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Book A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan Falls Bell and Coryell Counties Texas from the Earliest Period of Its Occupancy to the Present Time Together with Glimpses of Its Future Prospects

Download or read book A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan Falls Bell and Coryell Counties Texas from the Earliest Period of Its Occupancy to the Present Time Together with Glimpses of Its Future Prospects written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan Falls Bell and Coryell Counties Texas Index

Download or read book A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan Falls Bell and Coryell Counties Texas Index written by Frances Terry Ingmire and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For microfilm copy of the original history see film 1000605, item 1.

Book A Memorial and Biographical History of Mclennan Falls Bell and Coryell Counties Texas Containing a History of This Important Section of the Great

Download or read book A Memorial and Biographical History of Mclennan Falls Bell and Coryell Counties Texas Containing a History of This Important Section of the Great written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...Harrison county, where he served as District Judge, and his death occurred at that place about 1878. He was an influential man in his county, and at his death left a large family, who are now among the prominent citizens of the State._ He was four times married, and his last wife still survives. Mr. and Mrs. Cobbs had four children: Ella, wife of R. B. Kimmell, a farmer of this county; J. F., our subject; William H., afarmer and stock-raiser of Greer county, Texas; and Don, at home. The subject of this notice came with his parents to McLennan county, in 1856, when three months old. and after reaching a suitable age he engaged in farming with his father. In 1880 he purchased 100 acres of land, which he has since improved, but has always resided on the old homestead of 640 acres, 250 acres of which is under a fine state of cultivation. He owns one-half of the latter place, where he raises principally cotton and corn, and also rents a part of his land. Mr. Cobbs was married October 3, 1880, to Miss Dunnie Woodward, who was born in 1860, a daughter of Albert and Susan Woodivard, natives of Louisiana and Tennessee. Mrs. Woodward came with her widowed mother to Texas in 1863, where the latter died in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb have had four children: Willie E., born in November, 1881; Farah, in April, 1884; Ora Bell, in October, 1887; and J. F., in July, 1890. Mr. Cobbs is a Democrat in his political views, and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. "-; ILLIAM AMTHOR, a prominent and ' influential citizen of McGregor, Texas, " was born in Austin county, this State, in 1849. He comes from that sturdy race of people--the Germans-that have ever been distinguished for their thrift, and in his make-up are found these elements...

Book McLennan County a Reprinted History

Download or read book McLennan County a Reprinted History written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Family Tree of Clois Miles Rainwater and Nancy Jane McIlhaney

Download or read book The Family Tree of Clois Miles Rainwater and Nancy Jane McIlhaney written by Susan Rainwater and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogical work covering the origins of one Texas family; Clois Miles Rainwater and Nancy Jane McIlhaney. Includes genealogical research, historical photos, personal anecdotes, and register reports.

Book Parson Henry Renfro

Download or read book Parson Henry Renfro written by William C. Griggs and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years following the Texas Revolution held even more turbulent events as diverse droves of pioneers crossed the Sabine and Red Rivers to start new lives in Texas. Early Texas society contended with religious issues, family life in a rugged environment, and the Civil War. This cultural history was clearly reflected in the life of frontier preacher Henry C. Renfro. Migrating to Texas in 1851, Renfro enrolled in the fledgling Baylor University and became a Baptist preacher. Eventually disillusioned with Baptist orthodoxy, Renfro was disenfranchised on charges of infidelity as he embraced the ideals of the Free Thought Movement, inspired by the writings of men such as Thomas Paine, Spinoza, and Robert Ingersoll. Renfro's Civil War experience was no less unusual. Serving as both soldier and chaplain, Renfro left a valuable legacy of insight into the conflict, captured in a wealth of correspondence that is in itself significant. Drawing on a vast body of letters, speeches, sermons, and oral histories that had never before been available, this chronological narrative of "The Parson's" life describes significant changes in Texas from 1850 to 1900, especially the volatile formation and growth of Baptist churches in North Central Texas. William Griggs' study yields numerous new details about the Free Thought Movement and depicts public reaction to sectarian leaders in nineteenth-century Texas. The author also describes the developing Central Texas region known as the Cross Timbers, including the personal dynamics between a frontier family and its patriarch and encompassing such issues as property conflicts, divorce, and family reconciliation. This work unlocks an enlightening, engaging scene from Texas history.

