Installed: 20 February 2005
Family HOUSTON WebBOOK This PRIVATE web site intended for family and friends for the purpose of archiving events of the Family HOUSTON.
The WebBOOK will be OFF-LINE when thunderstorms are pending or if the WebGuy is away from the site.NOTE: On THUMBNAIL Photo pages, CLICK little one ONCE to get a BIG one.
This is a group of photos centered around the Family HOUSTON and their RELATIVEs (ex PATRICIA / RELATIVES). It covers events, young, later (after marriage & kids) and stuff.
Additionally, older, blurry CAPTURES of 8mm film and early videos are listed on the LEFT menu in order of years as best that we can remember.These stills are captures from DVDs the WebGuy has. There were many steps in the process of getting them to DVD burning and back out to the WebBOOK which accounts for the fuzzy stuff. Our equipment went from 8mm film to 35mm slides to VHS Camcorder to Digital still camera with the later being used for most of the photos. It was used for scanning old paper photos.
This is the link to Digital Videos of events since mid 2005.
This link contains an official family tree commisioned by Clayton's grandfather, Samuel Mathews Houston. Further, it contains some documents submitted for membership into the Sons of the Revolutionary War.
This link contains a history of Pat and Clay's 60 years of marriage
There are more Grafs than Houstons. Many of their photos are included in the Houston Events but the structure of the family is shown in this section with hopes that the photos match up with the names. Be sure to click "The Beginning" to see Mary and Bill Graf with only 2 kinds.If you have additional photos and information you wished included in this package, please send it to Clay.
We are mind-boggled when it comes to the "cousins". Here are a group of photos that we have not identified and/or linked up with their family. Please review the family tables and match up with photos. If no photos are herein, please send a JPG type, the name, and the proper family link so we can complete the table matrix. Also, for the tables, please note the order of the names. Our notes are pretty poor. Email information to Clay.
My Search discusses Clay's effort to obtain copies of Bold Legacy and what he did to include it into the private Family HOUSTON web page.
Bold Legacy is a historical text written by Cleburne Huston about the Houston's. It has discussions about happenings as early as 844 and as late as the 1800s. A Houston could enjoy seeing their heritage even though it's mind boggeling to keep up with all the begetting and branches.
Clay put together a time chart of the events around his life. This pop up history reflects his work and family event in an attempt to keep the time frames in perspective.
This is the application for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. Clay's grandfather made the application and hence, Clay and all of the children and grandchildren follow down that lineage. Each can trace his relatives back to John Houston, born here in what is to be the United States of America in 1737 and fought in the American Revolutionary War from 1777 to 1781.
This summarizes what we did to raise our children.
This link contains family history and career resumes of the Class of Parks College 1950.
Pat and Clay have been doing most of their Christmas cards in a web based letter for the past few years. The size of the file got too large for many of our family and friends. In 2004 they thought putting it on a web page would make it work but Ma Bell put a limit of 3 viewings a day. Now they have Ma Bell re-direct visitors to their home-based server box that has enough space for the next hundred years.
We have taken many trips over the years with family and relatives and are documenting them in an attempt to rekindle memories of those good times without having to sort through the hours of videos and 8 mm film.
In 2001 Pat, Clay, Jean (Pat's sister)and Bill took a big loop through the north west USA. The auto trip completed a state count of 48 for Clay leaving only 2 missed (NE & ND). He took some 2100 photos for your review.
This is the trip that the Danhauers, the Walkers, the Houstons and Father Herb took in 1987. It was for a week on the Big Island and a week at Molokai. It included a mule ride down the mountain for Jean, Bill and Herb to see the leper colony.
The Florida island gave us access to a lot of old thingys around St Augustine. The Danhauers, the Houstons, the Haydens and Father Herb had a lot of sight seeing to get in.
Mark, Lisa, little Clay, Pat and Clay to a 7 days cruise to the Bahamas. It was Pat and Clay's first time and it was real enjoyable.
