by Caryl McAdoo
HER TITLE: HEARTS STOLEN, // On Scene in: HOPE REBORN, JUST KIN, // Mention in: VOW UNBROKEN, SINS OF THE MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART,
~ Baylor, Bartholomew ‘BART’ – born July 20, 1845 to Rose and Levi, but blood son of Bold Eagle
On Scene in: HOPE REBORN, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART, JUST KIN, // Mention in: HEARTS STOLEN
~ Briggs, Clayton ‘CLAY’ Butterfield – born October 13, 1827 to J.T. and Maud Briggs and courts and marries Gwendolyn Buckmeyer.
HIS TITLE: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Briggs, Jake – born in 1812. Clay’s older brother is married to Clover and has son Jasper with her.
On Scene in: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Briggs, Jasper – born in 1837 to Jasper and Clover (or Clovey)
On Scene in: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART, JUST KIN
~ Boyd, Francine ‘FRANCY’ – born October 28, 1842, a California orphan God sends to Jethro to take to Mary Rachel. She quickly becomes a part of the family.
On Scene in: SINS OF THE MOTHER
~ Buckmeyer, BONNIE Claire – born December 1840. Henry and Sue’s fourth child.
HER TITLE: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART // On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN, and JUST KIN // Mention in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS
~ Buckmeyer, CECELIA Carol or ‘CeCe’ – born April 10, 1836. Henry and Sue’s third child. Marries Elijah Eversole in 1854.
HER TITLE: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART // On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN, and JUST KIN // Mention in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS
~ Buckmeyer, Charlotte born in 1854 to Henry and May
Coming in JUST KIN
~ Buckmeyer, David Crockett – born 1851 firstborn of Henry and May.
On Scene in: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART, JUST KIN
~ Buckmeyer, GWENDOLYN Belle or ‘Gwen’ – born Nov. 29 1834. Henry and Sue’s second child. Marries Clay Briggs in 1854.
HER TITLE: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART // On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN, and JUST KIN // Mention in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS
~ Buckmeyer, Patrick HENRY - born March 6, 1798; killed a man at fifteen, fought in the Battle of New Orleans at sixteen. At thirty-four, he married Susannah ‘Sue’ Baylor in 1832, and became stepfather to her Rebecca and father to Mary Rachel, Gwendolyn Belle, Cecelia Carol, and Bonnie Claire before becoming a widower in Dec ’44 at Houston’s birth. Finding love again, he married May Meriwether in 1850 and fathered Crockett and Charlotte.
HIS TITLE: VOW UNBROKEN, HOPE REBORN // On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN, SINS OF THE MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART, JUST KIN
~ Buckmeyer, Sam HOUSTON – born December 1844. Henry and Sue’s fifth child, first son. His mother passed at his birth, so was motherless until he was six years old.
On Scene in: HOPE REBORN, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART, JUST KIN // Mention in: HEARTS STOLEN, SINS OF THE MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Buckmeyer, Susannah ‘SUE’ Alicia Abbott Baylor – born May 15, 1803, married Andrew Baylor at eighteen in 1821, widowed at nineteen and became guardian aunt to orphaned Levi Baylor, birthed Rebecca in the next year. At twenty-nine, she married Henry Buckmeyer in 1832. Mother to Mary Rachel, Gwendolyn, Cecelia, Bonnie Claire, and Samuel Houston.
HER TITLE: VOW UNBROKEN // On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN // Mention in: HOPE REBORN, SINS OF THE MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Eversole, ELIJAH – born January 2, 1826, moved to California in the gold rush days where abandoned by parents as a teen, followed in his father’s blacksmith trade and loves inventing and building new helpful machines. He becomes partners with Risen and Jones in a gold mine. Marries Cecelia Buckmeyer in 1854.
HIS TITLE: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART // On Scene in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS
~ Jones, MOSES – born October 13, 1816, a Scot partnered with Jethro Risen in a gold mine, marries . 1854.
