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Tables of Contents for The Family Saga
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Preface by F.E. Abernethy
xiii
Introduction by F.E. Abernethy
1
6
"The Family Saga as a Form of Folklore" by Mody C. Boatright
7
196
1 FROM THE OLD SOD TO THE NEW WORLD
25
18
1. William and Cindrilla,
HAZEL SHELTON ABERNETHY
27
1
2. Ben James Comes to America,
MARY M. AIKMAN
27
2
3. Sailing in a Little Boat,
LAURETTE DAVIS McCOMMAS
29
1
4. The Voyage Over,
MARTHA BAXLEY
30
2
5. Our Lost Grandfather,
FRANCES B. VICK
32
1
6. Coming to the Colonies in a Press Gang,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
32
1
7. Gussie Gets Her Man,
LAURETTE DAVIS McCOMMAS
33
1
8. "Made in America,"
ELAINE BROWN ASCHER
34
2
9. The Bonfire of Home,
JOANNA HURLEY
36
1
10. My Frugal Dad,
HENRY WOLFF, JR
37
1
11. The Stanglin Family,
CAROL HANSON
38
1
12. Illegal Entry,
LUCY FISCHER WEST
39
4
2 GONE TO TEXAS
43
22
1. A Delicate Condition,
ELAINE SCHERER SNIDER
44
1
2. Captain Jack Nash,
CAROLE HENSLEY BERGFELD
45
1
3. The Legend of Billy Hicks,
DOROTHY KENNEDY LEWIS
45
2
4. The Bear at the Spring,
PATSY JOHNSON HALLMAN
47
2
5. The Rawhide Fight Brought Us to Texas,
FRANCES B. VICK
49
1
6. The Fergusons Travel to Texas,
TOLD BY MARY ANN LONG FERGUSON,
TRANSCRIBED BY ODESSA HICKS DIAL AND ALICE DIAL BONEY
50
3
7. Brothers,
PATRICK MULLEN
53
1
8. The Red River Crossing,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
54
1
9. Tennessee to Texas,
BARBARA PYBAS
55
2
10. Looking for Land,
HENRY WOLFF, JR
57
2
11. C.A. Lee Escapes to Texas,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
59
1
12. Gone to Texas, 1940!,
MARILYN COLEGROVE MANNING
60
5
3 THE CIVIL WAR
65
24
1. Granma and General Sherman,
JOHN O. WEST
66
2
2. James Ware's Hanging,
GLORIA COUNTS
68
1
3. A Woman's Strong Love,
DIANNA SHULL
69
1
4. Swimming the Swollen Stream,
LOTTIE GUTTRY
69
3
5. My Grandmother's Trip,
LOUISE MARTIN
72
1
6. Uncle Levi,
PATSY JOHNSON HALLMAN
73
2
7. Letters from Ezekiel Cobb,
EZEKIEL COBB
75
1
8. An Old Tintype and A Faded Journal,
ELEANOR MONROE
76
2
9. Ephriam Dial in the Civil War,
FRANCES B. VICK AND ANDREW BRANNEN
78
2
10. The Civil War and the Scudder Family,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
80
2
11. The Last Ham,
BARBARA PYBAS
82
2
12. Civil War Casualty,
ELEANOR MONROE
84
2
13. The Aftermath of the Civil War,
TOLD BY MARY ANN LONG FERGUSON, TRANSCRIBED BY ODESSA HICKS DIAL
86
3
4 INDIANS
89
18
1. Josephus and Frank Browning,
KAREN McDONALD
91
1
2. Lye Soap,
ELIZABETH STANLEY POPE AS TOLD TO JANET JEFFERY
92
1
3. A Night to Remember,
ELEANOR MONROE
93
1
4. Another Indian Story,
MYRTLE OLDHAM HAM TRANSCRIBED BY JO ELLEN HAM MILLER
94
3
5. Experiences of Calvin and Nancy Fisher,
GRACE FISHER PORCH
97
1
6. A.J. Walker and the Indians,
FRANCES B. VICK AND ANDREW BRANNEN
98
2
7. A Fat Man's Misery,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
100
1
8. Gramma Garrett,
LUCILLE HARRIS
101
1
9. She Put it in Writing,
JENNIFER CURTIS
101
1
10. A Renegade Rifle,
AUSTIN T. KING
102
2
11. A Tale Grandpa Told about Indians,
ERNEST B. SPECK
104
3
5 ANIMALS, WILD AND DOMESTIC
107
26
1. Bears and Wild Beasts,
MYRTLE OLDHAM HAM TRANSCRIBED BY JO ELLEN HAM MILLER
108
5
2. Thomas and the Rattlesnake,
