Seeking info./connections re: Green Russell Smith b. 1844 GA, and his wife, Mollie E. (Brown) and family. They were in Mineola and Golden, Wood County, TX beginning about 1870. Green was a County Commissioner and lived in the Bellefonte Community. His daughters married into the Davenport, Wood, Russell, & Bullard families. This query was originally [...]
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What can you learn at the Library of Congress’ FREE Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers site? (link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/) As an example I searched on Quitman in Texas newspapers and came up with these two of many hits. You might find your own ancestors’ names there either in Texas or other states. From the Palestine Texas [...]
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The loss of many records of the early years of Wood County, Texas resulted from the burning twice of the County Courthouse in Quitman. The following act of the Wood County Commissioner’s Court is an official reference to the first of these fires in 1878. “Whereas in the burning of the Court House on the [...]
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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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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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We have begun the serial publication of Life In The Piney Woods by Ona WOOD. It is available to members on the members-only page which you can access at the top right column of this page. It will also appear in the second quarter (June, 2010) newsletter. The foreword (by Mrs. Ona Wood) was previously [...]
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