Lamar County Genealogical Society PJC Box 187 2400 Clarksville St. Paris, TX 75460 January 1999 Newsletter Text Version THANKS!!! First I'd like to thank everyone who has helped us in 1998 to make the Society a very successful organization. There's been so many donations of material, furniture, books, time and money that is very very difficult to keep a list of who to thank. It has been a very hectic year to keep up with all our activities. I'd like to especially thank Cleo Moseley for donating a lot of office furniture, Susan Lancaster for allowing us to use her house on Bonham St., and to Patsy and Clyde Daniels and Butch and Betsy Mills for storing equipment and furniture. Then there's Tony Underwood and Butch Mills without whose stout backs and muscles we could not move everything around. A special thanks to Dr. William DeG. Hayden for his ongoing efforts to get the Depot going and for his part in helping us to add nearly $12,000 to the coffers for future development. I can never forget the wonderful $1000 donation of Elizabeth House to help buy file cabinets, never realizing that she would not be with us to see them in the new home she always worked toward for so many years. Thanks to Roberta Woods for keeping our money in order. Thanks to Patsy Daniels for keeping the library organized, to Debbie Anderson for computerizing our Pedigree charts, to Martha Ray for answering all the letters, to Carl Covert for cataloging. Thanks to all those who gave to the expansion fund. You are mentioned later in this issue. Thanks to all the librarians who continue to keep up with the cramped space in the library, I mention you later also. Thanks to Mary Lane and Tom and Louise Hagood for their material donations to the Library in the past year. Thanks to Carmen Burks for keeping our meetings posted in the newspaper. Thanks to Pam Underwood for indexing the Annual, to Vicky Sykes for indexing the old quarterlies to put on the Internet. Thanks to Susan Abruscato for keeping our Surname list on the Internet. And speaking of the Internet there is one particular person who works very hard to insure that Lamar County and our Society is well represented in Cyberspace. Betsy Mills has to be our unsung hero of the year. Over the last couple of years she has designed and maintained a web site for Lamar County History, acclaimed by many to be one of the best. Besides working all day at a job that helps pay the bills, she comes home after work and continues to do more than any of us could ever dream, well into the early morning hours. (Poor Butch. . . he's had to learn to cook supper.) Through this site we have gained many members and contacts. From this site she has placed many records on line that would otherwise be unavailable. She continues to answer hundreds of email messages concerning Lamar County History. I don't know how she does it and keeps her sanity, but she does, and we should all be grateful to her for the unselfish work she does to preserve our history. Its time to renew your membership again. Some people don't like me to continually ask for money, but folks, here's the bottom line - if all 268 members of the society had chosen the $15.00 membership last year, there would only be $1400 left in the treasury after we published and mailed the Annual and newsletters. It actually cost us $9.65 to produce and mail the Annual and newsletter. That just leaves us a little more than $5.00 to produce books for resale, and buy books for the library. We couldn't stay in business. I'm asking you to please choose the CORNERSTONE or I CARE membership level this year. We hope to move to the Depot in 1999. We need the money desperately to do this. If you've already renewed, you can send another check with a note to upgrade. We need it. Thanks for your support. Ron. MOVE TO DEPOT DISAPPOINTING BUT NOT OFF!! Yes, we told you last year that we would be moving to the Depot in the winter of 1998. It didn't happen because of several reasons. As Skipper Steely will tell you in the next column, the wheels of government are rolling slow. There is no question that we will move, we just don't know at this point when it will be. Floor Plans are being reviewed again by the entities providing the funding to make sure all aspects of historical preservation are met. We cannot rush this particular phase of the project. Everything has to be right before construction can begin. In the meantime your contributions are being held in a savings account to earn extra money that is desperately needed for the relocation. We still don't have all the funds that we need to make the move. We still need donations to make our facility better! DEPOT NEWS Architectural status is still quo By Skipper Steely Featured in The Paris News, Monday November 