Posted on: Hill County Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Tx/HillObits/84 Surname: Shelley, Stansberry, Barnes, Russo, Booth, Pelham, Simmons, Dunn ------------------------- Whitney Messenger Friday July 31, 1953 William Arthur Shelley, son if the late J.W. Shelley and Mrs. Sarah J. Shelley, passed away at Whitney Memorial Hospital at 5 p.m. Monday July 25. He was born Oct. 21, 1890 in Cherokee Nation, now Oklahoma. He came to Texas with his parents at the age of 3 years and had since resided in and near Whitney. Mr. Shelley was married to Miss Cora Dunn on May 2, 1914 and to this union two daughters were born, Mrs. Viola Booth, of Prairie Valley and Mrs. Mae Russo of Waco. After her death in 1918 Mr. Shelley married Mrs. Annie R. Simmons May 31, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Shelley have four deceased children. He is survived by the following: his widow; 7 children; Milton Simmons, of Fort Worth, Mrs. Viola Shelley, of Prairie Valley, Mrs. Mae Russo, of Waco, Billy and Lois Shelley of Vernon, Mrs. Sarah Pelham of Vernon and Charlie Shelley of Whitney, eleven grandchildren; his mother, Mrs. Sarah J. Shelley of Whitney; five brothers, J.P., L.O., and R.H. Shelley of Whitney; J.E. Shelley of Lueders and A.H. Shelley of Parker, Arizonia; two sisters Mrs. Lavada Stansberry and Mrs Novella Barnes, both of Whitney. Mr. Shelley was a member of the Prairie Valley Baptist Church. Funeral services were held at the Whitney Missionary Baptist Church at 3 p.m. Wednesday with Rev. F. E. Weller and Rev. H.H. McCollum officiating. Interment was in the Whintey Cemetery.

Posted on: Hill County Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Tx/HillObits/83 Surname: Stansberry, Shelley, Barnes, Caughron ------------------------- Whitney Messenger Thursday, May 12, 1977 Lavada Stansberry Mrs. Lavada Stansberry, 80, of Whitney died Sunday, May 8, 1977 in Whitney. She was born Feb. 2, 1897 in Hill County, the daughter of the late Joe and Sarah Caughron Shelley. She married Jessie L. Stansberry Sept. 9, 1918. He died June 2, 1952. She was also preceded in death by a son Lawrence on June 23, 1975. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church and a past Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star. She is survived by 3 sons; William A. Stansberry of Meridan, Odell Stansberry of Trinity, and Gene Stansberry of Kilgore; 4 brothers, Perry Shelley, Rolan Shelley and Earl Shelley all of Whitney and Hershel Shelley of Arizonia; 1 sister; Mrs. J.D. (Novella) Barnes of Whitney; 18 granchildren, 22 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, May 9, 1977 at Marshall and Marshall Chapel in Whitney with Rev. Elgin Blevins, Rev. Doug Shelley and Rev. Eddie Booth officiating. Interment was in the Whitney Cemetery.

Posted on: Hill County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Hill/1094 Surname: ------------------------- Need help from anyone who would research court records, I have dates and other information. Please contact me so we can discuss fee. Thanks, Sug

Posted on: Hill County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Hill/1092 Surname: Lewis ------------------------- Could someone in Hillsboro do a look-up for me? I need the obituary of Thomas M. Lewis from the June 18, 1919 edition of the Hillsboro Mirror. I would be more than happy to reimburse you for postage and copying. Even an e-mail would work. Thanks! John Steward San Antonio, TX

I have sent all of your comments to my mom who knows the 3 people (since they were all little kids) that are on the Woodbury cemetery committee. She is forwarding them on to the people that might can help. Thanks! Karen (Brooks) Cotten ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Thank you very much for the Pearl Marsh obit. Bobby

