Download or read book The Poor Farm written by Dusty Williams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A place vanished from many record books was a home to many residents of Grayson County, Texas...it was, The Poor Farm. Follow the colorful history of this eventful place from its begining to its end. The County Farm of Grayson County, like other County Poor Farms, provided a home for the needy and less fortunate. From times of peace, prosperity and production, to Edna Gladney's famous march on the dire circumstances that surrounded the county farm of Grayson County. Trace the intimate history of many of the residents, including farmers, doctors and even a niece of Davy Crockett who once called this place home. This book not only documents the history of the home, but provides biographies of those who lived here as well as those who ran the farm throughout its long history. -Also includes a history of the Pecan Grove Community, west of Sherman.
Download or read book Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County Virginia written by Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grayson County Virginia Genealogical References written by Brendon S. Burns and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One volume of genealogical references was not nearly enough. There were fifteen years of chancery suits that were unable to fit teh first volume. There were plenty of other court orders pertaining to exemptions, guardianships, removals, and illegitimate children. There were quite a few more references to include! Volume two covers much of teh same territory as teh first volume of genealogical references! included are all references to administrations and executorships on estates that were recorded in the court order books between 1793 and 1870. Additionally, chancery records containing familial information between 1855 and 1870 are included, in addition to more land records and pensions. New sources mined for this book include the records of teh Mount Pleasant Monthly Meeting, the lists of free blacks and mulattos in the county from 1837, 1839-40, and also for teh years 1856 and 1857. If you are looking for something that was not in teh first volume of genealogical references, uou'll want to look through this volume!-- back cover
Download or read book Red River Hauntings TRUE Ghost Stories of Grayson County Texas and Other Strange and Scary Tales written by Natalie Bauman and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE TRUE GHOST STORIES Pg 3 - 150 CHAPTER TWO BURIED ALIVE Pg 151 - 158 CHAPTER THREE WEIRD TRUE ANIMAL STORIES Pg 159 - 181 CHAPTER FOUR - THE STRANGE, WEIRD, AND SCARY pg 182 -204 Inside are True Ghost Stories of Grayson County Texas, along the Red River.... And Other Strange and Scary Tales - Ghost stories are not just passed on around camp fires on dark nights, although that IS the ideal venue for them. Most of them can actually be found recorded in the pages of old newspapers, passing on the eye-witness accounts of sightings. It is left to the reader to believe what they will and draw whatever conclusions they wish from the articles and stories, but they certainly DO make for entertaining reading. This book will not only recount ghost stories, and identify places reputed to be haunted, but also many odd, strange or scary phenomena will be examined which have been found to occur in Grayson County and the near vicinity over the years. (Ghosts and odd occurrences don't always stay strictly confined inside county lines. There may be a bit of "paranormal overflow" sometimes! Enjoy the book, but don't become too frightened!
Download or read book Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852 written by Randolph Benton Marcy and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charming Blue written by Kristine Grayson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the fractious fairy tale world of Kristine Grayson, where the bumpy road to happily ever after is paved with surprises... He lived through ages with the curse of attracting women...who end up dead... One upon a time, he was the most handsome of princes, destined for great things. But now he's a lonely legend, hobbled by a dark history. With too many dead in his wake, Bluebeard escapes the only way he knows how—through the evil spell of alcohol. But it's a far different kind of spell that's been ruining his life for centuries. How will she survive this killer Prince Charming? Jodi Walters is a fixer, someone who can put magic back in order. She's the best in Hollywood at her game. But Blue has a problem she's never encountered before—and worse, she finds herself perilously attractived to him. "Grayson deftly nods to pop culture and offers clever spins on classic legends and lore while adding unique twists all her own."—Booklist Starred Review for Wickedly Charming
Download or read book The Cornett Family written by Essie Richardson Cornett and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family history of Grover Cleveland Cornett (1885-1968) back to William Cornett, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and the connection of his family to King Canute I of England through the Cornetts of Grayson County, Virginia. Most of the book deals with the history of the family of John Cornett II (1828-1904) grandson of William Cornett, who was born near Hazard, in Perry County, Kentucky and married Nancy Combs in 1852, they had ten children.
Download or read book The Ranger Ideal Volume 2 written by Darren L. Ivey and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the Lone Star State can certainly boast of immense ranches, vast oil fields, enormous cowboy hats, and larger-than-life heroes. Among the greatest of the latter are the iconic Texas Rangers, a service that has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum continues to honor these legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. While upholding a proud heritage of duty and sacrifice, even men who wear the cinco peso badge can have their own champions. Thirty-one individuals—whose lives span more than two centuries—have been enshrined in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. In The Ranger Ideal Volume 2: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1874-1930, Darren L. Ivey presents capsule biographies of the twelve inductees who served Texas in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Ivey begins with John B. Jones, who directed his Rangers through their development from state troops to professional lawmen; then covers Leander H. McNelly, John B. Armstrong, James B. Gillett, Jesse Lee Hall, George W. Baylor, Bryan Marsh, and Ira Aten—the men who were responsible for some of the Rangers’ most legendary feats. Ivey concludes with James A. Brooks, William J. McDonald, John R. Hughes, and John H. Rogers, the “Four Great Captains” who guided the Texas Rangers into the twentieth century.