Book The Confederate Hospitals of Madison Georgia their records histories 1861 1865

Download or read book The Confederate Hospitals of Madison Georgia their records histories 1861 1865 written by Bonnie P. (Patsy) Harris and published by Bonnie P. (Patsy) Harris. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madison, Georgia was a hoppin' place while it hosted three (and later a fourth) Confederate hospitals during the eight months before their final retreat in July 1864. Every few days the train depot was a flurry of activity as surgeons, attendants, and locals unloaded hundreds of sick and wounded soldiers fresh from the battles in Tennessee and North Georgia. Most of the records of their care were saved by the Director of Hospitals of the Army of Tennessee and then ferreted out 140 years later by the author from collections scattered across many states. This book includes verbatim transcriptions of those documents, the subsequent hospital histories, surgeon biographies, and thousands of names in hundreds of regiments.

Book Generals in Gray

Download or read book Generals in Gray written by Ezra J. Warner and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in memory of Lt. Charles Britton Hudson, CSA & Sgt. William Henry Harrison Edge, CSA by Eugene Edge III.

Book More Generals in Gray

    More Generals in Gray

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  • Author : Bruce S. Allardice
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2006-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780807131480
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book More Generals in Gray written by Bruce S. Allardice and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterpiece of research, a splendid supplement to Ezra J. Warner's Generals in Gray, Bruce S. Allardice brings to light a neglected class of officers: the Confederacy's "other" generals -- men who attained their rank outside the usual avenue of appointment by President Jefferson Davis and who had been virtually forgotten as a consequence. Explaining that the process of becoming a general was fraught with politics, lobbying, intrigue, accident, mismanagement, and chance, Allardice identifies six main categories of legitimate claimants to the rank of Confederate General -- two more than historians have traditionally recognized. He presents a substantial biographical sketch of 137 generals not found in Warner's original and a short bibliography of each. For the vast majority, his is the first treatment ever published.

Book Not Without Honor

Download or read book Not Without Honor written by Ben H. Procter and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John H. Reagan was one of the most important figures in Texas history; this was the first biography of him to be published. Reagan, who was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, in 1818, came to Texas twenty-one years later—while Texas was still a republic—and stayed to play many major roles in its later economic and political development. In this excellent biography, Ben H. Procter not only re-creates for us the character of the man, with his forthright integrity and his boundless desire for knowledge, but also places him against the background of the time in which he lived. In vivid language Procter portrays the violence and vigor of pioneer life, the excitement of frontier politics, the dedication, devotion, enthusiasm, and—ultimately—despair of the Civil War, and the bitterness of the struggle with the railroad tycoons and their gargantuan monopolies. Spanning as it does the Republic of Texas, early statehood, the Confederacy, Reconstruction, and the era of the "robber barons," the story of John H. Reagan encompasses a panoramic sweep of mid- to late-nineteenth-century United States history. Throughout his long life, respect came to Reagan almost as a matter of course. The forceful strength of his personality made an impression few people could ignore. From the day when Colonel Durst hired the young Reagan as a tutor for his children, exclaiming, "This man is a scholar," until the day some fifty years later when Governor Hogg persuaded him to leave the U.S. Senate to become chairman of the new Railroad Commission because the Commission "must be above reproach," his extraordinary character and ability were recognized. In fact, the perceptive intelligence that made him examine all aspects of a situation, and the sturdy integrity and courage that made it impossible for him to abandon a position he believed to be right simply because it was for the moment unpopular, frequently gave him the appearance of a prophet. Although this "prophetic gift" occasionally led to interludes of public disfavor, Reagan was accorded honor, even in his own land—and in later years veneration—that any prophet might envy.