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Wanting to     see  and photograph    those  tomb   stones my    wife,  Sally,  and I  went to
               Rochelle, Texas.  We stopped at one of the first stores we found on the edge of town
               which turned out to be an antique store named Barr Teques owned by Gloria Barr.
               There were many treasures in that store but the most valuable treasure for us was
               Gloria herself for she knew members of the RENFRO family and knew a little about
               their story.


               Gloria  told  us  how to find  the  cemetery and    explained   that  for  years  the  Cowboy
               Cemetery was     maintained    by a  preservation   group headed    up by a  woman     named
               Dorothy Gamblin.  Dorthy Gamblin, it turned out,  had married Sim W. Gamblin  one
               of MISSOURI’s grandsons.  SIM’s mother was one of MISSOURI’s daughters, ALICE
               ELIZABETH RENFRO.



               In 1996 I wrote to Dorothy Gamblin, who was then living in Streetman, Texas 75859
               and   sent  her  a  photograph of   Aunt   Sis.  That   same  year   she  called  me  and  we
               discussed the    RENFROs.       The following     comes from     notes I took during     that
               conversation:


               The photograph of Aunt Sis I sent to her is the MISSOURI OWEN FOY RENFRO
               who was married to THOMAS C. RENFRO.  Dorothy related MISSOURI died only

               two years after  she had married MISSOURI’s grandson, Sim Gamblin, so she did not
               know MISSOURI well and, of course, had never met THOMAS RENFRO as he had
               died years earlier.


               Dorothy related that MISSOURI lived her final years in two places.  She lived for a
               time in Mason, Texas with her son BOB RENFRO and she lived in Ft Worth, Texas
               with   a daughter    named ROXIE       JACKSON.       Dorothy    did  not get to   visit with
               MISSOURI much and does not recall her ever mentioning  having relatives living in
               the Cisco, Texas or Anson, Texas areas.  She said MISSOURI did not talk much about
               her side of the family in her presence.


               Dorothy said MISSOURI had at least five children  she knew of. (It turns out she

               actually had nine children.)  They were three sons named ROBERT (or BOB), JOHN,
               and WILLARD; she was not sure about the name WILLARD.  MISSOURI had two
               daughters; ROXIE and ALICE ELIZABETH RENFRO to Dorothy’s recollection.




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