On Sept. 25, 2003 will be the next meeting for the Hamilton County Genealogy Society. We will meet at 6:00 p.m. in the County Clerk's Office at the Hamilton County Court House. Debbie Rudolph, County Clerk, will be the speaker. She will tell us about the new laws concerning the County Clerk's Office. Everyone is invited to attend. Since we formed the Hamilton County Genealogy Society, the members has been busy publishing new books on Hamilton County. Cemetery Records of Hamilton County, Tx., 4 Volumes, with index in each volume. Newspaper Obituaries: Vol. 1, 1898-1925 with index Vol. 2, 1926-1933, with index Vol. 3, 1934-1939, with index Vol. 4, 1940-1944, with index Newspaper Nuptials Vol. 1 1898-1925, indexed by groom and bride Vol. 2, 1926-1933, indexed by groom and bride Vol. 3, 1934-1939, indexed by groom and bride Vol. 4, 1940-1944, indexed by groom and bride 1860 & 1870 Hamilton Co., Texas Census Families & Family Reunion Vol. 1-1883-1913 Vol. 2, 1914-1921 City of Hamilton Tax Roll of Real 7 Personal Property Vol. 1-1914, 1915, 1917, 1919 Vol. 2-1920-1924 Vol. 3-1925-1930 Vol. 4-1931-1939 Hamilton County Property Tax Vol. 1-1874-1878 Vol. 2-1879 Vol. 3- 1880 Vol. 4-1882-1884 Vol. 5-1885-1886 Hamilton County Marriage Records Vol. 1 - 1876-Dec. 1935 A Decade Of War and Remembrance, World War II, Hamilton County, Texas Vol. 1 & 2, with index Anyone interested in the above books please contact us at, 254-386-4566, email address: [email protected] or our address is Hamilton County Genealogy Society, 209 W. Henry, Hamilton, Tx. 76531 Thanks Carlian Massingill Pittman, [email protected] President

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/395.868 Message Board Post: Dave, thank you so much for your info! I had just about given up on finding this family. I had found them on the McLennan Co., TX census in 1880, but didn't have access to the censuses after that. I was puzzled because the copy I saw online said "other" for all these rather than "son" or "daughter." Undoubtedly that was just an error. Sorry I can't help you as a descendant. I was working on this family because my gggrandmother Naomi Bland was a sister to your Calvin. She died in 1833 in Pulaski Co., AR, but her husband Benjamin Clemens brought their two children William and Lucinda to Dallas Co., AR before 1850. Many of their descendants are still in south Arkansas. Thanks again.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1885.2 Message Board Post: You should try the Bell County Death records .The death certificate would list the cemetery and maybe the name of the funeral home that would have the exact location. The death records are in the court house annex in Belton, Bell County. I am sorry I do not have the phone number. Good Luck .

I beleive that therre are Bridges in Lamar County, Texas, also. Cindy [email protected] wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 TXBELL-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 180 Today's Topics: #1 [TXBELL] Re: Thomas Henry Bridges [[email protected]] #2 [TXBELL] Re: Thomas Henry Bridges [[email protected]] #3 [TXBELL] Nancy Woodard's husband?? ["Jackie Morgan" Administrivia: To unsubscribe from TXBELL-D, send a message to [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: 4 Sep 2003 09:44:45 -0600 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [TXBELL] Re: Thomas Henry Bridges of Salado and Prairie Dell This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1605.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Kim: My James Henry Bridges was buried in Concho Co., Texas in the 1920's born in 1838 HIs Wife was Susan E. (don't know her maiden name) Carolyn ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822 Date: 4 Sep 2003 10:09:35 -0600 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [TXBELL] Re: Thomas Henry Bridges of Salado and Prairie Dell This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bridges, Denson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1605.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Carolyn, Thank you for the reply! Yea, I dont think they are the same one, as my James Henry was born Abt 1869. Seems there were a few of them lurking around the Bell / Williamson Co area as I found one in Williamson close to the same age. I guess it was a popular name. Thanks again, Kim F ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 4 message/rfc822 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:47:34 -0500 From: "Jackie Morgan" To: [email protected] Subject: [TXBELL] Nancy Woodard's husband??? What is her maiden name? There is a Nancy WOODARD on the 1860 Bell County, Texas. She is shown to be > 32 > >years old. No husband listed. She was listed as born in Missouri. > >There are 4 children: James, age 15, b. Louisiana; Jasper, age 10, > >b. Texas; L. (Woodard); age 2 b. Texas(female); and Adeline, age 6 b. > >Texas. > > > >I would like to find out who Nancy WOODARD's husband was and what her > >maiden name was. > > > >She is listed following James BIGHAM (BINGHAM) who was also born in > >Missouri. Is it possible that they are siblings? > > > >Jackie Morgan > --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

