Alley, Margaret

Allred, Katy

Arney, Annetta Yvonne

Autrey, Clare Sue Brown

Ball, Connie

Ballard, Ruth Ann

Barbee, Sarah Osborne

Barnard, Ph.D., William K.

Berry, Rae Ann Hopkins

Bills, Roberts W.

Black, Kay (Brown)

Brecheen, Duane E.

Brecheen, Frank C.

Brown, Billie M.

Brothers, Ron

Burks, Debbie

Campbell, Vivian E. Wright

Chaffin, James B.

Cochran, Jacqueline Busby

Collins, Larry

Combs, Gail Stallings

Cooper, Bruce

Cravy, Sue

Crews, Belinda A.

Culbertson, Paul & June

Cunningham, Ken

Dangerfield, Thelma

Daniels, Patsy & Clyde H.

Day, Thelma Jean

Dearman, Elisha

Dishner, Mary Early

Dollins, Shelley Falls

Faulk, Connie

Felts, Judi

Fischer, Richard

Frazier, Jerry John

Freer, Jess E. & Shirley

Frierson, Paula Briggs

Gable, Bertha

Genzel, Carolyn & Rondal

Gillespie, Lettie Fitzpatrick-

Goings-Lindsey, Shirley (Yates)

Gomez, Lt. Col. Daniel

Gray, Yvonne Wanda

Gresham, Nancy

Griffin, Kenneth & Jeannie

Hawkins, Mrs. Frankie

Hayden, Dr. William & Betty

Hazlewood, Zoe Huddle

Henry, Carolyn Osborn

Heston, Wyoma Woods

Hickman, Joann & Don

Holley, Allan B.

House, J. Dickson (Dick)

Jeffers, Tometta

Jimmerson, Eugene & Armelia

Johnson, Vena

Jones, Louis H.

Julian, Joe & Ruth

Kelley, Mary K.

Kelso, Helen Burleson

Kuras, Diane Skidmore

Lamb, John & Lorraine

Lambeth, Lee & Jo

Lane, Mary Claunch

Langan, Patti

Leatherwood, Dr. W. W.

Lee, Dennis & Margie

Lee, Johnie

Linley, Janet M.

Lochridge, Daphna

Lowrey, John & Rachel

Lyttle, Louis K.

Magee, Lynette

Magnuson, Mary & Haston

Malone, Stella

Maness, Thomas W. & Peggy Mcgee

Marino, Jane D.

Martin, Barbara

Martin, Nothera R.

Martin, Weldon & Billie

Masters, Naola

McCain, Charles Roland

McClure, Jane

Mhoon, Jan

Michaelis, Karoline Rasor

Mills, Betsy & Butch

Moore, Henry & Betty

Nichol, Lenore Bland Brown

Nobles, Charles N.

Phillips, Geraldine

Poole, Betty & Eddie

Pritchett, Russ C.

Prough, Vicki

Rasmussen, Corinne R.

Ray, Martha

Rheney, Ann Billings

Risley, Robert

Ross, John C.

Shaw, Anita

Simmons, Grace Dennis

Sisk, Kathy McGinnis

Smith, Betty Jo Ford

Smith, Evelyn Mitchell

Starr, Wade & Joy

Steele, Patricia Thomas

Steely, Skipper

Stephenson, Patsy

Strain, Laura

Stroud, Martha Sue

Sunbury, Bernice W.

Sustaire, Marty & Beverly

Swarner, Mary Lou Henderson

Sykes, Vicky

Tallant, Mary J.

Taylor, Delores & Gary W.

Tribbey, Billy H.

Vanzant, Barbara Lorene

Vaughan, Delma

Viau, Gay

Williams, Jack & Nita

Williams, Linda

Wood, John N.

Wood, William & Vera

Woodard, John Paul & Pat

Woods, Roberta

Woodson, Patricia M.

Workman, Jr., Charles E.

Wyatt, Bettie & F. Gene

Yeats, Donna J.

