Goodest Poster said:

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9th generation. Family helped survey Texas for the US. Movie series was made of off of our story of Comanche abduction. Multiple counties named after my peeps. I eat beef 5 times a week. I call anyone north of I10 a Yankee. Have thousands of acres. Named kids after Texas figures/towns.

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You must be a Parker!

Are you trying to start a fight?

Mega Lops said:

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It doesn't get any more Texan than a cowboy eating a sausage and cheese kolache

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Or knowing the true definition of Eastern European breakfast pastries

I would say if your family was here for the formation of The Republic then you are an Original Texan. That's when the Texan spirit started. Anything before that is just Spanish/Mexican anyway. But a "true" Texan must only be born here, with exception of people whose family were here but they happened to be born elsewhere and then still grew up here. There are several in my family that were born in other states or countries during war times but came right back.

Extra points if you have some OG Czech, German, or Irish in there.

ChoppinDs40 said:

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Goodest Poster said:

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9th generation. Family helped survey Texas for the US. Movie series was made of off of our story of Comanche abduction. Multiple counties named after my peeps. I eat beef 5 times a week. I call anyone north of I10 a Yankee. Have thousands of acres. Named kids after Texas figures/towns.

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So you're proud of your family holding Cynthia Ann hostage?!

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What in the hell are you talking about? My family was slaughtered by Tonks and Comanches both. They were hired into Texas because they were the first to make peace with Seminoles in Florida and promised insane anoints of land as payment. After they got tired of getting murdered, they got smart and started having the Indians take each other out. My family had nothing to do with Parker, or any of the Parkers that were savagely raped and abducted.

Mega Lops said:

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It doesn't get any more Texan than a cowboy eating a sausage and cheese kolache

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AI selected a Jewish Texan. Looks like a giant challah with sausage. Haha

My Texas roots go back to before those Asian folks found that land bridge and came down from Alaska and Canada.

PMD03 said:

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My Texas roots go back to before those Asian folks found that land bridge and came down from Alaska and Canada.

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So, your relatives lived in Gault?

Goodest Poster said:

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ChoppinDs40 said:

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Goodest Poster said:

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9th generation. Family helped survey Texas for the US. Movie series was made of off of our story of Comanche abduction. Multiple counties named after my peeps. I eat beef 5 times a week. I call anyone north of I10 a Yankee. Have thousands of acres. Named kids after Texas figures/towns.

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So you're proud of your family holding Cynthia Ann hostage?!

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What in the hell are you talking about? My family was slaughtered by Tonks and Comanches both. They were hired into Texas because they were the first to make peace with Seminoles in Florida and promised insane anoints of land as payment. After they got tired of getting murdered, they got smart and started having the Indians take each other out. My family had nothing to do with Parker, or any of the Parkers that were savagely raped and abducted.

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That was a tongue in cheek comment. As someone said above, they assumed you were a Parker or descendent of.

We've all read Empire of the Summer Moon

My dad's side of the family immigrated here from Alabama in the late 1840's. Established a ranch along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River. It is still a 40,000 acre working cattle ranch today.

I had to Google that to know what it is. I was doing some morning **** posting which was likely to be of no value to anyone. In a twist of fate, I have now learned something new about ancient Texas. Thank you.

Not sure which one the oldest one is in. It's on my paternal great grandmothers side, Neel and Hanks surname. Bunch of them in Timpson and Tennessee cemeteries.

MrWonderful said:

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Not sure which one the oldest one is in. It's on my paternal great grandmothers side, Neel and Hanks surname. Bunch of them in Timpson and Tennessee cemeteries.

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Sholar cemetery here. Lots of our clan out there. Lots.

ChoppinDs40 said:

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Goodest Poster said:

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ChoppinDs40 said:

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Goodest Poster said:

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9th generation. Family helped survey Texas for the US. Movie series was made of off of our story of Comanche abduction. Multiple counties named after my peeps. I eat beef 5 times a week. I call anyone north of I10 a Yankee. Have thousands of acres. Named kids after Texas figures/towns.

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So you're proud of your family holding Cynthia Ann hostage?!