16, 1998 page 4A. After furious activity in and near it, the Frisco-Santa Fe Railroad Depot in west Paris has entered into a long term of inactivity as Paris awaits approval of plans submitted September 15, 1998. As slow as the process has become after the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) awarded the city an enhancement grant for $1.2 million in early 1997, Paris is actually barely behind the progress of the most advanced of the five other projects receiving funding approval at the same time. This process is slower than normal TxDOT projects, according to district engineer Tom Ellis. "We are not used to dealing with architects on a normal basis," he said. Paris' final plans done by Keystone Architects' A. J. Garza were given to the design division of TxDOT in Austin on September 15, and Ellis expects them to be back in about two months. Then the city will let contracts, which should be another two months. Actual work may begin in late February. According to Phyliss Chandler, public relations coordinator of TxDOT in Austin and formerly here in the Paris district office, six other facilities were approved at the same time as Paris for rehabilitation through the Federal funding process. They are the Santa Fe office in Amarillo, the Texas & Pacific depot in Atlanta, the depot on the Burlington-Rock Island line through Teague in Freestone County, the Santa Fe depot in Tulia, the Hale Center depot in Swisher County and the Santa Fe Depot in Temple. All contacts made in the cities involved indicated frustrations at the slow process, but all were confident that the projects would be eventually completed. While the Paris depot faces a long, tortuous winter of possible huge damage from water leakage, the cost is nothing compared to the $300,000 or so in Amarillo to remove asbestos from the 13-story building there. Temple faces the asbestos problem also, most of it being in the floor tiles. Atlanta may have to remove the roof to replace it with the original slate type covering. Tulia, Hale Center and another entrant, Post, are combining to hire one architect. Temple and Amarillo hired the firm of Kim A. Williams from Austin, but Amarillo kept a local architect, John Jenkins, as both a site manager and construction manager. While Paris had just one architect bid on the depot, Temple had 78 interested parties pick up applications, and 15 finally sent them in for consideration. Temple completed preliminary drawings last June and expects to hand in to the design division of TxDOT the construction drawings by mid-October. Kirby Pickett, formerly of Paris and Temple's TxDOT offices, is now second in charge in Austin and is watching over the process, according to Chandler and Temple's Railroad Museum manager Mary Irving. Because of the deterioration and rising cost while the wait is on, Temple does not expect to have enough money to complete the project. They, like a couple of others, have even gone to Austin to visit with TxDOT. Tulia does not know what will occupy its facility upon completion, while Temple will house a museum, a city transit office, a tourist information center, a model railroad club and State Representative Diane Delisi's office. In addition, Amtrak still uses the depot as a regular stop. Temple, as well as Amarillo, received a grant of another $3 million, $2.4 million from the Federal funds and $600,000 from local governmental entities. None of this money can be used for the asbestos removal. Cass County has just had a design group hired for their depot and is of the expectation it will be two more years before completion. About eight years ago the city of Atlanta used hotel/motel tax monies to cover the roof temporarily, so the building is fairly safe from deterioration, says Chamber of Commerce President Bob Embry. "We are using Section B money from the economic development tax funds to re-do the streets and sidewalks around the depot," he added. He expressed alarm at news received from his northeast project at Hope, Arkansas. Seems bids there were $500,000 over the allotted Federal money. The economic development corporation of Teague is funding its part of the project there. The total project cost is $700,000, according to EDC manager Jean Ogilvie. Teague is a part of Section B of the state economic development act which allows money to be spent for historical and tourism projects, unlike in Paris which is a part of Section A, purely industrial in nature. Teague has not yet hired an architect. The project is so low key that the chamber of commerce president had no awareness of it when questioned. The same can be said of Amarillo, where the chamber had to route the research call to the city's rails-to-trails office. The official there did know that the project involved