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Thanks for the reply. I attended the Atherton reunion in Colorado this past July. After I last sent you an e-mail, I looked at my list and saw what I thought might be your name under Norbert.
Please look at my other note about Canada Atherton in Genforum. I am still looking for him, as well as Nola and Dorthy. All of us have been researching for some time but he is hiding under some rock!
I am on the trail of where Canada is buried in Dallas. Have found the cemetery but will probably not attempt to go there until cooler weather. Canada is the father of Eula and of my grandfather, Julian Franklin Atherton who died in Dallas Cnty, TX 1911 when my mother was only five years old.
I met Uncle Eula back in 1962 when he and Raymond visited with Annie Atherton Hunt. I took my mother, and my oldest daughter to visit her. This was the only time I recall meeting either of them. My mother kept in touch with Eula while she was alive. However, I didn't know how to contact the family after she died. I located information about Eula and his children through the church. I have communicated with Mother's cousin, but her mind is not very good at this time. Over the past few years, the bits pieces of information she told me, are now fitting in to place. That is after talking with your family and what I know and what she told me.
At the reunion I was able to listen to Eula's tape, he made a number of years ago. I typed up notes from the tape, along with all the information I had gathered, along with what they had learned. I believe this will eventually help us get the information we need to find on Canada, the father of Eula and of my grandfather, Julian Franklin Atherton. I sent my write up and the current research I found on the Honnel family in Alcorn, Miss. to Nola and Dorthy.
If we can find Canada Atherton in an 1850 census record, about 4 or 5, we can get somewhere in our research. He was born about 1845 and stated he was born KY but we have been unable to locate him. His first son was born 1869 in TN, Edgar A. Atherton. The first time we can locate him is on the 1880 census of Alcorn, Miss.
I did pick up on the fact from Eula's tape that Grandma Honnel and Uncle Tom Honnel were also in Texas at the same time as the Atherton family. I'm working on this research also, now. I found them all on the 1850, 1860, 1870 still in Miss. I assume they came around 1880's to Texas also.
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