Judy Allen

Margaret Alley

Rodney Anderson

Sarah Osborne Barbee

Mary Lou Bartee

Roberts W. Bills

Marsa Hightower Bounds

Ron Brothers

Tom & Artie Brothers

Billie M. Brown

Ken Cunningham

Mayo & Bertie Dancer

Charles R. Delphenis

Jerry & Leslie Dudley

Barbara Ferrell

Barbara Finney

Richard Fischer

Herman E. Gerhiser

Shirley (Yates) Goings-Lindsey

Nancy Gresham

Kenneth & Jeannie Griffin

James M. Hamblin

Rose Harris

Mrs. Frankie Hawkins

Zoe Huddle Hazlewood

Elna Jo Johnson

Vena Johnson

Louis H. Jones

Betty Jump

Mary K. Kelley

Helen Burleson Kelso

John & Rachel Lowrey

Louis K. Lyttle

Richard F. Malone

Thomas & Peggy M. Maness

Nothera R. Martin

Amelia Miller

June Preston

Mary Lou Henderson Swarner

Betty Reynolds Swindle

Vicky Sykes

Delores & Gary W. Taylor

Suzanne Ellis Tepper

Carolyn Love Thompson

Homer P. Thomson

Barbara Lorene Vanzant

Betty Vaughan

Gladys Walker

Harry Weber

Sharon Marie Huey Weinraub

Wanda Swaim Whitaker

Gertrude Wright

Jess Freer

Roberta Woods

Betty Thoms

Thelma Dangerfield

Rodney Anderson

Barbara Martin

Betsy Mills

Sarah Barbee

Martha Ray

Mary Tallant

Patricia Ferguson

Mary Sawyer

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Books cataloged in the Genealogical Library in 2000

1860 Census of Cumberland County, Tennessee

1925 - 1926 Monthly Time Book of Dr. Edward C. Hindman Howland, Lamar Co. Texas

A Manual For Writers

A Student's Guide to History

A Texas Cavalry Officer's Civil War - The Diary and Letters of James C. Bates

Adams County, Ohio Marriage Records, 1803 - 1833

All Afire to Fight

An Average American, Being a True History of Leading Events in The Life of Lafayette

Annual Report of (Va) Archival Accessions July 1, 1990 - June 30, 1991

Annual Report of (Va) Archival Accessions July 1, 1991- June 30, 1992

Arkansas 1870 Census Index A-z

Arkansas Death Record Index 1924-1933

Arkansas Death Record Index 1941-1948

Arkansas Death Record Index, 1914-1923

Arkansas Newspaper Abstracts, 1819-1845

Bell Family in the U.S.A.. & Allies Families 1650 - 1977

Bryan(t), Carpenter, Harvey, Hobson, Morgan, Smith, Yancey and Allied Lines.

Burials of East Hill Cemetery of Salem, Virginia, 1863-1969

Carlin, Hower, Jester, Johnson Photo Album

Cemetery Records of Red River County, Texas

Central Alabama Genealogical Society, Inc., Linage Charts, Volume 1

Central Alabama Genealogical Society, Inc., Linage Charts, Volume 2

Cite Your Sources - A Manual For Documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records

Colonial Williamsburg

Concise Genealogical Dictionary

Dar Patriot Index

Deport Funeral Home Records, 1917 - 1953

Deport Funeral Home Records, March 1956 - Sept 1963

Deport Funeral Home Records, Sept 1963 - June 1971

Descendants of Robert Dillingham

Descendants of Edward Hudgins

Descendants of Edwin B. Greer

Directory of Former Students of The Agriculturaland and Mechanical College of Texas, 1876- 1949

Dodson Family of Warren Co., Tn, & Allied Families

E. L. Dohoney and The Constitution of 1876 - Thesis

Family Tree of Frank Wilson

Federal Census for 1920 Delta County, Texas

First Census of Oklahoma - Reprint of Indian Lands West of Arkansas (Oklahoma) - Population Schedule of The United States Census of 1860

Fort Worth City Directory, 1925

Fort Worth City Directory, 1927

Fort Worth City Directory, 1928

Fort Worth City Directory, 1932

Fort Worth City Directory, 1946

Funk and Wagnalls Hammond World Atlas

Genealogical Atlas of The United States of America

Genealogical Research Directory National and International, 1989

Genealogical Research Directory National and International, 1991

Genealogy of the White Family

George and Mary Yates Family Album

Georgia Counties: Their Changing Boundaries

Ghost Towns of Oklahoma

Grayson County, Texas, Miscellaneous Wills & Probates 1833-1923

Heads of Families, First Census of the United States, 1790, New Hampshire

Henrich and Maria Clemmer of Franconia, Pennsylvania

Here Are My People

History of Dickson County Tennessee

History of Hickman County Tennessee

History of Marshall County Tennessee

History of Texas World War Heroes

History of The Beard-Bedichek-Craven and Allied Families

Hodag, Rhinelander High School Seniors 1932

Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke (1st Texas Cavalry, CSA)

