Re: East Family in Texas (Joseph Lemuel East) and a possible LOU connection to
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Re: East Family in Texas
John Young 11/04/05
Hi Y'all,
Our Family of East has been in Northeast Texas for at least 4 generations, mainly in and around Hunt and Rockwall Counties. I just started looking into this, and really don't know much, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Joseph Lemuel East and Eunice Atherton are my great grandparents. The only offspring I am aware of is my grandfather for whom my father and I are named, Jeffie Clyde East, I am III.
I do know he had a twin brother I understand to have died either in child birth or as an infant. He married Eunice Morris, my grandmother.
My Father had an older brother Joseph Allen East who died around the age of 3 or 4 from polio, which also affected an older sister named Mary Lou East, she passed away a few years ago, I am wondering if this might help the LOU connection you are looking for as our family has, up until my children's generation used common family names. I after my grandfather, My brother Joseph after my great grandfather, and uncle who died as a child.
So far, I've reached a dead end past Joseph, and that we've always known.
I think Joseph's Father may have been Thomas Jefferson East, at least that seems to be the case.
It's a bit difficult because for some reason I rarely heard or ever hear much about the family from my father's side.