Daniel Norton shared his public tree of Richard Green Reed and Nancy Catherine (Sanders) Reed who have many descendants in Wood County, TX and northeast Texas today on the Wood County (TX) Genealogy Research Community at https://www.facebook.com/groups/woocotx/.
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Lester Coker celebrated his 100th birthday in February of this year. He attended White Oak school. On his birthday he and I drove to the area where the school was located and took photographs of him at the site of his first school, walking the road that he had traveled in his youth to attend [...]
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Member Beverley Caddell Ferrell is researching Ratliff not Ratcliff as posted in her new member notice here recently. (When the fingers do the walking, sometimes they make a misstep. …the ed.)
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From Member Vi Shirey through an email to member Mark Reid: John T. Potter had four children: Della Potter Tolbert; Alice Donie Ragsdale; Eliza Jane Jarred; and William Albert Potter; all of whom lived in Wood County.
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We have received the following email from member Violet Shirey: John T. Potter was in the Civil War and is buried at Shady Grove, Winnsboro. His tombstone does not show he was in the war. Is there any way we can get a medalion or whatever it is they put on tombstones? Will appreciate your [...]
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Our sincere apologies to member Linda Mills Roycroft of Longview who sent in much earlier the following surnames she is researching: Mills, Messimer, Russom, and Nixon/Nixson. Linda’s contact information is on the member-only pages which you can acces at the link at the upper right of this page.
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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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Two new members joined the society in April. We extend to them a warm welcome. Barbara Coleman joined at the April meeting. She lives here in Wood County with a Quitman address. Surnames she is searching include Collier and Coleman of Tarrant County, Texas and Barr. Tammy Fletcher (Tamela Arnwine Fletcher) joined by mail and [...]
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The listing of Family Histories available in the Genealogy Research Center at the Quitman Public Library has been uploaded. They are found on the Quitman – Family Histories page. Follow the link there from this post or in the pages listing in the left hand column of this Bulletin page. Thanks to many who have [...]
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