New on HCGS WebPages: General Granbury's Family http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/GranburyFamily.htm Frank Saffarrans Hood County genealogical Society

Following is an extract from the History of Tolar: Many schools had been established around Tolar. They were: Amulet, Neri, Camp, Sandy, Center Point, Rough Creek, Paluxy, Antioch, Asbury, Allison, Hightower (negro), Hayes College (a union of two smaller ones). Do you have any information on Hayes College? Frank Saffarrans opa@hcnews.com Virginia Hale virginia@computron.net

History Of Tolar (note this source promotes Confederate Veteran Tolar to General - other sources say Captain) http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/TolarHistory.htm Biographical note on Isaac Newton Gresham http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/GreshamIN.htm Frank Saffarrans Hood County Genealogical Society

Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railroad http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/Railway.htm Frank Saffarrans Hood County Genealogical Society

A family of Hood County educators: http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/ClarkJA.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/ClarkRandolph.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/ClarkTM.htm Jess Baker Introduced Woman Suffrage Bill twice but it failed both times: http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/WomanSuffrage.htm Frank Saffarrans Hood County Genealogical Society

I have added ten more pages to the Diary of Ada Millingoton http://members.tripod.com/~Belle_Long/Ada/gallery.html

Following Biographical Sketches have been added to HCGS WebPages - the last file name in the URL gives you a clue as to person covered by sketch. http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/AbernathyMollie.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/BakerJA.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/BarnardG.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/DeCordovaJR.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/DunnRF.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/EdwardsRoss.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/HaleCH.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/HardinMA.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/HardinMA.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/JarvisIdaVZ.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/JarvisVZ.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/LomaxJA.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/McGaugheyWL.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/McIlroySD.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/RobertsonAB.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/RobertsonNellie.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/SandeferJD.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/SublettWC.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/SwitzerDS.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/TorreyJF.htm http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/TraylorJH.htm

Revised Sheriffs of Hood County. Wayne Moyers and Virginia hale and Frank Saffarrans teamed up to give you this revised WebPage. Wayne copied all the individual photos for this page. View it at: http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/Sheriffs.htm Frank Saffarrans Hood County Genealogical Society

Wylie Cemetery http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/church/WylieCemetery.htm 1st Christian Church Members circa 1930's http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/church/1stChristianChurchRoll.htm 1892-1906 Sheriffs Bond Book http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/BondBookSheriffs.htm 1892-1906 Deputies Bond Book http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/BondBookDeputies.htm 1892-1906 Justice of the Peace Bond Book http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/BondBookJP.htm

The Hood County Query and Family Data Page has a new entry: ------------------------------------------------------ Looking for familys of James T. DURRANT that married Narissas WILLIAMSON. John Henry TIDWELL that married Violet Elizabeth WILLIAMSON. Charles J. SPAULDING that married Annie C. WILLIAMSON. George W. CASH that married Susie J. WILLIAMSON Some of these families are most likely still in and around Hood County. The Spauldings moved to OK. If you know anyone that is connected to these familys please have them get in touch with me at my E-Mail address. Thanks LaNelda Williamson Gordon LaNelda Gordon <lng@intx.net> San Antonio, Tx USA - Sunday, February 21, 1999 at 10:45:03 (PST) ------------------------------------------------------

