County Line Magazine has a more complete review of Sissy Spacek’s new memoir with more details about people and places in Wood County. You can access County Line Magazine online at http://www.countylinemagazine.com/index.php. There will be a link to download a .pdf file of the May issue of the magazine. The review is on pages 10 [...]
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Thanks to the Joe Barnhart Bee County Library of Beeville, Texas for the donation of a copy of A Pictorial History of Wood County to the society’s genealogy research room at the Quitman Public Library. This 1994 publication has pictures of families and sites sorted by county town or city.
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Exciting news from Director Delene Allen is that very soon we will be able to search the Quitman Public Library catalog of holdings online from the library website from our home computers connected to the internet. This means that we can find what is available and reserve books from home. Also, we will have access [...]
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The post that follows this one is by Jeffrey A. “Jeff” Bockman. I ran across it over on Google+. It is one of those mindset changing things. I hope you will read it, and we can engage in a discussion in person or online or both. I think it has merit. While going to Jeff’s [...]
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Life in The Piney Woods By Ona Wood Chapter 4 The Pines Whisper Peter M. Gunstream loved the Southland of the United States. It was the place to which he had turned his steps when he set foot in America. He loved his home in the pines, and he and his family had worked hard [...]
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Three books of abstracts of Wood County records have been at to the society’s Genealogy Research Room at the Quitman Public Library. Wood County Unclaimed Marriages 1890 to 1960s is a listing of marriage certificates at the Wood County Courthouse in Quitman which have never been picked up. The data of names and dates duplicates [...]
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Another request has been received for the place to purchase a copy of “Wood County 1850-1900.” Members Shirley Patrick and Lou Mallory have supplied the request and answer for inclusion here. They are available at several locations including from the Wood County Historical Commission (gmallory@suddenlink.net) the front desk at the Quitman Public Library, The Mineola [...]
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Life in the Piney Woods By Ona Wood Chapter 3 Wood County Feels the Tug of War The everyday affairs of life went on as usual in the deep eastern section of Wood County. Mary and Peter Gunstream and their neighbors always arose long before the dawn and prepared breakfast. They ate by the light [...]
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Quitman and Wood County’s Sissy Spacek “says she learned all the truths that are most important to her before she left that little town in Texas,” according to an article in USA Today. The story is about the book which she has written which is to be published in Spring 2012. It will include “non-fiction [...]
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Ona Wood writes about life in Wood County in the early 1850′s reflecting the life of Peter Gunstream and especially the Holly Springs community of eastern Wood County in Chapter 2 of the story of her ancestor’s coming to the county. This chapter is available on the members only site by going to the link [...]
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