Tammy: Thanks tons for the information. I ordered a book today. Do you know if there are any books on Elgin? I have tons of family history in Elgin and Bastrop County. You are appreciated. Jeannine Shaffer in Chelan, Washington Searching for HUGHES, KEY, SPEIR, WHATLEY, and related families.

OK here's the information: This book contains over 1,200 names with dates and burial location plus other information from 1917-1940 for folks in Bastrop County. It was from the Bastrop Furniture Company records as they sold coffins. Mr Swilley (not sure of spelling until I get the book) was the undertaker. Of course this will not have all the burial records as this was just one of the undertakers. Send $12.00 check made out to Save Texas Cemeteries Save Texas Cemeteries c/o Karen Thompson 7203 South Ute Trail Austin, TX 78729 (512)258-5688 Karen was returning several calls so I didn't have time to ask the format, whether spiral or soft bound or any other questions. If you want to wait to get one, I can give a better description when I get mine and then you can decide if you want to invest. Again, I'm not affiliated with STC, I'm just so excited that this "lost" information is being made available to us. I need to add a section to the Bastrop page with books you can own. There are several good ones. There is a new one on McDade that I recently read. Pettytown has one, Watterson has one, Rockne is a good one and there are two of Bastrop that are "must own", plus one about Edward Burleson, one of Austin Colony Pioneers and another called Journey to Pleasant Hill about E. P. Petty (not sure if he's related to my Petty's). Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

Thanks Ed, for the kind words. Yes, if anyone visits the Bastrop County courthouse, you will probably run into Dad (Howard New). If not, just ask the ladies there, and they will tell you if he's there or not. (If he's not there he will be sitting at the Texas Grill, on Hwy 71). I think he's searched each inch of the place, even showing me THE ROOM where many court documents are in boxes, not filed. He's always bringing me home something interesting, if not from there, then microfilmed documents copied at the library. He brought me the map that I scanned and put on the site. He doesn't have email or you could send requests to him. I need to hook up my printer and give him some of the queries that have been posted to work on. There is so much information available at the courthouse. I went one day and read into my tape recorder, some of the road overseers and exact locations of what they were responsible for. In that same journal is names and ranks of the militia that were tasked to guard the roads. I just have to get time to play it back and type it up. There are places I never heard of, like Alligator Island in Cedar Creek. We went up to Belton, county seat of Bell County, today. The ladies there were very knowledgeable and helpful also. The records are kept at the courthouse annex, not the courthouse, in the county clerks office. There were indexes of everything except criminal records, which are kept across from the courthouse and are not indexed. I found my grgrgrandmother's death record of 1917 (Elizabeth Casbeer who married Joseph Riley Petty) plus marriage records of William Kendrick Petty's girls, Dessie and Gladys Petty. They stated that a lot of the early records were lost when the courthouse was remodeled and records moved. Lost meaning walked away. Elizabeth Petty was apparently living with either Kendrick or Sylvester when she died as a widow at age 80. It was too icy for her to be transported to Pettytown Cemetery so she is buried in Cedar Creek Cemetery there in Belton. We tried to find the cemetery, after receiving directions, but it is too buried in the woods to go right to it. If you've lost someone in the early 1900's, you might try there as many went there to sharecrop. Sorry I wasn't at the courthouse to meet you, Ed. Maybe next time. Hope to see what you found posted on the Bastrop site, hint hint, no pressure. Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

Please reply to: "Ed Walker" <edwalker@web-access.net> > I was in Bastrop attending a funeral Wed and Thurs last and, of course, > spent most of Thurs in the courthouse "digging". While there I met a very > interesting man named Howard New!! He offered to help with whatever I was > working on and proceeded to explain the intricacies of probate records and > where they can lead you..WOW!!!!!! He lead me to a treasure I never knew was > available to me..My great-uncle Martin Walker's probate file has a treasure > trove of original documents, invoices, receipts, will etc. etc.you can feel > extremely humbled just unfolding something that was written 110 yrs. ago, > and then to read it and try to put yourself into that time period..gives one > a really awesome feeling..I know it did me..anyway, this man Howard New is > none other than the father of one of our hardest working people and > friends --Tammy K Owen..Thanks Tammy for sharing yourself so much with > others!! > > Ed Walker > Brownwood, Tx > edwalker@web-access.net > > >

