Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10431 Surname: Rhodes ------------------------- Oh Roy, I hope you see this. Robertson County and Rhodes Chapel remain tough for me, but I just saw the name Mollie Paralee Rhodes. My G-G-Grandfather's oldest child was named Virginia Paralee Rhodes. The Paralee may be my connection. Levi C. and Mary Ann Rhodes also had other children. My G-Grandfather Columbus C. or R. Rhodes was to have been born around Bremond ~1874. I know that a Rhodes Chapel Community came into existance after the Civil War. Levi C. was a war vet who saw action from Gettysburg to the last stand at Petersburg outside Appomattox. I've got all his records of being wounded, hospitalized and even captured. Levi's parents were Hiram and Eve Hipp Rhodes. I don't know if they came to Texas or stayed in Mississippi. Can't find death data anywhere. If anything looks familier let me know. Rick Rhodes

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10430 Surname: MORSE, COBB ------------------------- Seek information on my great aunt & uncle. Rev. Jesse Alonzo MORSE married Margaret COBB in 1910 in Hearn in Robertson Co. Jesse Alonzo MORSE was a Baptist minister and could have been a minister at that church. Or she could have been living in Hearn and teaching. She was born in nearby Milam Co, but her parents moved to various places, including Oklahoma before returning to Texas about this time, as her father Jesse COBB (1851-1913) worked ranches after he lost his land. In 1912 Rev. Jesse MORSE married my grandparents in Stockdale. Thanks for any help or suggestions. Happy to exchange substantial COBB information.

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Tx/Robertson/10428 Surname: Wheeler ------------------------- I have found some new information on our Wheeler Family. I am hunting any information, also and does any one have any information on brothers or sisters on this William Wheeler. I have a Jonas that came to Jefferson Co., Alabama in 1849, while his other brothers and sisters and father went to Texas, his father's name was William Wheeler, the following were his siblings: William Drew Riley John Andrew Benjamin Jeffery Jane The Family left Rome Ga, Floyd Co, in 1849 traveling West. Does any one have any of these people in your file? I also am still hunting any connection with the General Joe Wheeler, even though our grand parents have told us that he could have been a GREAT Grandparent, we believe that he might have been an Uncle. I have found two marriages in Robertson Co., Texas with same name of two of the children. Thanks Peggy Sue O'Shields-Gaddis psueg@bellsouth.net

