Genealogy Projects tagged with Rusk County on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Rusk County, Wisconsin

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rusk County, Wisconsin. Official Website Founded in 1901, Rusk County was originally named Gates County after Milwaukee land speculator James L. Gates. It was renamed Rusk County in 1905 after Jeremiah M. Rusk, governor of Wisconsin and the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. It was formed out of the northern portion of Chippewa Co...

  • Rusk County, Texas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rusk County, Texas. The county is named for Thomas Jefferson Rusk, a secretary of war of the Republic of Texas. Prior to Texas annexation in 1845, the land while from time to time occupied by Caddoan peoples, was generally unpopulated until 1819 when Cherokee Indians, led by The Bowl settled in what is now Rusk County. The Treaty of...

  • Gould Cemetery, Sulphur Springs, Texas

    This cemetery is located on County Road 3206, Sulphur Springs, Rusk County, Texas. Find a Grave

  • Mount Tabor Indian Community

    The Mount Tabor Indian Community (also Texas Cherokees and Associate Bands of the Mount Tabor Indian Community) is a state-recognized tribe made up of primarily Cherokees as well as Choctaw, Chickasaw and Muscogee-Creek Indians located in Rusk County, Texas.All things Mount Tabor ===Links * Wikipedia * History - Mount Tabor Indian Community * Mt. Tabor Indian Community - “Ancestral Roll” see “d...

  • Lakewood Memorial Park, Henderson, Texas

    The cemetery is located on 1001 North Van Buren Street, Henderson, Rusk County, Texas. Find a Grave USGW Archives TX GenWeb

  • New London, TX School Explosion 1937

    Website link for New London School Museum New London, Texas, was known as the richest independent school district in the United States. Due to its oil wealth, the district was able to construct a state-of-the-art, for its time, school to house grades K-11.On March 18, 1937 students prepared for an Inter-scholastic meet in Henderson. Then, at 3:17 p.m., an instructor in the shop class turned o...