Independence County Arkansas Families A-l

Independence County Arkansas Families J-z

Independence County, Arkansas Marriage Records 1877-1898

Lamar County Genealogy and History, Volume 17-1999

Lee Cemetery Under Six Flags, 1831 - 1913, Roxton, Lamar Co., Texas

Little Known Records of Delta Co., Texas

Marriage Records of Delta Co., Texas

Marriages of Wilson County, Tennessee 1802-1850

Mckay, Tichenor, Cooper

Men & Women in the Armed Forces from Lamar County

Minutes of The Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia 1622-1632, 1670-1676

Moments in Time Collection

Myths and Realities, Societies of The Colonial South

Norris Finley & Margaret (Peggy) Hall

Old Red River - Ancestor Charts and Family Sheets

One Hundred Years, Honey Grove, Texas Centennial History 1873-1973

Pennsylvania Genealogical Research

Pennsylvania German Immigrants 1709-1786

Pennsylvania German Marriages

Regulations For the Army of the Confederate States, 1863

Reminiscences of The Boys in Gray 1861 - 1865

Hardee's Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics

Roanoke County 1606-1888, Virginia and Virginians, Eminent Virginians

Roanoke County, Va. Graveyards Through 1920

Scrapbook of W. J. Johnson

Shelton - Tuck (Family History)

South of the Alamo

Special Lists - List of Cartographic Records of The General Land Office

Stephenson...Jones and Other Ancestors

Stephsophia, 1941 (Stephens College Yearbook)

Tennessee Tidbits 1778-1914, Vol. 1

Texas Legal Directory 1966

Texas Sketchbook

The 1783 Tax Lists and The 1790 Federal Census For Washington County, Pennsylvania

The Bomb 1924, Virginia Military Institute

The Booster 1914, Vol. III (Senior Class Yearbook)

The Bronco 1908, (Denton High School Yearbook)

The Campanile 1933 - The Rice Institute Year Book

The Descendants of Carol Coleman Mullens and Julia Ann Smyers

The Dethrows of Oregon County

The East Texas State University Locust Yearbook 1973

The First Supplement to The Dar Patriot Index

The Galleon 1930

The German Element in Virginia

The Howell - Cummings Connection

The Kaleidoscope Rotunda of 1942

The Library - a Guide to The LDS Family History Library

The Literary Digest 1931 - Atlas of The World and Gazetteer

The Longhorn 1943, Vol. 41, A&M College of Texas

The North American Review, Vol. XI, New Series 1935

The Ogden Family, Elizabethtown Branch

The Owl, 1941

The Owl, Vol. 1, 1913

The Owl, Vol. 9, 1922

The Second Supplement to The Dar Patriot Index

The Source, a Guidebook of American Genealogy

The Strange Family

The Tactful Texan, a Biography of Governer Will Hobby

The Talley Families of Tennessee and Texas

The Texan 1969 (Travis Junior High School)

The Texan 1970 (Travis Junior High School)

They Called Her Jennie

Thompson Family (History)

US 40 - A Roadscape of The American Experience

Virginia Marriages 1700 - 1799

Virginia's Colonial Soldiers

Washington, Arkansas - History on The Southwest Trail

Whitten and Allied Families

Winter / Spring Delmar Baxter, Story

Writer's Market 1974

Yalobusha County, Mississippi, 1850 Census

Books For Sale By the Society

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NEW!!!!!!!!

FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY

By Martha Sue Stroud

Those of us who lived during the 1940s will never forget the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and those years that followed when the United States of America was at war in the South Pacific and Europe. The years have passed, and it seems almost impossible to believe that these events happened over fifty years ago.

It has been reported that 1,000 veterans of World War II die daily in our country, and there are very few veterans of World War I still living. These veterans must be honored as their experiences are written about in order to be preserved for this generation as well as generations to come. Many made the ultimate sacrifice in giving of themselves in battle, and many were wounded and left with suffering and illness for the remainder of their lives.