Download or read book Grayson Springs written by Ron Gambrell and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old, Brooke, is the spoiled and volatile, adopted daughter of Dr. George Green, a Manhattan, NY psychiatrist. Baffled and at wits end with his daughter's claim that her rage is brought on by dreams of someone else's past, Dr. Green decides to take drastic measures. Join Brooke on her life altering journey, deep into the rural hills of Central Kentucky, to a long forgotten place called GRAYSON SPRINGS. High school students, parents, and grandparents will enjoy the action, romance, and lessons learned in this unusual historical adventure.
Download or read book The Washingtons Volume 2 written by Justin Glenn and published by Savas Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of a comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It continued the record of their descendants for a total of seven generations. Volume two is a collection of notable descendants of the next eight generations of John and Anne Washington’s descendants, including such luminaries as General George S. Patton, the author Shelby Foote, and the actor Lee Marvin. Future volumes will trace generations eight through fifteen, making a total of over 63,000 descendants. Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. These in turn strive to convey the greatness of the family that produced not only The Father of His Country but many others, great and humble, who struggled to build that country. The Washingtons includes the time-honored John Wright line which in recent years has been challenged largely on the basis of DNA evidence. Volumes one and two form a set, with a cumulative bibliography appearing at the end of volume two.
Download or read book History of Medina County Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dock Brown written by William R. Haynes and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grayson County written by Graham Landrum and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shattering of Texas Unionism written by Dale Baum and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rare departure from the narrow periodization that marks past studies of Texas politics during the Civil War era, this sweeping work tracks the leadership and electoral basis of politics in the Lone Star State from secession all the way through Reconstruction. Employing a combination of traditional historical sources and cutting-edge quantitative analyses of county voting returns, Dale Baum painstakingly explores the double collapse of Texas unionism—first as a bulwark against secession in the winter of 1860–1861 and then in the late 1860s as a foundation upon which to build a truly biracial society. By carefully tracing the shifting alliances of voters from one election to the next, Baum charts the dramatic assemblage and subsequent breakup of Sam Houston’s coalition on the eve of the war, evaluates the social and economic bases of voting in the secession referendum, and appraises the extent to which intimidation of anti-secessionists shaped the state’s decision to leave the Union. He also examines the ensuing voting behavior of Confederate Texans and shows precisely how antebellum alignments and issues carried over into the war years. Finally, he describes the impact on the state’s electoral politics brought about by the policies of President Andrew Johnson and by broad programs of revolutionary change under Congressional Reconstruction. Baum presents the most sophisticated examination yet of white voter disfranchisement and apathy under Congressional Reconstruction and of the social and political origins of the state’s Radical Republican “scalawag” constituency. He also provides a rigorous statistical investigation of one of the most controversial elections ever held in Texas—the 1869 governor’s race, lost by conservative Republican Andrew Jackson Hamilton to Radical Edmund J. Davis, which nonetheless effectively ended Congressional Reconstruction. Through his innovative exploration of unionist sentiment in Texas, Baum illuminates the most turbulent political period in the history of the state, interpreting both the weight of continuity and the force of change that swept over it before, during, and immediately after the American Civil War. Students of the South, the Civil War, and African American history, as well as sociologists and political scientists interested in election fraud, political violence, and racial strife, will benefit from this significant volume.
Download or read book Series 6 written by Kentucky Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book POTTSBORO TEXAS and LAKE TEXOMA Then and Now Volume TWO written by Natalie Bauman and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS:1. THE TEXAS NURSERY - ONE OF THIS AREA'S LARGEST EMPLOYERS Pages 4-412. THE WAY THINGS WERE IN POTTSBORO Pages 42-693. WILLOW SPRINGS CHURCH OF CHRIST, PIONEER CHURCH Pg 70-864. THE OLD COTTON FIELDS OF HOME Pages 87-995. THE PEOPLE OF POTTSBORO Pages 100-1306. IN THE NEWS AROUND POTTSBORO AND ON THE LAKE Pages 131-2277. FIELD IN SOUTH POTTSBORO BECOMES SITE OF AVIATION HISTORY Pages 228-2428. POTTSBORO AREA CATASTROPHES IN THE NEWS Pages 243-2649. LAKE TEXOMA AND THE DENISON DAM IN THE NEWS Then and Now Pages 265-297
