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Wikipedia University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (informally UT Austin, UT, University of Texas, or simply Texas) is a state research university and the flagship institution of The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883 as "The University of Texas", its campus is located in Austin—approximately 1 mile (1,600 m) from the Texas State Capitol. The institution has ...
The Mexican–American War , also known as the First American Intervention , the Mexican War , or the U.S.–Mexican War , was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution.Combat operations lasted a year and a half, from spring 1846 to fall 18...
Wikipedia Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, TAMU, or A&M) is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas, United States. It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System, the fourth-largest university in the United States and the largest university in Texas. Texas A&M's designation as a land, sea, and space grant institution reflects a range of ...
A project for those who have family members who go back to the days of Mexican Texas and the Republic of Texas. Mexican Texas is the name given by Texas history scholars to the period between 1821 and 1836, when Texas was governed by Mexico. The Republic of Texas was an independent nation in North America, bordering the United States and Mexico, that existed from 1836 to 1846.Mexican Texas - Wi...
Pioneers of Texas= >Welcome to the Pioneer of Texas Project. Please add profiles that were born or migrated to Texas between the years of 1599 and 1899. The importance of this project is to trace the early settlers of Texas and to be sure everyone is recognized and highlighted by a side project. A few early pioneers are highlighted, but they need assistance adding more profiles of our ancestors...
Wikipedia Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a 295-acre campus in Houston, Texas, United States. The university is situated near the Houston Museum District and is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. It is consistently ranked among the top 20 universities in the U.S. and the top 100 in...
The project purpose is to connect all of the Geni profiles of those who were defenders at the Alamo. The primary reference for the defenders is , which provides links to details on each person.Another list of defenders (including survivors) : of Texan survivors of the Battle of the Alamo: (free) users can join the project and help with expanding on the details within existing profiles and resea...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Upshur County, Texas. Official Website Established in 1846, Upshur County was named for Abel Parker Upshur, Secretary of State under John Tyler. Upshur County has the distinction of being the county that has the largest settlement in Texas organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1904, the Latter-day Saint ...
This project is used to relate all units from Texas who served in the Confederate Army. Handbook of Texas Online: Civil War Texas Military Forces Museum: Texas Military Forces in the Civil War Texas Civil War Confederate Units Texas Civil War Museum Texas Military Forces Museum: Texas During the Civil War Under the Rebel Flag: From the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Sa...
Please bring your Texas Ranger profiles on over to this project - must be set to "public."* from Texas Department of Public Safety ==Silver Stars and Sixguns: The Texas Rangers=="They were men who could not be stampeded"That's the way the late Colonel Homer Garrison, Jr., longtime director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, once described the men who have worn the silver or gold star of ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Williamson County, Texas. Official Website The county was established on March 13, 1948, and is named for Robert McAlpin Williamson (1804? –1859), a community leader and a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto. Adjacent Counties Milam County Bell County Lee County Bastrop County Travis County Burnet County Citie...
United States Senators from TexasList of United States Senators from Texas (from U.S. Senate web site--no links) of United States Senators from Texas (with wikipedia links)
In 1850, Samuel and Elizabeth Berry brought their family and slaves here from Limestone County, Alabama. Samuel's plantation covered hundreds of acres and included a cotton gin and gristmill. Berry Cemetery began in 1863 when Samuel's grandson and namesake died. He and his twin sister, Elizabeth, who died in 1869, were buried on the crest of a hill on the Berry plantation. A low red rock wall e...
Wikipedia The county is named for Sam Houston. It is the county seat of Harris County .
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Tarrant County, Texas. Official Website Tarrant County, one of 26 counties created out of the Peters Colony, was established in 1849. It was named in honor of General Edward H. Tarrant of the Republic of Texas militia. For a complete list of other towns & communities, please see Wikipedia Adjacent Counties Ellis Cou...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Harris County, Texas.= Official Website = History Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca may have visited the area in 1529. French traders recorded passing through in the 18th century. Spaniards attempted to establish a fort in the area around the same time, but did not persist for long.The first recorded European settlers in Harris County arrive...