On scene in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS // Mentioned in: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Langley, LAURA is rescued at fifteen in 1844 along with Sassy. She was pregnant at the time and the next month delivered Lacey Rose on the way to the Buckmeyers’. She stays on there as teacher, and marries Jean Claude Rozier.
On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN, JUST KIN // Mention in: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Langley, LACEY Rose born November 16 , 1844 in Nacogdoches to Laura, only fifteen when Lacey’s father, a Comanche brave, had captured her.
HER TITLE: JUST KIN // On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART, JUST KIN
~ Meriwether, CHESTER born a slave on October 7, 1803 to Commodore Meriwether’s slaves Silas and Honey Pie, He was 5, about to be 6, when May was born. He married JEWEL (formerly Mammy) in 1851.
~ Meriwether, JEWEL (formerly Mammy) the Buckmeyers’ cook after Henry rescued her and her son Jean Paul Rozier who also works for the Buckmeyers.
On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART // Mention in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS, JUST KIN
~ Meriwether, Millicent MAY born August 23, 1808 to the Commodore and a, a successful New York dime novelist who heads to Texas to interview after seeing a newspaper article about Rangers Levi Baylor and Wallace Rusk. She marries Henry Buckmeyer there. She gives birth to David Crockett in 1851.
HER TITLE: HOPE REBORN // On Scene in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART, JUST KIN (January 2016)
~ Meriwether, Silas born a slave in 1808 on the Meriwethers’ Sea Side plantation
~ Nightingale, CHARLES Nathaniel Senior - born 1805, married Rosaleen Fogelsong, fathered Charles, Junior (Charley), though was never around him.
On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN // Mention in: VOW UNBROKEN
~ Nightingale, Charles ‘CHARLEY’ Nathaniel Junior - born a Comanche son to the chief Feb 27 ’40 to the captive third wife of Bold Eagle, Rosaleen, but Charles Nightingale was his father. Rescued in 1844 by Texas Ranger Levi Baylor. Killed a man at ten when Comancheros came to return his mother to Bold Eagle.
HIS TITLE: JUST KIN (January 2016) // On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN // Mention in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Risen, JETHRO – born September 22, 1830 to Silas and ??, partner of Moses Jones in a gold mine. Married Mary Rachel Buckmeyer Wheeler in 1853 and later that year, reconnected with his estranged father. Founds an orphanage and a bank in San Francisco.
HIS TITLE: SINS OF THE MOTHERS // Mention in: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Risen, MARY RACHEL Buckmeyer Wheeler – born August 3, 1833. Henry and Sue’s firstborn eloped with Caleb Wheeler without Daddy’s blessing and moved to San Francisco. Her husband soon murdered, she’s a widow mother of Susannah “SUSIE” Wheeler. Remarried Jethro Risen, adopted an orphan, Francine “FRANCY” and birthed baby girl Rebecca “BECCA” in MONTH, 1853 and Silas Reuel, Jethro’s firstborn son, in 1854.
HER TITLE: SINS OF THE MOTHERS // On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Rusk, REBECCA Ruth Baylor – born June 14, 1823; Sue’s daughter 1st husband Andrew (died Rebecca’s birth). Nine years old on the Jefferson Trace in 1832; twenty-one in November, 1844, when she met Wallace Rusk, married him at 27 in 1850. No children.
On Scene in: VOW UNBROKEN, HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN // Mention in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Rusk, WALLACE – born August 15, 1819, a 16 year old orphan picked by Henry Buckmeyer and young Levi Baylor on the way to the Battle of San Jacinto, served with Levi Texas Rangering, fell in love with his sister Rebecca sight-unseen, and after wearing her down, married her in 1850. No children, but Lacey Rose Langley was named after him.
On Scene in: HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN, JUST KIN // Mention in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
~ Wheeler, Caleb – born August 29, 1828, cousin to John and Lanelle, partners in the Mercantile in San Francisco after eloping with Mary Rachel Buckmeyer in 1851, father of Susannah.