This book begins with some history of bygone days as pioneers struggled to start our nation; the Civil War; World War I (stories of about one hundred veterans); the Great Depression; Pearl Harbor; war in Europe; war in the Pacific; news of our men and women in service (as reported in the papers then); the Forties; and in the line of duty (pertinent information about those years). The last chapter, "Lest We Forget", tells about over five hundred veterans of World War II. Much of this came from interviews with the veterans themselves, and some from the families of those who are no longer living. Several shared their scrapbooks and all sorts of memorabilia. The experiences have been told as they were told to the author, in the hope that this book will make Americans, young and old, realize just what a price was paid for our freedom.

Three years ago Martha Sue Stroud's first book, Gateway to Texas: History of Red River County, was published. She planned to write another book to take up that one stopped, and the task has now been completed.

Martha Sue and her husband, Robert, moved to the country two years ago. Their new house is south of Clarksville, Texas, on thirty acres of land with large oak trees, a pond stocked with catfish, deer and other wildlife all around, and lots of peace and quiet.

They are retired, but still as busy as ever with family, church and friends. Both are members of First Baptist Church and still teach Sunday school classes. Robert has served as a deacon for many years and has a weekly radio ministry, and Martha Sue is now leading a Ladies' Bible study. They serve on the Board of Trustees of the Red River County Public Library and are members of the Red River County Historical Society and the Red River Genealogical Society. She finds some time to play bridge with her friends, enjoys reading, needlework, and cooking. In fact, Martha Sue has published five cookbooks in the past.

Their sons, Steven Claiborne and Paul Robert, live in the Dallas area. Steve is Systems Administrator in the Corporate Office of Furr's Family Dining in Richardson, and Paul is part owner of a golf center in Greenville. Paul has enlarged the family with Brieta and their son, Kaden Hunter, who was born prematurely on May 2, 2000, but is doing well.

Order your copy today for just $33.00.

Brush Men and Vigilantes

Civil War Dissent in Texas

by David Pickering and Judy Falls

Foreword by Richard B. McCaslin

David Pickering and Judy Falls take their place in the ranks of Texas literary reconstructionists with this fine study of the violence that took place in Hunt and Hopkins Counties during the Civil War and afterward. They have painstakingly recreated the economic and social framework of the region before the war, and clearly show how prewar tensions led to wartime atrocities. from the Foreword, Richard B. McCaslin, High Point University

As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatized, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger throughout the South. In scattered pockets from the Carolinas to the frontier in Texas, some men who clung to a belief in the Union or an unwillingness to preserve the slaveholding Confederacy died at the hands of their own neighbors. Brush Men and Vigilantes tells the story of how dissent, fear, and economics developed into mob violence in a corner of Texas the Sulphur Forks river valley northeast of Dallas.

Authors David Pickering and Judy Falls have combed through court records, newspapers, letters, and other primary sources and have collected extended-family lore to relate the details of how vigilantes captured and killed more than a dozen men. Unlike most other parts of Texas, at the onset of the Civil War the Sulphur Forks river valley had a significant population of Upper Southerners, some of whom spoke out against secession, objected to enlisting in the Confederate army, or associated with Union men. For some of these dissenters safety meant disappearing into the tangled brush thickets of the region.

Betrayed by links to a well-known Union guerrilla from the Sulphur Forks area, some of these men were captured, tried in mock courts, and hanged. Still others met their death by sniper fire or private execution, as did brush man Frank Chamblee, who after cleverly eluding his enemies for several years, was finally gunned down after the war, reportedly by one of the area s most prominent men.

This carefully researched and well-written account not only tells the story of the brush men s ordeal, but also provides insight into the emotions and thought processes of the Texans who resorted to extralegal means to protect their communities from all enemies, even imaginary ones. Anyone with an interest in the new history of the Civil War or of Texas should find much to digest in this compelling book.

The late DAVID PICKERING had a long career as a newspaper journalist, primarily with the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. JUDY FALLS is an award-winning teacher at Cooper High School in Cooper, Texas. Price $42.00

Number One: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life

Brush Men and Vigilantes

LC 99-045093. 6 1/8x9 1/4. 256 pp.

4 b&w; photos. 6 maps. Bib. Index.

ALL AFIRE TO FIGHT

By Martha L. Crabb

Our society is proud to offer its members and friends another compelling account of the 9th Texas Cavalry, a company of which came from Lamar County. No serious Lamar County Historian can do without this book as it describes in further detail the trials and tribulations that many of the men from this county endured.

