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Amarillo, Texas
We left Decatur this morning and drove just to Amarillo for the night. We will make it the rest of the way home tomorrow. We were in Childress at lunchtime so we stopped in at Top Notch Texas BBQ. This was the third time that we have been there, but it was the first time that it has been busy. The other times there were only one or two tables besides us. Now we have a favorite restaurant in Childress. Never thought about being able to say that. I have a favorite ...
Decatur, Texas
Today we left Mount Pleasant and drove to Decatur for the night. Phil had chatted with Gary through Facebook and email before we left home and made arrangements to meet him and his wife for dinner. Gary is the adopted son of Phil's biological father. At least, we think so with a very high degree of certainty. All the other men in the DNA line that matches Phil have been eliminated so it must be him barring any other people who were not known to the family. Ther...
Mount Pleasant, Texas
Today was all about wandering through cemeteries. We also stopped by one more library, the Daingerfield Public Library, where we found two chatty and helpful librarians right before they closed for lunch. The older one gave Phil directions to one of the cemeteries that we could not find on a map. We walked the Clark, Daingerfield, Bradfield Chapel, Naples, Wilder, and Spring Hill Cemeteries finding a few ancestors and some more distant relatives in each one. The...
Mount Pleasant, Texas
After breakfast in the hotel, we checked out and left for Mount Pleasant about 9:30. Morning rush hour traffic had died down by then, and we got through Dallas fairly smoothly. We arrived in Mount Pleasant about two hours later. We found the town square and the Titus County Courthouse before they closed for the noon hour and went in to look through birth, death, and marriage records. One of the clerks on duty showed us the ledgers that she had for the late 19th...