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One day about twenty-five years ago, I went to the public library and there I found the Genealogy Department. I started to look through the census records in search of my ancestors. The resources were endless and as I pored over the pages, in search of a name I might recognize as an ancestor of my own family, I became hopelessly enthralled. On this day, about twenty-five years later, I have compiled the information that I gathered through these years. I am doing this now because I remember those first days of excitement and pleasure when I found my ancestors. If you find a name you recognize in my work and it helps you to piece together your heritage, then my purpose has been served. Good luck and good hunting. I apologize for all errors in date or content.
I would like to thank each person who furnished information on their family for this work. I know how many hours you spent in doing so. Correspondents include: Iris Garner, Col. Vernon Garrison, Juanita Peddicord, Beulah Faye McClure, Col. Delmas Lippard, Col. E. J. Romigh, John Terrell, Betty Blodgett, Reta Mello, Doris Cates, and Kathryne B.Witty.
SURNAMES IN MY BOOK, "THE CONCORD CONNECTION II", LISTED BELOW:

BABB, BABBITT, BERGER, BODDIE, BOONE, BUCHANAN, CAGLE, COLLIER, DOYLE, FENTRESS, FLETCHER, GARRISON, GOOLSBY, LIPPARD, PARRISH, PUGH, ROBERTSON, SIKES, STEWART, TILLER, WELLS, WRIGHT


 The Concord Connection II
Updated September 1, 2005

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  • Andrew Jackson Buchanan (20 KB)
    Andrew Jackson Buchanan was one of the first peace officers in Waco, McLennan County, Texas. He also operated the ferry across the Brazos River at Waco for several years. His daughter, Mollie Buchanan, married James Parrish. It was a busy winter and spring for the McLennan County Commissioners Court in 1864. In April two saloons were opened and a third asked for a license renewal. The two new foam flecked facilities and spirit shops were Buchanan’s and Duke’s Place which was located on Ferry Street and James Maguire’s Emporium on the southeast corner of the public square. Sandifer and Jones, who had opened their grog shop the previous fall “requested that their liquor license be renewed at their old stand on the public square. At $83.33 per license the county was $249.99 richer in April, 1864. A. J. Buchanan must have been one of Waco’s more enterprising wartime businessmen. Besides his partnership in the saloon with Duke on Ferry Street, Buchanan applied for a license to operate a ferry on the Brazos at Waco Crossing. The court, during its regular February session, approved Buchanan’s application and ordered Acting County Clerk Thomas Killiher to issue him a temporary license at the cost of $25 after he had first posted a $2,000 bond. The license was to be in effect for one year and brought the number ferry boat operators at the Waco Crossing of the Brazos to four. Although owning a saloon and operating a ferry boat was not the most ideal combination to guarantee a sober, speedy spanning of the Brazos, there is no record of Buchanan’s license having been suspended or revoked for reckless oaring or unsteady poling. ("Gaines' Mill to Appomattox" - Colonel Harold B. Simpson, pg. 207-208) --------------------------------------------------------
  • Lewis Fentress and Letha Mae Collier (176 KB)
    Mama always walked home from school with my Daddy's sisters, Nona, Arvilla, Murl and Dannie Mae. One day while walking home, they came to a stream. Daddy lifted Mama over the stream and said, "I'm going to marry you in one year." Soon they were married and Mama always bragged that many a young maiden was grieved when she snagged the best looking man in the county.
  • Henry Downs Centennial Chapter Officers (142 KB)
    Front row (from left) Ruth Erickson, recording secretary; Martha McKinney, parliamentarian; Sharon Griffith, regent; Naomi Mangum, registrar; Dorothy Bates, Treasurer; (back row, from left) Mary Makovy, vice regent; Sue Keathley, librarian; Esta Stewart, chaplain; Catherine Morgan, corresponding secretary. 2002 - 2004 OFFICERS CHAPTER MOTTO: "Their remembrance shall be as lasting as the land they honored.".... Regent--Mrs. Henry M. Makovy (Mary)....Vice Regent--Mrs. Ernest R.Wiese (Neil)....Chaplain--Mrs. David F. Stewart (Esta).... Recording Secretary--Mrs. Willie B.Youngblood (Mary).... Corresponding Secretary--Mrs. Warren Rudolph (Bette).... Treasurer--Mrs. John L. Bates, Jr. (Dorothy).... Registrar--Mrs. Robert R. Mangum, Sr. (Naomi).... Assistant Registrar--Mrs. Tony E. Duty (Peggy).... Historian--Mrs. Carol Ewing Vaughan.... Librarian--Mrs. E. B.Chapman (Florine).... Curator--Mrs. Chester A. Howell (Lettie) ....Parliamentarian--(Appointed) Mrs. Robert J. Morgan (Catherine)
  • LEWIS FENTRESS FAMILY (116 KB)
    My daddy, Lewis Fentress is holding me. Mama is next to Daddy. Grandma, Lula May Parrish Fentress is next to me. Her brother, Roy Parrish is in background (Where is Aunt Clara?). William, Anna Pearl and Doris Fentress are on bottom row.
 

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