Showing posts with label Texas history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas history. Show all posts

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Latest book - First Novel




Latest Book - First Novel

Awaiting you at many locations this time. We're even digital with this one - yeah, modern, high tech age for me.
  • Amazon.com-Kindle
  • Barnes & Noble - Nook
  • Google eBooks
 Xulon is negotiating with Sony and Apple and expect to start uploading eBooks to those sites shortly.

If you like to hold a real book in your hand then you can get one from your local Christian bookstore or order through Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Actually you should be able to get one through any book store. Just ask them.

Back Cover 

As Hubie made his way deliberately down the rows of butter beans and squash, he turned to look back at the house, then looked toward where John Thomas continued his slow walk across the hayfield; still hatless, still with his head down, still with his shoulders drooping; then Hubie looked back to the house.

“It was not meant for such,” he remarked out loud.  “This house was not built for such a time as this.”

His few words explained much about the house and about those who lived in and around it.


LeRoy Ramsey has also written Backing In The Front Door and co-authored Baby In A Box with his wife, Jane. In addition, he has written Will You Go?, a booklet about missions and available to churches and fellowships interested in promoting mission outreaches.

He was born in Palestine and left Paris to move his family to China. 
A career in journalism led him to such exotic places like Commerce, Fort Hood, Sulphur Springs, Arlington, Gatesville and Paris. (All in Texas)
In 1985 LeRoy and Jane picked up their family (the children were 15, 9 and 5) and moved to Wuhan, Hubei in the People’s Republic of China. That was just the beginning of a Great God Adventure with the Chinese people. They have spent almost three decades working in China. They have now added two granddaughters, one grandson and one son-in-law to the clan.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Will Texans Celebrate?

175 years old on March 2




Will Texans celebrate?

Usually this date passes by with little, if any notice.
Jane and I almost always celebrated Texas Independence Day when living overseas. We invited guests from a variety of states and countries. The usual question was 'What are you celebrating?' 'Did Texas really leave the Union?'
We found that many people thought we had made the whole thing up. We always had to include a history lesson in the celebration.
I wonder how many Texans ever realize the great sacrifice made in 1836 to set us free from Mexico.

We have a good friend who thinks we should actually celebrate on April 21. Do you know what happened on that day?

Feb 23 - Santa Anna and his troops arrived in San Antonio and quickly retook the town with little or no reistance. He then surrounded the Alamo.
Feb 24 - William B Travis sent a letter of appeal for help.
To the People of Texas & All Americans in the world.
I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I have sustained a continual bombardment & connonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man.
I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, & of everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country.
Victory or Death
William Barret Travis

T
he Alamo fell on March 6, four days after Texas Independence was proclaimed.