About 1848, the entire Montgomery family began the long move from Missouri to Texas. Just before leaving, sixteen-year-old daughter Rebecca Montgomery married William Wayland and they joined the caravan of mule wagons. As the group made their slow way south, they camped at Dallas where Rebecca’s young husband became ill and died very suddenly. After burying him there, the family travelled on to Austin where a baby girl was born to Mrs. Wayland. Two years later she moved with her parents to secure more land near Lockhart in order that her father might engage in the cattle business. Shortly after that, Rebecca married 20 year-old Andrew Lee Brock, a native of Virginia who had come to Texas via Missouri in 1849. “Started farming with a wagon and team” was a favorite remark of Mr. Brock’s in later years. While he owned only a wagon and team, Mr. Montgomery gave him two hundred acres of land about two miles from Lockhart for a wedding present. They built a log house of hand-hewn logs, Mr. Brock doing most of the work. “But, Rebecca would make me a green grape pie, when I did a good day’s work,” was a tribute from Mr. Brock. There were two rooms across the front with a long shed room across the back and a long gallery across the front. The kitchen was just back of the house, but did not join it. Mr. Brock grew cotton, corn, wheat and oats. As the cotton industry grew, he built a mule-powered cotton gin and grist mill for his own use and that of his neighbors. When the War Between the States broke out, Mr. Brock hauled freight to Laredo for the Confederacy with oxen teams. He would return with a load of supplies---coffee, salt, sugar, calico and other supplies which were sold to the neighbors. As he traveled, Mr. Brock would camp  in order  to  get  through