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From: jerry owen <>
Subject: Jarboe
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:33:01 -0500

Randy
The information in your personal webpage is almost overwhelming.I
would like to commend you on such a thorough and detailed work of
love.There will be untold generations of Jarboes who will benefit from
your work.
I found my family completely intact [John,Henry,Henry,Henry,John
Baptist,Robert,John A.]
John A had a daughter named Nancy Jane that married Robert Milton
Marshall. In 1852 Robert Milton and Nancy joined a wagon train in Greene
County Kentucky that included many families from surrounding
counties.Also on that train were several Jarboes,including John A and
Elmira. Thrir journey to Texas took three months.The trip was filled
with many exciting and perilous adventures.They had problems along the
way with Indians,sickness,flooding,and even a tornado. Many of
them,including Robert Milton and Nancy Jane stopped in Kentucky Town
Texas[about fifteen miles from Sherman].The remainder traveled on to
Wise County Texas.Those that went to Wise County were under constant
attack by Kiowa and Commanche Indians.It got so bad that several of the
Kentucky Town group[including a couple of Jarboe boy's had to go to Wise
County and help rescue some kinfolks surrounded by attacking Indians.
During The Cival War Robert Milton and two Jarboe's joined the
confederate army and served until the end of the war.In the meantime the
notorious William Quantrill decided to make Kentuckytown his winter
headquarters.In his group were such notable characters as Jesse and
Frank Janes,some of the Youngers,and Bloody Bill Anderson.There are
several old history books in this county that tells of the goings on of
this rough bunch of people. Nancy Jane died at the close of the war in
1865.We found her tombstone still intact in a grove of trees in the
middle of a farmers field about three miles from whats left of
Kentuckytown.My ggrandfather John Thomas Marshall is the son of Robert
and Nancy. We found a hill not to far from here that is still known as
Jarboe Hill.
Jerry Owen

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