There is a photo of the Bell County Confederates Association in Volume one in the Story of Bell County and a large photo hanging in the county courthouse in Belton. I know that James W. Cowan was one of the leaders of that association. But, the photo is not indexed either. I don't know who is who. Jody Dillard

Hello list, Would anyone on the Bell Co. list be able to tell me if there is a record of a Marshall P. Rogers(Rodgers) dieing there? We have several members of our Rogers branch who married in Bell County (William Alford Rogers md Martha Rogers - November 24, 1878), (William Hull Kuykendall md. Sarah Elizabeth Rogers - July 27, 1879), (Joel Benjamin Rogers md. Mary Emma Bartley - March 22, 1880) as well as others. Marshall P. Rogers moved his family into McLennan Co., TX around 1870 after moving out of Jackson Parish, LA where some of the fierce fighting of the Civil War was taking place. He and family were on the 1870 Census in McLennan Co. and the family lived in several of the counties from there to Bell Co. I haven't been able to find a death record for him or his wife Sarah yet and I know that Sarah was in Bell Co. but can't find out if Marshall was there as well. If anyone has any information about this family, I would be very grateful for the information. Thank You, Eileen Rogers Mullins [email protected]

Along the same line, my ancestor and his brother were Civil War Veterans out of Jefferson County, Alabama who eventually settled in Bell County, Texas. I believe there was a Civil War Veterans group that met in Bell County and David Hembree was the chaplain at some time. I would love a photo of that group.

Throughout Texas, men fought in The War Between the States. Some even survived to attend reunions held in the counties they were living. I just now received one from a very generous gentleman pertaining to Erath County. I also have one taken in Hamilton County, but unlike the Erath photo, Hamilton isn't indexed with the names. Although I do know two of the people shown. Now, to get to my point. Does anyone else out there have such photos they would care to share with us all? I'll certainly share the one of Hamilton Co. to anyone who wants it. Ric Gordon

Some counties have records of deaths...not sure about Bell, but Williamson Co. does. You might also try the spelling EMBREE to locate your death certificate. Gayle H. Cloud Lucy Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: My GGGF was Jeptha Hembree who died in Bell County in 1916. He had an older brother David who was a preacher in the Buckhorn Community. The state of Texas cannot find a death certificate for Jeptha although his headstone says he died in 1916, and his brother died in 1921. Does anyone know if there is a will index in Bell County so I can try to find out if Jeptha even left a will? Or is there anyone who can do a lookup for me? I would also be interested in David's will. Thanks in advance, Lucy Stewart ==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== Please Keep Messages To Matters of Bell County Genealogy Or History Interest! Don't Send Attachments To Postings.

My GGGF was Jeptha Hembree who died in Bell County in 1916. He had an older brother David who was a preacher in the Buckhorn Community. The state of Texas cannot find a death certificate for Jeptha although his headstone says he died in 1916, and his brother died in 1921. Does anyone know if there is a will index in Bell County so I can try to find out if Jeptha even left a will? Or is there anyone who can do a lookup for me? I would also be interested in David's will. Thanks in advance, Lucy Stewart

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CkB.2ACI/22.110.2 Message Board Post: your southerlands may be the one i am looking for email me at [email protected]

