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list, happy birthday to all! i was looking in the catholic cemetery for some relatives and i found some mistakes. william jackson ragsdill and william jasper ragsdill are buried in bogato cemetery and NOT in the catholic cemetery. i think that because my grandmother vivian rebecca ragsdill was buried there and my mother, sara vivian ragsdill robertson, was buried there, they guessed that my grandfather was burried there, too. vivi argyris denton, tx

I am looking for Sherwood and Elston and Douthit and Dycus/Dicus they came to Red River in about 1830/33. One of the Sherwood 's died in 1839 in RR (court record) Thank You Barbara Sherwood Crow

Sometimes the family assumes so-n-so will be buried in the cemetery with other relatives, but when the time comes the person or a relative have them buried elsewhere. My husband has an aunt with a stone in Garland cemetery. She and her sisters were always close, so they all figured when the time came, they would all be buried where their parents were. However, this sister outlived the other sisters by a couple of decades. In the meantime she moved to Houston to be near her daughter. Her daughter chose to have her buried there. Perhaps this is the case with the Ragsdill burials. Ginger Annona, TX ----- Original Message ----- From: Cynthia Samples Sent: 7/31/2003 2:42:35 PM To: TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] cemetries > Well, they have markers in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, found by Maribeth > Buce & Barbara Weiss in November of 2001 and also by Lawrence and Sue Dale > in Feb 1999. Both of them went by markers and nobody guessed anything. > > Cynthia > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <viviargyris1@juno.com> > To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:44 PM > Subject: [TXREDRIV] cemetries > > > > > > list, > > > > happy birthday to all! > > > > i was looking in the catholic cemetery for some relatives and i found some > mistakes. william jackson ragsdill and william jasper ragsdill are buried > in bogato cemetery and NOT in the catholic cemetery. i think that because > my grandmother vivian rebecca ragsdill was buried there and my mother, sara > vivian ragsdill robertson, was buried there, they guessed that my > grandfather was burried there, too. > > > > vivi argyris > > denton, tx > > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > Visit Red River County GenWeb site http://www.rootsweb.com/~txredriv > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Cynthia, I am always glad to do typing from originals. I can do either html or text Charmaine On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 14:38 US/Eastern, Cynthia Samples wrote: > I spent a couple of hours in the PJC library this morning looking at > microfilm, and one of the things I found was the 1838 Tax Roll of Red > River County, Republic of Texas. I printed out the pages (there are > about 15), and I want to get it typed but it won't be in the next few > days. I remember that a question came up on this list at one time, > and I didn't even know they existed. > > In the meantime, I will do lookups if somebody had people in the area > at that time. There are several columns--one for land but there is > nothing in that one; slaves; horses; mules; cattle, clocks, and > matches? > > I found one Giddens, looks like it starts with an R. He had two > horses. > > This is pretty hard to read and I will probably need to make another > trip to look at the microfilm again before I get it online. > > Cynthia Samples > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Well, they have markers in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, found by Maribeth Buce & Barbara Weiss in November of 2001 and also by Lawrence and Sue Dale in Feb 1999. Both of them went by markers and nobody guessed anything. Cynthia ----- Original Message ----- From: <viviargyris1@juno.com> To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:44 PM Subject: [TXREDRIV] cemetries > > list, > > happy birthday to all! > > i was looking in the catholic cemetery for some relatives and i found some mistakes. william jackson ragsdill and william jasper ragsdill are buried in bogato cemetery and NOT in the catholic cemetery. i think that because my grandmother vivian rebecca ragsdill was buried there and my mother, sara vivian ragsdill robertson, was buried there, they guessed that my grandfather was burried there, too. > > vivi argyris > denton, tx > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I spent a couple of hours in the PJC library this morning looking at microfilm, and one of the things I found was the 1838 Tax Roll of Red River County, Republic of Texas. I printed out the pages (there are about 15), and I want to get it typed but it won't be in the next few days. I remember that a question came up on this list at one time, and I didn't even know they existed. In the meantime, I will do lookups if somebody had people in the area at that time. There are several columns--one for land but there is nothing in that one; slaves; horses; mules; cattle, clocks, and matches? I found one Giddens, looks like it starts with an R. He had two horses. This is pretty hard to read and I will probably need to make another trip to look at the microfilm again before I get it online. Cynthia Samples

