Great thread,Amy!..My son has done a lot of searching and I have his work and my mother's when she did her DAR application papers.
I love reading the tales of my father's family from early Texas days best because it all happened near where I grew up.There is a Texas Historical marker on the family cemetary.
One relative was a signee of the Declaration of Independence..He was in Virginia. I should get it all out and look at it again..It's been awhile since I read it.