On Scene in: HOPE REBORN, SINS OF THE MOTHER
~ Wheeler, John – born April 17, 1825, Lanelle’s brother, Caleb’s cous
in, partner in San Francisco Mercantile.
On Scene in: SINS OF THE MOTHER
~ Wheeler, Lanelle – born September 24, 1832, John’s sister, Caleb’s cousin, married Moses Jones in 1852
On Scene in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS,
~ Wheeler, Susannah “SUSIE” – born October, 1851 in San Francisco to Mary Rachel (father Caleb deceased)
On Scene in: SINS OF THE MOTHERS // Mention in: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART
Remember Miss Jewel’s Skillet Apple Pie?
Well, here’s a recipe much like hers but updated for you! From author friend Ann Everett (A.K.A. Pattiecake McAlister) who has recently debuted a MUST-HAVE new cookbook out: Sweet Thangs!
A perfect gift cookbook, full of fantabulous recipes! I know…she tested them on her writers’ group colleagues, so I helped sample as she went! I highly recommend Sweet Thangs!
Apple Pie in Cast Iron Skillet
Ingredients
3 pounds Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored,
quartered, and thinly sliced.
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 cup granulated sugar
½ cup butter
1 cup firmly packed light or dark brown sugar
(Ingredients continued)
3-(9 inch) pie crusts
1 egg white
Extra cinnamon and sugar for sprinkling
Directions
~ Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
~ Toss apples with cinnamon and ¾ cup sugar.
~ Melt butter in a 10-inch cast-iron skillet over medium heat.
~ Add brown sugar, and cook, stirring constantly, 1-2 minutes
or until sugar is dissolved.
~ Remove from heat and place 1 piecrust in skillet over the
brown sugar mixture. Brush crust with egg white which has
been whisked until it’s foamy.
~ Spoon ½ of apple mixture over piecrust, then top with second
crust, and brush with egg white.
~ Spoon remaining half of apple mixture over that crust, and
top with final pie crust, brushing it with egg white, as well.
~ Sprinkle top crust with sugar and cinnamon.
~ Cut 4 or 5 slits in top of crust for steam to escape.
~ Bake for approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour or until golden
brown and bubbly, shielding with aluminum foil during last
10 minutes to prevent excessive browning, if necessary.
~ Cool on wire rack 30 minutes before serving.
In Texas, we eat apple pie with vanilla ice cream Y’all enjoy!
Caryl’s Other Titles
with Five-Star Reviews
Historical Texas Romances
…for Vow Unbroken
With an intriguing plot line and well-developed characters, McAdoo, who's written nonfiction and children's fiction, delivers an engaging read for her first adult historical romance. --Publishers Weekly
After reading Caryl McAdoo's story of Henry and Susannah in "VOW UNBROKEN," I felt like I'd had another adventure with Tom Sawyer and Becky, this time as young adults. --Alan Daugherty: columnist The News-Banner
…for Hearts Stolen
Get ready for a wild, uplifting, heart-tugging, page-turning ride. Hearts Stolen grabbed me at the start. Sassy’s feisty, fighting spirit…I couldn’t set it down. Burnt dinner, but forget eating, I ate this book up. This master storyteller weaves Texas history into a well-crafted plot with unforgettable and totally loved characters. --Holly Michael, author, Crooked Lines
…for Hope Reborn
With memorable characters, Caryl’s signature humor, and plenty of adventure, drama, and romance, “Hope Reborn” is anything but fluff. A strong message of salvation runs through, but well within the storyline. Enjoyed a unique twist with May writing the stories of the previous characters – clever and fun!
--Pam Morrison, Tennessee reader
Contemporary Red River Romances
…for The Preacher’s Faith
Great story! Hope there’s a sequel, and I’d love to see the artful dodger as a part of it. Maybe a reunion? And he could find his mother. Just love curling up in an afghan with a cup of cappuccino and reading Caryl’s books! Keep on writing!