Karen, Not strange!! Remember we are doing genealogy anything can popup!!!! I just wanted to let you know that the stone is laying against the fence and that is what is holding it up. So much damage there it isn't funny!! Cathy From: the cottens <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Old Woodbury Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:08:39 -0600 Cathy, Yes, the Brooks' are mine, but they aren't related to the Brooks' on my dad's side of the family. Strange, huh? I have a bloodline Brooks and a married-in Brooks. Inside that fence is my great-great grandmother, Nancey Jane Mabry. Her daughter, Minerva, married a Brooks. Karen (Brooks) Cotten ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ==== TXHILL Mailing List ==== Website by Debbie: http://homepages.go.com/~disco77/HillTx.html Photosite by Barb: http://www.zing.com/album/?id=4293428835 ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

In a message dated 02/06/2001 7:01:49 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > X-Message: #6 > Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:35:52 -0800 > From: Diana Holland Buckland <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Message-Id: <[email protected]> > Subject: Herman GOTT > > Posted on: Hill County Queries > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Hill/1087 > > Surname: HUTSON, GOTT, HOLLAND > ------------------------- > > Looking for info on Herman GOTT b: 1899 in TX. Father was Charlie GOTT, > mother Willie A. HUTSON GOTT. > > Charlie disappeared in Spanish American War and Willie died in 1900. I > think Herman was raised by my gg grandmother, Mary Ellen, sister of Willie, > in Abbott, Hill Co, TX. > > Diana, I think we have "spoken" before, but where was your Charlie Gott from? My Gott's were from Warren County, KY, then my gggrandparents went to Crosby and Floyd Counties, TX. I also have a Charles Gott in IN. Let me know if I can help. Donna

Does anyone have any info on the Morgan family of Abbott, Hill Co. TX. There was a daughter Donna Morgan, and I seem to remember (or think I remember) the fathers name was either Jim or Jack Morgan. I know there was an older sister of Donna, but don't remember her name. This Morgan family is somehow linked to mine and I am grasping at straws. James McIlroy

Cathy, Yes, the Brooks' are mine, but they aren't related to the Brooks' on my dad's side of the family. Strange, huh? I have a bloodline Brooks and a married-in Brooks. Inside that fence is my great-great grandmother, Nancey Jane Mabry. Her daughter, Minerva, married a Brooks. Karen (Brooks) Cotten ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Posted on: Hill County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Hill/1091 Surname: YOUNG ------------------------- I know the Hill County Genealogical Society is supposed to do searches for obits... Cathey Shelley has the Hill County list on rootsweb. I think to sign up you send an email to: [email protected] and type subscribe in the body of the email. Then to send a query, you send email to: [email protected] Cathey does do some lookups for people on the list. She has a message posted about the list on this query board. Best of luck. I need some obits too... but they'll probably have to wait until I get back to TX in the summer.

Posted on: Hill County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Hill/1090 Surname: Young ------------------------- Yes, I know that Richard J. Young's father was Richard J. Young Sr., (who died in Clark Co. AR in 1897) and his wife was Rosie Leona Brannan. I have a list of their children, but what I need is to know what the J. stood for, so as to better identify his father's initial J., and thereby place him with his correct parents. I was hoping an obituary might give us the middle name. Is there anyone who could search for his obit in July 1964 in Hill County? He died on the 12th, and his residence was Bynum. Thank you.

Posted on: Hill County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Hill/1088 Surname: BEAVERS, GREENHILL ------------------------- My ggg grandfather was Jesse M. Beavers, buried in Hill Co. My gg grandfather was Henry Edgar Greenhill, also buried Hill Co.

Posted on: Hill County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Hill/1087 Surname: HUTSON, GOTT, HOLLAND ------------------------- Looking for info on Herman GOTT b: 1899 in TX. Father was Charlie GOTT, mother Willie A. HUTSON GOTT. Charlie disappeared in Spanish American War and Willie died in 1900. I think Herman was raised by my gg grandmother, Mary Ellen, sister of Willie, in Abbott, Hill Co, TX.

