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| | Joel J Pierce Mystery-Rhea Kurykendall Info From My Journal by LD Pierce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11) |
 | | LD Pierce owned a huge tract of land that today is known as GoatNeck (all the land around the GoatNeck Community Center) LD Pierce came to the land on the Brazos and his freed slaves traveled with him, and worked for him on the ranch. |
 | | He told me that George Pierce, the son of Hugh, had a sister, Betti, who married a Adams; a brother, Charlie, who with a companion named Sla----were both killed by Texas Rangers; and a brother, Willis, who was assassinated when he crossed a bridge in Smith County. |
 | | George Pierce, according to the affidavit of T.F. Collins, was known as a half-blood Cherokee Indian. |
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