Sue Burnerts, I have forwarded your message to tx-hood-l subscriber list. (about 200 genealogy researchers with interest in Hood County). maybe one of them will be able to help you. You can check the Hood County Newspaper obituaries: The Hood County News from September 3, 1891 to present is available on microfilm at the Hood County News Office, 1501 S. Morgan, Granbury, TX, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday 1-800-588-7066; or at the Hood County Library, 222 N. Travis St., Monday through Saturday 10-6 (except M 10-7, Tues. 10-9), (817) 573-3569. Granbury is only about a 30 minute auto trip from Cherry Lane. Sue Bumerts wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam; > My name is Sue Jane BARKER-Bumerts and I am trying to find the parents > of my grandfather Jackson Thomas BARKER, also known as J.T. and Jack BARKER. > He was born in TX (I don't know what county) in 1879. He married Lillie > BROWN b Arkansas 1880 and they had 4 children- 2 lived - Cora born 1903 TX > who married D.V. Kinnard in abt 1910 and Belle Barker born 1907 in OK or TX. > On the 1910 census the family lived in Ft. Worth with Jack's brother C.B. > BARKER and a 6 month old baby Cecil BARKER who I believe was C.B.'s son. He > was listed as Jack's nephew. Also in the house was Emerson BROWN, Lillie's > brother and boarders named SHADDOCK. Jack T. BARKER remarried in about > 1917 to my grandmother Wanda BROWN born 1898 in Merkel, Taylor Co, TX. On > the 1920 census Jack and Wanda lived at 2828 Birmingham Ave, Dallas with > Cora and her husband D.V. KINNARD, Belle 13 and Jack and Wanda's baby > Benjamin BARKER. My father was born later that year at the same address, > Eugene Varnell BARKER 20 Aug 1920. Jack T. BARKER signed a document that was > attached to my fathers Birth Certificate "To Legalize a Given Name on > Original Birth Cert." in 1942 and Jack T. BARKER was living at 2827 Marsalis > St., Dallas, TX. My grandmother Wanda Brown-BARKER separated from Jack in > about 1937 and was found working as a waitress in Ft. Worth on her 1937 > Social Security Application. She must have re-married in about 1940 because > she had her name changed to FISHER on the SS. She raised Ben BARKER and Gene > BARKER in Ft Worth. Ben married a woman named Ethel and had two sons Bennie > Clyde and Bobby BARKER. Ben BARKER lived his entire life around the Ft. > Worth area and worked as a Furniture Broaker, I believe. I know he loved the > Dallas Cowboy's Football Team My father Gene BARKER married Kathleen > Wingate from Alvarado. My mother's surnames are WINGATE, STOUT, YOUNG, > CONNALLY (connected to Texas Gov. John CONNALLY's line, FEEMSTER, OLDHAM and > many more. I am an only child of Gene and Kathleen BARKER. I was born in > 1946 in Johnson County. My mother lived in Alvarado with my grandmother > Pinkie WINGATE while my father attended Texas Christian University. My > parents divorced when I was a baby and I really never knew my BARKER line. I > met Uncle Ben and Aunt Ethel a couple of times but we never kept in touch as > the years went by. The last time I saw my Uncle Ben was when he came to > Bakersfield (Oildale) CA to get my grandmother Wanda, now a widow of George > Everett, and moved her to the Granbury Nursing Home in Granbury, TX. That > was the last time I saw my grandmother. She and I had become very close > while she lived in California and she did tell me some family history. We > wrote while she was in the Granbury Nursing Home until she died there June > 1983. I don't remember why I did not attend the funeral, I am not sure I was > notified until it was over. Her name then was Wanda Everett. I have not been > able to locate any of the remaining family members. I don't know if Uncle > Ben BARKER or Aunt Ethel are still alive? And I have no idea where their > son's Bennie Clyde Barker and Bobbie Barker (who I never met) are. My father > re-married a woman named Christine after he and my mother divorced and they > had three children: Jeffrey Lynn born 1948; James Bradford born 1949 and > Sharon Willene born 1950. I have no idea where they are. The last time I saw > them was around the time my father Eugene (Gene) Barker died Apr 1982 in > Bakersfield, CA. I did have some contact with them after that but lost > contact as the years went on. > I am getting older and have three lovely grandchildren that I would love > to be able to tell them about their BARKER heritage but have been looking > for almost two years now, even with the help of a paid genealogist, and > still only know what I have told you. The genealogist did find a J. W. > BARKER born abt 1858 in Texas married to Sarah born 1861 in Arkansas with a > baby 7 mos old named "J.T. BARKER" on the 1880 Texas Soundex census that > might be my Jackson Thomas Barker. > Since my grandmother Wanda Everett died in Hood County, June 1983, do > you think there might be an Obituary that would give me some information on > my family? If so, how would I go about getting a copy of it? > Sorry to have taken so much of your time and thank you for reading this > very long e-mail. I would be very grateful for any suggestions you might > have to help me find my family. > Sincerely, > Sue Jane BARKER-Bumerts > 38623 Cherry Lane, Apt #137 > Fremont, CA 94536 > (510) 793-7509 > Latviabum@msn.com > Ps: Your Web Site is one of the best I have every seen for genealogy. You > have done a wonderful job!

