in Jelly like mud
without hitting rock. Across the river, the rock is about 12 inches deep.
Finally, they brought 12 inch cedar logs in from Bosque County and
criss- cross stacked them for piling, built the East Side suspension
columns and bridge on this floating log raft, then pushed the murky muck
back over the logs, sealing them from Air decay. The bridge is now closed
to cars, but open to walkers and bikers.It opened when the Texas Trail,
wrongly called the Chisolm Trail was at the height of cattle drives. It
is in the lower tip end of the Cameron Park, on the Balconies Fault Line.
It is the largest single City park in the U.s. , including Central Park
in New York. Stop and see our bridge and outstanding zoo and museums.
and hiking and biking trails and Lake Waco and Lake Brazos, where Kansas
State Rowing teams practice before all the ice is gone there. It was a
gift of the William Cameron family of Cameron Mills and William Cameron
lumber yards to the city.
Take care,
Charles A. Wyly