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What in the hell are you talking about? My family was slaughtered by Tonks and Comanches both. They were hired into Texas because they were the first to make peace with Seminoles in Florida and promised insane anoints of land as payment. After they got tired of getting murdered, they got smart and started having the Indians take each other out. My family had nothing to do with Parker, or any of the Parkers that were savagely raped and abducted.

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That was a tongue in cheek comment. As someone said above, they assumed you were a Parker or descendent of.

We've all read Empire of the Summer Moon

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Ya, great book. Not a huge span of history tho.
Def missed the joke.

Well I go back to Captain Hayden Arnold who is shown on the roster of men who fought at San Jacinto the original of which is the records at Nacogdoches.

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Champion of Fireball said:

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I was told you ain't a Texan if you were born north of San Antone. Interstate 10

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FIFY

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You do realize that most of what the world considers as Texan, cowboys and Indians, oil wells, wide open spaces, cattle drives, canyon lands, etc is north of I-20 and a lot is north of I-40?

CanyonAg77 said:

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malenurse said:

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Champion of Fireball said:

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I was told you ain't a Texan if you were born north of San Antone. Interstate 10

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FIFY

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You do realize that most of what the world considers as Texan, cowboys and Indians, oil wells, wide open spaces, cattle drives, canyon lands, etc is north of I-20 and a lot is north of I-40?

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Don't sweat it too much Canyon. I consider everything south of San Antone to be Mexico.

Unfortunately too close to the truth.

7th Generation here.
Ancestors fought in the Texas Revolution, rode with Terry's Texas Rangers in the Civil War, and one was a Texas Ranger.

All that said, I've met some pretty sorry excuses for Texans that have family here longer than mine.
It ain't just how long you've been here, it's a state of mind.

I trace my roots back to the Plantation Irish (Scots-Irish Presbyterians) in Ulster that came to America in the early 1700s. Not the same thing though.

My great-great-grandfather was born in Tennessee around 1822. He left behind his mother and three sisters when he struck out for Texas as a young man, chasing adventure and something bigger than the life he'd known. He met his lifelong friend, as a teenager in San Antonio. They joined the Texas Rangers. Together, they protected the territory from Indian raids and outlaws, building a reputation in a time when the law rode on horseback. Their first mission was a disasterhe was wounded in the hip by a Comanche chief, a scar he carried for the rest of his life. But he never let that slow him down. "If I'd wanted civilization," he used to say, "I'd have stayed in Tennessee and wrote poetry."
He lived hard and laughed loud. He drank too much, frequented brothels, and had a sharp tongue that made people either love him or curse him. He wasn't always easy, but he had a deep loyalty to the people he cared about, and a way of making you feel like you mattered.
After leaving the Rangers, he became a cattleman in South Texas. His best friend handled the day-to-day while he kept the company of friends, played cards, and offered unsolicited advice. They stayed there nearly a decade, watching the town grow around them. Life there had ran it's course so the left for greener pastures up north. It was near the end of the drive when his luck ran out. While scouting ahead, he was ambushed by Indians and wounded in the leg. Infection set in fast. His friend found him in Miles City, one leg already gone. The doctor wanted to take the other, but he refused. Said he'd rather die with a piece of himself intact than live without it. He died on his own terms, same as he lived.
Before he passed, he asked his friend to carry his body back to Texas and bury him by the Guadalupe River. That place had held his happiest memories, and in the end, it's where he wanted to rest.

so are we to assume that your great-grandfather was born and raised in one of said brothels....

So what Ranger? My dad worked with many on cases in the 50's through 80's. Many came to our house. Might know him.

First Texas ancestors grave!

It was a little before then, in the 40's.
The 1840's to be specific, under Jack Hays.

ChoppinDs40 said:

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I know this one. Isn't it the story of lonesome dove?

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Dang it, I knew I should know that..
I just got hung up on the story of the family tree...

Your great great grandfather was a good man. He always did right by Ms. Clara and took special care of Lorena, even if he had to cheat for a poke every once in a while

TX_COWDOC said:

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I reckon I'm as Texan as anyone from Tennessee.

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You was still draggin' on the tit when they brought you over here.

Cool. Anything about him at the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco? I have been to it many times as a couple of the firearms on display there belonged to my wife's dad. They have a lot of info archived on those old rangers.