Several people have told me that they've nominated the Robertson County site at www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2 for the Mike Basham Memorial County of the Month Award. I thank those who have nominated the site at http://hometown.aol.com/treecrazyd/txgenweb2/form.htm. I'm also grateful for the many kind comments that have been added to the guest book at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/GUESTBOOK.htm. Last week, the Hearne Democrat ran its second article on the site focusing attention on the fact that it is now the official site for the Robertson County Historical Commission (RCHC). In the future, Cathy Lazarus (chairperson of the commission) and I hope to get The Hearne Democrat to run an ongoing series of articles about people, places, and events in Robertson County taken from the files online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/History.htm from the Handbook of Texas Online. This will generate greater awareness of history and genealogy and increase interest in the site. We're also working with the RCHC and the Texas Department of Transportation to update the interactive Robertson County map at http://txdot.lib.utexas.edu/select.phtml?urn=urn:utlol:txdot.tcrobn01 with corrected/revised cemetery and historic marker locations. In response to the nominations mentioned above, I sent the following information to the members of the Mike Basham Memorial County of the Month Award selection committee. While receiving this award would be an honor, its receipt would generate even greater interest in the site and give the site greater credibility. I thought you might be interested in seeing what I sent to the selection committee. If you like the site and wish to nominate it for this award, please feel free to do so above (if you haven't already). The Robertson County site is one of the first sites in Texas to have all of the available information from the Texas Department of Health on births, marriages, divorces, and deaths online. Though other TxGenWeb Archives volunteers are working hard to archive this information, the Robertson County Volunteer Coordinator has taken it upon himself to do all of Robertson County. This information is now available at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/VITALSTATISTICS.htm. Similarly, census information in the county was scant. So, four years -- 1850, 1860, 1870, & 1880 -- of the handwritten census records have been purchased and placed online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/CENSUSRECORDS.htm. Additional years will be purchased in the near future. Slowly but surely, permissions are being granted and entire books about Robertson County are being placed online. Much of the 500-page out-of-print book Hearne On The Brazos (which contains 300+ pages of biographical sketches of residents) by Norman L. McCarver Sr. & Norman L. McCarver Jr. is online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/HOTB.htm. Three masters theses and two additional books on the county are currently being processed. Volunteers are always being recruited at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/VolunteerOpportunities.htm to assist with a variety of projects. Robertson County has some 120 cemeteries within its borders. The county coordinator has been on a personal crusade to find and record each and every one of them. These are listed at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/RWCemeteries.htm along with burial lists, GPS longitude and latitude coordinates, maps, and driving instructions to most cemeteries. Many of the individual cemetery lists (e.g., http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/RWEASTBOONEPRAIRIECEMETERY.htm) go beyond name, birth/death dates to include parents, spouses, children, & other information. A successful "adopt a cemetery" program has yielded quite a few volunteers who update & expand their family information, serve as lookup contacts for local cemeteries, update inventories, & provide information about upcoming cemetery association meetings. The master cemetery list has been created from talking with countless Robertson County residents, traipsing across pastures, and traversing gulleys with the county coordinator's 80-year old dad in tow to find old family burial plots that aren't on any maps. Letters will soon be sent out to every church in the county requesting assistance with the Robertson County cemetery inventory project. The Texas Department of Transportation (TDOT) map for Robertson County shows quite a few crosses which mark unnamed cemeteries. All of these have been located, inventoried, & identified. The TDOT map also contains some errors (incorrectly labeled cemeteries). Efforts are underway to update/correct the TDOT maps at the source with the fruits of this labor and to create an online interactive county map that accurately reflects all known cemeteries and historic markers. Robertson County's 71 historic markers are identified along with their inscriptions and GPS coordinates at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/RWHistoricPlaces.htm. The research that has been done locally on the historic markers has been communicated to the Texas Historical Commission which has updated its register of historic places in the county based upon the information provided. The Handbook of Texas Online has been painstakingly searched and all articles about Robertson County are conveniently available online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/History.htm. A special "volunteer opportunities" section at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/VolunteerOpportunities.htm is constantly updated and expanded as volunteers come forward to help accomplish identified tasks. Special collections (e.g., http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/CAMPHEARNECOLLECTION.htm [provides information on the old WWII German prisoner of war camp outside of Hearne] & http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/NEWBADENCOLLECTION.htm [provides information on the German-speaking colony of New Baden]) are featured. These collections include materials that have been located in Texas library collections. For example, a copy of the Deutsch Colony of New Baden, written in 1882 by the founder of the colony, was located at the University of Texas at Austin and is now online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/DEUTSCHCOLONYNEWBADEN.htm. This booklet was translated from its old-style German by a volunteer; it's frail map of original landowners was photocopied by UT then digitally reproduced at a commercial photo shop for online display. A photographic quality enlargement of this map will be donated to the Hearne Depot (which is being restored to its original turn-of-the-century charm). Information about this depot's move is online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/HEARNEDEPOT.htm. University library collections have also been scoured; their online library catalogs listing their holdings of Robertson County materials have been assembled at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/LIBRARYARCHIVECOLLECTIONS.htm. Finally, the entire site has a common theme (done in the same speckled background with the same colors). The site's welcome page features a tune from country western singer Tex Owens (a former resident of Robertson County) and shows a flag waving slowly in the Texas breeze. In addition to the normal components most sites offer (lookups, queries, local resources, search feature, Texas links, neighboring counties, GenWeb links, etc.), the Robertson County site even has its own chat room and scrolling information featuring "What's New," "What's Coming," and "Volunteer Opportunities." Every effort is being made to place as much information as possible at the fingertips of researchers interested in Robertson County. The good Lord willing and the creek don't rise, this site will continue to grow and provide even greater information in the future. William Kent Brunette 2700 Q Street, N.W., Suite 241 Washington, D.C. 20007 202.342.5368 (phone), 202.342.9033 (fax)

