Bentley,Yeates,Biggerstaff,Gosley,Woods,McBride,McLeod,et al

These are the generations that form our family. I hope that what I have found and provided here may be of use. If any of the sources that I have used contain innacuracies, please feel free to let me know. One of the most difficult obsticles has been in the variations of the spellings in each of the families. For example, in the Yeates family, I have found records of known ancestors with the spelling Yeates, Yates, Yeats, and Yeatts.

The sources for this information are many. This began with the work of Louise Bentley Smith Her work on the Bentley family ignited my interest and passion. My special thanks to Sue Stephenson and Donna Woods. Without their assistance I would know nothing about the Woods, Mcleod, Robinson, Pugh, Chapman, and Ivy families. The staffs at the County Clerk's offices in Angelina County,Texas and the Jasper County,Texas
have been especially patient and helpful. The Ora McMullen resource room at the Kurth Memorial Library, Lufkin Texas, and the East Texas Historical Collection at Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas have been especially useful and helpful. Also, to the creators of the internet. This amazing and useful tool has put me in touch with family members scattered all over the country, people I would never have otherwise found.

A special note. If you are slightly confused by the existance of two seemingly identical homepages created by me, so am I. I recently purchased a new computer. This electronic marvel runs with Windows XP. XP would not run the FTM program that I owned. I had to purchase an updated version. Guess what? Once I upgraded, I couldn't publish to my old family tree site. So thus I had to creat this one so that I could keep updating the tidbits I have run across on our family.

Books

• Book: The Bentley and Yeates Familys of Missouri, Texas, and Mississippi. With Additional Ancestral Families

Family Photos

• Edward Dixon McBride (159 KB)
  Private, Company A, 2nd Missouri Infantry Confederate States of America. Honorably discharged, wounded at Elk Horn Tavern/Pea Ridge battle, Arkansas. Gravesite in Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas
• Tombstone of Daniel McLeod (83 KB)
  Capt. Daniel McLeod, 24th Alabama Infantry, Confederate States of America. Gravesite in Grove Hill, Alabama.
• Tombstone of William B. Woods (55 KB)
  Sgt. William B. Woods, Co. E, 24th Alabama Infantry. Gravesite at Shofner Cemetery, Ora Community, Angelina County, Texas.
• William and Sallie Woods and Family (circa 1899) (204 KB)
  Front and Center are William and Sallie Woods. In the photo's left on the front row are William Felix and Rebecca Woods Yeates.
• Daniel Mcleod (94 KB)
  Daniel Mcleod, father of Sallie Mcleod McClure Woods, Capt. 24th Alabama Infantry C.S.A.