Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Sandra M. STONE

This name could be Sandal...


Lewis J. STONE

1.  Lewis birthday could be in January or February 1860...


Audria J. MC MINN

1.  Newspaper article from Abilene, Texas, Reporter-News, Saturday July 27, 2002.

2.  Reunions bind families together...by: Sidney Schuhmann, Reporter-News Staff Writer.

3.  BUFFALO GAP -  Audria Hamption starts telling family stories about pioneeer times at the McMinn-Lanham family reunion, and relatives sink into chairs around her table.  Everyone wants to hear about the 82-year old matriarch's only covered wagon ride, the dead horse her father bought and a woman her mother knew who was missing a patch of hair an Indian snatched off her head.

As with the gathering of McMinns and Lanhams, the purpose of any reunion is the same - to stay connected.  "That's the only time we get to see a lot of the people from West Texas and different places," said Hampton's nephew, Teddie Jack Key.   "We can see how people change and what their kids are doing.  It's nice for everyone to get together once a year".

As they do every year, relatives of the late Alonzo and Betty Lanham McMinn met July 13-14 at the Presbyterian Encampment in Buffalo Gap to share meals, play bingo  and look at photos.  The family has been gathering for more than 50 years.

Key, the reunion president, admitted that, as a teen, he had little use for family reunions.   Now at 66, he wished he had spent more time with older relatives.  "The people I should have been listening to are gone", said Kay, who lives in Abilene.  "People should write down family stories while their parents and grandparents are alive".

Lucky for Key's family, Hampton remembers the old days well. She is the only one of Alonzo and Betty's nine children still living.  She recalled the time her father, a farmer and rancher, bought land in Breckenridge and wanted his family - including his grown sons - to move from Potosi.  He loaded his family and lumber for a new house and headed for Stephens County.  After he arrived, his sons refused to leave Potosi, so he sold everything and turned back.

"It was the one and only time I was in a covered wagon to go anywhere," said Hamption, who sitll lives in Potosi.

Another time, Mr. McMinn bought a horse from a neighbor, who then invited him in for lunch.  He tied the young horse to a tree and went inside.  By the time he returned, the horse had somehow hanged itself, Key said.   His honest grandfather paid his neighbor for the dead horse anyway.  He said it was his horse before lunch, and it was his horse after lunch.

Mr. McMinn and all his children played musical instruments, Hamption said.  He played the fiddle at dances until he joined the Potosi Baptist Chruch.   "The Baptists" she explained, "didn't much believe in dancing."


Job LAMB

1.  Information from McCracken County, Kentucky, Census of 1850 Page 181 L273/274.

2.  Job must have died between 12 Sep 1855 & 1 Nov 1858 according to consents of marriages.


Daniel Benjamin ANGLIN

1.  Daniel & Sarah owned the Anglin MI 11 (Maybe a Ranch).

2.  Information from Bertha Jones records w/ Mozelle Rogers Info.