In October 1861, the young men of the Confederacy's newly formed Ninth Texas Cavalry (many Lamar County Men fought in this regiment) forded the Red River between Texas and what is now eastern Oklahoma. They would remain on active duty throughout the entire Civil War, moving from skirmish with little rest and no furloughs, distinguishing themselves in several major campaigns across the South. Their casualties would be tremendous--three-quarters of the unit would be wounded or killed in battle, die of disease or in Indian attacks, or be mustered out because of physical unfitness for service. And those who survived would not see their Texas homes again for four long years. But despite it all, they remained...

Drawing on letters, journal entries, family stories, and official war records, Martha Crabb re-creates the remarkable Civil War odyssey of the Ninth Texas Cavalry--a thousand or so fearless, hell-raising western boys who endured unspeakable hardships, yet didn't lose their devil-may-care spirit or raw determination to win. You'll meet teenager Newt Keen, who marched and fought for more than three years, then spent nine hellish months in a Union prison, yet still was "not half whipped"; Tom Berry, respected and honored by all, who perished during the battle of Atlanta with the regret on his lips that he could do no more; dedicated soldier A. W. Sparks who was even more dedicated to his brother, so much so that he stole into a Union hospital in order to stay with his wounded sibling for twenty-four hours; and Sul Ross, a Texan Ranger whose courage and integrity no man could doubt, who became the Ninth's brigadier general later in the war and a Texas legend after it. Through their stories, you'll get to know the human face of warfare--and experience a soldier's-eye-view of the drama, exhilaration, and horror of bloody conflict--made palpable and immediate through evocative descriptions and scrupulous research.

"Much of the burden of Confederate arms was borne on horseback, and especially in the vast regions west of the Appalachians and beyond the Mississippi. In the saddle, too, rode much of the greatest drama of the Civil War. Martha Crabb's ALL AFIRE TO FIGHT brings vividly to life the war fought by one dynamic outfit, the Ninth Texas Cavalry. Based on exhaustive research, and crafted with a keen ear to good storytelling, ALL AFIRE TO FIGHT offers one of the finest Southern unit histories to appear in years." --- William C. Davis.

"Any reader who wants to march, or ride, alongside the Civil War soldier, to hear the rhythms of his speech, taste the spareness of his rations, feel the raggedness of his clothes, share his grim laughter, smell the sweat from the heat and his fears, will experience this immediacy in Martha Crabb's magnetically readable ALL AFIRE TO FIGHT. She has wedded period documents to sharp-eyed reporting to novelistic skill in telling an unforgettable saga of war." --- Joseph E. Persico, noted Civil War author.

"The author brings history alive in this well-researched, compelling, and vividly written account of the wild Texas boys of the Ninth Texas Cavalry. A notable contribution to Civil War literature." --- Duane Schultz, author.

Imprint: William Morrow; ISBN: 038097794X;

Format: Hardcover; Released On: 12/17/99;

Trimsize: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4; Pages: 464

Price $45.00

A Texas Cavalry Officer's

Civil War:

The Diary and Letters of James C. Bates

(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999).

By Dr. Richard Lowe

A volunteer officer with the 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment from 1861 to 1865, James Campbell Bates saw some of the most important and dramatic clashes in the Civil War's western and trans-Mississippi theaters. During his service, Bates rode thousands of miles, fighting in the Indian Territory; at Elkhorn Tavern in Arkansas; at Corinth, Holly Springs, and Jackson, Mississippi; at Thompson's Station, Tennessee; and at the crossing of the Etowah River during Sherman's Atlanta campaign. College-educated and unusually articulate, he recorded his impressions in a detailed diary and dozens of long letters to his mother, sister, brother-in-law, and future wife, who waited at home in Paris, Texas. Publication of Bates's writings, which remain in the possession of family descendants, treats scholars to a documentary treasure trove and all readers to a fresh, first-person dose of American history.

Bates's letters and diary yield significant supporting evidence of the west's crucial role in the Civil War. They are valuable as well for what their observant, keen-minded author has to say: chilling accounts of combat; a running narrative of life in camp and on campaign; commentary on the mood of the military, army politics, and attitudes toward draft dodgers, the enemy, and blacks; reactions to the latest political and diplomatic news; and more. Editor Richard Lowe provides easy access to Bates's gripping story, identifying the major and minor figures in Bates's world, linking events described in the writings to the overall action of the war, and tracking Bates's life before and after his military service. He includes a complete bibliography and a modern-day surgeon's assessment of the near-fatal facial wound the young soldier sustained.