This is what keeps me around. I love sitting and talking with those that have been through times I can never experience. The wisdom and knowledge of our experienced citizens and family members should never be overlooked. I guess part of this is growing up with older parents and thus alot older grandparents. Some of my most fond memories are sitting with my 100 yr old granny and just watching her be her. I think is is more special now than then since I have all of the great RR family here to tell me what her and granddad's home of their youth was like. I thank each of you that give us this great insight into the past and give us reason to continue on the traditions. Wanda, may you have a wonderful bday and my wish for you is that your family will take full advantage of the time they get to spend with you and your sisters...I bet there are alot of good stories still to be told.... Drew On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:06:07 EDT Avonnec@aol.com wrote: > Sending my "Happy Birthdays to all who have July >birthdays. > I missed being born in July by one day, I will be > celebrating my big "80" >on August !st. > Friday I will elebrate with my four sisters ages 72 to >90, a niece and my >daughter. > Saturday my children and their families will help me >start another year. > The Lord has blessed greatly. > > Wanda in Minco, OK > > >==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online >genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

This is really getting good,isn't it? Happy late Birthday to you three and I hope you each have many more. Mine is coming up in August and I know it is bound to be hot then. I look forward to the September get-together. I sure hope everyone gets to come. Has anyone heard from Eddie? I heard from Joepete several days ago and he was starting new treatment,on Monday,the 28th. I am ready for rambling,please. So you folks who do that so well,please feel free. Ya'll take it easy. Bonnie Shiro Idabel,Ok >From: "Jan Lindley" Reply-To: TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com To: >TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TXREDRIV] Happy Birthday!!!! Date: Wed, >30 Jul 2003 12:26:54 -0500 > >Drew and Jim----Happy Birthday and hope you both had great days. Sorry >these greetings were late. July must have been a good month for "Red River >County descendents"---mine was July 20. > >Jan Lindley in MO > > >==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 >billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

Wanda, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I hope you and yours enjoy this, your special day. Tom Heath, TX >From: Avonnec@aol.com >Reply-To: TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com >To: TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Happy Birthday!!!! >Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:06:07 EDT > > Sending my "Happy Birthdays to all who have July birthdays. > I missed being born in July by one day, I will be celebrating my big >"80" >on August !st. > Friday I will elebrate with my four sisters ages 72 to 90, a niece and my >daughter. > Saturday my children and their families will help me start another year. > The Lord has blessed greatly. > > Wanda in Minco, OK > > >==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

WOW!!!! July was really a busy month. Happy Birthday Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Austin" <jaau@airmail.net> To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:53 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Happy Birthday!!!! > Well, I'm one of the of ones that just listen and read but I have to add > that my birthday was on July 23. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all of us. > Joyce > Denton > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Well, I'm one of the of ones that just listen and read but I have to add that my birthday was on July 23. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all of us. Joyce Denton

From one Jan to another------- HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "brodie sr" <jbrodie@livingston.net> To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Happy Birthday!!!! > My goodness...July is a busy month and a great one...Happy Birthday > Jan....for yours on the 20th...mine was the 21st!! > jan brodie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "DREW SLATE" <drew-slate@charter.net> > To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:36 PM > Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Happy Birthday!!!! > > > > Happy belated birthday Jan. Hope you had a great day. > > > > Thanks, > > Drew > > > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:26:54 -0500 > > "Jan Lindley" <jlindley@centurytel.net> wrote: > > >Drew and Jim----Happy Birthday and hope you both had > > >great days. Sorry these greetings were late. July must > > >have been a good month for "Red River County > > >descendents"---mine was July 20. > > > > > >Jan Lindley in MO > > > > > > > > >==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > > > > > > > > >============================== > > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online > > >genealogy records, go to: > > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Sending my "Happy Birthdays to all who have July birthdays. I missed being born in July by one day, I will be celebrating my big "80" on August !st. Friday I will elebrate with my four sisters ages 72 to 90, a niece and my daughter. Saturday my children and their families will help me start another year. The Lord has blessed greatly. Wanda in Minco, OK

Happy Birthday Wanda. That sounds like a really good way to celebrate a birthday. Mark and I will celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary,so I will be thinking of you on your birthday,at the same time. Have a great day and many more! This RR list is the greatest! Bonnie Shiro Idabel,Ok >From: Avonnec@aol.com >Reply-To: TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com >To: TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Happy Birthday!!!! >Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:06:07 EDT > > Sending my "Happy Birthdays to all who have July birthdays. > I missed being born in July by one day, I will be celebrating my big >"80" >on August !st. > Friday I will elebrate with my four sisters ages 72 to 90, a niece and my >daughter. > Saturday my children and their families will help me start another year. > The Lord has blessed greatly. > > Wanda in Minco, OK > > >==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