I know we strive to get as much info as possible at no cost but sometimes we do have to pay a little to get valuable information. I want to give you a heads up on a book that is now available for $12.00. I first heard about the original journal over a year ago. If I remember the story right (and I may be off a bit), one of the undertakers kept dates, names and locations of burials in a journal. I can't remember the timeframe but it was way back. This journal was sold in something like a yard sale and purchased by a local resident who thought to make some money. It took some working out, but an agreement was reached about funds and the journal was released to the Save Texas Cemetery who has had someone working to transcribe it. I sent an email to STC about how the book was progressing and received a reply that it was finished and who to contact to purchase a copy. I have left a message with the lady who worked on it to get her mailing information on where to send the $12.00 including postage. I'll let you guys know more as soon as she calls me back. I also remember there were several journals of this type at the sale but it isn't known where the others ended up. Could be in someones attic? I will also ask her if she will allow lookups. She might not as there is probably a certain amount of money that has to be made to break even on this and I would assume anything over would go to the Save TX Cemetery people, which is a very good cause. I'm not affiliated with TSC but I do get their newsletter. I've got my $12.00 ready. They are in the process of moving to rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txstc/ Also, some of you may have found this site already. It's called Migrations and you can input your ancestor's information on where they came from and where they went. You can also search to see what has already been submitted. http://www.migrations.org/ Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

I have been doing a lot of thinking about this list and others I am associated with. I have also been thinking about all of the wonderful things that are going on in the background even as I write this note. There are many hundreds of people that are spending all of their spare time doing voluntary look-ups, Census transcriptions, Cemetary lists, old newspaper transcriptions, wills, obituaries, Ships lists of immigrations, Family Bible information transcriptions, etc., etc., etc. The list of data that will some day be available to all of us is too endless to list here. However, I would like to ask that if you would like to be involved, you can volunteer for one or more of all these projects. Regardless of where your interest and information lies, your work will be appreciated by countless others. The USGenWeb Project is always asking for volunteers: <A HREF="http://www.usgenweb.org/">The USGenWeb Project - Home Page</A> http://www.usgenweb.org/ Rootsweb has pages devoted to each Surname for which a list exists. <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/">RootsWeb.com Home Page</A> http://www.rootsweb.com/ Rootsweb also has location pages that are devoted to each area for which lists exist. These always welcome information and volunteers to work on projects. If that is where your interest lies, and you have an old family Bible with information you can transcribe and post to one or more of the lists, or deeds, obituaries, or any other genealogical information, it will be appreciated and many thousands of potential users will have it available to aid them in their searches. If we all pitch in and share our information, just think how much sooner we can find the information that we have been seeking and can then break down all those brick walls. What is the chance that on this list we might have a History or Typing Teacher or two? If we could enlist them to give their classes the assignment of each student transcribing a section of a Census (maybe for extra credit). Just think of the volunteer potential available. And if we could multiply that by hundreds of lists, just think how much sooner this work could be completed. What I am trying to say, is that there is strength in numbers. We can pool our resources and do our small part to make all our genealogical dreams come true. Maryann Dixon Moseby Proud Rootsweb Sponsor M*c*E*l*r*o*y & W*a*k*e*f*i*e*l*d Listkeeper mdmgen@aol.com for Surname lists W*a*s*h*i*n*g*t*o*n Co., OH Listkeeper mdmcounty@aol for County Lists Mail to: dixlan2@aol.com for General e-mail AOL Instant Messenger: Dixlan2 ICQ: 1631995 <A HREF="http://www.usgenweb.org/">The USGenWeb Project - Home Page</A>

The following have links from the main page: Thanks to Lettie Harrington, here is a link to the Tree Oaks (Goerlitz) Cemetery near McDade: http://theharrington.homepage.com/Other%20Cemeteries/threeoaks. 1952 Smithville Phone Directory http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/phone/1952smithvillephone.html Also check out the numerous deeds posted by Diane Bender concerning Watson's and Walkers. From the main page, click on the deeds puzzle piece. Dad brought me a copy of the Annual Report of the County Court of Bastrop County, From March 31, 1873 to December 1, 1873 which lists names, dates and amounts collected/paid by the court during this time frame. Hope to get it posted soon. Hope everyone is having a great summer. Can't wait until I get a vacation so I go digging at the courthouse. Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

Has anyone out there found where the earliest (1820-40) Bastrop Co. marriages are recorded? The only marriage records at the courthouse that could be found when I was there a couple of months ago start later than that. (The staff in the County Clerk's office were very kind and helpful.) Jane Johnson Searching for early records of STEWART and CURTIS families

