I am trying to locate Penny Jordon who has done work on the history of the Varnell family of Navarro County, Texas. Her e mail address has changed. If you know her, please tell her I am trying to locate her to both get and give additional information. Thanks. Anne Walton Wilson anne-wilson@juno.com

Hi List, Does anyone have a 1900 Census Index for Navarro County to see if a William Augustus "Gus" Philips/Phillips shows up on the list? My G-Grandfather, William Augustus "Gus" Phillips, died in Blooming Grove, (Navarro Co), TX on Oct 05, 1901. I can find my G-Grandmother, Harriet Josephine (Colbert) Phillips, widow, in the 1910 & 1920 Navarro County Census but cannot seem to find her or "Gus" in the 1900 Census 1910========================================================================== Listed Apr 28, 1910 Navarro Co, TX Census, District 93 Blooming Grove, Image 19 PHILLIPS, Josephine Head 50 AL Widow Farmer Total children 6, 6 living " , Willie A. Son 23 TX Single Farmer " , James Son 19 " " Farm laborer " , Colbert Son 15 " " " " " , Ben Son 12 " " " " " , May Dau 9 " " Living next door is Josephine's mother Martha, her sister Betty (Colbert) Mathis, and Betty's son George The Colbert Phillips listed above is my grandfather 1920========================================================================== Listed Jan 08, 1920 Navarro Co, TX Census, Odd Fellows & State Orphans Home, District 142, Image 18 PHILIPS, Josephine Employee F 50? Widow AL Matron ....( age should be 60) ============================================================================= I have gone through the 1900 Navarro County Census twice but did not find them. There is no Index for the 1900 Census so it has been page to page looking. (The Census Records that I have are listed in Ancestry. Com.) It seems to me that Ancestry. Com does not have all the Districts listed, they weren't in Navarro County or my eyes are failing...........The following is part of: "Mr Phillips had a part interest in the gin in Blooming Grove, In 1900 when he was still a comparatively young man, he received internal injuries in an accident at the gin and never regained his health. He died Oct 05, 1901. Prior to his death, he made plans for his family by selling the large farm and buying a smaller place in town near the school." Thanks for your time and effort, "DU" Phillips Boone, NC

Thanks to all of you who looked for the town of Bivins, Texas. A cousin in California wrote that it is in Cass County about 10-15 miles east of Linden, Texas. It is spelled Bivins instead of Bevins. Thanks for looking. The people on this list are wonderful. Anne Wilson anne-wilson@juno.com

At 06:03 PM 05/31/2002 -0500, anne-wilson@juno.com wrote: >Can someone tell me the county Bevins, Texas is in. I found a distant >relative who was born there in 1916. >I don't need any additional information about the town or county, just >the name. >Thanks. > > Anne Walton Wilson > anne-wilson@juno.com Good question. I checked my database of place names and the Handbook of Texas without finding it. Nor is it in the USGS place name database. I also looked at Texas Almanacs for 1912 and 1925 (the only years I have in the era you mentioned) and did not find it. The Almanacs back then didn't list every town; lists were of towns with post offices or incorporated towns. So Bevins must have been a speck. Sorry to strike out. Roger Bartlett

Can someone tell me the county Bevins, Texas is in. I found a distant relative who was born there in 1916. I don't need any additional information about the town or county, just the name. Thanks. Anne Walton Wilson anne-wilson@juno.com

Liberty Hill Cemetery is Approx. 2.5 miles Southwest of Dawson toward Hubbard on Hiway 31. It is on FM 709, Closest to Hiway 31 on the SW side of Dawson.

Can someone tell me where the cemetery is located?