Bates's account confirms the image of the Texas cavalrymen as a hard-riding bunch -- long on aggression and short on discipline. Often put at the front of charges and the rear of retreats, they grew restless during inactive stretches, and many deserted in later years. Bates, however, stayed to the end despite his debilitating injury.

From his first diary entry to nearly his last letter, he was convinced the Confederacy could not lose the war. The defeats the South met with at Elkhorn Tavern, New Orleans, Memphis, Corinth, Vicksburg, and even Atlanta he saw only as detours and delays on the way to eventual victory.

James C. Bates lived on the 700 block of Clarksville Street. He was a census taker in Paris for the 1860 census, and he lived in Paris from the late 1850s to the late 1860s, and again in the late 1880s and early 1890s. He married the daughter of Paris physician, Alfred S. Johnson, who also lived on Clarksville Street, and Bates was a close friend of E. L. Dohoney, a maverick politician from Lamar County in the late 1880s. Bates is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Paris.

Richard Lowe is the author of The Texas Overland Expedition of 1863 and Republicans and Reconstruction in Virginia, 1856-70. He is Regents Professor of History at the University of North Texas in Denton. Price is $35.00. Texas residents add $2.89 sales tax.

Lee Cemetery

Roxton, Texas

1831 - 1913

After many years of work to rescue a long forgotten cemetery on the plains near Roxton, Lamar County, Texas, Lee Cemetery is now featured in a book by the cemetery association formed to preserve the memory of our ancestors buried there. The Lamar County Genealogical Society is happy to offer this book for sale.

Inside the front section will include:

Memorials and obituaries to our members and relatives no longer with us,

A History of Lee Cemetery and Lee Cemetery Association,

Suggested Articles of Incorporation for a nonprofit Cemetery Association,

Plat and Inventory of the cemetery with relations that are known,

Copy of the Certificate of Historical Cemetery Designation,

A Brief History of Southwestern Lamar County,

Press Releases,

Some Rules for Texas Preservation Guidelines for Preserving Cemeteries condensed from Texas Historical Commission,

A Brief History of Tombstones, and Some Common Tombstone Designs,

along with many pictures.

The second section is about 150 pages of the Family Histories of Families represented in the Cemetery, including some of their relations.

Order you copy today for $37.00!

JESSE SHELTON,

FRONTIER FOLLOWER AND FOUNDER OF FORT SHELTON

by Sam F. McClure

Many years ago Sam F. McClure did extensive research on his ancestors and wrote a thesis for his Master of Science degree at East Texas State University in December 1977. Sam passed away 31 Jan 1993. Recovered from the archives at Paris Junior College and Texas A&M University at Commerce, his wife Jane has graciously decided to publish his very important historical work and make it available to our membership.

This purpose of this 253 page document was to study the settlement of Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma by following the life of Jesse Shelton, who helped settle Miller County, Arkansas Territory; Red River County; Texas and Lamar County, Texas while following the frontier. At the time he founded Fort Shelton in Lamar County, Texas in 1837, it was one of the most exposed settlements on the western edge of the frontier in Northeast Texas. The full story of the fort or of the settlement of the area has not been told until the publication of this work.

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF LAMAR COUNTY

AND THE RED RIVER VALLEY

Volume II

This Pictorial History was undertaken as a special project of The Paris News. The primary purpose was to preserve old photographs that might otherwise have been lost. Members of the newspaper staff examined hundreds of photographs for consideration. From these, selections were made that represented our rich heritage. Captions were written from information supplied by the owners of the photographs, and every effort was made to ensure accuracy.

The Lamar County Genealogical Society is proud to offer this great book for sale to its membership and contacts. Volume I is now out of print and Volume II will not last very much longer. The book is hard bound and contains 125 pages of history never to be found again. Get yours while they last at $40.00. Texas residents add $3.30 sales tax.

DANIEL'S BATTERY, THE NINTH TEXAS FIELD BATTERY

by John D. Perkins

In this highly readable and well-researched book, (100 pages) John D. Perkins recounts the wartime experiences of the Ninth Texas Field Battery, more commonly known as Daniel's Battery, which was formed at Paris, Texas by Captain James M. Daniel. Letters from two of the officers in this artillery unit provide insights into the experiences of the men who served in the Trans-Mississippi West.

Daniel's Battery left Texas in the spring of 1862, marching to Camp Nelson, Arkansas, where it became part of the famous Walker's Texas Division. After service in Arkansas, the Ninth Texas Field Battery was part of the expedition which in June of 1863 failed to relieve Vicksburg. Later that year the battery saw action at the Battle of Bayou Bourbeau, and it shelled Union gunboats on the Mississippi.

