Goliad County, Texas United States of America

This is a (sub) project of the State of Texas and Counties Project and the Goliad County, Texas sub-project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Goliad County, Texas.

Goliad County, Texas Genealogy on familysearch.org

Goliad County, Texas on Wikipedia

Goliad County, Texas on historictexas.net website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla

Adjacent counties

• DeWitt County (north)
• Victoria County (northeast)
• Refugio County (southeast)
• Bee County (southwest)
• Karnes County (northwest)

History and Historical Timeline

Spanish Texas

Missions

• Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga Mission

Presidios

• Nuestra Señora de Loreto de La Bahía del Espíritu Santo Presidio (Presidio La Bahía)

Mexican Texas

February 4, 1829 - Villa de Goliad, formerly La Bahía, was decreed. 1834 - Cholera epidemic 02 Oct 1835 - twenty-four-man Mexican garrison

20 Dec 1835 - Goliad Declaration of Independence is signed

Republic of Texas

Texas, United States of America

Cemeteries

1. Barnes Cemetery
2. Berclair Cemetery, Berclair
3. Berger Cemetery
4. Charco Cemetery
5. Christian Church Cemetery
6. Church of Christ- Bethel Cemetery, Weesatche
7. Cologne Cemetery, Cologne
8. Cristo Rey Cemetery
9. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=3158&CScntry=... Danforth Cemetery]
10. Fannin Cemetery (also known as Live Oak Cemetery
11. Flores Cemetery
12. Franklin Cemetery
13. Garnot Cemetery
14. Glendale Cemetery
15. Glendale Lutheran Cemetery
16. Goliad Cemetery
17. Hardeman Cemetery, Goliad
18. Harper Cemetery, Charco
19. Hoff Cemetery, Goliad
20. Holy Cross Cemetery
21. John Pettus Cemetery
22. Kilgore Cemetery
23. Killebrew Cemetery
24. La Bahia Cemetery
25. La Presidio Historical Grave
26. Lott Pettus Cemetery
27. McGuill Cemetery
28. Menahulla
29. Mistletoe Cemetery
30. Moya Cemetery, Berclair
32. Mucorrera Cemetery
33. Myers Cemetery
34. Noble Cemetery
35. Oak Hill Cemetery, Goliad
36. Peck Cemetery, Goliad
37. Phillips Ranch, Goliad
38. Purcell #2
39. Riverdale Cemetery
40. Saint Andrews Lutheran Church Cemetery, Weesatche
41. Saint Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
42. Saint Peters Lutheran Church Cemetery, Anders
43. San Antonio Cemetery
44. San Fernando De Los Flores Cemetery
45. San Jacsinto Cemetery
46. San Jose Cemetery
47. Sarco Cemetery
48. Sepenter Cemetery
49. Singer Cemetery
50. Smith Ranch
51. Stehle Family Cemetery / Germania Cemetery
52. Stockton Cemetery
53. Swickheimer Ranch, Fannin
54. Taber Cemetery
55. Vivion Family Cemetery
56. Weesatche Cemetery, Weesatche
57. Weesatche Mexican Cemetery, Weesatche
58. Wells
59. Whitby Cemetery
60. Wisbey Cemetery
61. Wood's Sarco Cemetery
62. Woodlawn Cemetery

Natural and Other Disasters

• The 1902 Goliad, Texas tornado devastated the town, killing 114 people, including Sheriff Robert Shaw. It is tied for the deadliest tornado in Texas history and the 10th-deadliest in the United States. (Wikipedia)

Places

• Goliad (county seat)
• Ander
• Angel City
• Berclair
• Charco
• Fannin
• Kilgore
• Melrose
• Sarco
• Schroeder
• Weesatche
• Weser

Notables

• José de Escandón (tsha link) - Northern Mexico and South Texas Colonizer
• Mexican General Ignacio Seguín Zaragoza was born in Goliad on March 4,1829 and he commanded the forces resisting the French Army in the battle of Puebla, now celebrated in the United States of America as Cinco de Mayo on May 5, 1862. (Wikipedia)
• Benjamin R. Milam
• George Collinsworth
• Captain Philip Dimmitt
• James Walker Fannin, Junior
• King Fisher, Texas gunfighter, lived for a time in Goliad before moving to Eagle Pass in Maverick County, Texas. (Wikipedia)
• Sheriff Robert Shaw.
• Bernardo de Gálvez
• Henry Perry
• James Long
• Rafael Antonio Manchola
• Juan Moya, a prominent Tejano landowner and Mexican army captain who fought in the Texas Revolution, was lynched, along with his two sons, by a mob who suspected them of murdering a neighboring family in Goliad County

Sources

• Almaráz, Félix D., Jr. (1971), Tragic Cavalier: Governor Manuel Salcedo of Texas, 1808–1813 (2nd ed.), College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 0-89096-503-X
• Chipman, Donald E. (1992), Spanish Texas, 1519–1821, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-77659-4
• Hardin, Stephen L. (1994), Texian Iliad – A Military History of the Texas Revolution, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-73086-1, OCLC 29704011
• Davenport, Harbert; Roell, Craig H. "GOLIAD MASSACRE". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
• Roell, Craig H. (1994), Remember Goliad! A History of La Bahia, Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series (9), Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, ISBN 0-87611-141-X
• http://www.txcip.org/tac/census/profile.php?FIPS=48175
• Weber, David J. (1992), The Spanish Frontier in North America, Yale Western Americana Series, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-05198-0