...on Sunday June 9th, 10:30 am-?, covered dish lunch, at the cemetery tabernacle. Is anyone going? I sure wish I could, both my father & I. If anyone is going, please give them our regards. My dad's grandfather, Joseph Hill Murphey, is buried there, along with two of his brothers Edmond Thomas & John Calvin, all confederate veterans & survivors of Rock Island Union Prison. All came from Maury Co. TN with their families in 1873. thanks -- Mark A. Murphy

Anyone following my Murphy lines needs to check out Gary Hood's website map at the following URL. Check out the upper right hand corner of this Maury Co. TN map! Wow! I.F. Murphy, Mrs. Murphey, Crews, JAT Scribner, WB Kannon, Mitchell, Wright, Collier, all the names associated with our family just SE of Pleasant Mount. This is very exciting to me and I've never seen it all drawn up like this, sorry if I can't contain myself! As someone pointed out, these names and several others there are found together in Navarro & Hill Co. TX, and go back before to Franklin/Warren/Bute Co. NC in the 1700s. Thanks Gary Hood! http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~genieresources/ef.jpg Mark A. Murphy

Hi All, Does anyone on the list have access to Corsicanna Newspapers from 1945? If so I need a lookup in them Mary Emma (SPARKMAN) HODGE died 4th of Jun 1945, and I need to know if her obit syas where her son, Orville SPARKMAN was living. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jason Haydon __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

>Delivered-To: bartlett@onr.com >Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 15:31:42 -0600 >X-From_: WMitchell@ci.santa-ana.ca.us Fri May 17 15:31:41 2002 >From: WMitchell@ci.santa-ana.ca.us >To: TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com >Old-Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:31:25 -0700 >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Brushie Prairie Methodist Cemetery >X-Envelope-To: TXNAVARR-L > >My wife and I will be traveling through Navarro County in late June. I am >the son of Tillman W. Mitchell, who was born in Brushie Prairie in 1900. >His mother was Etta French Mitchell. After the death of her husband at >some time she married a Mr. Moore. Mr. Moore died in 1951 or 52 when I was >around 6 yrs old. We would like any information we could get on my >grandmother, both her husbands and the location of the Brushie Prairie >Church. I remember attending the Brushie Prairie Homecoming in the early >50's. The Cemetery behind it had many relatives, Grandma Etta was one of >about 15 children of Moses Wesley French. Please any help would be greatly >appreciated. > >Wes Mitchell >8406 Cedarwood Ln. >Rancho Cucamonga, CA. 91730 >(909) 981-9120 >e-mail-- Wes0037@aol.com

I am searching for information about the descendents of George Lewis Fagala, son of George Fagala and Abigail Kaneaster and Sarah Elizabeth Varnell, daughter of Albert Varnell and Eliza Bradford. The Fagala and Varnell families went to Navarro County, Texas ( Barry, Blooming Grove and Dresden) from Murray/Whitfield County, Georgia soon after the War Between The States. I believe they had 5 children- Annie M, Nora, George, Albert Arthur, and Lula. Any information will be appreciated. Anne Wilson Bella Vista, Arkansas anne-wilson@juno.com

Thanks to all of you who sent information about Ensign, Texas. I grew up at Barry in Navarro County but never heard of Ensign. From the response I got I know genealogists are the most helpful people in the world. Anne Wilson

At 07:03 PM 05/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Can somebody out there please tell me where Ensign, Texas is/was. A >couple in my family married there, according to records, in 1930. I >can't find it. Anne, According to the online Handbook of Texas, "Ensign was on Cummins Creek and Ensign Road four miles south of Ennis in southeastern Ellis County." See: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/EE/hne21.html Roger Bartlett

Can somebody out there please tell me where Ensign, Texas is/was. A couple in my family married there, according to records, in 1930. I can't find it. Anne Wilson anne-wilson@juno.com

The 50th homecoming and annual business meeting of the Rice Cemetery Association will be on Sunday, June 2, 2002, at the Rice High School. A memorial service will be at 11:00 a.m. in the high school gymnasium. A covered dish lunch will be in the high school commons area after the memorial service. The business meeting will be after lunch, no later than 1:00 p.m. The memorial service will honor loved ones who have been buried in Rice or elsewhere since last year's homecoming. If you know of someone who should be on the "buried elsewhere" list, please mail the information to Joanne Murphy, 1700 Glenbrook, Corsicana, Texas 75110. The Cemetery Association will provide barbeque, potato salad, iced tea, and bread. Please bring a covered dish if you reasonably can do so. The new Rice High School is located just south of Rice on the west side of Interstate Highway 45. A large parking lot is on the south side of the school. The overpass at Rice is open. Past generosity has enabled the Cemetery Association to provide quality care for the cemetery. With continued support, that caretaking will continue. If you are unable to attend and wish to contribute, please send a check to Rice Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 117, Rice, Texas 75155.