1876Civil Docket http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/1876AprCivilDocket.htm 1892 Bond Book http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/BondBook1892.htm 1866 Election returns http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/1866ElectionReturns.htm Paluxy Lodge Application Circa 1873 http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/PaluxyLodge393.htm Antioch Baptist Church membership (Reformatted) http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury/church Frank Saffarrans Hood County Genealogical Society

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------FDEBD94D4B165D644718F1DE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The attached message indicates that it will be weeks before the access problem at http://www.genealogy.org/~granbury is resolved. In the meantime an alternate site has been established at: http://www.hcnews.com/~ancestor. You should be able to reach all the Hood County genealogical Society WebPages through this alternate home page. -- Frank Saffarrans Home Page Editor Hood County Genealogical Society http://www.hcnews.com/~ancestor opa ['opa] masculine noun, colloquial German: grandpa --------------FDEBD94D4B165D644718F1DE Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-POP3-Rcpt: granbury@genealogy Return-Path: <bulletin-request@genealogy.org> Delivered-To: granbury@genealogy.org Received: (qmail 32536 invoked by uid 531); 13 Feb 1999 05:17:39 -0000 Resent-Date: 13 Feb 1999 05:17:39 -0000 Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Authentication-Warning: ns2.emcee.com: emcee owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:17:28 -0800 (PST) From: Genealogy Online <emcee@genealogy.org> X-Sender: emcee@ns2.emcee.com To: bulletin@genealogy.org Subject: Access problems Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990212210612.32705B-100000@ns2.emcee.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"9DJ9Y3.0.Jy7.phGns"@genealogy> Resent-From: bulletin@genealogy.org X-Mailing-List: <bulletin@genealogy.org> archive/latest/61 X-Loop: bulletin@genealogy.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: bulletin-request@genealogy.org X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Genealogy Online gets its connectivity from zNET. Like all ISPs, zNET pays a "backbone provider" for their connectivity to the Net. But Global Center, one of zNET's backbones, has reached capacity on routers coming into zNET and, thus, into Genealogy Online. The result is dropped packets and slow access. Both myself and zNET have been in regular contact with Global Center. They acknowledge the problem and say that they are installing new equipment and moving much of the traffic off the affected routers. But they've been saying this for a week. Finally, yesterday, someone at GC admitted to me that they need to install new circuits, that those circuits have been ordered but that it may be a month before that's done. zNET is actively searching for a new backbone provider. But that requires the installation of a new circuit and may take another 2-4 weeks. The problem you may be experiencing with slow access and downloads will be fixed once that change occurs, or once Global Center fixes the problem. Please understand that zNET's and Genealogy Online's equipment, all of which is on this side of the bad GC routers, is running as well as it ever has. (Indeed, a San Jose zNET user would have no problem at all accessing GO, since s/he is on this side of Global Center.) Additionally, last Sunday, I added a faster processor, installed a new motherboard and more memory on the web server, hoping that would improve access. Apparently, it has not. Unfortunately, there's not much more that can be done but to "tough it out." -- Michael Cooley, System Administrator Genealogy Online http://www.genealogy.org/ --------------FDEBD94D4B165D644718F1DE--

Will the person who offered to do lookups in this census please do one for me. Thanks. Solon B. Ritchey b about 1855 in TX By 1900 Solon was a widower with several children. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again. Barbara

New on HCGS WebPages: Hood County Newspaper Archive: 1886 - Current. View it at: http://www.hcnews.com/~ancestor/Newspapers.htm ALSO NOTE THAT AN ALTERNATE HCGS INTERNET SITE HAS BEEN SET UP AT: http://www.hcnews.com/~ancestor/ THIS SITE IS VERY MUCH FASTER THAN THE "VERY SLOW" genealogy.org SITE. -- Frank Saffarrans Home Page Editor Hood County Genealogical Society http://www.hcnews.com/~ancestor opa ['opa] masculine noun, colloquial German: grandpa

