Jeremiah Looper was a relative of the Edwards family back in Alabama and Georgia area, while some show South Carolina and Tennessee.

The Loopers were a large family back in the old Cherokee Nation that changed their ancestry to Black Dutch. The Black Dutch clan was a more accepted nationality than Cherokee or Indian.

N.L. Edwards had nine daughters. Mr. Edwards built Victorian homes in Aubrey for each of his daughters and their spouses on lots that were platted by Mr. Edwards in the 1870's.

The final destination of the wagon train that included Jeremiah Looper was located near what is now called Farmers Branch and was near the Trinity River. The destination was a safe location to settle until better and more permanent arrangements could be acquired for more of the newly arriving settlers that were moving to this are for more land and an abundant opportunity.

Jeremiah W. Looper was born May 8, 1850, and his wife, E.E. Kelly was born on July 17, 1859. They had a large family. Their first child was W. Leonard (Uncle Leonard) was born on January 1, 1875.

Their second-born child was Martin Dennis Looper who was born on November 5, 1876. He was married to S.J. Clark on March 22, 1895. Sarah Jane (Clark) Looper was born on November 30, 1875. Martin Dennis and Sarah Jane Looper were the parents to another large Looper family.

Annie May Looper was born January 10, 1896, and died on November 6, 1946.

Adin D. Looper was born September 23, 1900, and died December 28, 1934.

B.B. (Beulah) was born February 14, 1904. N.D. (Niner) was born February 16, 1907.

H.L. (Helen) was born August 30, 1911. She married Herman Housden and they had three children, Imogene, Nona Pearl, and "Sonny Boy."

D.A. (Dollie) Looper was a daughter to Martin Dennis and Sarah Jane Looper and was born May 17, 1914; she died on October 1, 1984. W.W. (Woodrow) Looper was born September 12, 1918, and W.P. (Wilson) was born September 12, 1918.

The photo for this week was provided by Nona Pearl Housden, (a daughter of Herman and Helen (Looper) Housden. The photo was made during 1929 and includes four generations of the Looper family.

The four generations were photographed during the 1929 family reunion that was held in Aubrey.

It is interesting to research how the early day families left their homes in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee during the years that followed the Indian Removal Act back in 1822, under President Andrew Jackson.

The denial of their Indian ancestry unless they were occupying land in the designated Indian Territory of Oklahoma, was common because the federal order called for liquidation of all Native American to relocate west of the Mississippi River.

The same federal government that ordered the removal of American Indians some 100 years ago, also passed legislation that gave the American Indian the protection of discrimination act that was passed in 1960's. So basically, what the federal act did in the removal, the act of the 1960's helped to remedy the situation; however, there was about a 120 years that we renegades had to keep our mouths shut and become good Black Dutch citizens in order to function and survive.

I will get back on the history during 1930, when the entire population of the town of Aubrey was no more than 289 people.