Lamar County Genealogical Society April 1999 Newsletter THIS IS YOUR LAST NEWSLETTER IF.... Please check your mailing label. If it shows "EXPIRED" this will be your last newsletter unless you renew your dues. This reflects all mail received as of 1 Apr 1999. We hope you will choose to renew your dues at a higher level and remain a part of the best historical organization in Lamar County. Our goal this year is to have 300 members. Every year we have increased our membership roles. Currently we have 200 members and 94 have not renewed. Don't be left out!! 1999 ANNUAL We hope to make the 1999 Annual bigger still. We must have submissions to the Annual now. It took nearly two months for us to prepare the last one for the printer. Please send in your submissions so we may get an early start on this project. Remember pictures must be actual photographs. Please do not send us the new color technology photocopies. These sometimes do not reproduce well on the machine that does our Annual. Here are some basic guidelines. 1. Send information in block paragraphs in a story form. Please do not send family group sheets. 2. Please do not use special formatting, double spacing, bold or capitalized surnames. If possible, save the text in WordPerfect format. 3. Send two black and white photographs, no larger than 3X5 size. One copy will remain pasted to the printers copy of the Annual forever. The other will go into a file that will be kept at the library. 4. Send the information via email or on disk. Send the information directly to Ron Brothers, 3125 Clarksville St. #127, Paris, TX 75460 or email . 5. Please limit submissions to no more than ten pages per subject. Remember, the success of the annual depends on the submissions of our members. Depot News Recently Texas Department of Transportation announced they wanted to have bids let and construction started by late summer 1999. While this phase is underway it is impossible to predict when construction may be completed. It now appears to be for the year 2000. In the meantime, the Historical Society has worked on portions of their building and the grounds around the Depot. Trees have been planted and some leveling of the grounds has been accomplished. New Members Margaret Alley, 797 N. Maple Ave., Montebello, CA 90640-3250, email: is researching the names Alley; Jones; Hail; Winfrey. C. J. Bryan, 12840 Chapel Circle, Anchorage, AK 99516, email: is researching the names Bryan; Parke; Yokum. Jacqueline Cochran, 1 Meadow Ave., San Rafael, CA 94901, email: is researching the names Allen; Cannon; Chisum; Dawson; Draper; Drapper; Henderson; Johnson; Nelson; Thomas; Williamson; Wright. Shelley Falls Dollins, Rt. 2, Box 273, Powderly, TX 75473, email: is researching the names Addy; Caviness; Dollins; Erwin; Falls; Ferguson; Hunter; Jenkins; Martin; Osterdock; Ruthhardt; Sain; Salliers; Sipes; Smedley. Richard Fischer, 19 Hazelwood Circle, Ephrata, PA 17522, email: is researching the names Fletcher; Hopkins; Hill; Yancey. Katie Forster, 1011 Mimosa Dr., Anadarko, OK 73005, is researching the names Dell; Ford; Lyons; McDonald; Perkins. Patsy J. Frasier, 1133 Simmons Rd., Flower Mound, TX 75022-4451, email: is researching the names Knox; Martin; Roach; Winchester. Mary Goodrum, 3507 Brewer Rd., Booneville, AR 72927, is researching the names Curtis. Dorothy Hutchings, 650 W. Hickory, Roseburg, OR 97479, email: is researching the names Cruse; Hutchings; Mahon; Vestal. Gene Johnson, Rt. 6, Box 1300, Paris, TX 75462, email: is researching the names Epps; Holt; Graves; Middleton; Page; Snead; Stricklin; Watkins. Vena Johnson, 1031 19th St. SE, Paris, TX 75460, email: is researching the names Atwood; Cochran; Johnson; Mackey; Miller; Wilson. Claris K. Jordan, 3428 Ruby Dr., Mesquite, TX 75150-2133, is researching