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The only other relatives Dorothy could recall was LOWELL, a grandson to
MISSOURI, who lived in Kerrville, Texas and was the son of MISSOURI’s son,
ROBERT. She said LOWELL had a memory like an elephant and spent many hours
talking to Sim Gamblin about the RENFRO family history.

Dorothy said MISSOURI’s son, JOHN RENFRO had lived in San Angelo, Texas. He
is buried there. He had no children which were then living.

She said the only living relative she could think of is JOHN RENFRO (called JOHN
RENFRO, JR) whose father was WILLARD. JOHN then lived in San Angelo, Texas.
JOHN’s mother, who would have been WILLARD’s wife then lived in Ballinger,
Texas.

As it turns out, there are many surviving relatives descending from THOMAS and
MISSOURI living in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

Dorothy related that, as she recalled, THOMAS RENFRO, MISSOURI’s husband
came to Texas from Philadelphia, Mississippi. At some point in life he bought a small
ranch in the Deep Creek Community (McCullogh County). To her knowledge his old
home place still stands and is located just a few miles down the road from the Cowboy

Cemetery where both THOMAS and MISSOURI are buried. The house is now owned
by some friends of Dorothy’s.

Dorothy said in the front yard of that house stands a large Oak tree, a part of which has
grown around a gun kept in the tree by some of the RENFRO boys who lived there.

Dorothy related a story concerning what she recalled hearing about some of the
Renfro’s trouble with the law and why they kept a gun in the fork of a tree in their
front yard.

She explained as best she could recall: Some of the RENFRO family fought in the Civil
War before coming to Texas. Allegedly one of the RENFRO boys had killed a Negro

in Mississippi before coming to Texas and was wanted by the law. Dorothy said various
law men would often come to the RENFRO house looking for one of the RENFRO
boys. The RENFRO boys started keeping saddled horses tied to the Oak tree in the
front yard with guns hidden in a fork of the tree.

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