--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--