Posted on: Hill County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Hill/1086 Surname: Young, Holland, Tinsley, Cline ------------------------- I have Young's in Hill County, I will check my family file and see if Richard is in there. Do you have any other info on him? My YOUNG's came from Simpson/Warren Co., KY. Some went to MO. My ggg grandfather, Benjamin YOUNG died in Hillsboro and is buried with his 2nd wife, Mollie, and some other family members in Bell Springs Cemetery, Massey, Hill Co, TX. My gg grandfather, Marcelous Valerious "Valley" Young died in Hillsboro TX. There are death records at the City of Hillsboro Annex office that are not in the County Clerks office of Hillsboro. My great grandmother, Alice Athale Young Holland Tinsley is buried in Ridge Park Cemetery with her second husband Mr. Tinsley.

Posted on: Hill County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Hill/1085 Surname: Holland, Winkle, Fullbright, Smith, Hutson, Taylor, Murphy, Young ------------------------- I am researching Holland's in Hill County TX. Mine settled in Abbott. Descendants have also been in Calhoun, McLennan, Childress, Runnels, Navarro, Bosque, and supposedly Bell and Bexar Co areas. William Marion Holland, Sr. b: Nov 4, 1818 in Jackson Co, TN d: Apr 4, 1907 in Abbott was my ggg grandfather. He's buried in Liberty Grove Cemetery, McLennan Co. Have lots of info to share. Trying to tie in with other Hill County Hollands.

Cathy, Thanks, I had found the list for the cemetery, but it gives no dates for James & Epsie, just their names. Thanks again. Sonya

We made a trip back east in 1993 and visited the Old Woodbury Cemetery. It was in pretty bad shape then. I was told that a farmer who had bought the acreage had tried to plough it under. We found the headstone of our 2 gr grandmother, Mary Matilda Reeves Benton Climer. Our gr grandfather was Sully Reeves Benton. After the death of his father Erasmus Benton in E Carroll Par LA in 1858, his mother married James M Climer. The family moved to Hill Co about 1867. Sully's brother George W Benton was a physician in Woodbury until his death in 1908. Sully married Bettie Nunn, daughter of William M Nunn of Hill Co, she was born in Hill Co in 1854. We first found the headstone for James Climer. Mary's was nearly entirely buried, but recognizing his name we searched and finally uncovered her headstone. It was a very emotional experience. Such a shame that there are so many abandoned graveyards all over the country and such a shame that so many have no respect for them. Ellen

Hi All, With Cathy's permission I'd like to say that work is being done to protect our older cemeteries. But for it to work we need your help. It won't take a minute, but if you could write a letter to your Representative asking him or her to vote for House Bill 1030 we might get some state funding to help preserve some of our cemeteries. You can read all about it and find out who your Representative is by visiting the web site of "Historic Texas Cemeteries". http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~txcemeteries/ Hope to see you there, donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "kathye" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 6:59 PM Subject: Re: Cemetery Horror!!!!! Cemetery desecration and vandalism is rampant all over Texas!!! Every single time I return to a family cemetery, there are new headstones/markers broken or gone completely. There are at least 25 markers in various family cemeteries that were victimized by vandals-all the more reason you should photograph every single one in your family as well as a distance shot to show where the marker is/was!!!! I have been told that the missing markers are used as steps in muddy pasture land - grrrrrrr! Something has got to be done to preserve our old cemeteries!!!!

In a message dated 2/5/01 7:18:57 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Could the crack have been made by all the rain we received in January? I live in Navarro CO next door, :) and we had over 5 inches of rain...or could it have been caused by a sun crack from last summer? Surely to God no one is digging up the graves..... How spooky..gives me chills to think about it... >> I hope so, but with the history of other cemetery desecrations, I don't think so. There is one that is on the outskirts of Cedar Hill (Dallas county) that was vandalized several times in the 1980s. There was a gate, but it was in the middle of nowhere with no houses nearby, so it was hard to enforce. I don't know if they ever caught the people who were doing that. Kathleen Ellis Seeking Knox and Ellis in Hill County