Found this while hunting this year ...... I’m not as mad at them like I use to be. I can’t stay in the stand as long as I use to and my feet get colder than they use to.

FWIW, there is a pecan tree in Dallas that is officially recognized as being alive at the time of the signing of the signing of the Declaration of Independence...246 years ago.

That time of year again, bringing this back up. One of my favorite threads.

Looks like 1836 to me. No clue how long trees live in East Texas so take it for what it is worth. My part of the world white pines live an average of 200 years if undisturbed and that being an average there are outliers that are significantly older. Not too far south of me white oaks have been known to live 500 or 600 years. My part of the world is a touch too far north for white oaks so our oaks are red oak which can make to +/- 400 years.

Just because i want to believe i am going to say it is 1836 as that would be super cool as maybe it was Davy Crockett who carved it on his way to the Alamo. Pretty sure that's what i would tell my grandkids LOL.

Found this last year in the middle of a dirt road at the ranch in South Texas. Was definitely not from anyone in my family. Always wondered how it got there....

Grandparents used to own a place on the Llano River north of Junction. 10 years or so ago during hunting season the Llano flooded from a week or so of rain. The campground on the east end of Junction flooded and 4 people drowned and were washed down the river. We always found boats, ice chest (some with beer and wine in them) and all other types of equipment that people used in camping out. Of the 4 people that drowned, 3 bodies were recovered with one being recovered in the lake that the Llano River flows into. I think it is Lake LBJ. I was always sort of haunted by the fact that 1 of those bodies went right down in front of our river house and another could have been stuck under the bank or in a tree on the place that we hunted and spent a lot of time. I never wanted to be the person that found that other body. To this day, I never heard of the 4th body ever being discovered.

Funny that you should bring that up. I owned 15 acres of land near Granbury Texas that was bought by Davy Crockett but he did a very unusual thing for a man back then. He put the land in his wife's name. Elizbeth Crockett. This was
on his way to the Alamo. She and her two sons are buried a few miles away in a state park in Granbury. The history books don't tell you that Davy Crockett brought his family with him to Texas. Left his wife and two sons in Granbury to be
safe as he went to the Alamo to help defend Texas.