the empty Santa Fe office building and pointed out the proper contact at the county offices. According to Dub Ash there, portions of the project can be moved to matching funds for immediate rehabilitation. His county expects its plans to be at TxDOT at least four months, but that is of no concern to those involved. That time is needed to remove the asbestos. The county expects to place various functions on all but one of the floors when completed. The Paris depot project has no cash match to the contract. The $155,695 value of the complex and various in-kind work by the city and prisoners from Bonham have served as the matching obligation. An all in-kind match is not a normal agreement on enhancement projects but was approved for Paris by TxDOT. There are many other such projects across the state, and with recent approval from Congress the process may continue, though reluctantly operated through TxDOT. Some go smoothly, some not. Hearne, for instance, has immense troubles with its depot, having been given a deadline by the railroad to move it off the site. That information helps make the long wait in Paris tolerable. Individuals, groups and entities spent years trying to pry the depot here away from Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, but only when the lines were sold to Kiamichi Railroad out of Hugo did deep conversation and negotiations become possible. Ground breaking in Paris originally was set for March, 1998, but the long wait will soon slide into 1999. A rough winter is expected to add $10,000-$40,000 to the cost of rehabilitation. OFFICERS FOR 1999 President Ron Brothers 737-8693 Vice-President Betsy Mills 785-3155 Program Tony Underwood 785-8704 Membership Debbie Anderson 785-5940 Public Relations Mary Lane 784-3564 Recording Secretary Pam Underwood 785-8704 Corresponding Secretary Martha Ray 982-5378 Treasurer Roberta Woods 732-3248 Librarian Patsy Daniels 784-7666 Parliamentarian Carmen Burks 785-6263 WILLIAMS REUNION In June of 1999, the descendants of Lemuel Hardin Williams will hold a family reunion in Paris. Lemuel Hardin Williams and his brother James Shelby Williams emigrated from Clinton County Kentucky to Lamar County in the two decades prior to the Civil War. L.H. Williams was involved in mercantile and banking in Paris. He was a good personal friend of Samuel Bell Maxey, and portraits of him and his wife are in the parlor of the Maxey house. Lemuel's brother, James Shelby Williams became a large land owner and farmer in the Howland area. One of Lemuel Williams' sons, James S. Williams (2), was a prominent rancher, U.S. Marshal, and pioneer in modern agricultural science. He was also a leader in the Texas Democratic party. Incidentally, it is our hope that we will have upwards of 100 attending our reunion. We need to contact any descendants of Lemuel Hardin Williams still living within the area of your circulation. This would include those who have relationship with the McBath, Long, Brackeen, Pearcy, Howard, Stell, Bankhead, Clarke, Wortham, Crook, Collins, Henley, Cleaver, and Duncan among others. All who have any relationship with Lemuel and James Williams are encouraged to attend. 1998 ANNUAL The 1998 Annual should have arrived at your home already. It is bigger and better than ever. If you have not received it please contact Ron Brothers at 3125 Clarksville St. #127, Paris, TX 75460 or email: . 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 black and white photographs, no larger than 3X5 size. If possible send two copies. 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. New members, renewals and/or changes to late to be posted in the Annual Sam & Mary Smith, 2408 Kathy Cove, Austin, TX 78704, email: . They are researching Parham and Wilburn surnames. Marjorie Ann Gillispie, 1915 10th St., Wichita Falls, TX 76301, email: . She is researching Abbott, Arnold, Brannon, Butcher, Henry, Price and Rogers. Dorothy and Robert Fisher, Rt. 1, Box 171-F, Yantis, TX 75497, email: . They research Ausmus, Brecheen and Sims. Diane Kuras, new email: spirit@sunline.net Dan Parham, new email: dantp@ix.netcom.com Nancy Abraham, 10704 Towne Park Dr NE, Albuquerque NM 87123, new email: anabr@swcp.com. Joyce W. Denton, 1926 Lansdown Dr., Carrollton TX 75010. Please send us your surnames. June Preston, 2955 Hubbard, Paris TX 75460. Surnames: Craver; Gilley; Hagood; Haygood; Hathcox; Preston. Greta McKelvey, 4500 Kinvarra Circle, Mableton GA 30126-1480, email: hmack@pipeline.com. Surnames: Ford; Lewis; Norris; Si; Watson; Weaver. Thomas C. Wyatt, P.O. Box 312, Winnsboro TX 75494-0312. Surnames: Fleming; Hodges; Ray. James M. Hamblin, new email: jhamblin@HiWAAY.net. Mary Thomasine Carpenter, new address: W264N5093 Heather Way, Pewaukee WI 53072- 1234. TIDBITS