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The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends »

Authors: Francis Edward Abernethy (Editor), Francis B. Vick (Editor), Jerry Bryan Lincecum (Editor), Frances Brannen Vick
ISBN-13: 9781574411683, ISBN-10: 1574411683
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Francis Edward Abernethy

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	Preface
	Introduction	1
	The Family Saga as a Form of Folklore	7
1	From the Old Sod to the New World	25
1	William and Cindrilla	27
2	Ben James Comes to America	27
3	Sailing in a Little Boat	29
4	The Voyage Over	30
5	Our Lost Grandfather	32
6	Coming to the Colonies in a Press Gang	32
7	Gussie Gets Her Man	33
8	"Made in America"	34
9	The Bonfire of Home	36
10	My Frugal Dad	37
11	The Stanglin Family	38
12	Illegal Entry	39
2	Gone to Texas	43
1	A Delicate Condition	44
2	Captain Jack Nash	45
3	The Legend of Billy Hicks	45
4	The Bear at the Spring	47
5	The Rawhide Fight Brought Us to Texas	49
6	The Fergusons Travel to Texas	50
7	Brothers	53
8	The Red River Crossing	54
9	Tennessee to Texas	55
10	Looking for Land	57
11	C. A. Lee Escapes to Texas	59
12	Gone to Texas, 1940!	60
3	The Civil War	65
1	Granma and General Sherman	66
2	James Ware's Hanging	68
3	A Woman's Strong Love	69
4	Swimming the Swollen Stream	69
5	My Grandmother's Trip	72
6	Uncle Levi	73
7	Letters from Ezekiel Cobb	75
8	An Old Tintype and A Faded Journal	76
9	Ephriam Dial in the Civil War	78
10	The Civil War and the Scudder Family	80
11	The Last Ham	82
12	Civil War Casualty	84
13	The Aftermath of the Civil War	86
4	Indians	89
1	Josephus and Frank Browning	91
2	Lye Soap	92
3	A Night to Remember	93
4	Another Indian Story	94
5	Experiences of Calvin and Nancy Fisher	97
6	A. J. Walker and the Indians	98
7	A Fat Man's Misery	100
8	Gramma Garrett	101
9	She Put it in Writing	101
10	A Renegade Rifle	102
11	A Tale Grandpa Told about Indians	104
5	Animals, Wild and Domestic	107
1	Bears and Wild Beasts	108
2	Thomas and the Rattlesnake	113
3	Papa John and the Bull	114
4	Do Unto Others ...	115
5	Catching Wild Mustangs	115
6	A Snake Story from the 1930s	117
7	The Bear Knife	118
8	Hog Stories from the Davis Family	119
9	Susannah and Her Angora Goats	121
10	Wild Goose	123
11	The Goat on the Courthouse Square	125
12	Wagon Yard Trades	126
13	Big Boy Whatley: Horse Trader	127
14	Cookin' a Possum	128
15	Hog Drovers	128
16	Grandma Anderson and the Milk Cow	129
6	The Church, Preachers, and Religion	133
1	The Church at Piney	135
2	Ice	137
3	Grandpa and the Preachin' House	140
4	Ferguson's Boys	140
5	Watt Moorman and the Methodist	141
6	Father Parisot's Saddle	141
7	Aunt Ocie's Church Story	143
8	Country Preacher	144
9	Redemption and Fried Chicken	146
10	Pa Gunn's Conversion Experience	147
7	Ghosts and the Supernatural	149
1	The Pennington Ghost	150
2	Restless Spirits	151
3	Brother Murder	152
4	Uncle Fate's Jealous Wives	153
5	Tales from Mr. Hatcher	155
6	Death Omen	157
7	Grandfather's Ghost	158
8	Return from Death	159
9	The Legend of a Dream	159
10	The Ghost of Ghosty Brnach	160
11	Mystic Magnolia	161
12	Crazy Women in the Rafters	163
8	Feuding and Fighting	167
1	The Mitchell-Coker Feud	168
2	Dutch Joe and the Wolf's Tail	168
3	Jones-Smith Feud	169