All of the kids took/sent Pat and Clay to a 7 days cruise to the Caribbean. It was Pat and Clay's up coming 50th Anniversary. Here are the still photos for you viewing.
All of the kids took/sent Pat and Clay to a 7 days cruise to the Caribbean. It was Pat and Clay's up coming 50th Anniversary. Here are the still videos for you viewing. Each are BIG so you may have problems downloading such.
One our first trips after retiring was to New Smyrna FL. The day trip to Cyprus Gardens was so neat that it is give it's own folder.
On the same trip, we got to Disney World. The Grafs had to go on toe south Florida but were there in spirit. It was a fun, but wet day for all except Clay.
This was our first visit to Gulf Shores AL. We did a lot of shopping but due to the September time frame, most of the stores were closed. The Danhauers, the Grafs, the Houstons and Father Herb got to see the ship and the Naval Air Station museum in Florida. It's in another section here.
This is one of our many trips to Gulf Shores with the Houston family (Mike and Donna's bunch). We did Lambert's (the home of the throw'd rolls) and the amusement park.
This is the second one of our many trips to Gulf Shores with the Houston family (Mike and Donna's bunch). This time, Mark, Lisa and little Clay got to come. Pat and Clay went with the Awald's in Donna's new GMC Yukon with the 4 TV sets. Again, we did Lambert's (the home of the throw'd rolls) and the amusement park.
This is the third one of our many trips to Gulf Shores with the Houston family (Mark's, Mike's and Donna's bunches). This time, Bob, Kathy and Robby got to come. Pat and Clay went via Columbus and picked up the Bob crew. Again, we did Lambert's (the home of the throw'd rolls) and the amusement park.
This trip was just with the Danhauer's and Houston's. We ate sea food 30 of 31 days. A small hurricane came through about 50 miles south of our condo; no damage to us.
This was one of our earliest trips after retirement. It was with the Danhauers, the Grafs and us Houstons. This is where we went to Disney and Cyprus Gardens noted above.
In September 2003 we went to Owensboro KY for a Hayden grandkids wedding and got to see most of the Danhauer's children's homes. Father Herb did the "Marr'n Sam" officiating.
Mike get's a rental in July at St George and we go for half the week. Lisa's family goes the second half. Betty, Andy and Logan were visiting early enough to go.
In 2002, Dan and Celeste got married at the Fort in New York. Many of the Houston's participate and attended the festivities. Here is the story.
As you would expect, Clay acquired some photos of airplanes. This section presents most of them. Some are with the Events sections.
We saw one of the best air museums at NAS Pensicola which is the Blue Angles home base where they practice every Tuesday at 0800.
Clay left Miami before his senior year after his Father died. He had gone through most of his schooling with this group of students (now old folks) and was able to attend their 50th class reunion.
In one of Clay's non-busy time he wrote a wild SiFi novel about guy who learned how to change genes and make the world better. His pen name was "Woof" Houston, (Woof was given by one of his daughters. It stands for "Well Off Old Fart"
Clay spent most of his 40 years working in the technical side of flight testing and as such acquired a lot of technical stuff. With the concurrence of the Society of Flight Test Engineering (SFTE), after retirement, he created a web package of how to flight test an airplane. It needed and, at this time, still needs peer approval before including it the official SFTE WebSite. It is included here so it won't get lost if approval never comes.
This is a study of King Hammurabi's rule of laws from his 1700 BC times. Here, Clay has gathered information from the web and consolidated such into 16 rules called the Citizen's Code of Ethics.
Here is an analysis of Social Security pay-in vs. pay-out that illustrates the big secret called "adjusted for inflation". It provides data that shows he will only get back 46% of the money he paid in.
Pat and Clay are proud of the accomplishments of their kids, kids-in-law and grandkids. Here is a central location for viewing there resumes.
This is a working file to expedite web site development
This is a working file to expedite web site development
This allows family and friends to listen to recorded MP3s via password.
This is a working file to expedite web site development