:usaflag: Just Learned Some More About My Great-Grampa!!

[Cupajo]

My wife has been working on our family tree and came across some information about John Henry my Grand Father's Father.

He like his son (my Grampa) later was a cook and served as a trail cook on three cattle drives from Texas to Kansas City, Kansas! (The note said KC! Could that be Missouri?)

He transplanted trees for "a living" and played jokes on his grandchildren later in life, but at some point earlier served in some capacity (perhaps as cook?) with the Texas Rangers!

His Father was a gunsmith that served in Sam Houston's Army fighting the Tex/Mex Revolution.

These tid-bits are family "hand-me-downs".

All the direct links have long passed on and the available records are sketchy, so I can't prove any of this information, but it gives me a warm feeling to know that these forbears may have been of such stock!

I pretty sure that my father William Henry (Check past posts for his story) could have only come from such stock!

CJ

 

[Micheal_R]

n/t

 

[Cupajo]

Hi Mikie,

I never put much store in the ancestor thing as I have always felt that we each must make our own way and that who we are is more important than where we came from, but when I heard these things about John Henry (Until now I didn't even know his name!) I must say I felt plenty of pride!

Regards to Ya Friend,

CJ

 

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

n/t

 

[Bayrat76]

n/t

 

[George-CT]

I do it from time to time and keep writing down all I find but have never compiled it all....
I've heard over the years so many different stories over the years on ours, that its really
hard to know what part is really the true story..... As more and more information gets added
perhaps it will all make sense.

Like you say, Good Stock....

George-CT