As I am transcribing the marriage indexes, I find that similar names are not in alpha order in the indexes. They had similar names on separate pages and they aren't in order either. I've now reached those so anyone looking for Burlesons, Billingsleys, Bakers, etc you can find them now on the Marriage Index Grooms B. From the main Bastrop site, click on marriage index. I'm not with all the B's yet with similar names such as Beck, Benford, Barker, Bowen, Bird/Byrd/Byrd, Bailey, Barnes, Bunte, Bartsch, Barron/Baron, Barber, Bean, Beavers, Bennett, Bennight, Berry, Blaylock/Blalock, Bledsoe, Bradshaw, Branton, Brazil, Bryce/Brice, Breiger/Brieger, Brewer, Burns, Butler, Burks/Burk, Burton, and Birch/Burch. C's Cain and Craft will be after those. If your browser has a search function, you might want to use it as the names are not totally in order by groups alphabetically. Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

thanks ---------- > From: Bastropcc@aol.com > To: TXBASTRO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXBASTRO] probate index project > Date: May 31, 2000 11:42 PM > > This is from Rebecca of Williamson county: > > WPA Texas Probate Index project is > now in a single database and available online. > > The url is http://three-legged-willie.org/texas.htm > > Eleven of the 30 counties (about 45% of the total names) are included. > > The counties that are complete include: Bowie, Brown, Camp, Chambers, > Delta, Guadalupe, Newton, Robertson, Rusk, San Saba and Williamson > > > Tammy Owen > Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator > Bastropcc@aol.com > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html > > > ==== TXBASTRO Mailing List ==== > List problems? Contact Gaylon L Powell at gaylon@flash.net > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi

This is from Rebecca of Williamson county: WPA Texas Probate Index project is now in a single database and available online. The url is http://three-legged-willie.org/texas.htm Eleven of the 30 counties (about 45% of the total names) are included. The counties that are complete include: Bowie, Brown, Camp, Chambers, Delta, Guadalupe, Newton, Robertson, Rusk, San Saba and Williamson Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

I am sorry I sent my email to the list instead of kathy anderson. I am still not very proficient in this computer business. Ruth

Kathy, Is this the Red Rock Cemetery that is part of High Grove and listed as Red Rock 221? If so, H. L. Robinson and Naomi E. nee Smith Robinson are my gg grandparents. Edwin M. Robinson,a great uncle, brother to my grandfather, Allie Robinson. Hosea Lee Robinson also a brother. I think James M. Robinson is also a brother but not sure. I would like to know more about the group that hosts this event. Thanks Ruth J. Day

Oops the message sent before I finished: >From the main Bastrop county page go to Cemeteries or just go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/cemetery/cemetery.htm I have the High Grove names in the alph listing. The Old Red Rock Cemetery survey is on the cemetery project page (click on USGENWEB cemetery project link). Although these are separate cemeteries and not next to each other, the families are intertwined, as well as those in the New Red Rock Cemetery and Bateman. This is such a wonderful cemetery. Stepping through the gate is like stepping back 100 years and joining those that settled this county. The day I surveyed it there were people just stopping to go in and look at the headstones. The oak trees are beautiful but are getting old. Part of the money collected will be to plant new oak trees for future generations to enjoy. Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

Although Kathy should answer your query I'd like to add the following: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/cemetery/cemetery.htm Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

For those that have connections to the Red Rock area, I just received the notice for the 2000 Old Red Rock Cemetery Reunion and Picnic will be held at noon, Sunday, June 11, 2000 at the Red Rock (School) Community Bldg. (Rain or Shine). The school is located across the rail road tracks near the store. The Trustees and volunteers worked hard to get the cemetery in shape and are ready for the Reunion. The Annual clean up is the first Saturday of May. The Association will provide the meat, ice, tea, paper plates, bread, and picnic knives/forks/spoons and napkins for the reunion. Doesn't state in the notice but I would say you should bring a covered dish. There is a form with the invitation which asks for names to add of folks that should be added to the list, request a mailing list, contribute to the cemetery (tax deductible) and asking for a short history of kinfolks in the cemetery and how you are related. There is an email for Kathy Anderson, if you wish to contact her for more information. kathy.anderson10@gte.net Her mailing address is: "Old Red Rock Cemetery" c/o Kathy Anderson 403 San Jacinto St. Lockhart, TX 78644 512-376-2540 Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