4	The Sullivan Family Feud	170
5	A Neighborly Dispute	172
6	Aunt Elm at the Courthouse	173
7	Legends of the Regulator-Moderator War in Shelby County, Texas	175
8	Legend of a Ranger	179
9	Grandad McCall and the Outlaw	180
10	The Bedsprings Feud	181
11	Feuding Aunts	182
9	Hard Times	185
1	Blowing Away in the Panhandle	186
2	Uncle Lyndon Hartman	188
3	Claude Rumage	190
4	Getting Gold for the Hard Times	191
5	Sharecroppin'	194
6	The Sharecropper's Cow	197
7	Stolen Corn	198
8	A Dollar A Day	199
9	Hard Times and Low Pay	199
10	Possum and Sweet 'Taters	200
10	A Brush with History	203
1	Santa Anna's "Suicide"	204
2	Galveston Storm	206
3	Hanging Bill Longley	207
4	Gideon Lincecum and Choctaw Chief Pushmataha	207
5	Davy Crockett	209
6	The Mayor and President Roosevelt	210
7	Forever Ford	211
8	Grandma Walker and John Wesley Hardin	212
9	Dor!	213
10	Sousa and Mr. Sam	214
11	Passing up a Brush with Fame	215
12	Bonnie and Clyde	216
13	Villa Raid	218
14	Meeting Prince Charles	219
11	The Wars	221
1	Son of the American Revolution	223
2	Isom Parmer, Saracen, and the Battle of San Jacinto	225
3	C. A. Lee: What Side Was He On?	226
4	Soldier Boy	228
5	Daddy's World War I Story	231
6	A Heroic Veteran of Foreign Wars	232
7	When the Telegram Came	233
8	My Longest Day	235
9	My WWII Bride	237
10	My Sister Joins the Marines	239
11	The Rain in Korea is Awful Cold and Wet	241
12	A Light in the Darkness	244
12	The Cycle of Life	249
1	Herschel and Leo	250
2	Voodoo Child	250
3	Almost a Bastard	251
4	Jane Holder	252
5	Susannah and Alex Auld	252
6	Aunt Rosa's "Sweetheart Story,"	254
7	The Outhouse Letters	254
8	How My Grandparents Met	254
9	Masculine Modesty	256
10	The Locket	256
11	Thanks to a Psychic in Shanghai	258
12	Always Hopeful	260
13	Pap Paschall and Burial by Sewing Machine	262
14	Shrouds from Sheets	262
15	Rushed Burial	262
16	Allen's Last Roundup	264
17	Arthur Scudder and the Green Pecans	264
18	John Doe	266
19	John and Lizzie Ross	266
20	The Last Poker Game	268
13	Family Matters	271
1	Aunt Mary	272
2	A Calf for a Candy Stick	272
3	Almost a Catastrophe	272
4	The Hanged Cousin in Greer County	273
5	The Best Christmas Ever	274
6	A Tough Old Woman and Her Colt	275
7	The Day Grandpa Peterson Jumped into the Well	277
8	Cured with a Hot Iron	278
9	Dad's New Pickup	279
10	Lev and Hy Ainsworth	280
11	Patch	281
12	Blue Eyes	282
13	Uncle Henry	283
14	Carol	284
15	Daddy Was Our Black Sheep	285
16	"Oh, Molly Hair!"	286
17	Uncle George and the Family Whipping	289
14	Family Characters: Heroes, Black Sheep, and Eccentrics	293
1	Cousin Ad and Cousin Net	294
2	Gus Hooks of the Big Thicket	295
3	Gideon Lincecum's Christmas Ritual	296
4	Mariner Wilcox and the Fabulous Fib	298
5	William Fletcher Crowell	300
6	Grannie's Old Pickup Truck	301
7	Cut Off at the Knees	303
8	My Ancestor Was Hanged When he Was 14 Years Old	303
9	Patman Takes in Washing	305
10	Martin Parmer - The Ringtailed Panther	306
11	The Blackburns	310
12	Meeting Grandpa Owens	313
13	Uncle Mule!	314
14	The Shootout at Sunset	315
15	Miscellaneous	319
1	Naming the Town of Rockne	319
2	Whizzerville!	320
3	E-Heart - [actual symbol not reproducible]	320
4	Family Folklore: Names	321
5	A Cure for Free	322

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