TRACES THROUGH TIME, The Life and Legacy of Mellie McDonald

A HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE HANGING I drove my tiny, frail mother through the Texas Hill Country to a secluded ranch cemetery in Kendall County. We found the grave of Mellie's grandfather, a grandfather forgotten, never spoken about, forgotten in life as completely as he had been silenced in death. Never did the family guess there was such a historical and wretched secret right under our nose, wanting to be found. Mellie carried a wagon load of history - from migrations away from the Cherokee lands in Georgia, Tennessee to Arkansas, to the Mormon lands in Illinois finally settling in San Antonio where her nine-year-old son became the family bread winner, running through the Texas dawn to awaken train crews. If your name is McDonald or Nelson, Murgatroyd, Smith, or Roundtree, if you are from Texas with roots from the Cherokee country of Georgia, Tennessee or North Carolina ,ifyour history passed through the Mormon country of Illinois, if your kin fought the Civil War from Texas, your history may be this history! You will want to read this eBook!