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French explorer Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe founded the military fort Le Poste des Cadodaquious in 1719. The fort remained in continuous use until 1770. The Red River Expedition of 1806 which passed through Bowie County, headed by Thomas Freeman and Dr. Peter Custis, was of great diplomatic and economic importance to President Thomas Jefferson. Bowie County, named for James Bowie, was esta...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Titus County, Texas. Official Website Established in 1846, the county is named for Andrew Jackson Titus, an early settler. Adjacent Counties Red River County Morris County Camp County Franklin County Cities, Towns & Communities Cookville Marshall Springs Miller's Cove Mount Pleasant (County Seat) Talco Win...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Tyler, Texas. Official Website Legal recognition of Tyler was initiated by an act of the state legislature on April 11, 1846. The town was named for President John Tyler, who advocated for annexation of Texas by the United States. Tyler is the county seat of Smith County and is also known as "Rose City". Tyler is known ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Smith County, Texas. Official Website The first known inhabitants of the area now known as Smith County were the Caddo Indians, who were recorded here until 1819. That year, a band of Cherokees, led by The Bowl (also known as Chief Bowles), migrated from Georgia and settled in what are now Smith and Rusk Counties. The Treaty of Bowl...
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 afte...
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 commerciall...
Formed in 1846, the county was named for United States Senator Lewis Cass (D-Michigan), who favored the U.S. annexation of Texas in the mid-19th century. Cemeteries Cemeteries of Texas Links Wikipedia
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, Texas. Official Website Orange County was formed in 1852. It was named after the orange fruit, the common citrus fruit grown by the early settlers of this county near the mouth of the Sabine River. Due to periodic spells of frost in the winter in Orange County, it is no longer the home of orange trees and citrus orcha...
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 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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Falls County, Texas. Official Website History The Brazos River valley served as hunting grounds for several tribes, including Wacos, Tawakonis, and Anadarkos. The Comanches were often a more aggressive band who forced other tribes off the land. The Tawakoni branch of Wichita Indians originated north of Texas, but migrated south in...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tom Green County, Texas. Official Website The county was established by the state legislature on March 13, 1874, and named after Thomas Green, a Confederate brigadier general. It originally comprised an area over 60,000 square miles. The original county seat was the town of Ben Ficklin. In 1882, flood waters of the Concho River des...
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...
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 Bex...
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...
William J. "Uncle Billy" Williams (1826-1918), whose family settled this area in 1844, set aside 3.5 acres of this cemetery in 1852 for burial of his two-year-old niece, Angelina Williams. Oldest gravestones are those of his parents, Elizabeth (1789-1861) and George Williams (1786-1863). First called Williams Cemetery, it became known as Mt. Carmel after a Methodist church by that name was buil...
This project is for those buried in Old Salem Cemetery, New Boston, Bowie County, Texas. Find a Grave Cemeteries of Texas Texas Gravestones
The cemetery is located on Hwy 250 1/2 mile south of Highway 77 in Marietta, Cass County, Texas. Find a Grave TX Gravestones
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
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Houston is located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico; it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most po...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Harris County, Texas. Official Website 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 arrived in 18...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died Matagorda County, Texas. Matagorda County was created 17 March 1836 from an Old Mexican Municipality.. It is named for the canebrakes that once grew along the coast (matagorda is a Spanish word meaning "thick bush"). Adjacent Counties Jackson County Calhoun County Wharton County Brazoria County Cities, Towns & Communities ...
The Hasinai group of the Caddo tribe built a village in the area in around AD 800 and continued to live in the area until the 1830s, when they migrated to the Brazos River. The federal government moved them to the Brazos Indian Reservation in 1855 and later to Oklahoma. The Cherokee, Delaware, Shawnee, and Kickapoo Native American peoples began settling in the area around 1820. The Texas Chero...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Colorado County, Texas. The first record of an Anglo settler coming through the area that is now Colorado County was January 20, 1687, when René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, camped along Skull Creek. The party located an Indian village and named it Hebemes. The fourth expedition of Alonso De León may have crossed into the area...
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...