Slaughter Family, part one

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  • VODA BETH GRADINE
    VODA BETH GRADINE
  • John Bunyan Slaughter (J. B.) was born on December 15, 1848, in Sabine County. He spent his childhood riding and working cattle for his dad, creating the U Lazy S in 1901. | COURTESY PHOTO
    John Bunyan Slaughter (J. B.) was born on December 15, 1848, in Sabine County. He spent his childhood riding and working cattle for his dad, creating the U Lazy S in 1901. | COURTESY PHOTO

    Ancestors of some of our local people go back as far as the minutemen capturing the British or helping Andrew Jackson at the battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Mark, Drew, and Kyle Kirkpatrick and Kyle’s sons, Jeff and Jett Lott and Jett’s children, Bob and Mike Macy, and Brogan Macy Warner and her children, who live in Post are part of the Slaughter family ancestry going back to the Re…