tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post9204501718176801149..comments2023-10-03T18:30:42.773-05:00Comments on Meta Watershed: MARY JO ATKINS BARNETT, 9 FEBRUARY 1927 -- MY FAMILY LEGACYMaggie Jochildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577090500862823864noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post-5236738311428409662009-02-10T18:15:00.000-06:002009-02-10T18:15:00.000-06:00IN my line of temporary Texans, the Reeds were for...IN my line of temporary Texans, the Reeds were form Kentucky. The others were(over a few generations) were from Pennslyvania and New England/New York to Michigan,<BR/>then Iowa, MIssouri(where the Reeds met the rest) then Texas. <BR/><BR/>Some of my family were in Gasconade Co Missouri before the New Madrid quake, which is pretty far back for that area.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Not much South in my family. My great-grandfather's Irish-Canadian sister, tranplanted to Boston, Married a Confederate veteran from Louisiana. In that family he was Irish first and anything else second.little gatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12359345204074482888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post-40710686881096064722009-02-10T05:48:00.000-06:002009-02-10T05:48:00.000-06:00Thanks for pointing out the typo, I corrected it.T...Thanks for pointing out the typo, I corrected it.<BR/><BR/>The Peters Colony was located in the Eastern Crosstimbers of Texas. There are two Crosstimbers regions, both of them running diagonally from northeast to southwest, separated by several counties' gap. My people come from the Western Crosstimbers, which should be savannah except for some mineral irregularities which creates a dwarf woodlands and rolling hills. A terrain I'm rather seriously in love with. <BR/><BR/>The Peters Colony was an early empresario-led colonization around what is now Dallas, and as far as I know, I don't have any ancestors connected with it. My folks came to Texas in three different waves: The first was around 1833 as part of the Robertson Colony in Limestone County, Texas. The second was in the 1840s, again around Limestone County, Cherokee County, and then far south to Bee County (the Barnetts and the Atkins, from Kentucky and middle Tennessee respectively), not part of an organized effort, just looking for land. The third, the folks who settled in Montague County, was a mass influx of many interrelated families from Sharp County, Arkansas, an Ozark migration after the Civil War where the struggling State of Texas sold land in regions not yet freed from Comanche raids in order to pay for schools in East Texas where settlement had been safely established. In each of these instances, however, the risk from native attack (natives who were being forcibly displaced), the threat from other nations (Mexico or the United States), and the difficulty of farming where rainfall was often inadequate made these decisions true pioneer voyages. Particularly after the economic devastation of the Civil War, however, remaining in the South felt undendurable for various reasons, and so my various family lines all joined the "GTT" (Gone To Texas) migration of Southerners ready to trade in one cultural/geographic identity for another. <BR/><BR/>Your family continued on to California, which was the next wave after GTT. Margaret Ritchie's sister and father succumbed to that one, settling in the Fresno area by around 1900 where their descendants will remain. <BR/><BR/>What's most interesting to me about maps of migration of my particular lines is that with almost no exception, since the early 1600s, they came to the South and remained in the South until my parents' generation. The divide between North and South is that old and inviolate. I think about that in current political terms as well.<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/ryc4.htmlMaggie Jochildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07577090500862823864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post-62713105360590262082009-02-09T15:34:00.000-06:002009-02-09T15:34:00.000-06:00I think you typoed the date on one photo which loo...I think you typoed the date on one photo which looks way older than 1985.<BR/><BR/>I had family in the Cross Timbers/ Peters Colony area in the 1830s and 1840s. The ones I know of left in 1850 for California-the father of that family was killed by a grizzly he'd wounded, but the bear did die first by a few hours. his brother in law was "killed and scalped by Indians" in 1836.<BR/><BR/>The relevant names are Underwood and Reed.little gatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12359345204074482888noreply@blogger.com