Wikipedia Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas,and the flagship institution of the Texas Tech University System. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the four-institution Texas Tech University System. The university's student enro...
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A collection of the earliest Colonists to settle in Texas while it was under the authority of Mexico. This happened during the 1820's & about 300 individuals/ families migrated to Texas. The name "Old Three Hundred" refers to the settlers who received land grants in Stephen F. Austin's first colony in Mexico. Austin traveled to New Orleans to seek colonists. By Summer 1824 most of the Old Thre...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Austin, Texas. Austin is the county seat of Travis County, Texas and the state capital of Texas . Official Website Overview Residents of Austin are known as Austinites. They include a diverse mix of government employees, college students, musicians, high-tech workers, blue-collar workers, and a vibrant LGBT community. The city'...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Travis County, Texas. Official Website The county was established in 1840 and is named in honor of William Barret Travis, the commander of the Republic of Texas forces at the Battle of the Alamo. It is located along the Balcones Fault, the boundary between the Edwards Plateau to the west and the Blackland Prairie to the east. In ...
This project is for those buried in Belvieu Cemetery, also known as Rotan Cemetery , Rotan, Fisher County, Texas. Find a Grave
The Border War was part of the greater Mexican Revolution. At points in the war, the rebels were supported by the German Empire. Wikipedia The Border War, or the Border Campaign, refers to the military engagements which took place in the Mexico-United States border region of North America during the Mexican Revolution. The Bandit War in Texas was part of the Border War. From the beginning of...
The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is the law school of the University of Texas at Austin. Texas Law is consistently ranked as one of the top law schools in the United States and is highly selective—registering the 8th lowest acceptance rate among all U.S. law schools for the class of 2022—with an acceptance rate of 17.5%. According to Texas Law’s 2019 disclosures, 90% of the Cla...
This project is for those buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Bellevue, Clay County, Texas. Find a Grave
Wikipedia =Lamar University, often referred to as Lamar or LU, is a public coeducational doctoral/research university in Beaumont, Texas. Lamar has been a member of the Texas State University System since 1995. It was the flagship institution of the former Lamar University System. As of the fall of 2016, the university enrollment was 15,022 students. Lamar University is accredited by the Southe...
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Bexar County, Texas, United States of America =This project is for anyone that was born, lived, or died in Bexar County, Texas since its creation in 1836. There are or will be "sub-projects" for the founding families of La Villa de San Antonio de Bexar. See Related Projects.Bexar County, Texas has a long rich history that goes back more than a hundred years before its official existence as Bexa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in DeWitt County, Texas. History Before European settlement, the Tonkawa, Aranamas, Tamiques, Karankawa. Tawakoni, Lipan Apache and Comanche first lived and hunted in the county.The first European visitors to the county are thought to have been Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and hi...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lavaca County, Texas.The county was created in 1846 and was named for the Lavaca River. Adjacent Counties * Fayette County * Colorado County * Gonzales County * Jackson County * Victoria County * DeWitt County Cities, Towns & Communities *Breslau*Hallettsville (County Seat)*Moulton*Shiner*Speaks*Sublime*Sweet Home*Yoakum (part) Links...
The county was founded in 1850 and is named for Peter Hansborough Bell , the third governor of Texas. Official Website Wikipedia
Around 1856, Richard (Dick) Aaron Belew (1820-1900) and Mary Jane Belew (1822-1902), their five children and 39 other families came together by wagon from Tennessee to Denton County. They stopped on a hill in the area later known as the Belew Schoolhouse Settlement, part of the A.G. Stapp Survey north of Aubrey. A school soon opened in a log cabin at the site and was later used as a church. The...