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10427 Surname: McDonald, Phillips, Rainer ------------------------- Hi Jane, I know this is obscure - but I am wondering what the relationship is here. I have a great grandfather Dr. William Washington McDonald who settled in Robertson Co, TX c. 1894. He and his wife, Mattie Phillips, had four children born there: an infant daughter who died Clarence Leroy McDonald b. 1896 Annette May McDonald b. 1898 William Abney McDonald b. 1900 The last child was always called Abney, never William. I have often wondered where the name came from. Since it has never appeared anywhere else in the family, I am wondering if there is a connection between your Dr. Abney and my Dr. McDonald. Where were your Dr. & family from before Texas? Did they leave Texas, if so, when and where? This family of McDonalds left Texas c. 1902 for Sayre, Beckham Co, OK. Dr. McDonald died in 1916 age age 49.

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10425 Surname: ABNEY, POWELL ------------------------- My gg Grandmother, Mary Ann GAY POWELL was living with her daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Dr. G.M. ABNEY when she died in 1897. They all are buried in the Franklin Cemetery. Would like to find relatives of the ABNEY's.

After several years, I have finally found my gg grandmother, Mary Ann POWELL buried in the Franklin Cemetery. Also, buried there is her daughter, Martha POWELL ABNEY who married Dr. G. M. Abney. Anyone reaching the Abney line???? thanks, Jane Keppler

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10424 Surname: Johnson, Slawson, Massey ------------------------- William and Ardelia Johnson where the parents of Mary Elizabeth Johnson. Mary married James Joseph Slawson in 1888 in Franklin, Texas. Their daughter Vida Ardelia Slawson married William Arthur Massey from Roane (Navarro) Texas around 1910 or 1909. I am looking for information on the Johnson family. All I have found is the census for 1870 in Wheelock in Robertson county which lists them on page 257 in prec# 3. Does anyone know anything about the Johnson Family? Thanks.

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10422 Surname: Bryant, VanCleave ------------------------- I am searching for information on the Samuel N. Bryant family of Robertson County. They had arrived by th 1860 census and his widow, Amanda, was still there in 1880. His children were: Simeon, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, Nancy, Jack, Mary, Samuel, Newton, Julia, Sarah, George and Tadwell. Julia married into the VanCleave family and possibly settled in San Antonio. I do know that this family was from Georgia. I look forward to hearing from anyone with information on them. Susan Poe Doell

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Tx/Robertson/10421 Surname: DESOTO ------------------------- If you are searching for DeSoto family roots, please come and join us at DESOTO-L-request@rootsweb.com. You send a message there and type SUBSCRIBE in the subject title and ony SUBSCRIBE, leave it blank after that. This will connect you to others searching for there DeSoto heritage. How it works: You send messages with your family search info and others send theirs, everyone thats a memeber receives these messages via email, you exchange family information on the SURNAME that you find, even when you find DeSoto information that isn't your line you can pass it along to someone who can use it. I have been doing this on my other family lines and received information from other countries that I could not have obtained so easily. If this interests you please come and join at the above mentioned address and Good Luck. Thanks-Lisa

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10420 Surname: Jackson ------------------------- Joel and Susie Jackson were in the 1900 Robertson Co, TX Census. Is it possible to find out if they were also in the 1910 Census? They were both born in GA. Had son Robert who was also with them in 1900 Census, age 17. Joel and Susie would be about 58 or so in 1910. Kathy

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10419 Surname: Julia Mae Shafer, Edward Shafer ------------------------- Robertson Co. Tex. Looking for Ancestors of John Shafer b.1820 in Germany,he married Annie Boman in New Orleans. She was born 1822 in Mississippi. They had two children, Julia May b.1855 and Edward F. b.1866.

