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From: "Coffee" <>
Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Re: 'junk' and other things...
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:08:56 -0500


My great grandfather told my father that when he and his family migrated to
Brown County on the Texas frontier. He said that remembered crossing the
Trinity River in 1877 at a place called Eagle Ford, just west of the
Dallas community. That was the low water crossing of the Trinity River that
was then located about where the old Rock Island Railroad tracks cross the
Trinity River today. That is just south of Texas Stadium on US-183. I can
visualize the route they took. The old wagon road from the Bonham Texas area
to Dallas went southwest and intersected old Preston Road that ran from
Austin Texas to Coffee's Trading Post on the Red River. The wagon road to
the west ran from Dallas through Ft.Worth, Granbury, Stephenville,Comanche
and Brownwood Texas. The Sante Fe Railroad road ended in Temple Texas about
that time in the century and did not get to Brownwood until 1885. The
comunities along the wagon road are about 15 to 20 miles apart on the wagon
roads. That is about a day's travel by wagon.

The Indian problem ended in the northern part of Texas in the 1870s
although my great grandfather "Uncle Sam" Wyatt (on my mother's side of the
family) mentioned to his children and grandchildren that he saw a young calf
at the creek on his property that was killed with a Indian spear and was
skinned and partially dressed out. Some renagade groups of Indians did not
want to stay on the reservations in Oklahoma. They still went on hunting and
foraging expeditions in North Texas up to about 1876.

Jerry Coffee


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles A. Wyly <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, May 13, 2001 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] Re: 'junk' and other things...


>Hi,
>some enterred through Port of New Orleans and walked the Natchez Trace
>northeast. , and other port towns on the Mississippi. Also, some may have
>stopped in Caribean plantations before enterring the Continental U.S. I
>think it was a Cleveland, Coffee, or Graves which didso. Been a while
>since I read it. Some also enterred the U.S. through Flrida and other
>seaports on the Gulf of Mexico. Others enterred through Mexico and were
>married in Mayesville and Fort Smith, Ark. A Telles who did so was an
>ancestor of Mattie Roberts Somerville, a Wyly descendant of West Monroe ,
>La.
>
>My Fleming Ancestor , Patrick, was naturalized in Calloway County,
>Missouri. I have a copy of the record.
>
>Take care,
>Charles A. Wyly
>
>On Sun, 13 May 2001 17:19:21 EDT writes:
>> In 1830, your ancestor may have entered the U.S. thru S. Carolina.
>> Kate
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