Hays County Citizen, May 27, 1976 HARD WORK’S THE SECRET—Eighty-two year old Bruce Crayton still gets out with his old mule Pete to plow his vegetable garden on Bishop Street and says he’s been doing that since he was eight […]
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BY NATHAN A. KING The Daily Record, San Marcos, Tx., Sunday, March 19, 1978-Page 5A “I’m just an old bachelor man,” Bruce Crayton said. From his perch atop a mule-drawn seeding machine modified for use as a plow he spit […]
By PAT BLACK Hays County Citizen – April 14, 1977 In a ritual older than the first settlers, every spring the Crayton brother, Billy [Baylor] and Bruce, hitch up their mules and plow the land they own besides Bishop Road. […]
By J. GREENWOOD The Crayton Family Reunion Newsletter, Vol. 9, Dallas, TX, January 15, 2009 Learning about your heritage is said to be key to “knowing thyself”. Today the Crayton family has a strong presence of African-American culture but at […]
By J. GREENWOOD The Crayton Family Reunion Newsletter, Vol. 7, Dallas, TX, January 15, 2001 On October 31, 2006, the life as we knew it for Elstine Anderson came to an end. But for her family and all those that […]
By J. GREENWOOD The Crayton Family Reunion Newsletter, Vol. 1, San Antonio, TX, January 15, 2005 Preserving family history is an important task. In Africa, there is a proverb that states, “To speak the name of the dead allows them […]
By J. GREENWOOD The Crayton Family Reunion Newsletter, Vol. 4, San Antonio, TX, January 15, 2004 In Spring of the year 2000 I began researching the Crayton genealogy in a quest for personal knowledge and to help reunite our family. […]
By J. GREENWOOD The Crayton Family Reunion Newsletter, Vol. 1, San Antonio, TX, January 15, 2001 Preserving a family cemetery is considered a sacred duty to most people. A family burial ground is a place to transcend the physical world […]
BY JUSTIN KASULKA September 29, 2006 Lockhart, The Times Sentinel Phillip Shurtleff and B.J. Crayton Peterson have recently discovered that are cousins. Peterson has been researching genealogy at the nearby Staples Cemetery. When he spoke with his friend Alison Tudor […]
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The Crayton Family Reunion is a celebration of generations of Craytons mainly from South Texas. Today members of the family travel from miles around to celebrate the annual reunion with family, friends and loved ones.