This project is for those buried in Beeville Memorial Park, Beeville, Bee County, Texas. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Donley County, Texas.Donley County was established in 1876 from land given by the Bexar District. It is named for Stockton P. Donley, justice of the state supreme court. Adjacent Counties * Gray County * Collingsworth County * Hall County * Briscoe County * Armstrong County * Wheeler County Cities & Communities *Clarendon (County Seat...
Wikipedia The county was founded December 8, 1857, and organized the next year. It is named after Barnard E. Bee, Sr. , a secretary of state of the Republic of Texas.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Milam County, Texas.The county was created in 1834 as a municipality in Mexico and organized as a county in 1837. It was named for Benjamin Rush Milam (pronounced "MY-lum"), an early settler and a soldier in the Texas Revolution. Adjacent Counties * Falls County * Robertson County * Bell County * Lee County * Williamson County * Burle...
This was the burial site for the First Baptist Church starting about 1859. January 28, 1859, is the first burial listed, Jul 31, 1984, is the last burial listed. In about 1974, the church deeded the cemetery over to an association. It has been owned and maintained by a board under the Bedias Cemetery Association since that time. In Bedias, Grimes County, Texas, at the Intersection of Route 169...
Wikipedia ==Baylor University=Baylor University is a private Baptist university in Waco, Texas. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and was one of the first educational institutions west of the Mississippi River in the United States. The university's 1,000-acre campus is located on the banks of the Brazos River next to free...
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...
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Wikipedia =The county is named for Lewis Cass , Governor, Senator & Secretary of War.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Beaumont, Texas. Beaumont is the county seat of Jefferson County on the Neches River. Official Website Overview Beaumont was founded as a town in 1835. The early European–American settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commercia...
The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team located in Houston, Texas. The Astros are members of the American League (AL) West division in Major League Baseball (MLB), having moved to the division in 2013 after spending their first 51 seasons in the National League (NL). The Astros have played their home games at Minute Maid Park since 2000.The Astros were established as the H...
The Texas Rangers are an American professional baseball team located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and based in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers franchise is currently a member of the West division of the American League (AL) in Major League Baseball (MLB). Since 1994, the Rangers have played in Globe Life Park in Arlington in Arlington, Texas. The team's name is borrowed from the famous law ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Collin County, Texas.= Wikipedia =The county is named for Collin McKinney .
Wikipedia =Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Leon County, Texas.The legislature of the Republic of Texas authorized Leon County in 1846 and named it in honor of Martín de León, the founder of Victoria, Texas. However, local tradition holds that it is named for a yellow wolf of the region commonly called the león (Spanish for lion). Adjacent Counties * Freestone County * Anderson...
St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery at Ammannsville, [Fayette County], Texas was established in 1889 upon burial of Anton Barta, 18 January 1873 - 23 April 1889, the first grave. The land was purchased from three people: Theophilus Heller sold five acres of land to the Right Reverend Bishop John C. Neraz for two dollars on 11 September 1888. Josef and Magdalena Vacek sold three and a quarter...
St. Anne's Cemetery, also known as Eastgate Catholic Cemetery , is a small rural cemetery in Liberty County, Texas. It has approximately 300 interments. Earliest dated headstones are late 1920s and the cemetery is still active. Established in 1910s by Czech families who settled in the Dayton area, Eastgate was known as the “easternmost Czech settlement in Texas.” The church was established by ...
This project is for those buried in Bear Creek Cemetery, Bertram, Burnet County, Texas. Find a Grave
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Texas.= Official Website =Fayette County was established in 1837 from land given by Bastrop and Colorado Counties. It is named for the Marquis de Lafayette, a French nobleman who became an American Revolutionary War hero. It is the location of the real Chicken Ranch, which was the basis of the musical play and feature...