WAUN HARRISON
113
1
3. Papa John and the Bull,
SUE WENNER
114
1
4. Do Unto Others...,
LILLIAN ELLISENE RUMAGE DAVIS
115
1
5. Catching Wild Mustangs,
FRANCES B. VICK AND ANDREW BRANNEN
115
2
6. A Snake Story from the 1930's,
BARBARA PYBAS
117
1
7. The Bear Knife,
FLORENA WILLIAMS
118
1
8. Hog Stories from the Davis Family,
KENNETH W. DAVIS
119
2
9. Susannah and Her Angora Goats,
LORA B. GARRISON
121
2
10. Wild Goose,
PALMER HENRY OLSEN
123
2
11. The Goat on the Courthouse Square,
MILDRED BOREN SENTELL
125
1
12. Wagon Yard Trades,
ROSS ESTES,
EDITED BY ROBERT J. DUNCAN
126
1
13. Big Boy Whatley: Horse Trader,
ELMER KELTON
127
1
14. Cookin' a Possum,
JAMES WARD LEE
128
1
15. Hog Drovers,
LORA B. GARRISON
128
1
16. Grandma Anderson and the Milk Cow,
AL LOWMAN
129
4
6 THE CHURCH, PREACHERS, AND RELIGION
133
16
1. The Church at Piney,
ESTELLA WRIGHT SZEGEDIN
135
2
2. Ice,
THAD SITTON
137
3
3. Grandpa and the Preachin' House,
RUTH GARRISON SCURLOCK
140
1
4. Ferguson's Boys,
TOLD BY MARY ANN LONG FERGUSON
TRANSCRIBED BY ODESSA HICKS DIAL AND ALICE DIAL BONEY
140
1
5. Watt Moorman and the Methodist,
JOHN F. SHORT
141
1
6. Father Parisot's Saddle,
GWENDOLYN WINGATE
141
2
7. Aunt Ocie's Church Story,
PATRICK MULLEN
143
1
8. Country Preacher,
GEORGEANNE HITZFELD
144
2
9. Redemption and Fried Chicken,
GEORGEANNE HITZFELD
146
1
10. Pa Gunn 's Conversion Experience,
SARAH ZODA
147
2
7 GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATURAL
149
18
1. The Pennington Ghost,
JOHN ARTIE McCALL
150
1
2. Restless Spirits,
ELAINE SCHERER SNIDER
151
1
3. Brother Murder,
TIMOTHY LEE JONES
152
1
4. Uncle Fate's Jealous Wives,
LEE WINNIFORD
153
2
5. Tales from Mr. Hatcher,
PATSY JOHNSON HALLMAN
155
2
6. Death Omen,
DONNA McFADDEN
157
1
7. Grandfather's Ghost,
GAIL SIMON
158
1
8. Return from Death,
CAROLE BRUCE
159
1
9. The Legend of a Dream,
CYNTHIA LOWRY
159
1
10. The Ghost of Ghosty Branch,
ANDREW BRANNEN TO FRANCES B. VICK
160
1
11. Mystic Magnolia,
HERB SANDERS
161
2
12. Crazy Women in the Rafters,
PAUL PATTERSON
163
4
8 FEUDING AND FIGHTING
167
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1. The Mitchell-Coker Feud,
DOROTHY KENNEDY LEWIS
168
1
2. Dutch Joe and the Wolf's Tail,
GWENDOLYN WINGATE
168
1
3. Jones-Smith Feud,
PATSY JOHNSON HALLMAN
169
1
4. The Sullivan Family Feud,
MARY MEANS SULLIVAN
170
2
5. A Neighborly Dispute,
JO WILKINSON LYDAY
172
1
6. Aunt Elm at the Courthouse,
CALLIE COE WILSON
173
2
7. Legends of the Regulator-Moderator War in Shelby County, Texas,
JOHN F. SHORT
175
4
8. Legend of a Ranger,
MARY MARGARET DOUGHERTY CAMPBELL
179
1
9. Grandad McCall and the Outlaw,
JOHN ARTIE McCALL
180
1
10. The Bedsprings Feud,
MARTHA BAXLEY
181
1
11. Feuding Aunts,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
182
3
9 HARD TIMES
185
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1. Blowing Away in the Panhandle,
F.E. ABERNETHY
186
2
2. Uncle Lyndon Hartman,
FROM UNCLE CARL HARTMAN TO JOYCE ROACH
188
2
3. Claude Rumage,
LILLIAN ELLISENE RUMAGE DAVIS
190
1
4. Getting Gold for the Hard Times,
LEE WINNIFORD
191
3
5. Sharecroppin',
ANNIE MAE STAMEY RUSHING, TOLD TO RHETT RUSHING
194
3
6. The Sharecropper's Cow,
BARBARA PYBAS
197
1
7. Stolen Corn,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
198
1
8. A Dollar A Day,
HENRY WOLFF, JR.
