Crockett's Bounty

I've always been a history buff and whenever I move to a new place I like to scrounge around for historical names and places to see what I can learn. I even joined the Granbury Historical and Geneological Society last week. Well, lately I've been trying to figure out where Davy' Crockett's widow lived. I knew it was somewhere on this end of town. After a lot of research I discovered this historical marker on the site (although I drove past it the first time). Every soldier in the Republic of Texas was given land in exchange for their service. Davy Crockett was no exception. Although she waited 17 years before coming here, Elizabeth (Patton) Crockett and her family built two log cabins on the site and this is where she died in 1860.


It's called Crockett's Bounty and before oil and gas rigs were driving down this road, Davy Crockett's family were eaking out a life in the prairie wilderness about 8 miles from Granbury. Since then, the town has become a favorite place for folks to come and retire.

I suppose I could call our place Mead's Bounty as our land was once part of a grant given to a man named George Mead. I've been researching into his life without much success. This week I did find his name listed in the Republic of Texas census of 1840. He lived in Sabine county, to the east on the Louisianna border. I don't think he ever lived in Granbury because I can't find anything on him so far on our county historical records. But the search continues.

Name Trains

So Julie gets this idea for a gift for our new grandson, Erik, who is due to make his grand life-entry in late May. She goes into the store and comes out with this cute little Name Train thingee.
She sets it up and notices that the "E" is really an "F". Good luck, Frik!

St. Patrick's Day

Like most Christian holy days, St. Patrick's Day has been secularized into a celebration of all things Irish, leaving behind the truth of the matter: Patrick was a missionary who brought the Gospel to Ireland in the 5th century.

He was a Roman-born Britain who was taken as a slave to Ireland when he was 16. After six years he escaped and was returned to his family.

Instead of nursing an abiding hatred of the Irish, God gave him a desire to evangelize his former captors with the good news of forgiveness in Jesus Christ.

Instead of green beer, today might best be celebrated by remembering all Christian missionaries and praying for their safety and continuing faithfulness to the call of Christ.

Spring Blooms

When we left for Virginia last weekend, the ground was brown and there was little color anywhere.


With three days of rain while we were gone, look what we found on our return.


Even the roses were popping. Thank you, Lord, for the beauty of spring.

A Day in Historic Lexington

The Lee Chapel is on the campus of Washington & Lee University.


Robert E. Lee is buried inside, but not in this casket. This is a sculpture of Lee sleeping. He's actually buried in the family crypt beneath the chapel.



Lexington is also the home of Stonewall Jackson where he taught at VMI before becoming the great Civil War general. He is buried here.

Outside the front entrance of VMI are four civil war canons Jackson called Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The other big shots in this picture are Julie, Caroline, David, and Marc.

With Caroline in Virginia

We're having a great time being grandparents this week to Caroline. We are playing puppets and reading stories.



We went on a day trip yesterday to the Blue Ridge Mountains and stopped on top of a mountain.

Marc and Amy are really enjoying the beauty of central Virginia.


So are we.

New Window

If you ever want to build a home in Granbury, I can recommend that Will Stead Homes are the absolute finest people to work with you will ever find. They built our home and have been quick to respond to anything we've asked, even a year and a half after being built.

We had a window in our bedroom leaking moisture.



Will Stead contacted the people who installed the windows and had them replace the cloudy pane with a new one.



Thankfully the temperature was in the 60's and the wind was blowing from the opposite side of the house.