Hello, Noticed your interesting post about your EUFINGER family. The Texas General Land Office can provide you copies of whatever documents it has on the land certificate transfer. The website is: www.glo.state.tx.us/ I obtained the following from this website: For questions about land grant records or any of the GLO historical programs, contact the Archives & Records Division at 512-463-5277. For specific questions about land titles before 1836, contact Galen Greaser at 512-463-5270. The Archives Research Room is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 AM until 6:00 PM (CST). Texas General Land Office 1700 North Congress Avenue Archives and Records Division Austin, Texas 78701-1495 In general I can tell you that people receiving land grants from the State of Texas were not awarded land in a specific place. In your case, apparently EUFINGER was entitled to 640 acres -- and then it would have been up to him to locate the specific 640 he wanted (assuming it was still available) and apply for a patent. It was quite common to transfer land certificates -- but this did not mean that title to a specific tract of land was being transferred. Only the "right" to X acres was being transferred. Good luck with your search, Sara in Houston

Here are some databases to search from rootsweb. Please note the death records for Texas from 1964-1998. I put a link on the main Bastrop page, plus a way to search only for Bastrop County. (no I'm not that good at html writing, the individual county search feature instructions came from Elsi, the Pecos County coordinator) These death records are also being extracted and put in the archives for each county. NEW DATABASES AT ROOTSWEB. Four new (free as always) searchable databases and a collection of genealogical gold nuggets were added to RootsWeb's research treasures during the past week. o The WORLD WAR I CIVILIAN DRAFT REGISTRATION database contains 1,215,381 records reflecting 141,114 surnames of all registrants born 1872-1900 from about 15% of U.S. counties. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ww1/draft/ o The TEXAS DEATH RECORDS database contains 3,963,456 records reflecting 163,544 surnames of those who died in Texas during the period 1964-1998. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/tx/death/search.cgi o LINDESBERG, OREBRO, SWEDEN VITAL STATISTICS http://userdb.rootsweb.com/vitals/ o ROCKLAND COUNTY, NEW YORK NATURALIZATIONS http://userdb.rootsweb.com/naturalization/ Tammy Owen Bastrop CO, TX Coordinator Bastropcc@aol.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbastro/bastrop.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txtammy/bastrop/bastropmain.html

Please respond to: "james coleman" <jfcoleman1@juno.com> To: <TXBASTRO-L-request@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:09 PM > New to list. Family lore has Nicholas Eufinger farming in Bastrop County > between 1846 and 1850. Searched courthouse grantor - grantee indexes but no > Eufingers. Family entered Galveston 18 Nov 1846 with 2 parents and 5 > children. 1850 census in St. Louis with 3 children. Lost 2 somewhere. Are > there any cemeteries in area dating to this period? Oldest son supposedly > taught school there. > > German Immigration Contracts 1844-1847 in General Land Office, Austin. > Fisher-Miller Transfer dated 3 June 1847, Comal County, Nicolaus Eufinger > states he arrived at the port of Galveston November 18, 1846, being a > married man is entitled to 640 acres of land, assigns 320 acres of land to > the German Emigration Company for expenses and transportation. Colony > Certificate signed 7 June 1850 Nicholaus Eifinger appeared and swore he > arrived in Texas before 1 September 1847, the head of a family, entitled to > 640 acres of land. Transferred certificate 10 June 1850 and 640 acres of > land to John Andrew Kauffman. > > Does this mean he was entitled to land in Comal County but transferred the > right. > Anyone know where I can get info on the history of these land entitlements > and contracts? > > Any ideas are welcome. Thanks. > >

Mary Rousseau, my gg grandmother at age 14 married Richard Andrews in 1834. He was the first casualty of the Texas Revolution at the battle at Mission Concepcion. ( Her father, Col. Mozea Rousseau and family, had arrived in Texas to join Austin in 1828. ) She later married John G. Welchmeyer, who was killed before their daughter, Lavina, was born, Nov 1, 1844. The administrator of Welchmeyers estate was William Augustus Hemphill. He and Mary married and he adopted Lavina. Mary and William Augustus had a boy L. R. who died 1940's in Austin, Tx and was interred at Del Valle, Texas. Members of the family still live on the original land grant near Bastrop. I have old letters from a Tonie E. Hemphill, Cousin M. Milles nee Hemphill, W. A. Hemphill and W. G. Hemphill from 1862 - 1877. Would like to know how Tonie was related to Lavina and more about L. R. Hemphill. What does the L. R. stand for? Also, John G. Welchmeyer is a mystery. I have no information on him. If this sounds confusing, it is to me to. Maybe some of you will have some news for me, Thanks, Ruth