This project is for those from Texas and/or their respective Counties. : Only add profiles to this project if the county or counties is/are unknown. For example, John Doe's birth, marriage, or death place is listed as Texas Please follow this link for more information. of Honor Recipients - Texans (either born in Texas or the Home of Record is Texas)==Texas claims 75 Medal of Honor Recipients, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Baylor County, Texas. The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1879. It is named for Henry Weidner Baylor , a surgeon in the Texas Rangers during the Mexican–American War . Adjacent Counties Wilbarger County Archer County Throckmorton County Knox County
CONFEDERATE TEXAS TROOPS===10th Regiment, Texas Infantry (Nelson's)==10th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Waco, Texas, during the winter of 1861-1862. Many of its members were from Houston and Tyler, and Grimes, Freestone, San Augustine, and Washington counties. It served in the Department of Texas, then was captured at Arkansas Post in January, 1863. Exchanged and reorganized, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grayson County, Texas.= Official Website = History The earliest known inhabitants of what is now Grayson County were Caddo Amerindian groups, including Tonkawa, Ionis, and Kichai. These groups engaged in agriculture and traded with Spanish and French colonists at trading posts along the Red River.[3] Trading posts were established at ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Texas.The county was established in 1835 as a municipality of Mexico, which had gained independence from Spain. Because the area was lightly settled, the Mexican government allowed European Americans from the United States to settle here if they pledged loyalty to Mexico. This was organized as a county in 1837 after ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in McLennan County, Texas.= Official Website ==History=McLennan County was created by the Texas Legislature in 1850 and was named for Neil McLennan, an early settler.According to local lore, the first sustained flight did not occur in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, but just outside Tokio (a small community in McLennan County) by a man flyi...
This is a beautiful large cemetery located in West TX. The cemetery has good signage, a historical marker and is fenced. The property is well maintained and contains some statues and older majestic headstones. St Mary’s has a kiosk with a cemetery map and a listing of all burials and locations. There are mature trees throughout the acreage and the graves are plotted in straight rows and most co...
Wikipedia Texas Christian University (TCU) is a private, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas. The campus is located on 272 acres about three miles (8 km) from downtown Fort Worth. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ. Its mascot is the "horned frog". For most varsity sports TCU competes in the Big 12 conference of the NCAA's Division I. The uni...
Wikipedia =National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame=The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is a museum and association which honors women of the American West who have displayed courage or spirit and who have distinguished themselves while exemplifying the pioneer spirit. The facility is located in the Cultural District of Fort Worth, Texas, USA, adjacent to the Fort Worth Museum of Scien...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sherman County, Texas. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1889. It is named for Sidney Sherman, who fought in the Texas Revolution. Adjacent Counties Hansford County Texas County, Okla. Hutchinson County Moore County Dallam County Cimarron County, Okla. Hartley County Cities Coldwater
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.= Official Website = History The Treaty of Bird's Fort between the Republic of Texas and several Native American tribes was signed in 1843 at Bird's Fort in present-day Arlington, Texas. Article XI of the treaty provided that no one may "pass the line of trading houses" (at the border of the Indians' ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McCulloch County, Texas.The 1788 José Mares expedition passed through the area while travelling from San Antonio to Santa Fe.On November 21, 1831, in the Brady vicinity, James Bowie, Rezin P. Bowie, David Buchanan, Cephas D. Hamm, Matthew Doyle, Jesse Wallace, Thomas McCaslin, Robert Armstrong, and James Coryell with two servants, Cha...
Wikipedia =The county is named for 11th Vice President, George Mifflin Dallas .
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Robertson County, Texas. The county was created in 1837 and organized the following year. It is named for Sterling C. Robertson, an early settler who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. Adjacent Counties Limestone County Leon County Falls County Milam County Burleson County Brazos County Cities & Commun...
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Wikipedia =The county is named for Mathew Caldwell .
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the City of El Paso, El Paso County, Texas.= Official Website = Overview El Paso is a city and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, in the far western part of the state. It stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua wi...
