You might check Van Zandt county to check for cousins. There was a Chitty Nursery there (Wills Point) for many years.

Norma, you can check the migration trails that many of our pioneers used to travel in the very back of the "Handybook for Genealogists." Then try the books in your local library called "Maps on File" for others. All of these can be photographed. Good luck. Brenda Kellow, CG, CGI <A HREF="http://www.virtualtexan.com/roots.htm">Tracing Our Roots:Ft. Worth Star Telegram Virtual Texan genealogy column</A>

Is there anywhere online where I can find transcribed cemeteries of Collin County? Tonya Aultman-Harris mtharris@ev1.net Help pay for your research (and mine) with AllAdvantage.com #CNO-573

Duston, Do you have this info? I was looking for Robinsons in Hempstead Co. AR and recoginized Druzilla's name from Old Grounds Cemetery. GROUNDS, Daniel,25, to Frances J. Bland,20; 2 Jan.1868 by James Jowry,MG. GROUNDS, John,25, to Telitha Draper,20; 1 Sept.1841 by Jonathan Black. GROUNDS, John, 20, to Caroline Bland,20; 23 Aug.1868 by James Lowry,MG. GROUNDS, John W.,22, to Clarinda J. Wilson,17; 31 Jan.1867 by G.L. McKnight, JP. GROUNDS, Th. J.,27, to Druzilla Langrum; 12 Oct.1848 by R.D. Gibson, JP. Gale

It is actually the Everheart Cemetery established by my 2nd great grandfather, Emanuel Everheart as a cemetery in the Canaan Community north of Whitewright in the 1870's. If anyone needs directions, please let me know. At 11:16 PM 02/16/2000 , Doris Haynes wrote: >Duston, > >For what it's worth, there is an Everhart Cemetery north of Whitewright >just west of Hwy # 69 about half way to Bells. It is on county road >"Penny" according the Backroads of Texas. > >Doris

Duston, For what it's worth, there is an Everhart Cemetery north of Whitewright just west of Hwy # 69 about half way to Bells. It is on county road "Penny" according the Backroads of Texas. Doris

Hi Ray, Sorry to hear you're not part of our George family. My husband's greatgrandfather was Joseph G. George and he lived in Plano, TX in the latter part of 1800's and moved to Indian Territory to the part that is now Jackson Co., OK. He did have other family living in Plano and Farmersville area and one son, Louis Dudley was living there in 1910. May still be George's in that area. Thanks for answering and Good Luck to you on your research. Pat McAlpine ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray D. George <rgeo@tca.net> To: <TXCOLL-N-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [TXCOLL-N] George Family > Pat, > > Good to hear from you. No, my George family is not related to yours. My ggrandfather was, Joseph L. George (Yorg) & his wife was Rebecca Jane Thompson. They lived just northwest of Blue Ridge. Joseph had other siblings; however, they all stayed in Wisconsin &/or Kansas. > > Where did your George family live in Collin County? By the way, Joseph was the only member of his family to get his name changed---when he enlisted in the Army for the Civil War; his surname was misspelled or changed from Yorg to George. Actually, they probably had difficulty understanding his German/English speech. He just left it George. > > Thanks for the inquiry. Happy hunting! Take care, Ray George > >

Pat, Good to hear from you. No, my George family is not related to yours. My ggrandfather was, Joseph L. George (Yorg) & his wife was Rebecca Jane Thompson. They lived just northwest of Blue Ridge. Joseph had other siblings; however, they all stayed in Wisconsin &/or Kansas. Where did your George family live in Collin County? By the way, Joseph was the only member of his family to get his name changed---when he enlisted in the Army for the Civil War; his surname was misspelled or changed from Yorg to George. Actually, they probably had difficulty understanding his German/English speech. He just left it George. Thanks for the inquiry. Happy hunting! Take care, Ray George

