Mary Ellen Stacy Page and Lafayette Emanuel L E Page married October 23, 1882 in Lavaca County, Texas. They had five children, three living to adulthood. Exerpts of letter written by son William Dennis Page from Ink,Arkansas, Friday am, October 6, 1950: Gee, it seems Papa, who me Aunt Lula, Uncle Morgan, Mama & little Morgan (my first brother) at Lampasses in the covered wagon for the trip onto Coleman County & Trickham in 1884, as mentioned partly in Aunt Lula's writeup, Papa & Mama had been married two years and lived on the land that John Haynes now owns at Cross Roads. Grandpa Stacy bought the Dockery land, etc. consisting of what was later the Vollentine (Bowden Section) . Papa's place, Dockery one and one half sections, Aunt Clemmie one half and the Major Section places at $1.0 per acre (Sees had a section I think) totaling in all some five sections of that good land. Grand Pa Stacy bought the land in the Spring of 1888. Mama & Papa married Oct 23, 1882 ( L E Page & Mollie Stacy). The two families moved in the Fall or Winter of 1882. J. B. Stacy & L. E. Page was among the old settlers in Coleman County. That one would now sell from $30.00 to $100.00 per acre. Ben McIver boy, I think gave $100.00 per acre for his and Aunt Clemmies place. Some of Aunt Clemmies old places and Violas old home place is probably the best. Aunt Lula wrote me that they camped out one night on the wagon trip, with only one quilt spread on the ground for a bed. The Stacys, Pages and Kin kept coming, (until only Aunt Lula Stacy Vollentine was left, including the Davises, Tuckers, Matt Stacy, (Tom Stacy's father) and the Baughs were the last to come I think. The land in Lavaca was black and good. More rain, but was somewhere around $30.00 per acre I think. They all lived on or close, to the Lavaca river. I have seen the places and the Stacy Cemetery twice where so many of our folks are buried. It was on the Grandpa Stacy place. Fine black level land. The school house where his house stood is the Stacy school to this day. I once had some pictures of the Page house and the Stacy cemetary. The old J. L. Vaught Ranch (Lee Vaughns Father) lay on the east of Grandpa Stacy. A lot of it now belongs to the McClatcheys. Mama (Mary Ellen Molle E Stacy Page) went with Uncle Morgan Stacy to Lavaca County when he went to marry Aunt Lucy and attended the wedding I think. Uncle Morgan & Aunt Lula spent one week at Aunt Lucy's after they married. Then the four come from there to Lampasses after they married, it being the end of the Railroad West in 1884. Papa (L E Page) met them there at Lampasses. The Government fed most all of Coleman County one year after most of them lost their places and went back East (but none of our bunch lost land I don't think.) Papa (Lafayette Emanuel Page) said he managed to get by without Government grub. That was when they dug coal at .50 cents per day, then freighted it to Brownwood from between Rockwood and Waldrip for I believe $8.00 a trip, carrying their bedding grub and horse feed along. Grandpa Stacy sold the land to Papa, Vollentine, Watson, See and Dockery, moving to Waldrip Texas on Colorado river because land got higher at Trickham than Waldrip. He had a fine piece of land on the Colorado river, with three renthouses. I was born there in 1886 on December 31st, while Papa ( L E Page) was serving in the coal mines and hauling to Brownwood. Love to all Write

Dad Papa ( W D Page)