There is only one Jonesboro, it is situated directly on the county line and I suppose is involved in both county records. The school and cemetery are actually in Hamilton County. I have found some people in both census records. There is no clear distinction of years this has happened. Bobbie Ross, GenWeb county co-ordinator for Coryell County, TX http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcoryel/ Coryell County Genealogical Society webmistress: http://www.htcomp.net/ccgs/ccgsindex.htm Ross Home Page: http://www.htcomp.net/ross NSDAR http://www.htcomp.net/ross/dar "It isn't that they can't see the solution, It is that they can't see the problem" G. K. Chesterton ----- Original Message ----- From: GEO DEVRIES <mdgdevries@worldnet.att.net> To: <TXCORYEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:23 AM Subject: [TXCORYEL] Jonesboro, Texas > Can anyone clear up a location problem for me? I have an ancestor born in > Jonesboro, Texas. I did a search on rootsweb to find the county and came up > with two...Hamilton and Coryell. Is this one of the towns that was on that > every moving border between these two counties? If that is so, does anyone > know what years it was in each county? The other possibility would be there > are two Jonesboros....Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you for your help in advance. > Darlene, Native Texan, in Illinois > mdgdevries@worldnet.att.net > Researching: Adams, Ayres, Baird, Barnett, > Bilyeu, Brown, Brumley, Butler, De Vries, Doggett, Dykstra, > Edwards, Fitzgerald, Flynn, Harmsen, Kooinga, > Kuiper, Lang, Lassiter, Nichols, Prince, Reitsma, Stallworth, > Stone, Waddell, Witterhold, > > and many branches from these. >