[email protected] wrote: > > I am looking for anyone that is researching these surnames in any of the > areas around Tyler county. I have James Hampton OVERSTREET b. 1822 AL d. > 1897 Hardin county,TX, married Mary Harrison their children where Samuel, > James, Dan, Lewis, Mary, Sarah, and Margaret they lived in Hardin, Polk, and > Tyler counties ==================== This may or may not be the child Samuel above, but some things seem to fit. I will put a text attachment below. I'm doing Hollands. Jim ---- Descendants of Samuel OVERSTREET - 9 Jun 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST GENERATION 1. Samuel OVERSTREET was born in 1850 in , , Alabama, USA.1 He died in 1927.2 He was buried in Holland Cemetery, Kountze, Hardin, Texas, USA.3 U.S. Census 1880 shows that Sam, his mother and his father are all born in AL. He was married to Martha Ann HOLLAND (daughter of William S HOLLAND and Nancy SUMERALL (OR WATTS?)) on 30 Dec 1871 in Hardin, Hardin, Texas, USA.4,5 Martha Ann HOLLAND was born in 1852.6 She died in 1949.7 She was buried in Holland Cemetery, Kountze, Hardin, Texas, USA.8 Martha's tombstone list her as Martha S. and not Martha Ann. Prepared by: Jim Guest Rt 4 Box 4515 Brazoria, TX. 77422 E-mail: [email protected] SOURCES 1. From a tombstone inscription in the Holland Cemetery off Hwy 69, about ten miles north of Kountze, Hardin County, Texas. USA. Tombstone of Sam Overstreet. 2. Ibid. Tombstone of Sam Overstreet. 3. Ibid. Tombstone of Sam Overstreet. 4. From the Marriage Records Books at the Hardin County Texas Court House in Kountze, Texas, USA. Book 1 Page 21. 5. Ibid. 6. From a tombstone inscription in the Holland Cemetery off Hwy 69, about ten miles north of Kountze, Hardin County, Texas. USA. Tombstone of Martha S.(?) Holland. 7. Ibid. Tombstone of Martha S.(?) Holland. 8. Ibid. INDEX HOLLAND Martha Ann . . . 1 William S . . . 1 OVERSTREET Samuel . . . 1 SUMERALL (OR WATTS?) Nancy . . . 1