the names Decker; Deweese, Kennedy; Turner. Lee & Jo Lambeth, 13319 Belfield Dr., Farmers Branch, TX 75234, email: is researching the names Barnard; Bernard; Bishop; Cary; Dibrell; Lambeth; Geer; Griffith; Powers; Smith. Jack L. Lynch, 2345 Briarwood Dr., Paris, TX 75460, email: is researching the names Lynch; Raines. Richard F. Malone, 325 Madison St., San Antonio, TX 78204, email: is researching the names Bailey; Boyd; Givens; Hodge; Hodges; Malone; Mebane; Moseley; Mosley; Mosely; Rucker; Whitten. Ruby J. McKinney, 4266 Cedarwood St., Rocklin, CA 95677-2806, email: is researching the names Duff; Ingram. Victoria Rafa, 110 32nd Street, Newport Beach, CA 92663, email: is researching the names Bradshaw; Garner; Hinshaw; Montgomery; Moore; Oglesby; Read; Smith; Steele; Sumrall; Vanladingham; Whitten. Mathew Samuel Routon, P.O. Box 774, Powderly, TX 75473, is researching the names Routon; Spangler. Judy L. Smerud, P.O. Box 1144, Springtown, TX 76082, email: is researching the names Howeth; Husk; Ladd; Rees; Reese; Scrivner. Sandra Thompson, 8647 Bronson Dr., Granite Bay, CA 95746, email: is researching the names Cunningham; McBurnett. Barbara Lorene Vanzant, 5232 S. Saint Paul Place, Tucson, AZ 85746, email: is researching the names Burrows; Brummett; Hughes; Ritchey. Fred W. Welch, 821 W. Gore, Lovington, NM 88260, email: is researching the names Castleberry; McFatridge; Welch. James R. Wilson, 21280 Serango Dr., West Linn, OR 97068, email: is researching the names Beasley; Crain; Davenport; McGuire; Miller; Parrish; Posey; Proctor; Rice; Tate; Vaden; Vestal; Wallace; Wilson; White. These are new members as of 3 Apr 1999. MONETARY DONATIONS We are deeply grateful to our CORNERSTONE members and those who have given to our EXPANSION FUND for 1999. Won't you please consider giving to the EXPANSION FUND to help with our move to the Depot. Rodney Anderson Roberts W. Bills Ron Brothers Billie M. Brown Jerry Dudley Barbara Ferrell Richard Fischer Herman E. Gerhiser Nancy Gresham Kenneth & Jeannie Griffin James M. Hamblin Frankie Hawkins Zoe Huddle Hazlewood Vena Johnson Mary K. Kelley John & Rachel Lowrey Thomas W. & Peggy McGee Maness Mary Lou Henderson Swarner Homer P. Thomson Gladys Walker Sharon Marie Huey Weinraub Thomas C. Wyatt REUNION POSTPONED The Reunion of the descendants of Lemuel Hardin Williams, scheduled for June 1999 in Paris, TX has been postponed until the year 2000. Notice of the rescheduled event will be announced at a later date. Charles E. Workman, Jr. THANKS We'd like to thank Roberta Woods, Mary and Patricia Ferguson for their continued work on the file system that will be in place at the Depot. We'd also like to thank Ken Cunningham for his donation of the CD Rom set titled Family History Resource File, Vital Records Index of North America and the British Isles. CEMETERY RECORDS NOW ON-LINE Ron Brothers has now posted portions of the Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County at our web site URL . Over 73,000 names, date of death, cemetery and location in the cemetery can now be researched. Everyone is encouraged to send any corrections to Ron. CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS ON-LINE Ron has also posted the rosters of many Confederate units that had enlistments from Lamar County. These units include the 9th Texas Brigade, Texas Militia and State Troops, the 9th Texas Artillery, Infantry and Cavalry, the 29th Texas Cavalry, and the 34th Texas Cavalry. You may submit biographies of men from these units to be featured on the web site. There is a lot of information on this site concerning the War Between the States in Texas including links to other Texas fighting units of the war. You can access the site from the Lamar County Web Page. return to http://gen.1starnet.com