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                                                     September 29, 1985

     Charlene Walker Brazell
     6306 Quail Ridge Road
     Bartlesville, OK 74006

Dear Ms. Brazell:

I have been going over material on Wassons I have received from Laverne
Wasson Springer, Wiley B. Wasson is a great-great-great grandfather figure
of mine. Your material has been most helpful. Ironically, we have paid a
very fine researcher well over $300 for research on the Wassons in Alabama
for a thick file on land and legal records without learning much about
connections and ancestors. Contact with Laverne was a great breakthrough.

Your Walker material answered a few questions. I guess we have waited too
late to learn about famiiy traditional story on the Wasson-Walker conflict,
I am curious just what your full story was on the Wassons and the murder
incident.

What I know from the little repeated on the Wassons was that some prospered
to the extent they gave a large sum or large sums to the Southern Baptist
Church. This I am sure was told in wonderment by my Great Grandmother
Lallie Eliza Morgan Webb because it is a cinch she and "Uncle Lewis" as my
great grandfather Webb was known over the Texas Panhandle would not have
considered such.
"Uncle Lewis" died Memorial Day, 1933, or I should say his funeral was that
day. He left a ranch of 30 sections in Gray & Hemphill Counties. One of my
earliest memories is my Grandmother Webb holding me up so that I could stare
into the casket of "Uncle Lewis." I have compiled a first edition of a
manuscript history that I expect to expand a good deal and eventually publish.
There are a few family stories I may put in the last edition after a few
have passed from the scene. One great aunt who knows a good deal wants to
talk a lot.
I do not think she will know much on the Wassons though. But I expect to stay
after famiiies that settled in Stephens County and Dawson County. Some of them
were quite prominent so that family did like to brag about them. Our wildest
stories much repeated are about the Webbs who came before San Jacinto. My G-G
Gf figure, Thos. H. Webb,fought at San Jacinto. Great Grandma Webb whose
mother was Mary Allean Wasson was with us until February 1965. She was an
awesome matriarch who lived by herself from 1933 to 1964 in a lonesome drafty
old ranch house with a good shot gun at hand ready for use. The family never
worried about her knowing that any prowler was likely to end up six feet under
in short order. It was told she was a good part Indian but in her last years
she denied it. She took Indian medicine for years Grandad got from a
reservation out from Oklahoma City, She never was in a hospital until she
was in her 70 s. for years she made fun of anyone in the family who thought 
they were sick. She often had us all whispering with wonderment over some
statement or opinion of hers. She could sure get on the war path. Against
Uncle Lewis she lost sometimes but she had the rest intimidated. Some of the 
incidents we all remember with laughter. I would like a copy of Jane Brazell
letter, I got SIW's research. On Smiths & Tubb, maybe we can learn if they
married Wassons. (O yes, Alberry m. Nancy Ann Tubb). Am interested in 
appraisement & auction documents SW d. 1833. Forgive this EZ line. Maybe
Wasson map will interest you. Sincerely
                                 signed Charles Van Baucom
                                    Charles Van Baucom