looking for info on Maurice Renwick- son of Charles B. Renwick and Willie Thompson. the Renwicks's lived in Dawson. on the 1930 census Maurice was 12 so he was born 1918. does anyone know about school records for that period. Ann

Hi All, Thank you all so much for the good information on researching at the courthouse in Corsicana. I recieved about 8 replies, and now I really just can't wait to get there. For those that asked, I am working on my great great grandfather, Dr. Zachariah Taylor Hodge, MD. He moved to Corsicana about 1897/1898. I am trying to find marriage and land rcords for him, and a copy of his will. If possible I am also trying to see if he and his second wife were divorced. They were married 2 years accoerding to the 1900 census, and accroding to the 1910 census he married his third wife, Mary Emma SPARKMAN, a cosuin of his and his first wife, in abt 1902. Dr. Hodge ran a dairy farm there, and his house is still standing in Corsicana from what I have been told. By chance does anyone have record of a Mrs. Bettie (------) CUBLEY with daughters Mabel b. 1889 and Corrine b. 1892? I believe that her (Bettie's) maiden name might have been Elkins, from information from her son's death certificate in California. Thanks, Jason --- Ann Hill <annh2@ev1.net> wrote: > It has been years since I researched there, but I found the staff to be most > helpful. Things and people may have changed. But they allowed me to go > down into the basement and go thru all the marriage books and the books of > Marks and Brands. Corsicana is so small you will have no trouble finding > it. Go to any of the search engines yellow pages and then go to > mapquest.com and get directions from whereever you are coming. The library > is not far from the courthouse as I recall. I don't know about the > availability of newspapers. Call them to see. I was born in Pursley > Community about 15 miles SW of Corsicana. What surnames are you interested > in. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Haydon [mailto:jdhaydon@yahoo.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:01 AM > To: TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [TXNAVARR] general information on courthouse, please > > > Hi, > > Can anyone who has done research in the courthouse give me some information? > I just need to know > the address of the courthouse, availablity of records, and cost of copying. > Is the staff receptive > toward researchers? Also is there a library in Corsicana where they have > old (1920-1950) papers > on film? I am going up to Corsicana on Monday, any info. appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Jason Haydon > > > ===== > I'm a Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at > http://www.raogk.org > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness > http://health.yahoo.com > > > ==== TXNAVARR Mailing List ==== > About 270 folks subscribe to TXNAVARR-L or TXNAVARR-D > > > > > > ==== TXNAVARR Mailing List ==== > Visit the Navarro County genealogical query board: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Navarro > ===== I'm a Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.raogk.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

It has been years since I researched there, but I found the staff to be most helpful. Things and people may have changed. But they allowed me to go down into the basement and go thru all the marriage books and the books of Marks and Brands. Corsicana is so small you will have no trouble finding it. Go to any of the search engines yellow pages and then go to mapquest.com and get directions from whereever you are coming. The library is not far from the courthouse as I recall. I don't know about the availability of newspapers. Call them to see. I was born in Pursley Community about 15 miles SW of Corsicana. What surnames are you interested in. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Haydon [mailto:jdhaydon@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:01 AM To: TXNAVARR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TXNAVARR] general information on courthouse, please Hi, Can anyone who has done research in the courthouse give me some information? I just need to know the address of the courthouse, availablity of records, and cost of copying. Is the staff receptive toward researchers? Also is there a library in Corsicana where they have old (1920-1950) papers on film? I am going up to Corsicana on Monday, any info. appreciated. Thanks, Jason Haydon ===== I'm a Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.raogk.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com ==== TXNAVARR Mailing List ==== About 270 folks subscribe to TXNAVARR-L or TXNAVARR-D

Hi, Can anyone who has done research in the courthouse give me some information? I just need to know the address of the courthouse, availablity of records, and cost of copying. Is the staff receptive toward researchers? Also is there a library in Corsicana where they have old (1920-1950) papers on film? I am going up to Corsicana on Monday, any info. appreciated. Thanks, Jason Haydon ===== I'm a Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.raogk.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com