Name: Willie E Root
Home in 1930: Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Age: 64
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1866
Birthplace: Texas
Relation to Head of House: Mother
Race: White
Household Members: Name Age
Jewel Wortham 29
Glynn R Wortham 6
Willie E Root 64

Mother: Texanna Isabella ( McKenzie) Brizendine Born in Louisiana in 1848, Died in Gabriel Mills, Williamson County, Texas in 1921
Father: John Robert Brizendine Born in Versailles, Woodford County, Kentucky in 1843, Died in Gabriel Mills, Williamson County, Texas in 1904

Willie Elizabeth (Brizendine) Root born in Gabriel, Williamson County Texas, Sept 1866. Wife of Aaron Jefferson Root, Born: Pontotoc, Pontotoc County, Mississippi in 1861. Died in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, 1921
Children: Daughters: Pearl Root, 1889-1899 Bertram, Williamson County, Texas , Jewel Taylor Root Wortham: Born in Bertram, Williamson, Texas in 1900. Died: Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida in 1974. SONS: Jesse Albert Root Born in Burnet, Burnet County, Texas in 1890. Died in Austin, Travis County, Texas, 1983, Thomas Jefferson Root Born in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, in 1895. Died in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana in 1971.

GABRIEL MILLS, TX. Gabriel Mills was on the North San Gabriel River eight miles southwest of Florence in northwestern Williamson County. An Englishman, Samuel E. Mather, built a water-powered gristmill at the site about 1849. The community was known at different times as Mather Mills, Brizendine Mills, and Gabriel Mills. The settlement was augmented by a number of families in the early 1850s and had a Masonic lodge and a two-story combination lodge-church-schoolhouse by 1856. Farmers came from a wide radius to use the mill and the stores that were established in the later 1850s. A post office was opened in the town in 1858. By 1884 Gabriel Mills had seventy-five inhabitants, a mill, a gin, a school, and two churches. The community reached a peak population of eighty in 1890 and thereafter declined rapidly. By 1892 its population had dropped to thirty, in 1905 its post office was discontinued, sometime before 1915 the lodge was destroyed in a fire, and by 1920 the community was deserted. In 1988 all that survived of Gabriel Mills was a cemetery.