Ray, I keep seeing your name and I just have to ask? Are you related to any of the George's that lived in Collin Co. in the late 1800's and 1900's? My husband's greatgrandfather was a Joseph G. George and was married to an Emily. They had Joseph Eli, Henry, Louis Dudley, Sallie, Sarah and Ida(husband's grandmother) He moved on up into OK in the early 1900's but know he had other family that remained there and wondered if we're connected? Thanks. Pat McAlpine ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray D. George <rgeo@tca.net> To: <TXCOLL-N-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [TXCOLL-N] Glenn? Everheart Funeral Home/Undertaker??? > Duston--- > > You may be looking for Earnheart Funeral Home in Whitewright, TX. I am not certain that they were in operation back to the time period you indicate; however, it would not be unusual for folks in the Westminster area to use that particular funeral home. > Good luck with your search. > Ray George of Bryan, TX > >

Hello, I recently found this newspaper clipping in a box of my grandmother's pictures. It has no date, but there are clues at the beginning. Maybe someone on the list has ancestors listed. Mine are William and James Moyers. Gale >From old newspaper clipping: (written when the population of Blue Ridge was 544, three years after incorporation, two years after the square was blacktopped, and the same year a $30,000. water system was installed.) BLUE RIDGE IS INCORPORATED Blue Ridge, Texas. -- The town of Blue Ridge, located in northeast Collin county, was given its name because it was built on a ridge that used to be covered with blue grass, according to old-timers. I.D. Sellars and Henry Eakle were the first known settlers, coming here in 1873 and farming the land where the present town site is located. The first store was owned and operated by BILL MOYERS and JIM MOYERS, being housed in a one-room log cabin with dirt floor and consisting of about $50.00 worth of stock. In 1874, a one-room log school building was erected about three blocks south of town. Six pupils enrolled under Sam McKinney, teacher, and the pupils averaged going to school about two days a week. Sam McKinney, Gus Whatley and JIM and BILL MOYERS operated the second store here, going in business after the MOYERS BROTHERS' store burned. The second store was a block north of the present business section. Zac Abernathy opened a dry goods and grocery store in 1874. The next year a drug store was opened by Dr. Graves and Dr. Tate. In 1876, Julius Connor and BILL MOYERS bought the present town site from Mr. Abernathy, laid it off in lots and the town began to build rapidly.... Among other early settlers were J.S. Sinclair, Gabe Warden, Jesse Short, Jack Smith, George Hart, Bill Pruitt, Robert McCarley, J.A. Barnett, Jim and John Griffith, Bill Christian, Ike Dodson, and Bill Warden.

The only Woody listed is an infant of Johnny, obit 8-5-22. Joy Bill & Lee Driggers wrote: > > Joy, if you have the 1920-1929 index book for the obits would you look > to see if there are any Woody's listed. I had a relative that lived in > Col Co and died there in 1921. > > I have ordered the first 3 index books. Woody is the only ones left in > that area in the 4th book. I would appreciate the look up. > > Lee

Hello, I would like to order a death certificate for Sarah Jane Cain Addison d. 21 Dec. 1941, buried at Liberty. I usually email the State Library in Austin with great results. Sarah Jane, however, doesn't appear on their cumulative list. They suggested I look in the county. Since there's a big sign on the Collin Co. site about the court house not doing searches (get a number from the Family History Center in McKinney or Plano) what does an out of state person do? Any ideas would be appreciated. Gale

Duston--- You may be looking for Earnheart Funeral Home in Whitewright, TX. I am not certain that they were in operation back to the time period you indicate; however, it would not be unusual for folks in the Westminster area to use that particular funeral home. Good luck with your search. Ray George of Bryan, TX

I am related to all the Everhearts in north TX. During this period they were in Sherman and Whitewright. I am not aware of any Everheart undertakers. However, I believe there was an Earnheart funeral home which was either in Sherman or Whitewright. At 02:53 PM 02/14/2000 , you wrote: >Has anyone ever heard of a funeral home by this name that operated in the >1920's? I have a death certificate from Collin County on a Thomas Jefferson >Grounds and am trying to find out the place of burial for this person. I >cannot read the writing very well. So I've focused on the undertaker, but I >can't make out the name of the town where this undertaker is from. It's >probably a 6 letter city. It begins with an M and ends in either a O or a W. > There is a T just before the end of the word. Does anyone have a > clue? Mr. >Grounds died in Westminster, Collin County on July 19, 1927 and was buried >the next day, so I assume the burial place and the address of the undertaker >were fairly close by to do the burial in one day. > > Duston Brooks