Daniel's Battery made its greatest contribution to the Southern cause in April of 1864 when it was involved in the bloody two-day battles at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill near Shreveport. In this action the Confederates prevented the invasion of Texas and thwarted the Federal Red River campaign.

However, this study goes beyond military narrative to investigate the pre-war background of the soldiers in the battery. Using Compiled Service Records, the 1860 manuscript census, and tax rolls, Perkins examines the socioeconomic make-up of Daniel's Battery and compares it to other Civil War units.

In addition to providing information about the pre-war occupations of battery members, their wealth, and their slaveholdings, the author also addresses the much-debated issue that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight." Anyone interested in the Civil War and Texas history will treasure this informative study.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR - A native of northeast Texas, John D. Perkins currently serves as assistant professor of history at the Southeast campus of Tarrant County Junior College. He holds graduate degrees from the University of North Texas, Dallas Theological Seminary, and East Texas State University. He and wife Paula reside in Fort Worth.

AN EDITORS VIEW OF EARLY TEXAS

by Lorna Greer Sheppard

I grew up on the site where once stood the two-storied red brick building that had housed the offices and printing presses of the Northern Standard. Next to it - and still standing today, although barely - was the old DeMorse mansion, a derelict structure, belonging to the owner and publisher of the Standard. Mamma can tell you that, as a youngster, I had a thing about that old, boarded-up place and couldn't stop hanging around it. It's true. I was fascinated by my down-on-her luck dowager neighbor. My friends and I would sit on the curb outside the house, eating our Peanut Rounders and drinking RC Colas, making up scary ghost stories and wondering what it must have been like in small town Clarksville when that house was the grandest thing around.

Whether it was coincidence, curiosity, fate, Divine Providence, or some whispered direction from the ghost of Charles DeMorse himself, that sparked my interest in the Northern Standard some forty years later, I don't suppose I'll ever know. But something triggered an off-hand question to a helpful librarian at the main Dallas Public Library which, in turn, revealed that on microfilm, there were copies of the weekly Northem Standard from 1842 through 1888. Concedely partial to old newspapers to the point of my home at times constituting a fire hazard because of them, I sampled some issues of the Standard and immediately became hooked. This volume is the result.

This book covers events of 1842-1845 in the Red River Valley. It is soft bound, contains 382 pages and is indexed. Now available through the society. Order yours today for $25.00 (plus $2.06 Texas resident sales tax only).

GATEWAY TO TEXAS -

HISTORY OF RED RIVER COUNTY

by Martha Sue Stroud

The colorful history of Red River County in Northeast Texas has been greatly neglected in the past by historians. No other county in the State of Texas can boost of such a beginning, and Gateway to Texas - History of Red River County by Martha Sue Stroud was written to enable readers to be informed of this.

This book will be of interest to anyone who loves history and not just to those from this area. The nineteen chapters begin in 1684 with LaSalle's exploration and cover a period up to the 1940s. Texas under six flags, the Red River, the Native Americans who were here first, pioneer families, the County Seat, the Civil War and its effects on Texas, early medicine, education and dwellings, cemeteries, and the Orphan Train stopping in Clarksville will be discussed. The last chapter contains interviews between the author and twenty-four men and women of Red River County, advanced in age, who recall experiences from the past in their various walks of life.

Gateway to Texas - History of Red River County is a hard back book with over 400 pages, a dust cover and over seventy photographs and graphics. It will be invaluable to genealogists and those interested in history. The book is available now through the Lamar County Genealogical Society at a cost of $35.00 plus $3.20 shipping (Texas residents must add 8.25 sales tax). In the first two months of release 788 books were sold!! Get yours today while they last!

THE PARIS SCRAPBOOK

by Skipper Steely

Paris burned to the ground in 1916. It was the third massive fire the town suffered in 39 years. The first was in 1877, and destroyed mostly private records and newspapers of the time. The second was in 1896, but was luckily confined to the south side of the square. However, the third was devastating to those who hunt ancestors and define history.

Records of The Paris News, the Dinner Horn and the very well-constructed Advocate were lost. In addition, among the 1,440 structures burned in that all night horror were personal records and copies of newspaper editions.