While searching Cass County, Tx, I found this transcription of the formation of early Red River County very interesting. Nothing new, but a little different flavor. I did find in Cass County the other 2992 acres my GGG GF received with his Class 1 Grant. It is listed as R.F. Gideon instead of Giddens. Nothing new in that either. I cut off the rest of the Cass County part. Jim Giddens Paris/Reno, Tx This information was taken from the 1975 Cass County Genealogical Society, Vol. II #2, pg. 3-6. HOW CASS COUNTY CAME TO BE In the early nineteenth century the Red River valley was the only entry into Texas from the north. In 1836, the valley south of the Red River was given the most natural, logical name: RED RIVER COUNTY. Many settlers in this area were old timers long before Stephen F. Austin brought his first colonists into Texas. A second generation was already growing up along the Red when the county was formed. This new county was as big as many states and even larger than some countries. It covered so much of northeast Texas that today some thirty counties exist which were once a part of the original Red River County. The first Red River courthouse (1828) was located in the second story of a general store in Old Jonesboro which was 16 miles northwest of Clarksville. Jonesboro was a port on the Red River. It was called the Courthouse of Miller County, Arkansas, because at the time it was thought that this area was in Arkansas. In 1837 the courthouse was moved to LaGrange - six miles away. Then eight months later it was moved into a new log structure in the public square at Clarksville. Lawsuits over boundary disputes, debts, slaves and supply shipments were endless. The courthouse at Clarksville was a hubbub of activity. It became a mecca for young, adventurous lawyers. The nearest judicial district was 200 miles away at Nacogdoches. Clarksville was incorporated on 29 December 1837, by an act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas. On an 1841 map Clarksville was the only town marked at all in northeast Texas. Its population in 1844 was 600. In 1840 Bowie County was created and consisted of what is now Bowie and Cass Co. plus a portion of present Marion County. In 1846 Cass County was created and it consisted of what is now Cass and that part of Marion which lies north of the middle of Big Cypress Bayou and the middle of Caddo Lake. The specific boundaries outlined in the 25 April 1846 act creating Cass County were: beginning at the middle of the Big Cypress at the mouth of Boggy Creak (about nine miles south of Daingerfield), five miles east to the line dividing Bowie and Red River Counties, due north to the Sulphur Fork of the Red River, down the middle of Sulphur River to the old United States line, due south to the middle of Lake Soda (Caddo Lake), up the middle of the Lake where the Cypress falls into the lake (one and one-half miles west of Jefferson), up the Big Cypress to the mouth of Boggy Creek and the place of beginning. In 1860 Marion County was formed from the southern portion of Cass County and a small area from the northern part of Harrison County. Cass County was named in honor of United States Senator Lewis Cass from Michigan who advacated

Found names Ragsdale, Gedings, and other RRCo names, it's a very interesting site. <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janelle/Intruders.htm#index">Intruders</A>

Cynthia, I have pictures of gates most of the cemeteries I have gone to. I will go thru them within a week and see what I have that you can use on the page. I recently took Savannah, Dean and Lone Star plus a few others. The Dean Cemetery however does not have a gate with a name. I have probably a few hundred pictures of county country side pictures and historical spots (to me) such as old churches, homes, beautiful pastures and trees and barns etc. Maybe I will just bring you a box of pictures sometime and let you pick what you can use. With all of our pictures you should have a great selection to chose from. Jim Giddens East side of Paris at Reno, 1 block south of US 82 across from the Dollar General. (Actually straight across from the Metal Mart) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cynthia Samples" <samples88@earthlink.net> To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Connection > Of course there is room on the County GenWeb page. I have been thinking > about photographing a cemetery myself. > > Does anybody have a picture of a front gate or overall picture of a cemetery > that I don't have? I have been doing a few and others have sent me pictures, > but there are lots that I do not have. The cemeteries that I visit are all > on the north and east side of the county. > > Also, I am starting a section with pictures of county landmarks--old > buildings, historical markers, etc. I have had some for quite a while and > that is going to be my next project. > > Cynthia Samples > between Paris and Powderly > >

> > Does anybody have a picture of a front gate or overall picture of a cemetery > that I don't have? Annona Cemetery had a new front entry arch. Do you have a picture of it? If not I will be glad to take one tomorrow and e-mail it to you. Ginger Annona, TX