Message from Drawing Winner

Joe Wayne REYNOLDS who won the Martin VARNER book in the drawing at The Old Settler’s Reunion 2010, sent the following comment. I decided to move it here for those who don’t follow comments to postings. 2010/09/15 at 9:24 pm Just wanted to say I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the Martin Varner biography that I [...]

Drawing Winners from Old Settlers Named

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 [...]

Minutes of April Society Meeting

Here are the minutes of the April Wood County Genealogical Society meeting which will be presented at the May meeting tomorrow, May 17, at 7 p.m. at the Quitman Public Library meeting room. WOOD COUNTY GENEALOGY SOCIETY Monthly Meeting Quitman Public Library April 19, 2010 The meeting was called to order by President Shirley Patrick [...]

A Real “Rootin’, Tootin” Pioneer Hero

It’s a wonder that no one has made a novel, movie, or television series about the life of Wood County’s Martin Varner. It’s all there in black and white in Don Raney‘s recent history of Varner, “Martin Varner: Texas Pioneer, His Life Story and His Descendants.” And, there’s a whole lot of Wood County history [...]

Looking Back: Five Flags (Plus) Over Wood County

The land which would some day become Wood County, Texas, USA has been the scene of human habitation for thousands of years providing sustenace and dwelling for various peoples because of the bountiful water, forest, land and lifestyle resouces which still attract people here today. Evidence indicates human presence here in native American Clovis cultures [...]

Book Review: Martin Varner, Texas Pioneer

Martin Varner book review published in STIRPES, Vol.49, No. 4, Page 33, Dec. 2009. The author, William Barr, Katy, TX, has granted permission to reprint this review. “Sweet Mother Texas” by William Barr “Mother of heroes, we come your children true, Proclaiming our allegiance, our faith, our love for you.” My theory is that most [...]

Don Raney Program on Martin Varner Saturday, Jan. 9 in Tyler

Don Raney, a descendant of Martin Varner of Wood County and author of the recent biography/family history of Martin Varner and descendants, will be speaking to the East Texas Genealogical Society at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 9 at the Tyler Public Library. The public, which includes any of us in the Wood County Genealogical Society, [...]

Martin Varner Book by Don Raney

A recent posting at genqueries.com was for Don Raney’s book on his ancestor and the first settler in Wood County, Martin Varner. Don is a friend of the society and has presented programs here for us. He is a genealogist who teaches genealogy classes at a local college where he lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth [...]

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