--Lenda Selph, Texas reader
This was my first book to read by Caryl McAdoo and I absolutely loved it. I will be reading more. I love the way she prays that her story gives God Glory and dedicates The Preacher’s Faith to Him and His Kingdom…a good clean book to read. I was drawn into this story right from the start. I loved this book and can’t wait for book two.
--Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Dent, Alabama reader
…for Sing a New Song
Sing A New Song is a delightful breath of Christian air. Caryl eloquently brings her audience always nearer to God and opens readers to fresh ways of viewing Christian life and all it offers. The characters are loveable and humorous. The romantic tale, just as lovely, demonstrates Christian virtues best remembered. Illuminating, the story shares the Gospel beautifully. Samuel’s sermons as well as the gorgeous lyrics of Mary Esther’s songs fill our hearts with newfound worship. Truly an inspiring tale. Christian fiction in its best; a romantic love story that brings its readers closer to God. A treasure for sure.
--Christine Barber, author of Broken to Pieces
…for One and Done
Faster than a major league outfielder pulling down a popup fly ball, Caryl McAdoo’s romance is guaranteed to snag baseball lovers and romance readers alike. This Christian story is written with wit, verve and Caryl McAdoo’s usual flare for dialect and spicy dialogue. Be warned. Those readers searching for a saccharine, man-meets-woman story will soon discover this is no sanitized romantic fairy tale. From the beginning, the reader will identify with real people who live clearly in the mind, so much so, that a person can almost smell locker room sweat or the mouthwatering scent of spicy Mexican food. Identification with the hero and heroine is nearly immediate. With so much to rave about, this review cannot begin to cover all the delightful surprises, so the reader simply must buy “One and Done” to see for themselves.
–Cass Wessel, multi-published devotional author
Contemporary Apple Orchard Romance
…for Lady Luck’s a Loser
A very unique, witty plot. I couldn't put it down. I love that my favorite characters are still very much active at the end of the book only their relationships have changed. What a way for Dub to fulfill his promises to his deceased wife. Love, trust, forgiveness, and many emotions make for a well written book.
--Joy Gibson, Tennessee reader
The Generations Biblical fiction
…for A Little Lower
Than the Angels
Caryl McAdoo used her research and knowledge of biblical scripture combined with an incredible imagination as a foundation to fill in the gaps of the story of Adam and Eve and their children. I was caught up in the story from page one to the ending. I particularly appreciated the "Search the Scriptures" section at the end which explains some of the Biblical clues for this work of fiction. I loved it and highly recommend it.
--Judy Levine, reader, Arizona
…for Then the Deluge Comes
Deluge is the second book in The Generations Series, and if the books still to follow are as good as this one and the first one in the series are it is going to be an incredible series. The author has a way of breathing life and emotions into the characters that made me feel like I was on the sidelines watching their stories unfold. This is some of the best Biblical fiction that I have read and I look forward to the rest of the series. I was furnished with an e-copy of the book in return for an honest review. --Ann Ellis, reader, Texas
…for Replenish the Earth
Caryl McAdoo has retold the familiar Genesis flood account with clarity and sensitivity. While remaining faithful to the King James Version, the human story beneath the print page comes alive drawing the reader into the pathos and joys of real breathing people faced with
the most devastating natural disaster ever known in human history, one which survives in the mythology of every culture and race, but which is most fully and literally told in the pages of the Bible. This reviewer loved this segment of The Generations Series and heartily recommends the whole work.
--Cass Wessel, multi-published devotional author
Non-Fiction
…for Story & Style, The Craft
of Writing Creative Fiction
This is a wonderful book for those wanting to learn more about writing. I know from experience. The content helped me tremendously!! It especially helped me gain a clear picture of POV and the use of action versus attribution to strengthen my writing and make my debut book the best it can be. Thank you, Caryl, your continued helping hands are a blessing to many of us rookie writers!!
--Andy Skrzynski, author of
The New World, A Step Backward
And Coming Soon…
Starfish Prime ~ (a change in October’s release)
A mid-grade not-so-far-into-the-future dystopia. Book One of The King’s Highway trilogy / October 13, 2015