Ruth McDonald and the Spring Creek Community

Sources

Joyce McDonald Anderwald personal collection (Thank You Joyce)

Elton Lacey Book: "The William Lacy and Elliot Lacy Families" by Hubert Lacey and Elton Lacey

National Parks Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors- http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

The Handbook of Texas Online- http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online

"It Occurred in Kimble" by O.C. Fisher, Copyright 1937, The Anson Jones Press

Frontier Times Magazine http://www.frontiertimesmagazine.com/
Frontier Times Magazine is an excellent source for mostly firsthand accounts of life on the Texas Frontier.

Notes

Emma Taylor Remembers (The original version)

Maps Some of these are large files, recommend downloading them for best viewing

United States Wall Map

Map, So. Counties of Illinois

1857 Military Map of Texas & NM

1960ish Map of Gillespie County

1867 Map of Texas and Counties

1894 Kerr, Kimble, Gillespie Topographical Map

1881 Texas and New Mexico Map