199
1
9. Hard Times and Low Pay,
CARL HALSELL, TOLD TO LOU RODENBERGER
199
1
10. Possum and Sweet 'Taters,
"WILDWOOD" DEAN PRICE
200
3
10 A BRUSH WITH HISTORY
203
18
1. Santa Anna's "Suicide,"
TOM DAVISON
204
2
2. Galveston Storm,
NANCY CARR
206
1
3. Hanging Bill Longley,
JANE BARNHART BURROWS
207
1
4. Gideon Lincecum and Choctaw Chief Pushmataha,
JERRY BRYAN LINCECUM
207
2
5. Davy Crockett,
JEANNE BLACKSTONE ALMANY
209
1
6. The Mayor and President Roosevelt,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
210
1
7. Forever Ford,
LAURETTE DAVIS McCOMMAS
211
1
8. Grandma Walker and John Wesley Hardin,
FRANCES B. VICK
212
1
9. DOR!,
KENNETH W. DAVIS
213
1
10. Sousa and Mr. Sam,
SILVA BOZE BROWN
214
1
11. Passing up a Brush with Fame,
FLORENA WILLIAMS
215
1
12. Bonnie and Clyde,
FAYE LEEPER
216
2
13. Villa Raid,
JESSE THOMPSON AS TOLD TO AUSTIN T. KING
218
1
14. Meeting Prince Charles,
LAURETTE DAVIS McCOMMAS
219
2
11 THE WARS
221
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1. Son of the American Revolution,
GIDEON LINCECUM,
EDITED BY JERRY BRYAN LINCECUM
223
2
2. Isom Parmer, Saracen, and the Battle of San Jacinto,
FRANCES B. VICK
225
1
3. C.A. Lee: What Side Was He On?,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
226
2
4. Soldier Boy,
LAURETTE DAVIS McCOMMAS
228
3
5. Daddy's World War I Story,
FRANCES B. VICK
231
1
6. A Heroic Veteran of Foreign Wars,
MARLENE RUSHING
232
1
7. When the Telegram Came,
FRANCES B. VICK
233
2
8. My Longest Day,
J. WILLIS HASTINGS
235
2
9. My WWII Bride,
ELMER KELTON
237
2
10. My Sister Joins the Marines,
MARTHA BAXLEY
239
2
11. The Rain in Korea is Awful Cold and Wet,
JAMES WARD LEE
241
3
12. A Light in the Darkness,
ROBERT FLYNN
244
5
12 THE CYCLE OF LIFE
249
22
Birthing and Naming
1. Herschel and Leo,
FRANCES B. VICK
250
1
2. Voodoo Child,
MARLENE RUSHING
250
1
3. Almost a Bastard,
BARBARA PYBAS
251
1
4. Jane Holder,
ARTIEMESIA LUCILLE BRISON SPENCER
252
1
Courtship & Marriage
5. Susannah and Alex Auld,
LORA B. GARRISON
252
2
6. Aunt Rosa's "Sweetheart Story,"
GWEN CHOATE
254
1
7. The Outhouse Letters,
SANDRA BROWNLOW
254
1
8. How My Grandparents Met,
CAROL HANSON
254
2
9. Masculine Modesty,
LEE WINNIFORD
256
1
10. The Locket,
MARY MARGARET DOUGHERTY CAMPBELL
256
2
11. Thanks to a Psychic in Shanghai,
LUCY FISCHER WEST
258
2
12. Always Hopeful,
SHEILA J. SPIESS
260
2
Death and Burial
13. Pap Paschall and Burial by Sewing Machine,
PATSY JOHNSON HALLMAN
262
1
14. Shrouds from Sheets,
TOLD BY MARY ANN LONG FERGUSON,
TRANSCRIBED BY ODESSA HICKS DIAL AND ALICE DIAL BONEY
262
1