Forgive the condition and darkness of some of the articles, and just remember we are simply happy to have them available! Skipper Steely Author/Editor Six Months From Tennessee, Forty Seven Years, Raymond Berry Years, Backward Glances I, II, III, Journey Across America, First United Methodist Church, George W. Wright Memoirs, Civil War In The Redlands, William Huddle, Painter. Order your copy today for $35.00 (Texas residents add $2.89 sales tax) plus $3.20 shipping and handling. This edition does not include pages 264 & 265 because of lost material.

1880 LAMAR CENSUS ON CD ROM

We are excited to announce that the 1880 Lamar County, TX Federal Census is now available on Census View CD!!!! You can order this CD from the Lamar County Genealogical Society for only $19.95, (Texas Residents add $1.65 sales tax) plus $3.20 shipping and handling! This CD will work on your IBM compatible computer with no other program needed! You will be viewing the actual microfilm on a CD!!

No Installation Required

Multiple print options

Unlimited zoom, lighten, darken, invert

Select by page number, use existing indexes

THE HISTORY OF LAMAR COUNTY

by A. W. Neville

Special Limited Reprint Edition

By special agreement with The Paris News, we have reprinted this much sought after and out of print book. Weldon and Billie Martin completely retyped the text, checked for errors and made an index much more detailed than ever before. We are not sure how long these will last or how long the newspaper will allow us to reprint them. If you study Lamar County, you must have this book. Available in soft cover, spiral bound, 225 pages. Get yours today for $30.00.

1860 LAMAR COUNTY FEDERAL CENSUS

In Alphabetical Order

Previously the society has offered this census in a format showing the households in Precinct order. Now you can view the census by surname and find your ancestors more quickly in this 206 page special edition!

Some first names have been changed to reflect the known names of pioneer families in the county. All the usual information is included, name, birth, age, sex, state of birth, occupation, and personal worth and in addition an estimated year of birth has been calculated from the ages listed to help in your research. This is a great companion to the former edition. Order you copy today for $30.00.

1860 FANNIN COUNTY FEDERAL CENSUS

In Alphabetical Order

Previously the society has offered this census in a format showing the households in Precinct order. Now you can view the census by surname and find your ancestors more quickly in this 214 page special edition!

All the usual information is included, name, birth, age, sex, state of birth, occupation, and personal worth and in addition an estimated year of birth has been calculated from the ages listed to help in your research. This is a great companion to the former edition. Order you copy today for $30.00!

LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS

MARRIAGE RECORD BOOK 4

This is the fourth book of Lamar County marriage records offered for sale by the Lamar County Genealogical Society. The first book was compiled and published by Anna Spencer and covered the years 1841 through 1858. That book is now out of print.

We are very grateful to Roberta Woods who rechecked all marriage records between 1900 and 1910. This book contains the records from Marriage Book 17, page 214 through Marriage Book 25, page 326, a total of 8425.

Some names have been altered and do not appear the same as the original marriage record. This was done only from proof by descendants and in most cases only expand initials into full names.

This book adopts the format of alphabetically listing the groom to the bride in the front of the book and the bride to the groom in the back of the book, eliminating the sometimes confusing and time consuming index of brides. Price is $35.00 plus shipping and handling (Texas residents add $2.89 sales tax.)

HARDEE'S RIFLE AND LIGHT INFANTRY TACTICS

FOR THE INSTRUCTION, EXERCISES AND MANEUVERS OF RIFLEMEN AND LIGHT INFANTRY. INCLUDING SCHOOL OF THE SOLDIER AND SCHOOL OF THE COMPANY. BY BREVET LIEUT. W. J. HARDEE. To which is added, DUTIES OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. MILITARY HONORS TO BE PAID BY TROOPS. THE ARTICLES OF WAR, Containing Rules by which the Armies of the United States are governed; Relating to Courts-Martial; Suppressing Mutiny or Sedition; Granting Furloughs, Commissary of Musters; Accepting a Challenge; Chaplains; Sutlers; To whom any Officer may apply for Redress; Sentinels; False Alarms, Misbehavior; Making Known the Watchword, Engineers; Spies; How Court- Martial must be Authenticated, Etc. NEW YORK, J. 0. KANE, PUBLISHER, 126 NASSAU STREET, 1861.

No serious student of Civil War history can be without this book which describes the life and drill of the Civil War era soldier. The Society is pleased to offer this historically significant book for sale for $16.00 plus shipping and handling (Texas residents add $1.32 tax).

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