The Hood County Query and Family Data Page has a new entry: ------------------------------------------------------ joseph RATLIFF, born abt, 1825, TENNESSEE, married elizabeth GIBSON, born 1830, ALABAMA, children: JAMES P. GEORGE, JOE and my grandfather JESSE ROBERT RATLIFF, joseph moved family to MANY LOUISIANA, SABINE PARISH, abt 1860, then about 1870? he took the three older boys and went to TEXAS, they setteled around GRANBURY TX, I know that JAMES P. stayed in touche with his family in MANY LA, because he was a witness at his sister ELIZABETHS wedding to ALEX CORTINEZ in 1885, JAMES P. maeeied MUHULDA JOSEPHINE CAMPBELL, they are buried at ACTION CEMETERY in GRANBURY TX, his mother and sister ELIZABETH are buried at CLYDE CEMETERY in MANY LA, my grandfather JESSE ROBERT RATLIFF married GEORGIA MICHEL, they are buried at ROSEHILL CEMETERY in OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA, any help would be appreciated. THOMAS RADCLIFF <bigt@saber.net> MIDDLETOWN, CA USA - Thursday, February 11, 1999 at 22:51:17 (PST) ------------------------------------------------------

New on Hood County genealogical WebPages; The Hood County News is publishing a monthly series featuring county's scenic roads. First article is: Comanche Peak Look. You may view it at: http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/ComanchePeakLoop.htm or http://www.hcnews.com/lifestyles.htm-- Frank Saffarrans Home Page Editor Hood County Genealogical Society http://www.hcnews.com/~ancestor opa ['opa] masculine noun, colloquial German: grandpa

I would like to invite everyone to visit my new Millington page Evelyn http://members.tripod.com/~Belle_Long/index.html

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8C65CDC9D5A03133005513BE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Regarding the problem in accessing certain Hood County genealogical WebPages: --------------8C65CDC9D5A03133005513BE Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="nsmailTV.TMP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="nsmailTV.TMP" Return-path: <admin@genealogy.org> Received: from ns2.emcee.com (unverified [207.167.87.51]) by mail.questlinks.com (Vircom SMTPRS 1.0.173) with SMTP id <B0005054695@mail.questlinks.com> for <opa@hcnews.com>; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:30:28 -0500 Received: from localhost (admin@localhost) by ns2.emcee.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA10317 for <opa@hcnews.com>; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:20:44 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: ns2.emcee.com: admin owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:20:44 -0800 (PST) From: Genealogy Online <admin@genealogy.org> X-Sender: admin@ns2.emcee.com To: Frank Saffarrans <opa@hcnews.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Hood County Genealogy Web Site] In-Reply-To: <36C052E2.F8237E5E@hcnews.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990209101333.10279A-100000@ns2.emcee.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Hi Frank, There's a problem at Global Center that is causing dropped packets, which results in the problems you're seeing. As you may know, GO gets its connectivity from zNET, my employer, and they get backbone services from Global Center. All services this side of those routers--Genealogy Online, zNET San Jose users and any other ISP--are seeing the same thing. The problem is that GC oversold bandwidth. We've been on the phone multiple times with GC but nothing has yet improved, despite the fact that they say they're installing additional routers to alleviate the problem. zNET is now looking to get backbone services. Hopefully, this issue will be resolved one way or another very soon. -Michael On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Frank Saffarrans wrote: > Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 09:23:14 -0600 > From: Frank Saffarrans <opa@hcnews.com> > To: admin@genealogy.org > Subject: [Fwd: Hood County Genealogy Web Site] > > Michael, > This is an example of the messages about accessing genealogy.org. The > problem as we experience it is affecting all the WebPages at > genealogy.org, not just ~granbury. I have heard from users in Alaska, > Oregon, Illinois and Texas. > > Thank, > Frank > -- Michael Cooley, System Administrator Genealogy Online http://www.genealogy.org/ --------------8C65CDC9D5A03133005513BE--

"Reminiscences" By: Randolph Clark Virginia Hale has completed reading Randolph Clark's book entitled "Reminiscences" which was published in 1916 (concerns AddRan College). You may read her review at: http://www.granbury.com/~ancestor/z/biog/Reminiscences.html Frank Saffarrans Home Page Editor Hood County Genealogical Society http://www.hcnews.com/~ancestor opa ['opa] masculine noun, colloquial German: grandpa