15. Rushed Burial,
LEE WINNIFORD
262
2
16. Allen's Last Roundup,
SLOAN MATTHEWS TO MRS. TOM MATTHEWS
264
1
17. Arthur Scudder and the Green Pecans,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
264
2
18. John Doe,
JO ELLEN HAM MILLER
266
1
19. John and Lizzie Ross,
CAROL HANSON
266
2
20. The Last Poker Game,
THOMAS P. CAROLAN
268
3
13 FAMILY MATTERS
271
22
1. Aunt Mary,
LOU RODENBERGER
272
1
2. A Calf for a Candy Stick,
LORA B. GARRISON
272
1
3. Almost a Catastrophe,
FRANCES B. VICK
272
1
4. The Hanged Cousin in Greer County,
MARTHA CAVNESS
273
1
5. The Best Christmas Ever,
AL LOWMAN
274
1
6. A Tough Old Woman and Her Colt,
ELAINE SCHERER SNIDER
275
2
7. The Day Grandpa Peterson Jumped into the Well,
GWEN CHOATE
277
1
8. Cured with a Hot Iron,
ERNEST B. SPECK
278
1
9. Dad's New Pickup,
MILDRED BOREN SENTELL
279
1
10. Lev and Hy Ainsworth,
JIM H. AINSWORTH
280
1
11. Patch,
JIM VAUSE
281
1
12. Blue Eyes,
TOM CHESNUT
282
1
13. Uncle Henry,
EDWARD R. RAASCH
283
1
14. Carol,
PATRICK MULLEN
284
1
15. Daddy Was Our Black Sheep,
MARTHA BAXLEY
285
1
16. "Oh, Molly Hair!",
MARGARET A. COX
286
3
17. Uncle George and the Family Whipping,
ARCHIE P. McDONALD
289
4
14 FAMILY CHARACTERS: HEROES, BLACK SHEEP, AND ECCENTRICS
293
26
1. Cousin Ad and Cousin Net,
FOLLIS BENNETT TOLD TO PATSY JOHNSON HALLMAN
294
1
2. Gus Hooks of the Big Thicket,
CALLIE COE WILSON AND ELLEN WALKER RIENSTRA
295
1
3. Gideon Lincecum's Christmas Ritual,
GIDEON LINCECUM,
EDITED BY JERRY BRYAN LINCECUM
296
2
4. Mariner Wilcox and the Fabulous Fib,
SYBIL F. CRAWFORD
298
2
5. William Fletcher Crowell,
DONNA McFADDEN
300
1
6. Grannie's Old Pickup Truck,
LORA B. GARRISON
301
2
7. Cut Off at the Knees,
ROBERT BETHEA
303
1
8. My Ancestor Was Hanged When he Was 14 Years Old,
MARY JOE CLENDENIN
303
2
9. Patman Takes in Washing,
PATSY JOHNSON HALLMAN
305
1
10. Martin Parmer-The Ringtailed Panther,
FRANCES B. VICK
306
4
11. The Blackburns,
VIRGINIA ALEXANDER
310
3
12. Meeting Grandpa Owens,
JUNE WELCH
313
1
13. Uncle Mule!,
JOHN GRAVES
314
1
14. The Shootout at Sunset,
JUNE WELCH
315
4
15 MISCELLANEOUS
319
8
1. Naming the Town of Rockne,
PATRICK B. VICK
319
1
2. Whizzerville!,
LOU RODENBERGER
320
1
3. E-Heart,
FRANCES B. VICK
320
1
4. Family Folklore: Names,
JERRY BRYAN LINCECUM
321
1
5. A Cure for Free,
ELEANOR MONROE
322
1
6. Vigilante Raid,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
323
1
7. From Hogtown to Seymour,
JEAN G. SCHNITZ
324
1
8. Grinding the Cornmeal,
BARBARA PYBAS
324
1
9. Grandmother Perkins: Healer,
KENNETH W. DAVIS
325
2
Contributors
327
22
Index
349