New arrival in the library THE TIMEN STIDDEM SOCIETY newsletter, a family association for the descendants of Timen Stiddem, an immigrant from Sweden in the 17th Century to New Sweden, now Wilmington, Deleware. Stidham descendants need to look this over. ANOTHER RECORD - MEMBERSHIP TOTALS FOR 1998 BUSINESS REGULAR 3 CORNERSTONE 13 FAMILY 175 HONORARY 4 I CARE 73 TOTAL 268 THANK YOU FOR BEING A MEMBER!!!!! Forthcoming New Book by Johnnie Lee About seven years in the making, this new book will soon be going to the printers. Its title is, "IT HAPPENED IN POST OAK (OR THEREABOUTS); a Slice of Lamar and Red River County History. But don't let the title fool you. This book, of course, deals with those permanent residents of Post Oak (East Post Oak) and the surrounding area, but it eventually turned mini county history, as it contains stories on every known family who lived in that area for however short a time. Besides Post Oak, histories of the Lamar County communities of Red Oak and Walnut Ridge are included, as is the Cross Roads community in Red River County. This book is expected to be about 325 pages in length. Over 300 families will be covered, and the time period will range from the late 1830's until the 1960's, as a general rule, though it will be current on many people who have died as late as 1998. About 200 photos are planned to be included to be widely referred to by those researching individuals who lived somewhere northeast of Blossom or northwest of Detroit at sometime during their lives. At least 138 Texas counties are mentioned in the book, as are most of the southern states. For example, about 33 or more counties in Arkansas are mentioned; at least 31 Tennessee counties; 18 or more Missouri counties; and 10 or more Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia counties; as well as several other states. There are at least 57 places in Lamar County mentioned (communities, cemeteries, schools). At least 46 such places in Red River County are mentioned. The book's index, though not compiled, is expected to contain at least 15,000 or more entries. Many farm families of bygone days lived in rent houses all across Lamar and Red River County, and if they lived in this particular area, their family history may well be recorded in this book. Most of the 300 families whose stories have been compiled in this book have never had their stories written in any book. The family history section of this book will cover over 180 pages, which includes a few stories on early settlers and land owners of 150 years ago or more. The remainder of the book is divided into smaller sections of various subjects. "In Their Own Words" is a section which includes about 20 stories written by people who have been associated with the area in one way or another through the years. Many of those are now deceased. In one story, Rufus F. Scott, who was born in 1848, tells of his early days in the country north of Detroit. He went on to become the president of the First National Bank in Paris. Another section of the book reveals the histories of the early roads which were laid out in the area, from about 1840 until the early 1900's. Those histories are not available in any book, and were written from research done in county road minutes and commissioner's court minutes. Also included are sections dealing with life on the farm, social life, making provisions for the family and advancements made through the years. Some topics covered in these sections include community quiltings, cutting and selling cross ties, the introduction of telephones to the area, Delco power plants and Talco lights. Government programs such as the government cannery and the mattress making programs, both initiated during the Roosevelt administration, are covered. Also included are histories of the local schools, churches and general stores. Over 200 sources, including books, microfilm, Bible records, diaries, school records, tax records and public records of all sorts were used in researching this book, as well as personal interviews with over 70 people and telephone interviews with almost 120 different people and correspondence with over 100 people. While this book is a history of a particular area of Lamar and Red River counties and the people who lived there at one time or another, a secondary goal was to chronicle a way of life that was typical of so many small Communities in that era. Family stories were researched and written for the most part by the author, and contain, when known, the parents of the persons being featured in title story. Also, names of all known children are listed, though they may nave never lived in the community. If you want to be included on the mailing list, or wish to express interest in purchasing a copy when