The Battle of Galveston was a naval and land battle of the American Civil War , when Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder expelled occupying Union troops from the city of Galveston, Texas on January 1, 1863. After the loss of the cutter Harriet Lane, the Union Fleet Commander William B. Renshaw blew up the stranded vessel USS Westfield to save it from falling into enemy hands. U...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tyler County, Texas. Formed in 1846, Tyler County is named for John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States. Despite its name, Tyler County does not contain the city of Tyler, Texas ; the latter is located about 140 miles to the north in Smith County . Adjacent Counties Jasper County Angelina County Hardin County ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Amarillo, Texas. Official Website Overview Amarillo is the 14th-most populous city in the state of Texas , United States . It is also the largest city in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County . A portion of the city extends into Randall County . Amarillo, originally named Oneida, is situated in the Llano Estacado ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Potter County, Texas. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1887. It is named for Robert Potter, a politician, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Texas Secretary of the Navy. Adjacent Counties Moore County Hutchinson County Carson County Oldham County Hartley County Randall County Dea...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Plano, Texas. Official Website Plano lies mostly within Collin County and extends into a small portion of Denton County. European settlers came to the area near present-day Plano in the early 1840s. Facilities such as a sawmill, a gristmill, and a store soon brought more people to the area. A mail service was established, and afte...
Galveston County, Texas United States of America = Geographic Location: 29° 18' 4.8528" N, 94° 47' 51.7056" W This is a (sub) project of the State of Texas and Counties Project and the Galveston County, Texas sub-project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Galveston County, Texas. * Galveston County, Texas Genealogy on familysearch.org * Galveston County, Texas on Wikipedia * Galvest...
CONFEDERATE TEXAS TROOPS===5th Texas Infantry== Also called, "The Bloody Fifth" 5th Infantry Regiment was assembled at Richmond, Virginia, in October, 1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Harris, Colorado, Leon, Walker, Montgomery, Washington, Jefferson, Liberty, Milam, Polk, and Trinity. As a part of Hood's Texas Brigade it served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and J. Greg...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dallas County, Texas.= City of Dallas Official Website == County of Dallas Official Website =The county was founded in 1846 and was possibly named for George Mifflin Dallas, the 11th Vice President of the United States under U.S. President James K. Polk. Adjacent Counties * Collin County * Denton County * Rockwall County * Kaufman Cou...
CONFEDERATE TEXAS TROOPS===4th Regiment, Texas Infantry==4th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Richmond, Virginia. Its members were recruited in the counties of Goliad, Travis, Robertson, Falls, Guadalupe, McLennan, Bexar, Grimes, Walker, Hill, Montgomery, Freestone, Navarro, Ellis, and Henderson. It became part of Hood's Texas Brigade and served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertso...
Gonzales County, Texas United States of America = Geographic Location: 29° 30' 5.8536" N, 97° 27' 8.9748" WThis is a (sub) project of the State of Texas and Counties Project and the Gonzales County, Texas sub-project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Gonzales County, Texas . Gonzales County, Texas Genealogy on familysearch.org Gonzales County, Texas on Wikipedia Gonzales County, Te...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Navarro County, Texas.The county was formed in 1846 and named for José Antonio Navarro, a Tejano leader in the Texas Revolution who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. In 1860, after the election of Abraham Lincoln to the American presidency, Navarro County lowered the American flag at the courthouse in protest and instead h...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Abilene, Texas . Official Website Abilene is the county seat of Taylor County and is located in Taylor and Jones counties. It is named after Abilene, Kansas . It is located 150 miles west of Fort Worth at the junction of Interstate 20 and U.S. Highways 277 and 83. It was one of many towns that came into existence as the Texas and...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Waller County, Texas. Official Website Established in 1873, the county was named for Edwin Waller, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and first mayor of Austin. Adjacent Counties Grimes County Montgomery County Harris County Fort Bend County Washington County Austin County Cities, Towns & Communi...