I can get a copy for you when I visit the library tomorrow. Joy DBrooks466@aol.com wrote: > > Thank you Minnie, > > I was getting back to you about that obituary for T. J. Grounds in 1925 > that you found in your index. I'm not able to travel there, so could you > please tell me how I might get a copy? Thanks again. > > Duston Brooks

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------58EFE9F603E7D7D76E9DE315 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Duston, I'll be happy the next time I'm at the Library to look the obit up on the microfilm. If I can find it within an hour, I'll only charge $10. It's a matter of reading through each page until you find the obit. Please let me know if that meets with your approval. DBrooks466@aol.com wrote: > > Thank you Minnie, > > I was getting back to you about that obituary for T. J. Grounds in 1925 > that you found in your index. I'm not able to travel there, so could you > please tell me how I might get a copy? Thanks again. > > Duston Brooks --------------58EFE9F603E7D7D76E9DE315 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mchamp.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Minnie Pitts Champ Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mchamp.vcf" begin:vcard n:Champ;Minnie Pitts x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.collincountybooks.com org:Collin County Book Co.;"www.collincountybooks.com" version:2.1 email;internet:mchamp@airmail.net adr;quoted-printable:;;3000 Teal Ln. =0D=0A;McKinney, ;TX;75070-4187; x-mozilla-cpt:;14144 fn:Minnie Pitts Champ end:vcard --------------58EFE9F603E7D7D76E9DE315--

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A633AFE92BD7BBB9F690636B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have an old McKinney City Directory 1924-1925, and under Undertakers are listed: Harris, Keller-Largent and Massie & Sons. Current funeral homes you might contact are: Belew's 601 S. Tennessee St., McKinney 75069; Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow, Hwy 5 at Exit 37, McKinney (don't have exact mailing add) 972-542-2601. Maybe one of these could direct you. DBrooks466@aol.com wrote: > > Has anyone ever heard of a funeral home by this name that operated in the > 1920's? I have a death certificate from Collin County on a Thomas Jefferson > Grounds and am trying to find out the place of burial for this person. I > cannot read the writing very well. So I've focused on the undertaker, but I > can't make out the name of the town where this undertaker is from. It's > probably a 6 letter city. It begins with an M and ends in either a O or a W. > There is a T just before the end of the word. Does anyone have a clue? Mr. > Grounds died in Westminster, Collin County on July 19, 1927 and was buried > the next day, so I assume the burial place and the address of the undertaker > were fairly close by to do the burial in one day. > > Duston Brooks --------------A633AFE92BD7BBB9F690636B Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mchamp.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Minnie Pitts Champ Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mchamp.vcf" begin:vcard n:Champ;Minnie Pitts x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.collincountybooks.com org:Collin County Book Co.;"www.collincountybooks.com" version:2.1 email;internet:mchamp@airmail.net adr;quoted-printable:;;3000 Teal Ln. =0D=0A;McKinney, ;TX;75070-4187; x-mozilla-cpt:;14144 fn:Minnie Pitts Champ end:vcard --------------A633AFE92BD7BBB9F690636B--

Thank you Minnie, I was getting back to you about that obituary for T. J. Grounds in 1925 that you found in your index. I'm not able to travel there, so could you please tell me how I might get a copy? Thanks again. Duston Brooks

Has anyone ever heard of a funeral home by this name that operated in the 1920's? I have a death certificate from Collin County on a Thomas Jefferson Grounds and am trying to find out the place of burial for this person. I cannot read the writing very well. So I've focused on the undertaker, but I can't make out the name of the town where this undertaker is from. It's probably a 6 letter city. It begins with an M and ends in either a O or a W. There is a T just before the end of the word. Does anyone have a clue? Mr. Grounds died in Westminster, Collin County on July 19, 1927 and was buried the next day, so I assume the burial place and the address of the undertaker were fairly close by to do the burial in one day. Duston Brooks

There is a list of the people buried in the Grounds cemetery in Collin County Cemetery Inscriptions Vol 1 by Alice Pitts, Wanda O'Rourk and Doris Posey. I am sure you will be hearing from Minnie Champ about this. Joy DBrooks466@aol.com wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can find a list of persons who are buried in > this cemetery? Thanks. > > Duston Brooks