the book is published, please contact the author, Johnnie Lee, at 903-982-5309, or write him at Rt. 2 Box 327, Detroit, TX 75436. Your input will help in determining how many copies will be printed. Please respond as soon as possible by December 31, 1998, or sooner if at all possible. A number of people have made donations towards publishing this book, and everyone who does so will be acknowledged in the book. If you want to have a part in publishing this book, please contact the author. The book is planned to be a library quality, hardcover book, similar to a county history book, but the quality may depend upon funds obtained for publishing. The prepublication price of the book is expected to be about $40.00, and the price will increase after publishing, probably to at least $50.00. If you have further questions about the content of this book, please feel free to contact the author. We want to thank all great librarians without whose services we could not survive: Patsy Daniels Carl P. Covert Thelma Dangerfield Mary Claunch Lane Barbara Martin Martha Ray Betty Thoms Roberta Woods We want to thank the authors of the many books that we sell for allowing us to be an agent for helping them to preserve the history of out area. They are: Debbie Burks Bertha Gable James R. Hicks John D. House Betsy Mills Pat Newhouse Lenore Nichol Betty & Eddie Poole Ann L. Spencer Martha Sue Stroud SOCIETY RECEIVES NEARLY $12,000 Thanks to the efforts of Dr. William DeG Hayden we received $11827.70 in a joint land sale with the Lamar County Historical Society. This money has been earmarked to help design an early 19th Century reading room in our portion of the Depot. The money has been placed in a Certificate of Deposit to help it grow. While this may seem a lot, we still need more funds to make our library a showcase for Northeast Texas research. Please consider contributing to the expansion fund. We are very very grateful for the contributions of the following members and friends to the Expansion Fund in 1998. Katy Allred Patsy I. Benson Kay Marie Brown Black Ron Brothers Billie M. Brown Sue Cravy Jean Wood Dingman Jerry Dudley Shirley (Yates) Goings-Lindsey Fern Gold Luetha Pat Grant Nancy Gresham Kenneth & Jeannie Griffin Dr. William & Elizabeth Hayden Tom & Louise Hagood James M. Hamblin Frankie Hawkins Zoe Huddle Hazlewood Wyoma Woods Heston Allan B. Holley Elizabeth & James House A. A. Howard Helen Burleson Kelso Dennis & Margie Lee John & Rachel Lowrey Thomas W. & Peggy Mcgee Maness Barbara Martin Nothera R. Martin Gloria D. McCuistion Cecile L. Roden Mary Sawyer Mary Lou Swarner Gary & Vicky Sykes Homer P. Thomson Tony & Pam Underwood Gladys Walker Sharon Weinraub Roberta Woods Charles E. Workman, Jr. NEW!!!! AN EDITORS VIEW OF EARLY TEXAS Written and compiled 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!! Lamar County Genealogical SocietyYour Name:________________________________ PJC Box 187 Address:___________________________________ 2400 Clarksville St.City, ST, Zip:_______________________________ Paris, TX 75460 One Book $22.00 S&H $ 4.00 Total $26.00 Or TX residents $ 1.82 (Must pay state tax) TX Total $27.82 GATEWAY TO TEXAS - HISTORY OF RED RIVER COUNTY 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. The author gathered data for this book over a twenty-five year period. In May 1996, the decision was made to go forward with the project, and research was begun at that time at libraries, museums, the historic Red River County Courthouse, cemeteries, historical makers, and in homes of those who wanted to share their family histories. 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 $33.00 plus $4.00 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! Send to: Lamar County Genealogical Society Your Name:________________________________ PJC Box 187 Address:___________________________________ 2400 Clarksville St.City, ST, Zip:_______________________________ Paris, TX 75460 One Book $33.00 S&H $ 4.00 Total $37.00 Or TX residents $ 2.72 TX Total $39.72 THE PARIS SCRAPBOOK 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 TheParis 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. Thanks, however, to the foresight of a county judge in the 1890's, only the district court records were burned in the 1916 disaster. And, beginning in 1929 Paris News editor A. W. Neville began to re-construct the town's history in a daily column. Many readers brought old newspapers, letters and records to him. Consequently, he kept them carefully and wrote mostly from those accounts and from public records. In the A. M. Aikin Archives at Paris Junior College are his backup materials, as well as his 7,000 columns! However, indexed copies of the materials are also located in the Gee library, Commerce, Texas, fourth floor archives. The columns are there also, mostly indexed. In addition, my massive amount of files are there in the Steely Collection. As I researched through the years, any obit, wedding or article pre-1916 was thrown into a proposed book. It became massive! As you will see, the stories in the this book are invaluable to those wishing to hunt ancestors or write history of the area. It was a book that grew and grew until it was too large for me to publish. With the help of Ron Brothers, Elizabeth House and Betsy Mills, now you can purchase it for personal use at home. The index has been refined, and should guide you quickly to pertinent research. 