This is a (sub) project of the State of Texas and Counties Project and the Gillespie County, Texas sub-project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Gillespie County, Texas . Gillespie County, Texas Genealogy on familysearch.org Gillespie County, Texas on Wikipedia Gillespie County, Texas on historictexas.net website
The Battle of Corpus Christi was fought between August 12 and August 18, 1862, during the American Civil War . United States Navy forces blockading Texas fought a small land and sea engagement with Confederate forces in and around Corpus Christi Bay and bombarded Corpus Christi . Union forces defeated Confederate States Navy ships operating in the area but were repulsed when they landed on the ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Denton County, Texas. Before the arrival of settlers, various Native American peoples, including the Kichai and the Lenape, infrequently populated the area. The area was settled by Peters Colony landowners in the early 1840s. Until the annexation of Texas, the area was considered part of Fannin County. On April 11, 1846, the First Te...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gray County, Texas.= Official Website =e county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1902. is named for Peter W. Gray, a Confederate lawyer and soldier in the American Civil War. Adjacent Counties * Donley County * Collingsworth County * Wheeler County * Carson County * Hemphill County * Hutchinson County * Roberts County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lubbock County, Texas.= Official Website =The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1891. It is named for Thomas Saltus Lubbock, a Confederate colonel and Texas Ranger (some sources give his first name as Thompson). Adjacent Counties * Hale County * Crosby County * Hockley County * Lamb County * Terry County * Floyd County * Gar...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in San Patricio County, Texas. In 1828, 200 Irish Catholic families, recruited from Ireland and the Irish population of New York City, contracted with the Mexican government to settle on 80 leagues of land in this area. By 1836, about 500 people lived in the colony on 84 Mexican land grants. During the Texas Revolution, most fled from t...
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Midland County, Texas.= Official Website =Established in 1885, the county is so named for being halfway (midway) between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railway. Adjacent Counties * Martin County * Glasscock County * Andrews County * Ector County * Upton County * Reagan County Cities, Towns & Communities
Wikipedia The Battle of Palmito Ranch is generally regarded as the final battle of the American Civil War, since it was the last engagement involving casualties. It was fought on May 12 and 13, 1865, on the banks of the Rio Grande east of Brownsville, Texas, and a few miles from the seaport of Los Brazos de Santiago (now known as Matamoros). It took place more than a month after Robert E. Lee ...
Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, 76106 USA: Find a Grave Note: Founded in 1879 by Fort Worth pioneer John Peter Smith. It is 62 acres in size.The cemetery is actually composed of three historically distinct cemeteries in one complex: New City Cemetery, the oldest section, Trinity Cemetery, designated for African American burials; and Calvary Cemetery, a section specifically ...
Austin County, Texas =This is a sub-project of the State of Texas and Counties Project and the purpose is to add people who were born in, lived in, or died in Austin County, Texas. Please note that the State Capital of Texas is Austin, Texas (also known as "ATX" among locals) is located in Travis County , Texas. Austin County, Texas on Wikipedia.org Stephen Fuller Austin on Wikipedia Austin Cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Texas. The county was established in 1846 and was named after the 11th US President, James Knox Polk. Adjacent Counties Hardin County Liberty County San Jacinto County Tyler County Angelina County Trinity County Cities, Towns & Communities Ace Asia Barnum Big Thicket Lake Estates (part) ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Freestone County, Texas.= Official Website = History Archeological evidence of the farming Kichai band of the Caddoan Mississippian culture dates to 200 BC in the area.The Hernando de Soto expedition of 1541 resulted in violent encounters with the Caddo Native Americans who occupied the area. Spanish and French missionaries carried sm...
Located on the southbound side of Highway 75 service road and Ridgeway Rd in Allen City Limits, Collin County, Texas. Official Website Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wichita County, Texas. Official Website The county was created in 1858 and organized in 1882. The county was named for the Wichita Indians Adjacent Counties Tillman County, Okla. Cotton County, Okla. Clay County Wilbarger County Archer County Baylor County Cities, Towns & Communities Burkburnett