[I was given a copy of these letters by another Criner researcher. I believe they were in the possession of and transcribed by Pauline Jones Gandrund. These letters were typed just as they appear. Nothing was changed and only notes added were added as foot notes. Joseph Christopher Criner added notes within the letter himself.
Please contact me directly about any of the immediate family of CRINER, GALLOWAY & STANFIELD. I’ll be glad to swap information on just these families. Don’t have a lot on the others.]
Mandy Queen, awqueen@bellsouth.net
1845 Solquitt Houston, Texas 11/19/1938 “The CRINERS of my family came to Texas in 1901 from Tenn. Near the town of Henderson. We still have some land there, which has been in the family since about 1800. There were 3 John CRINERS in the Civil War, who were related to me. This seems to be a favorite family name”. S.D. CRINER