Thanks so much for the information as to the location of Cotham Everett Store. My ggrandfather died in Lamar County about 1879 and I can't find where he or my ggrandmother might be buried. I've searched the cemetery records for Lamar County and they are not listed as being buried in Lamar County. Thanks Carson Jones Conroe, Texas >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [TXLAMAR] Re: Cotham Everett and Company >Date: 25 Aug 2005 09:23:33 -0600 > >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/YlB.2ACI/2055.1 > >Message Board Post: > >The name is similar so this may be a possibility. > >http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/TT/hrtja.html > >TIGERTOWN, TEXAS (Lamar County). Tigertown is on Sanders Creek sixteen >miles northwest of Paris in northwest Lamar County. The community was named >Cothran's Store, for an early family, and used as a voting place for >Precinct Five in county elections for 1873. It had a post office from 1878 >to 1905. At the same time the community was also known as Tigertown or >Tige, supposedly because of a circus poster in a saloon. In 1890 the >community had a population of seventy-five, a hotel, a grocery, and a >gristmill. By 1892 it had two general stores, a cotton gin, two physicians, >and Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Four years later a district school >was located in the community. Maps of the 1930s show rows of dwellings, at >least two sawmills, a hotel, a cemetery, and Tigertown School at the site. >By 1936 the population had fallen to forty and the businesses to two; they >stayed at this level through the 1940s. In 1989 Tigertown appeared on >highway maps that showed a grain elevator! > , a school, a cemetery, and one business on the site. > >BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. W. Neville, Backward Glances (2 vols., Paris, Texas: >Wright, 1983). A. W. Neville, The History of Lamar County, Texas (Paris, >Texas: North Texas, 1937; rpt. 1986). > > >==== TXLAMAR Mailing List ==== >Lamar County Reference Books and Resources and Look-up Volunteers: >http://gen.1starnet.com/lookups.htm > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >
Hi: Couldn't help but notice your Cotham Everett and Company. Even tho they were in Lamar Co., Tx., we had Cotham and Everett families here in Izard Co., Ar.; still have some Everett's, but only Cotham descendants. Betty G. McCollum ----- Original Message ----- From: "C.L. Jones" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:24 PM Subject: RE: [TXLAMAR] Re: Cotham Everett and Company > Thanks so much for the information as to the location of Cotham Everett > Store. My ggrandfather died in Lamar County about 1879 and I can't find > where he or my ggrandmother might be buried. I've searched the cemetery > records for Lamar County and they are not listed as being buried in Lamar > County. > Thanks > Carson Jones > Conroe, Texas > > > >From: [email protected] > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [TXLAMAR] Re: Cotham Everett and Company > >Date: 25 Aug 2005 09:23:33 -0600 > > > >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/YlB.2ACI/2055.1 > > > >Message Board Post: > > > >The name is similar so this may be a possibility. > > > >http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/TT/hrtja.html > > > >TIGERTOWN, TEXAS (Lamar County). Tigertown is on Sanders Creek sixteen > >miles northwest of Paris in northwest Lamar County. The community was named > >Cothran's Store, for an early family, and used as a voting place for > >Precinct Five in county elections for 1873. It had a post office from 1878 > >to 1905. At the same time the community was also known as Tigertown or > >Tige, supposedly because of a circus poster in a saloon. In 1890 the > >community had a population of seventy-five, a hotel, a grocery, and a > >gristmill. By 1892 it had two general stores, a cotton gin, two physicians, > >and Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Four years later a district school > >was located in the community. Maps of the 1930s show rows of dwellings, at > >least two sawmills, a hotel, a cemetery, and Tigertown School at the site. > >By 1936 the population had fallen to forty and the businesses to two; they > >stayed at this level through the 1940s. In 1989 Tigertown appeared on > >highway maps that showed a grain elevator! > > , a school, a cemetery, and one business on the site. > > > >BIBLIOGRAPHY: A. W. Neville, Backward Glances (2 vols., Paris, Texas: > >Wright, 1983). A. W. Neville, The History of Lamar County, Texas (Paris, > >Texas: North Texas, 1937; rpt. 1986). > > > > > >==== TXLAMAR Mailing List ==== > >Lamar County Reference Books and Resources and Look-up Volunteers: > >http://gen.1starnet.com/lookups.htm > > > >============================== > >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > > ==== TXLAMAR Mailing List ==== > TXLAMAR Listadmin: Sue Skay Abruscato <[email protected]> > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >