If anyone is interested in a workshop on cemetery preservation please let me know. I have a friend who is willing to come and give a class on this if enough people are interested. Please email me back at mtharris@ev1.net .

The Montgomery Co. TX cemetery transcriptions have moved to http://www.they-speak.com . They are in a new searchable format. Please go by and check it out. While you are there you might want to add your favorite Montgomery Co. related links on our "Useful Link" section of the site at http://www.they-speak.com/cgi-bin/links.cgi . Thanks Wm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

--part1_e6.aa0f898.26eac618_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_e6.aa0f898.26eac618_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <BETWIL@aol.com> From: BETWIL@aol.com Full-name: BETWIL Message-ID: <a4.9347871.26eac073@aol.com> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 18:21:39 EDT Subject: Walker County Genealogical Soc Sept 2000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en To: undisclosed-recipients:; X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 114 THE WALKER COUNTY TEXAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY P O BOX 1295 HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS 77342 VOLUME FOUR #7 SEPTEMBER 2000 FOUNDED IN JUNE 1965=20 REGULAR MEETINGS: Third Saturday of each month except December, June, July,=20 and August at 9:30 A. M. Beginning in September 2000, we will meet at the=20 Forrest Masonic Lodge #19 at 1030 Twelfth Street in Huntsville. EVENT THIS MONTH: MEETING AT THE FORREST MASONIC LODGE #19 AT 1030 TWELFTH=20 STREET IN HUNTSVILLE AT 9:30 AM PROGRAM: September 16: "Up Against a Brick Wall"presented by Emily Croom,=20 author/publisher of Unpuzzling Your Past: a Basic Guide to Genealogy, and Th= e=20 Genealogist's Companion & Source Book. GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY BOARD MEETING AT THE HUNTSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ON=20 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 5:30 P.M. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: DUE TO TREMENDOUS INTEREST, THE DEADLINE FOR WALKER=20 COUNTY PIONEER CERTIFICATES AND WALKER COUNTY FIRST FAMILY CERTIFICATES HAS=20 BEEN EXTENDED. APPLICATIONS MAY BE PICKED UP AT THE HUNTSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, OR YOU MAY=20 REQUEST A FORM BY WRITING TO PIONEER REGISTRY AT P O BOX 1295, HUNTSVILLE,=20 TX, 77342. TOTAL NUMBER OF CERTIFICATES ISSUED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 6 WAS 617= ! SWEET FEAST SUPPORTS PUBLIC LIBRARY=20 MEMBERS OF THE WALKER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY WILL SERVE AS HOSTS AND=20 HOSTESSES FOR THE ANNUAL SWEET FEAST SPONSORED BY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY. YO= U=20 WILL BE CONTACTED ABOUT YOUR ASSIGNMENT. NEW SITE FOR THE WALKER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY WEBPAGE: www.DickensonResearch.com/wcgen.htm IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A MEMBER OF OUR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, DUES ARE $10=20 PER INDIVIDUAL AND $15 PER COUPLE. ANNUAL DUES ARE PAYABLE IN MAY. Please send your dues to: Linda Parish, Treasurer 31 F.S. Road 214 New Waverley, TX 77358 936 295-9570 MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE WALKER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY =E2=80=93 MONEY OR BOOKS, SOUNDEX, MICROFILM, YOU NAME IT. Your contributions make it possible for us to purchase additional=20 genealogical materials which may help you to research some of your ancestors= =20 in the local library. Please be generous! HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS? Please call Beth Williamson at 409 295-3170 if your address changes. We lik= e=20 to keep our mailing list up to date. Don't let us lose you! Send e-mail=20 addresses to: betwil@aol.com PROGRAMS FOR 2000-2001 October 21, 2000 "Louisiana Research" presented by Barbara Franz, Librarian= ,=20 Montgomery Co. November 18, 2000 Our annual Question and Answer Session. Be thinking about= =20 the questions you would like answered. January 20, 2001 Eleanor McIntyre "Census 2000" February 17, 2001 To be announced later March 17, 2001 Dr. Caroline Crimm "Texas After 1836" April 21, 2001 Mrs. Schuder "Riverside and Cincinati" May 19, 2001 Annual Picnic at Dickenson's OUR OFFICERS FOR 1999-2001 PRESIDENT=E2=80=93 JOHNNIE JO DICKENSON 936 295-5551 info@DickensonResearch.com FIRST VICE PRESIDENT=E2=80=93 JANET GARDENER SECOND VICE PRESIDENT=E2=80=93 JOYCE HILLIARD SECRETARY=E2=80=93 CLARA MALAK CORRESPONDING SECRETARY=E2=80=93 VERNA BANES TREASURER=E2=80=93 LINDA PARRISH REGISTRAR=E2=80=93 MARY EDWENA VICK LIBRARIANS=E2=80=93 GORDIE REAVES, ELLIE WOOD HISTORIAN=E2=80=93 BARBARA BANCROFT DONATIONS TO THE GENEALOGY COLLECTION Gracie Countz donated the Mariposa Gazette 1854-1979 and Marschner's California: a Snapshot in Time. Johnnie Jo Dickenson donated The Herald, Vol.21-22. Barbara Bancroft donated Eddleman's Genealogical Abstracts from Tennessee=20 Newspapers, W. M. Clemens' North and South Carolina Marriage Records 1805-1812, Elizabeth Fox=20 Genovese's Within the Plantation Household, and James G. Ryan's Irish Records: Sources=20 for Family and Local History. Verna Banes donated Melton's Cooper County, Missouri. Ellie Woods donated Some Georgia County Records Vol. 10. In memory of K. Stevens Drane, Jeane Drane Scott gave Mary Miller Straus' Flowery Vale=E2=80=93 a History of Accident, Maryla= nd. Virginia D. Chastain donated Cedar County, Iowa. In memory of James Thomas Scott and Ida May Ramsdell Scott, Lee G. Scott ga= ve a book to be bound. [title not on form] Lee and Jeane Scott, in memory of Adam Royder, donated Rock Prairie Baptist=20 Church One Hundredth Anniversary. Dawn Sims donated Spokane Co. Washington Early Birth Records 1880-1906. Johnnie Jo Dickenson donated 3 CD-Roms of Texas Birth Index 1926-1995, 1=20 CD-ROM Texas Death Index 1964-1998, 1 CD-ROM Texas Marriage Index 1966-1998,= =20 and 1 CD-ROM Texas Divorce Index 1968-1998. Bill Hill gave Brown and Holcomb's Petitions for Land from the South Carolin= a=20 Council Sources, Vols 5,6, and 7; James D. McKain's Index to South Carolina=20 Magazines of Ancestral Research, Vols 1-20, 1873-1992; Robert Scott Davis'=20 The Supplement [1773-1889] to the Wilkes Co. Georgia Papers; Moore's Abstract of Records of the Secretary of the Province of South=20 Carolina. 1692-1721; and Caroline Moore's Abstract of the Wills of the State= =20 of South Carolina Vols 1 and 2, 1670-1760. The Mary Martin Elmore Scott Chapter of the Daughters of the American=20 Revolution donated the DAR Library Catalog. Sandra Rogers donated family group sheets. Judy Kayse donated Cemetery Records of Fayette Co. Georgia and A Short=20 History of Fayette Co. Georgia. Johnnie Jo Dickenson gave the Holston Pastfinder Vols 16-17; and Researchin=20 Ouachita and Calhoun Counties, Arkansas Vols 18-19. It is a requirement that all members of the Walker County Genealogical=20 Society make an annual donation of money and/or materials. If you need=20 suggestions for donations, please contact our society librarians Gordie=20 Reaves and Ellie Wood. If your donation has not been mentioned in a newsletter, please call Beth at= =20 295-3170. WHERE IS YOUR 5-GENERATION CHART? Mary Edwena Vick asks that every member who has not already done so submit=20= a=20 5-generation chart. It can be printed on a computer or on a 5-generation=20 form available at the library. Place your chart in her box in the genealogy=20 closet. Civil War Notes Beth Williamson has been working on her and her husband's ancestors who were= =20 in the Civil War. By asking the State Archives for copies of the pension application forms, fo= r=20 example, you may be able to verify great-grandfather's place of birth, who=20 the witnesses to his military experience were [frequently brothers,=20 brother-in laws, and other relatives] the names of their units =E2=80=93 whi= ch allows=20 research on the regimental history=E2=80=93 what the doctor said about the=20 applicant's health, what records are available from the national archives,=20 and when and where the soldier enlisted and was mustered out. Beth's Hugh Moore and William Wallace Trimble were both prisoners of war. Stuart's Aquilla Stuart died of Bright's disease and mitral insufficiency. Beth's Joseph C. Drake served in the Union Army from February to September o= f=20 1865, doing garrison duty in Tennessee. His 154th Illinois Infantry, Company= =20 G never saw combat but lost 74 men to illness. William Wallace Trimble was on the waiting list to go to the Old Soldiers'=20 Home in Austin when he was burned to death in a hotel fire in 1920.=20 NEW MEMBERS OF THE WALKER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY SINCE THE LAST YEARBOO= K=20 WAS PRODUCED. WE HAVE A NEW YEARBOOK EVERY OTHER YEAR. PLEASE INSERT THIS=20 LIST IN YOUR YEARBOOK. Mary Jane Addison 1805 16th St Huntsville TX 77340 295-3654 Thomas Bancroft Rt 1 Box 458 Point Blank TX 77364 377-4356 E V Blissard 458 Elkins Lake Huntsville TX 77340 291-2602 Elizabeth Bright 117 Glenview Crockett TX=20 936 544-3721 Sharon Nixon Carroll 6509 FM 3180 Baytown TX 77520 281 383-2951 Irmadene Metts Cauthen P O Box 601 Huntsville TX 77342 295-3649 Suzette A Douglas 5439 Forrest Bridge Way Houston TX 77066 281 586-9061 Cornelia Goffney 7288 FM 2693 East New Waverly TX 77358 936 767-4579 Ollie W. Hardy P O Box 296 New Waverly TX 77358 344-6613 Sue Mabry Hardy P O Box 310 New Waverly TX 77358 Charlotte Hentschel Rt 8 Box 552-M Livingston TX 77351-9111 936 967-2225 Mary E Marshall P O Box 297 New Waverly TX 77358 344-6025 Juanita D McClendon 1152 FM 247 Huntsville TX 77320 295-3015 Jerry & Carolyn McMillian P O Box 1593 Huntsville TX 77342-1593 291-1476 Gary Benton McMillian 7603 Midpark Court Austin TX 78750-7936 Kyle and Kelly Morgan 144 IH 45 N Apt 719 Huntsville TX 77320 436-9141 Kareena Mullens 1832 Thonig Rd Houston TX 77055 713 682-2065 Donald R Nixon 114A Pahala Court Bastrop TX 78602 512 321-9661 Alta Oates 2023 SH 75N Huntsville TX 77320 295-3289 Nona Pebworth 1541 Southwood Dr Huntsville TX 77340 295-9550 Golda Rich 2709 Chimney Rock Huntsville TX 77320 295-5377 Perlon Ray Roark 68 FM 2550 Rd Huntsville TX 77320 Pat Moore Roberson P O Box 247 Bedias TX 77831 936 395-6781 Nelda Roberts 1015 S Ripple Creek Apt 15 Houston TX 77057 713 461-2138 Helen Sandel 24123 Nomini Hall Lane Katy TX 77493 281 347-5478 Kameron Searle 21410 Park York Katy TX 77450 281 398-8871 Sue Bush Smith 531 Front St New Waverly TX 77358 344-6172 Sandra Bales Walker 218 Kickapoo Forrest Onalaska TX 77360 409 646-3621 --part1_e6.aa0f898.26eac618_boundary--

Bays Chapel Cemetery was added to the East Texas Cemetery Index at the URL below. There are just over 300 gravemarkers in this cemetery. Thanks Wm Visit my new East Texas Cemetery Index website at http://freepages.rural.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Though Silent, They Speak: An Index to East Texas Gravestone Transciptions Visit my research website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Researching Beauregard, Diemer, Holder, Haslam, Wright, McKnight, Lowery, Chappell, Hollander, Markham, Goodwin ...... ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

Dry Creek Cemetery in Montgomery Co., TX, has been added to the East Texas Cemetery Index at the URL below. This is the only known transcription of the cemetery. It was completed this morning. The cemetery contains approximately 350 gravestones. This brings the total of gravemarker listings in the index to 4,165. The code for this cemetery is MONT-DRYC. Thanks Wm Visit my new East Texas Cemetery Index website at http://freepages.rural.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Though Silent, They Speak: An Index to East Texas Gravestone Transciptions Visit my research website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Researching Beauregard, Diemer, Holder, Haslam, Wright, McKnight, Lowery, Chappell, Hollander, Markham, Goodwin ...... ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

Bethel Cemetery in Montgomery Co., TX, has been added to the East Texas Cemetery Index at the URL below. The transcription was completed 08/31/2000. Visit my new East Texas Cemetery Index website at http://freepages.rural.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Though Silent, They Speak: An Index to East Texas Gravestone Transciptions Visit my research website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Researching Beauregard, Diemer, Holder, Haslam, Wright, McKnight, Lowery, Chappell, Hollander, Markham, Goodwin ...... ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

--part1_df.95441ee.26e068cf_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_df.95441ee.26e068cf_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <info@DickensonResearch.com> Received: from rly-zd02.mx.aol.com (rly-zd02.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.226]) by air-zd04.mail.aol.com (v75_b3.11) with ESMTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:30:29 -0400 Received: from totalzone.com ([38.197.218.152]) by rly-zd02.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:30:06 -0400 Received: from jd [38.196.44.150] by totalzone.com (SMTPD32-6.00) id A22226300D0; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:21:22 -0500 From: "Walker County Genealogical Society" <info@DickensonResearch.com> To: <relppek@aol.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 00 13:30:30 Central Daylight Time Subject: Walker County Gen Society Webpage X-Mailer: EMailing List Pro 3.1 Message-Id: <200008311321475.SM00744@jd> TO: ALL WALKER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---CHANGE OF SOCIETY WEBPAGE ADDRESS--- This is to let you know of the change in the website address for the society's webpage. The new website address is: www.DickensonResearch.com/wcgen.htm Also, my new E-Mail address is: info@DickensonResearch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ We had a great time at our 6th Annual Library Lock-In. If you did not make it this year, make your plans for August 2001. Please mark your calendars for our first meeting of the new year on Saturday - September 16th - 9:30 AM. Due to the continued growth in our membership, as well as increased attendance at our meetings, we have changed our meeting place to Forrest Masonic Lodge - 1030 12th Street (1/2 block east of the courthouse). We will have a lot more room and coffee will be served at 9:00 AM. Looking forward to seeing each of you. Johnnie Jo Dickenson - President --part1_df.95441ee.26e068cf_boundary--

FYI~ The Montgomery Co. Cemetery transcriptions are being incorporated into my new database site listed below. Currently there are over 2200 Montgomery Co gravestones listed in the database. Visit my new East Texas Cemetery Index website at http://freepages.rural.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Though Silent, They Speak: An Index to East Texas Gravestone Transciptions Visit my research website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Researching Beauregard, Diemer, Holder, Haslam, Wright, McKnight, Lowery, Chappell, Hollander, Markham, Goodwin ...... ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

Hello, I am proud to announce the creation of a new mail list called TX-Cemeteries. This list has the encouragement of Gerron S. Hite, Cemetery Preservation Coordinator in the History Programs Division of the Texas Historical Commission and he's excited at the opportunity to share his feelings about our cemetery preservation to a large group all at once Others that have been notified, Lee Campbell, Past Representative for the Texas State Genealogical Society {and my cousin} and her friend, Past President of the TSGS Wanda Donaldson. I've let all the following people know about the list and they may join from time to time. Yvonne Pickens, current President of the TSGS. Trey Holt, coordinator for the Texas GenWeb. Wyndell Taylor, creator of GA Cherokee County GenWeb page, {and my cousin}. <Smile> I just have a lot of cousins !!!! The main focus of this list will be to locate and catalogue our endangered cemeteries. Gerron Hite has obtained a new program to help us give our cemeteries "Historic Texas Cemetery Designation". He is willing to help us learn how to accomplish this designation. This will also be a topic for us to address. I am an experienced RootsWeb mail list admin. Currently I manage the mail list for VARoots, SC-Old Pendleton-District, and the Brand surname list. I am also experienced in the survey of large and small cemeteries. In addition to the topics above there will be discussions on how to preserve and restore old monuments with the help of a caretaker with over 25 years experience. To join the mail list simply send a message to TX-Cemeteries-L-request@rootsweb.com with only the word subscribe in the subject line and nothing else. If you prefer the Digest send a message to TX-Cemeteries-D-request@rootsweb.com with only the word subscribe in the subject line and nothing else. I look forward to seeing you there, Respectfully, donna brand

For those of you interested, I have completed transcribing another section of Conroe Memorial Cemetery. The cemetery transcription now lists over 1700 individuals. A working copy of the transcription is available at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/bu/cmc.txt If you would like to add individuals you know are buried there without headstones please let me know. ~Wm Beauregard __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

My transcription of Mostyn Cemetery in Montgomery Co., TX, has been added to the site below. This transcription was completed today. This transcription adds a few names that have been added since the transcription was done for the Montgomery Co., Genweb site in May 1999. Thanks Wm Visit my website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Researching Beauregard, Diemer, Holder, Haslam, Wright, McKnight, Lowery, Chappell, Hollander, Markham, Goodwin ...... ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

A working copy of my Conroe Memorial Cemetery transcription is available at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/bu/cmc.txt . The transcription is approximately 1/4 complete. There are 1000 individuals listed so far. ~Wm Visit my website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Researching Beauregard, Diemer, Holder, Haslam, Wright, McKnight, Lowery, Chappell, Hollander, Markham, Goodwin ...... ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

--part1_17.964239c.26c13792_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_17.964239c.26c13792_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <TXJean@aol.com> From: TXJean@aol.com Full-name: TX Jean Message-ID: <38.9bfef99.26c103ba@aol.com> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 02:33:30 EDT Subject: Re: [TXMONTGO] Fwd: Walker Co. Gen. Soc. Aug 2000 To: RELPPEK@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 119 The Austin Genealogical Society 2000 Seminar deadline is this week...8 am to 4 pm on August 19th at the Red Lion Hotel, I-35 and Hwy. 290...Wm. Dollarhide is speaking on 4 topics...your members are invited to attend...Pre-reg. fee this week only is $32.00 with lunch and many doors prizes...vendors ....so a special invite to Montgomery Co., TX folks...Thanks TXJEAN (co-chair) Seminar 2000 AGS --part1_17.964239c.26c13792_boundary--

--part1_29.88b864e.26c0cc3c_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_29.88b864e.26c0cc3c_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <BETWIL@aol.com> From: BETWIL@aol.com Full-name: BETWIL Message-ID: <bf.5cd54e6.26c0c0cb@aol.com> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 21:47:55 EDT Subject: Walker Co. Gen. Soc. Aug 2000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en To: undisclosed-recipients:; X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 114 WALKER COUNTY=20 GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDED IN JUNE 1965=20 THE WALKER COUNTY TEXAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY P O BOX 1295 HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS 77342 VOLUME FOUR #6 AUGUST 2000=20 REGULAR MEETINGS: Third Saturday of each month except December, June, July,=20 and August at 9:30=20 A. M. Beginning in September 2000, we will meet at the Forrest Masonic Lodge= =20 #19 at 1030 Twelfth Street in Huntsville. EVENT THIS MONTH: Friday, August 18, 2000. Lock-in at the Huntsville Public= =20 Library 5:00 P.M. to 11 P.M.. Need more time in the library for your=20 research? Start any time Friday and know you can stay and work in the library until 11= =20 P.M.. Help will be available for anyone who needs it. Ya=E2=80=99ll come o= ut for=20 this event! GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY BOARD MEETING AT THE HUNTSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ON=20 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 AT 5:30 P.M. ATTENTION, ALL MEMBERS! MARK YOUR CALENDARS!=20 FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 IS A SPECIAL WORKDAY FOR ALL GENEALOGY SOCIETY MEMBERS IN=20 PREPARATION FOR THE LOCK-IN. COME AND HELP US READ THE SHELVES, GET THE BOOKS IN CORRECT ORDER, AND GET=20 READY FOR OUR EXTENDED RESEARCH PERIOD.=20 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: DUE TO TREMENDOUS INTEREST, THE DEADLINE FOR WALKER=20 COUNTY PIONEER CERTIFICATES AND WALKER COUNTY FIRST FAMILY CERTIFICATES HAS=20 BEEN EXTENDED. APPLICATIONS MAY BE PICKED UP AT THE HUNTSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, OR YOU MAY=20 REQUEST A FORM BY WRITING TO PIONEER REGISTRY AT P O BOX 1295, HUNTSVILLE,=20 TX, 77342. TOTAL NUMBER OF CERTIFICATES ISSUED BY THE ANNUAL MEETING IN MA= Y=20 WAS 610! LIBRARY EXPANSION Plans for expansion of the Huntsville Public Library continue on track. Watch for more news! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A MEMBER OF OUR GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, DUES ARE $10=20 PER INDIVIDUAL AND $15 PER COUPLE. ANNUAL DUES ARE PAYABLE IN MAY. Please send your dues to: Linda Parish, Treasurer 31 F.S. Road 214 New Waverley, TX 77358 936 295-9570 MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE WALKER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY - MONEY OR BOOKS, SOUNDEX, MICROFILM, YOU NAME IT. Your contributions make it possible for us to purchase additional=20 genealogical materials which may help you to research some of your ancestors= =20 in the local library. Please be generous! HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR ADDRESS? Please call Beth Williamson at 409 295-3170 if your address changes. We lik= e=20 to keep our mailing list up to date. Don=E2=80=99t let us lose you! Send e-= mail=20 addresses to: betwil@aol.com <mailto:betwil@aol.com> PROGRAMS FOR 2000 September 16: =E2=80=9CUp Against a Brick Wall=E2=80=9Dpresented by Emily Croom, author/publisher of Unpuzzling Your Past: a Basic Guide to Genealogy, and The Genealogist=E2=80=99s Compani= on &=20 Source Book. October 21: =E2=80=9CLouisiana Research=E2=80=9D presented by Barbara Franz, Librarian, Montgomery Co. November 18: Our annual Question and Answer Session. Be thinking about the questions you would like answered. OUR OFFICERS FOR 1999-2001 PRESIDENT- JOHNNIE JO DICKENSON 936 295-5551 jdickenson@myriad.net <mailto:jdickenson@myriad.net> FIRST VICE PRESIDENT- JANET GARDENER SECOND VICE PRESIDENT- JOYCE HILLIARD SECRETARY- CLARA MALAK CORRESPONDING SECRETARY- VERNA BANES TREASURER- LINDA PARRISH REGISTRAR- MARY EDWENA VICK LIBRARIANS- GORDIE REAVES, ELLIE WOOD DONATIONS TO THE GENEALOGY COLLECTION Mary Edwena Vick, in memory of Pearl Hood Sulzer, gave us Mississippi Newspaper Obituaries 1876- 1885, Betty C. Wiltshire, editor. Emma Hill donated the Index to the 1820 U. S. Census of Georgia, Marriage Notices in the=20 South Carolina Gazette 1732-1801, Cemetery Records of Washington Co., Texas=20 by Winfield, and History of Brenham and Washington Co. by Penningrton. Gladys May, in memory of Gladys Weatherford and Alfred Lee Chatham, donated=20 We Had the White Rooster for Dinner by Clifford and Gladys May. W. B. Hill donated Abstract of the Wills of the State of South Carolina=20 1670-1740, Abstract of the Wills of the State of South Carolina 1740-1760;=20 Caroline Moore, editor, a contribution for binding, The Supplement=20 [1773-1867] to the Wilkes Co. [GA] Papers by Robert Scott Davis, Abstract of= =20 Wills of the State of South Carolina 1760-1784, Abstract of the Wills of the= =20 State of South Carolina 1783-1800; Caroline Moore, editor, and the Abstract=20 of Records of the Province of South Carolina 1692-1721; Caroline Moore,=20 editor. Laverne and Bill Dixon, in memory of Johnnie Jo Parker, donated Ships=E2=80= =99=20 Passenger Lists 1846-1871 Port of Galveston, Galveston Co. Genealogical Society publication. Virginia Chastain donated Ancestry of Virginia Doudney Chastain. Sandra E. Rogers contributed History of Robert Chaffin and Descendants by=20 William L. Chaffin. Frances Goforth gave us Soundex rolls 163 and 226 of the 1900 Texas Soundex. Mr. & Mrs. J. I. Wood donated rolls 131, 132, and 133 of the 1900 Texas Soundex. Verna Banes gave us the Combined Membership List of the American Math Society 1981-1982, Early Homes of Waco, Wythe County (West Virginia) Chapters by James=20 Presgraves, and Items from the Ft. Bragg Advocate-News, Mendicino Co.=20 California. W. B. Hill contributed Brazos County Marriage Records, Books A & B, C & D,=20 E&F, and G & H. published by the Texas Research Ramblers, and the following titles all written by Michal Martin Farmer: Elbert County=20 Georgia Deed Books A-J, 1791-1806 published 1997; Elbert County Georgia Deed= =20 Books K-R, 1806-1819 published 1997; Elbert County Georgia Deed Books S-W,=20 1820-1835 published 1998; Oglethorpe County Georgia Deed Books, A-E,=20 1794-1809 published 1999, and Oglethorpe County Georgia Deed Books F-J=20 1809-1820 published in 2000. Dawn Fendley donated 11 volumes of a periodical, =E2=80=9CStepping Back in Time; a History of Eastern Catawba Co. North Carol= ina=20 Life=E2=80=9D by Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, RG - 1987-1997; 11 volumes of a pe= riodical,=20 =E2=80=9CCatawba County Documents=E2=80=9D by=20 Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, CGRS. 1989; 1 volume periodical =E2=80=9CThe Beatt= y=20 Clearing House=E2=80=9D by Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, CGRS. 1991; Catawba Coun= ty=20 Cemeteries, Vol. I & II, compiles and published by the Catawba County=20 Genealogical Society, Hickory, North Carolina; Catawba County, North Carolin= a=20 Court of Pleas and Quarters, March court 1843- January Court 1850, compiled=20 and published by the Catawba County Genealogical Society, Hickory, North=20 Carolina. 1987; and Catawba County North Carolina Marriages, 1842(50)-1880=20 Vol. I compiled by Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, RG, published by Heritage Books,= =20 Inc. 1993. Donated by the Captain John Utie Chapter, Daughters of the American=20 Colonists, Juanita Lynch, Regent, is A Burnett Family of the South by France= s=20 Gass. Thanks to Kameron K. Searle, who when he applied for his First Family=20 certificate, included three volumes of family history which have been=20 cataloged and should be on the shelf for your perusal by the time of the=20 lock-in. One of them concerns the family of Jacob H. Shepperd. Mr. Searle=20 has recently learned more about the parents, siblings, uncle and grandfather= =20 of Jacob which he would be happy to share. =20 [complete through June 30, 2000] If any donation you have made has not been mentioned in this section of the=20 newsletter, please let Beth know. [936 295-3170] WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT GENEALOGY? The Department of Continuing Education at Sam Houston State University will=20 again be offering a course in Basic Genealogy taught by Johnnie Jo Dickenson. It will be held every Thursday beginning on October 5 and ending on November 9 from 6 to 9 PM. For registration information, call 294-3701. FAMILY REUNIONS - DID YOU ATTEND ONE THIS SUMMER? My Moore family reunion was held in the genealogy meeting room at the=20 Hamilton County Genealogical Society building in Hamilton, Hamilton County,=20 Texas. Most attendees came from Texas, Louisiana, or California. =20 I made a little speech about what I had learned about our common=20 ancestor, Hugh Moore, a Civil War veteran who began his service for the Confederacy when he and his cousin Hartwell=20 Moore became members of Company I of the 18th Texas Cavalry on March 1, 1862. The names of all the members of the company=20 are available online! Hugh got a horse worth $130, a rifle worth $20, and a pistol worth $60=20 dollars and Hartwell was similarly equipped. The two men were captured by Federal troops in their first major battle whic= h=20 took place in Arkansas and were prisoners at Camp Douglas, Illinois. More=20 than 4,000 men died while prisoners at Camp Douglas. Paroled, they rejoined the Confederacy with the Army of Tennessee. At the Battle of Chicamauga, there were 62,000 Federal=20 troops on the battlefield, and 65,000 Confederate troops. There were 16,000= =20 Federal casualties and 18,450 Confederate casualties. The Civil War=20 Battlefield Guide says, =E2=80=9CBoth armies suffered heavily for little tangible gain.=E2=80=9D=20 Two Beaman cousins of Hugh and Hartwell were marching enroute to battle when a sniper killed both of them with a=20 single shot. Some of my young cousins did not seem terribly interested in this story=20 of long ago and far away, so I closed by saying that if Hugh had been killed= =20 in any one of a thousand dangerous moments of that war then none of us would= =20 have been around=20 for the family reunion. That brought a laugh and I hope they will remember something about their ancestor.=20 BOOK REVIEW: Polk=E2=80=99s Folly; an American Family History by William R.=20= Polk. I started reading this book because it included information about=20 President James K. Polk, but the author, a kinsman of the Polk who was president, hooked me by=20 telling the whole history of the U. S. in terms of the experiences of members of his family, one that=20 includes, in addition to a president, governors of Missouri, Delaware, and=20 Maryland, and Martin Luther King=E2=80=99s attorney. =20 Sam Houston wrote to a Polk cousin, =E2=80=9CThere are five things on ea= rth which=20 I love, a fine woman, a fine horse - a fine Dog. A Game Cock and fine arms.= =E2=80=9D One of the Polks, Leonidas, was a graduate of West Point, an Episcopalian=20 bishop and a Confederate general.=20 The writer=E2=80=99s Polk grandfather shot the sheriff in Laredo and bec= ame a=20 Texas cattle baron. The writer, William R. Polk, taught history at Harvard and at the=20 University of Chicago and was a member of the Policy Planning Council in the= =20 Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This is history that reads like a novel. I recommend it highly. --part1_29.88b864e.26c0cc3c_boundary--

My transcription of the small Crawford Cemetery in Montgomery County has been completed and is available at the website link below. I was able to get a name, other than those listed at the Montgomery Co. Genweb site, off a stone that was badly worn. Thanks Wm Visit my website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Researching Beauregard, Diemer, Holder, Haslam, Wright, McKnight, Lowery, Chappell, Hollander, Markham, Goodwin ...... ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

Cude Cemetery in Montgomery Co. is now complete at the website below. The transcription was completed this afternoon. Thanks, ~Wm Visit my website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Researching Beauregard, Diemer, Holder, Haslam, Wright, McKnight, Lowery, Chappell, Hollander, Markham, Goodwin ...... ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

I have added my transciption of Oakwood Cemetery in Conroe to the website below. It represents approximately 1350 individuals. Thanks, ~Wm Visit my website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wtbeau/ Researching Beauregard, Diemer, Holder, Haslam, Wright, McKnight, Lowery, Chappell, Hollander, Markham, Goodwin ...... ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

<A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~txmcghs/charter.htm">Click here: charter.htm</A> This is information for Founders Day. There is a list for unaccounted charter members. Take a peek and see if you know the where abouts of any of these charter members. thanks, Jane Keppler

Do you have CURTY relatives? Genforum now has a family posting page! If ya got Curty's go there and post!! thanks, cheryl

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