There is a Nancy WOODARD on the 1860 Bell County, Texas. She is shown to be > 32 > >years old. No husband listed. She was listed as born in Missouri. > >There are 4 children: James, age 15, b. Louisiana; Jasper, age 10, > >b. Texas; L. (Woodard); age 2 b. Texas(female); and Adeline, age 6 b. > >Texas. > > > >I would like to find out who Nancy WOODARD's husband was and what her > >maiden name was. > > > >She is listed following James BIGHAM (BINGHAM) who was also born in > >Missouri. Is it possible that they are siblings? > > > >Jackie Morgan >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bridges, Denson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1605.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Carolyn, Thank you for the reply! Yea, I dont think they are the same one, as my James Henry was born Abt 1869. Seems there were a few of them lurking around the Bell / Williamson Co area as I found one in Williamson close to the same age. I guess it was a popular name. Thanks again, Kim F

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1605.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Kim: My James Henry Bridges was buried in Concho Co., Texas in the 1920's born in 1838 HIs Wife was Susan E. (don't know her maiden name) Carolyn

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FOX HEFNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1887 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Missouri Fox who married Horace Maynard Hefner in Bell Co. in 1889. I am trying to find out if she is the same woman who was daughter of McClure Fox who lived in Burnet Co.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1886.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the information about the staged train wreck. I am sorry to say that it is not the information I was seeking about my Grandfather, John T. McDaniel. Thanks again, Billy McDaniel

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1886.1.1 Message Board Post: The staged train wreck was near West, Texas. There is a museum at the railroad depot in the town that has info and a write up on that wreck and some debris. It was called the "Crash at Crush". If there are other wrecks near there I would think they would have that info too. The "Crush" wreck had one or two people who died. It was in a made up town called "Crush". It was a big event at the time with people coming from all over who paid to see the great crash. Two trains were staged to run into each other at top speed. The Historical Marker was stolen so the actual spot is a little hard to find.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1886.1 Message Board Post: There was a "staged" train wreck in September 1896 in the area north of West, TX. You can read about it in "Handbook of Texas Online". I thought it might be the one you are asking about, though it is earlier than the time period you mention. You can go to www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online, enter "train wreck", in quotes, and get about 7 articles. Look at #3, I think it is, and if you think this wreck is the one you are interested in, I might suggest you contact the newspapers in Waco, Hillsboro, or Temple, or even the MKT, for more information. Best wishes to you in your search. Carl Williams, in Parker Co., TX

We would like to invite you to re-visit our website, The POORHOUSE STORY (a clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses) at http://www.poorhousestory.com We have just published a newly designed page for TEXAS Poorhouse History. We have added specific county pages for those counties which have substantial poorhouse information. BELL County is featured! We are directing readers' attention to a rather amazing document which has quietly been published on the TXGenWeb site for Bell County: a rare (for Texas) full transcription of the poorhouse record book. It was unusual to find such a specific record book in Texas. And the author/transcriber, Janet Clayton Gardner, did much more than just transcribe. She also carefully researched the history of this poorhouse and interviewed people who lived and/or worked there. Photographs make the experience of reading this material quite wonderful! DIRECTIONS: At the homepage (link above) click on POORHOUSES BY STATE, then on TEXAS on the table of states, and finally on BELL County on the table of counties. If you have been to the website recently you may have to click REFRESH or RELOAD on the browser to see the new information. There are other pages on the site which may give you some interesting perspective on poorhouses. They are off the homepage and include: the HISTORY page and the LETTER TO GENEALOGISTS (which explains why you might climb over your own "brick walls" at the poorhouse. There are great tips for researching poorhouse records for yourself on the RECORDS page; and you might want to subscribe to our (almost) monthly newsletter (which you can do in the lower right corner of the homepage). The information on our site will only grow through the submissions of generous readers. If you would like to e-mail me ... please do so off-list because I cannot maintain subscriptions to as many lists as we post messages on. (You can use an e-mail link off one of our web pages.) We hope you enjoy the site! Thanks, Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bridges, Denson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkB.2ACI/1605.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Carolyn, Is your James Henry Bridges married to a Lola May Denson, both buried in a Salado Cemetery? I also have a old obit that is for a Gilf Bridges who died in Salado in 1959, Although I have no clue where he fits, if at all. I dont have very much on the Bridges as of yet... Please feel free to email me... Thank you, Kimberly Fairchild