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a. Continued:   Notes from Diane Kadletz Genealogy of Stavenhagen-Heston Family Tree. (I downloaded her GEDCOM and it is on my computer) According to information compiled by Dee Yeats, in about 1855, Frankey, her husband and four children migrated in a covered wagon to Johnson County, Texas (now Hood County) and settled near Fort Stockton, an army fort to protect the settlers from Indian raids. The family possibly took the old government wagon roads existing during the years 1846-69. They crossed the Mississippi River from Tennessee over to Arkansas, through the south east corner of Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and finally into the state of Texas. According to family legend, their team of oxen died within days after their arrival in Johnson County without any apparent reason. Her home in Texas was built by her husband on Lambert Branch in what is now Granbury, Texas and is one of the first to have been built there. The log cabin was built of oak timbers cut from where the town square is now located. The cabin is 16 feet square with a sleeping loft. It was the scene of her first daughter's wedding, and her first two grandchildren were born there, it was also where her last two sons were born. The cabin is still standing. In 1871, she and her family moved to Lipan, Texas where she and her husband lived for the rest of their days. She was a charter member of the old Brazos River Baptist Association, and belonged to the Kickapoo Church. They attended annual sessions that lasted for three to four days at various churches. In discussions with Mary Downs, who now (1995) owns and lives in the Yeat's cabin, Frankey took in boarders while her husband was away in the Civil War. The boarders paid 25 cents per day for dinner and a place to sleep.


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