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 $3.00 shipping and handling to: Lamar County Genealogical Society PJC Box 187 Your Name_________________________________ 2400 Clarksville St. Address____________________________________ Paris, TX 75460 City, ST, Zip________________________________ JOURNAL OF TEXAS SHORTLINE RAILROADS And Transportation Vol. 3, No. 1 The Journal of Texas Shortline Railroads And Transportation is a quarterly magazine based on Transportation in the State of Texas. Publisher Lester Haines recently did a cover story about the Paris and Mt. Pleasant Railroad and we are pleased to offer this issue to our members. It contains 60 pages and many photos. This is a "must have" for serious Lamar County Researchers and their personal libraries. Mr. Haines also has many other titles for sale including: San Antonio Fredericksburg & Northern Railway Co., Rio Grand Railroad Co. & Other Related Railroads, Moscow Camden & San Antonio & Related Railroads, Wichita Falls & Southern & Related Transportation Systems, Abilene & Southern Railway, Bartlett Western Ry, Georgetown RR, and Cedar Tap RR, Texas Mexican Railway, Texas South- Eastern Railroad, Austin & Northwestern and Llano Branch of the T&NO/SP, Fredericksburg & Northern (1918 - 1942) and A&NW followup, Houston Electric - The Street Railways of Houston, TX, Railroading in Texas - One Man's Memories, Texas Central - The Peanut Line, Texas & Pacific Operations, Whistle Through the Piney Woods. Write to 11902 Conann Court, Austin, TX 78753 for information on these. Lamar County Genealogical SocietyYour Name:________________________________ PJC Box 187 Address:___________________________________ 2400 Clarksville St.City, ST, Zip:_______________________________ Paris, TX 75460 One Magazine$ 9.00 S&H $2.00 Total $11.00 Or TX residents must add $ 0.74 sales tax. Texas Residents Total $11.74 COUNT ON ME! I WANT TO GIVE TO THE EXPANSION FUND!!!! Friends, we have asked for your contributions and donations for many years. Running a facility like ours takes money and our membership has to supply the funds. Many members have not renewed their membership. We need you now more than ever. We need contributions in the $100 or more range and even in the $1,000 range. All contributions will go directly into the Expansion Fund and will be used exclusively to relocate and expand our first rate research facility. We WILL spend this money on items that are on our wish list. We earnestly plead with you to search your heart and give what you can to the Expansion Fund. There is little time to waste. We must begin acquiring material and equipment now. Please don't let us down in this, our greatest hour of need. Because we have set a special fund for this, we ask that you make checks separate from any membership renewal. This will help our accounting. I wish to give the following donation to the Lamar County Genealogical Society Expansion Fund. Amount _____________________ Name________________________________________ Address ______________________________________ City___________________ State_______ Zip Code_________________ NEW SOCIETY T-SHIRT Pre-shrunk 50% White Cotton 50% Polyester Multi-Color Logo In Adult Sizes Only Indicate Quantity Ordered ____ Small ____ Medium ____ Large ____ X-Large ____ XX-Large ____ XXX-Large $15.00 Per T-Shirt, Tax Included $3.00 S&H up to two items - $6.00 for three or more items Name:________________________________________________ Address:______________________________________________ City: ________________________ State: ____ Zip:___________ Amount enclosed for T-Shirts: _______________ S&H Enclosed__________ Mail to: Lamar County Genealogical Socity PJC Box 187 2400 Clarksville St. Paris, TX 75460 RENEW NOW!! PLEASE DON'T WAIT!! CHOOSING A HIGHER LEVEL OF MEMBERSHIP KEEPS YOUR SOCIETY STRONG AND VIBRANT. SHOW A CARING SUPPORT YOUR SOCIETY. WITHOUT YOU WE WOULD NOT BE WHAT WE ARE TODAY. BECOME A PART OF THE HISTORIC DEPOT IN PARIS WE CANNOT MOVE WITHOUT YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT DON'T FORGET TO RENEW YOUR DUES AT A HIGHER LEVEL!!