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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Foard County, Texas. Official Website The county is named for Robert Levi Foard, an attorney who served as a major with the Confederate Army, in the American Civil War. Adjacent Counties Wilbarger County Knox County King County Hardeman County Cottle County Baylor County Cities & Communities Crowell (County...
Please add profiles for all those who were born, lived or died in El Paso County, Texas. Official Website The county was created in 1850 and later organized in 1871. El Paso is short for "El Paso del Norte", which is Spanish for "The Pass of the North". It is named for the pass the Rio Grande creates through the mountains on either side of the river. The county is northeast of the Mexico–Unit...
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...
In 1837, most of the area of present-day Brazos County was included in Washington County. The Brazos River, which bisected the latter, proved a serious obstacle to county government, and a new county, Navasota, was formed in January 1841. The first court, with Judge R. E. B. Baylor presiding, was held later that year in the home of Joseph Ferguson, fourteen miles west of the site of present Bry...
Coleman County was formed from Brown and Travis Counties in 1858. The county is named for Robert M. Coleman, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Cemeteries Cemeteries of Texas Links Wikipedia
In 1834–1835, Little River became part of Robertson's Colony, made up of settlers from Nashville, Tennessee, led by Sterling C. Robertson; they were the families of Captain Goldsby Childers, Robert Davison, John Fulcher, Moses Griffin, John Needham, Michael Reed and his son William Whitaker Reed, William Taylor, and Judge Orville T. Tyler. This area became known as the Tennessee Valley. Soon af...
Historic Timeline 1150 AD Indigenous peoples first inhabitants, possible ancestors of the Lipan Apache. 1721 José de Azlor y Virto de Vera names the Blanco River. 1826 Benjamin Milam is given a contract to settle 300 families between the Colorado and Guadalupe rivers. 1836 Comanches claim all land in Blanco County. 1847 Meusebach–Comanche Treaty 1850s Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr., gr...
San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in and the county seat of Bexar County, Texas, United States. The city is the seventh-most populous in the United States, the second-largest in the Southern United States, and the second-most populous in Texas. It is the 12th-most populous city in North America, with 1,434,625 residents as of 2020. Founded...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Corpus Christi, Texas. Corpus Christi is the county seat of Nueces County and means Body of Christ in Latin. Official Website Karankawans inhabited the Corpus Christi region in pre-Columbian times. Spaniard Alonso Alvarez de Pineda traveled in 1519 to this bay on the day of the religious “Feast of Corpus Christi,” thus naming the ...
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's ...
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 1...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Hays County, Texas. Official Website On March 1, 1848, the legislature formed Hays County and was named for John Coffee Hays, a Texas Ranger and Mexican–American War officer. Adjacent Counties Guadalupe County Caldwell County Comal County Travis County Blanco County Cities & Villages Austin (part) Bear Creek B...
This cemetery is located on CR 410, Talpa, Coleman County, Texas. Find a Grave TX Gen Web
Brown Ranch Cemetery is located in the Fisk Community about twelve miles south southwest of Coleman. To reach the cemetery, go one mile south of Fisk on FM 1026, turn left (east) and go one mile. The cemetery is located at a crossroad, where both the Methodist and Baptist Churches and the Brown Ranch school were located. The land for the cemetery was given by the Moore family and the first gr...
This project is for those buried in Milligan Cemetery, Latexo, Houston County, Texas. Find a Grave
Driftwood Cemetery, Driftwood, Hays County, Texas This cemetery traces its origin to the building of a sanctuary by the Driftwood Methodist Episcopal Church, South, here in 1884. The sanctuary was built on two acres of land acquired by the congregation from David L. and Mattie Elizabeth Dorrah. This cemetery was established on a portion of the churchyard immediately south of the sanctuary late...
Phillips Cemetery, Drippings Springs, Hays County, Texas Early settlers John and Nancy Phillips deeded land at this site to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1880. A small church was built and was dedicated on March 13, 1880. As was customary, members of the community were buried near the church. The earliest documented burial is that of B. G. Sorrell, who died on March 13, 1880. Among the gr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dallam County, Texas. Dallam County was formed in 1876 from portions of Bexar County. It was named after James Wilmer Dallam, the lawyer who made the first digest of Texas laws. The first settlement in the area followed in 1870, which resulted in the Red River War of 1874 and 1875 with the native Comanche and Kiowa tribes. In 1900–01...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dawson County, Texas. A Dawson County was founded in 1856 from Kinney County, Maverick County and Uvalde County, but was divided in 1866 between Kinney County and Uvalde County. The current Dawson County was founded in 1876. In 1943, the discovery well for the Spraberry Trend, the third-largest oil field in the United States by rema...
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, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Deaf Smith County, Texas. In 1876, the state legislature defined and named the county, but it was not organized until 1890. The county was named for Erastus "Deaf" Smith (1787–1837), a partially deaf scout and soldier who served in the Texas Revolution and was the first to reach the Alamo after its fall. Adjacent Counties Old...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Delta County, Texas. Official Website The county was founded in 1870 and is named for its triangular shape, much like the Greek letter delta. Adjacent Counties Lamar County Red River County Franklin County Hopkins County Hunt County Fannin County Cities Commerce (part) Cooper Pecan Gap (part) Other ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dickens County, Texas. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1891. Both the county and its seat are named for J. Dickens, who died at the Battle of the Alamo. The Pitchfork Ranch is in Dickens and adjacent King County. It was managed from 1965 to 1986 by Jim Humphreys, who was also affiliated with the National Ranchi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dimmit County, Texas. Official Website History Coahuiltecan Indians native to Dimmit County were later squeezed out by Apache and Comanche. Hostile tribes harassed settlers, forcing some to pull up stakes. Texas Rangers and local volunteers, as well as disease, ran the Indians out of the county by 1877. Dimmit County was official...
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 Clarend...