Join us in welcoming our newest member, Jo Ann Dyson of Winnsboro. We met her at the public assistance period before the regular monthly meeting January 17. She has a number of surnames common to the county. We will be posting these at a later date. Jo Ann is now listed on our latest Member [...]
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Long-time society member June Gilley Preston of Paris, Texas died March 3, 2010. She was interred at Colony Cemetery near Alba, Texas. June was born July 14, 1931 in Alba, a daughter of Albert and Jewel Hathcox Gilley. She attended public schools in Alba, graduated from Alba High School, and obtained her Bachelors degree in [...]
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Five members have joined the society since the Old Settlers Reuniion in August. Welcome to Sherma Largent of Quitman, Lester Nichols of Garland, Daryl Fowler of Yoakum, Edith Roberts of Yantis, and Ethel Kelley of Quitman. Ethel is researching the ADAIR family of Wood County.
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We note with sadness the passing of long-time WCGS member Joseph LARUE of Laneville, Texas. Joe has been a researcher of families in Wood County and has relatives in Wood County and in the WCGS. We extend our deepest sympathy to his family. Joseph Dean LaRue December 14, 1938 – September 16, 2010 Funeral services [...]
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Members, guests, and visitors are invited to join our group meeting at Peralta’s Mexican Restaurant in Quitman next Monday (August 16) at 6 p.m. If you can make it, you’ll find us having a good time, talking, and sharing. Some of it will be genealogy (nothing official) and some just plain fun.
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Congratulations to the winners of our free drawing at the Old Settlers’s Reunion at Quitman last week. The winner of the free copy of Don RANEY‘s biography and family history of Wood County’s first Anglo-American settler, “Martin VARNER: Texas Pioneer, His Life Story and His Descendants,” is Joe Wayne REYNOLDS of Quitman. Sherma LARGENT of [...]
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Our newest member is David GILBREATH of Mesquite, Texas. His contact information is available on the latest member contact list on the member-only page which you can access from the link at the top right of this page. Surnames David is searching are GILBREATH, HOWLE, WHITE, DARNELL, AVERY, ATTAWAY, AND MORGAN.
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Seven new members have joined the WCGS since July 2009 bringing the membership total to 71. There are 63 memberships paid, but eight of those are family memberships in the name of two people in each of those families.
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Welcome to Vickie PETERSEN of Mineola who has joined our society. She is teaching a genealogy workshop this summer at the public library in Mineola which several of our members are attending. I hope she will find a home among all of us here in the genealogical community of Wood County.
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Mary Ann NISWANGER of Mineola has recently joined the society. We are delighted to have her as a member. Surnames she is researching are RAGSDALE, PARMER, SWAIN, BENNETT, HARRISON, UNDERWOOD, and DUGGER. Her email and other contact information will be added to the member contact list on the member only site at the next update [...]
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