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10417 Surname: Day, Hager ------------------------- You mention one of your names being "Day". Do you have anything on Days in Robertson Co. or Sam Houston Hager who was married to Elizabeth Jane Day. This would have been around 1870 and 1880.

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10416 Surname: Naeter ------------------------- Interested in the Naeter's in Baden Co., as there is so few Naeter's with this spelling. My Husband's family is from Cape Girardeau,MO.

Searching for descendants of William G. Yelverton and his wife Eliza Ann Caldwell who are buried at Walnut Cemetery at Bremond. Their daughter Mary married Joe Toler in Robertson County but moved and lived in various locations. Another daughter, Eula, married Joseph Thomas Johnson and lived in both Robertson and Falls counties. Lucy Yelverton, another daughter married Wiley Watts. Both Lucy and Wiley are buried at Walnut Cemetery. Laura Yelverton married J. A. Barnes. Son Henry Yelverton married Alta Lowery. Does anyone on this list know what happened to any of the descendants of this family? Charles Caldwell El Paso

I am looking for information on FRANCES (or Fanny) B PARKER m to a JAMES ADDISON WOODS b 1847 in TX son of JOHN WOODS and ALLIE WINBOURNE WOODS. They were on the 1880 census in Robertson County. Also living with them was a sister or sister-in-law CARRIE (Carol) or CASSIE (Cassandra ) PARKER age 24. Any info on above will be appreciated RHarris rh128212@aol.com

I am seeking anyone related to the following GRANT family: James Polk Grant b. 12/5/1855 Robertson County, TX (near Owensville) d. 3/4/1919 Franklin, TX Parents: James Davis (JD) Grant b. 1/6/1818 Maury County, TN d. 1/1/0/1892 Robertson County, TX Sarah Elizabeth Talley b. 2/9/1825 Tennessee d. 1/4/1865 Robertson County, TX First wife: Lida Smith b. 7/10/1866 Alabama d. 12/26/1883 East Boone, Robertson County, TX Parents: David W. Smith b. abt. 1838 Alabama Hattie Smith b. abt 1850 Alabama Children: James David (or Davis) b. 12/25/1883 Robertson County, TX Second wife: Carrie Elizabeth Perkins Grant b. 11/3/1865 Cuthbert, Stewart County, GA d. 8/26/1935 Houston, TX Parents: Joseph Perkins b. Georgia Sarah Frances Causey b. Georgia Children: Zana Mae b. 8/3/1888 Robertson County, TX Sebie Pearl b. 5/2/1892 same Walter Lee b. 8/17/1895 same Joseph Reagan b. 10/27/1893 Minnie Estelle b. 4/24/1897 same Gaston Thomas b. 2/3/1898 same Sarah Claudia b. 7/28/1899 Stephen Allen b. 4/9/1902 same Homer Dennis b. 4/2/1904 same Ruth Lesba b. 5/6/1911 same

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10414 Surname: Scott ------------------------- Roland Scott born Jan 1889 in Hearn, Robertson County.Texas any information on Scotts in and around Hearn 1880s 1890s might help.

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10412 Surname: COLEY, BRADFORD ------------------------- Looking for info about Emily Coley that married Thomas Bradford. They were in Robertson Co., in 1880.

Posted on: Robertson County Texas Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Robertson/10411 Surname: parker ------------------------- does anyone have information on my great-grandfather daniel parker, m.d. he was a physician in calvert, texas in the late 1800's and was also mayor of calvert a couple of times. would love to have a photo of my great-grandfather. thanks.