Dallas County Genealogy References
ACCESSION: 35254333
AUTHOR: Butler, Steven R.
TITLE: Dallas County, Texas and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 : a history and roster
PLACE: Richardson, Tex.
PUBLISHER: Descendants of Mexican War Veterans, 1995
ACCESSION: 35016173
AUTHOR: Crossley, Marie
TITLE: Mesquite City Cemetery, Dallas County, Texas
PLACE: [Mesquite, Tex
PUBLISHER: Mesquite Histrical [sic] and Geneal. Society, 1995
ACCESSION: 34517835
AUTHOR: Jamieson, Adrienne Bird
TITLE: Dallas County, Texas minute book A, 1846-1855, 14th District Court abstracts
PLACE: Dallas, Tex
PUBLISHER: The Society, 1995
ACCESSION: 34104843
AUTHOR: Curry, Louise.
TITLE: Irving News obituaries index
PLACE: Irving, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Curry,
NOTES: v. 1. 1988 -- v. 2. 1990 -- v. 3. 1991 -- v. 4. 1992.
ACCESSION: 32657234
AUTHOR: Pickens, Suzanne.
TITLE: Recordation of "Old" Bear Creek African-American Community Cemetery DFW International Airport Dallas County,
PLACE: Fort Worth, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Greiner, Inc., 1992
SUBJECT: Cemeteries -- Texas -- Dallas County
ACCESSION: 32142405
AUTHOR: Carlisle, Willie Flowers.
TITLE: Dallas County marriage records
YEAR: 1945 1957
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control
NOTES: [1] 1846-1861 -- [2] 1861-1868 -- [3] August 1868-March 1874 -- [4] 1875-1877.
ACCESSION: 31876492
TITLE: Dallasearch : a guide to genealogical resources in Dallas County, Texas.
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. (P. O. Box 12648, Dallas) :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Genealogical Society: 1993
ACCESSION: 30984836
AUTHOR: Lu, Helen M.
TITLE: Marriages Dallas County, Texas
PLACE: Dallas, Texas :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Genealogical Society, 1994 9999
NOTES: Title on microfiche header: Dallas County, Texas, marriages. v. 4. Books L, M, N, (1890-1895)
ACCESSION: 30882683
AUTHOR: Darnell, Rubyann Thompson.
TITLE: Dallas County, Texas, genealogical data from early cemeteries
PLACE: Dallas, Texas :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Genealogical Society, 1981 9999
SUBJECT: Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Dallas County.
ACCESSION: 30500796
TITLE: Proud heritage II : pioneer families of Dallas County.
PLACE: [Dallas, Tex.] :
PUBLISHER: Dallas County Pioneer Association, 1993
ACCESSION: 30368904
AUTHOR: Graeme, W., Mrs.
TITLE: Early Dallas County wills
PUBLISHER: Mrs. W. Graeme, 1960 1969
NOTES: Caption title: Abstracts of will record book C, Dallas County Court House.
ACCESSION: 27961311
AUTHOR: Baker, Anna Brown.
TITLE: Cochran Chapel United Methodist Church and Cochran Chapel Cemetery :
9027 Midway Road, Dallas, Texas, 1976
ACCESSION: 26049817
AUTHOR: Anderson, Peggy.
TITLE: Marriage records, Dallas County, Texas
PLACE: Ennis, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: distributed by Books 'n Books, 1992
NOTES: Books A-D (1847-1874).
ACCESSION: 24308795
AUTHOR: Wright, Betty Davis.
TITLE: Obituaries, Garland, Dallas County, Texas 1900-1910 :
extracted from the Garland news microfilm, Nicholson Memorial
Library, Garland, Texas.
PUBLISHER: B.D. Wright, 1991
ACCESSION: 23285408
TITLE: Dallas County, Texas probate cases :
original documents, disposed cases, cases 1-3,100, 1846-early
1900's
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Genealogical Society, 1978
FORMAT: 35 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
NOTES: Mss., typescripts.
Includes material in original probate packets for estate,
guardianship, and lunacy cases in Dallas County, Texas. Much of
the material would not be entered into the probate record books.
Includes indexes.
ACCESSION: 23285364
AUTHOR: Texas. Secretary of State.
TITLE: Voter registration lists
YEAR: 1867 1869
NOTES: Also known as: Voter registers.
Also known as: 1867-1869 voter registers.
Microfilm contents arranged by Texas county: reel 1. Anderson,
Bell. -- reel 2. Bexar, Cameron. -- reel 3. Chambers, Dallas. --
reel 4. Davis, Fayette. -- reel 5. Fort Bend, Grayson. -- reel 6.
Grimes, Harrison. -- reel 7. Hays, Kerr. -- reel 8. Kendall,
Matagorda. -- reel 9. Maverick, Parker. -- reel 10. Polk, Shelby.
-- reel 11. Smith, Van Zandt. -- reel 12. Victoria, Zapata.
Microfilm. Austin, Tex. : Produced by Texas State Library, State
Records Center, 1987. 12 microfilm reels : negative ; 35 mm.
ACCESSION: 23194932
AUTHOR: Scarborough, Jewell Davis, 1887-1968.
TITLE: Papers,
YEAR: 1902 1967
NOTES: Includes literary productions, research materials, photographs,
printed, legal, and financial material, maps, and scrapbooks and
scrapbook material pertaining to Mrs. Scarborough's writings,
research, civic and social activities, her travels, and her
family. Collection bulks with manuscripts and research material
relating to her genealogical work.
Genealogical researcher, civic leader, suffrage activist,
homemaker. Born in 1887 in Pittsburg, Texas.
SUBJECT: Scarborough, Dallas.
Tatum family.
Davis family.
McSwain family.
Gardner family.
Stovall family.
Aldredge family.
ACCESSION: 22634234
TITLE: Dallasearch :
a guide to genealogical resources in Dallas County, Texas.
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Genealogical Society, 1990
ACCESSION: 21962539
TITLE: Researching in Dallas County, Texas.
PLACE: Dallas, TX :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Genealogical Society, 1989
ACCESSION: 21255885
TITLE: Family records James Campbell Chapter, D. A. R. , Dallas, Texas
(1706-1954) /
PLACE: College Station, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: D. A. R. Genealogical Records Committee, 1958
ACCESSION: 21083209
AUTHOR: Lu, Helen M.
TITLE: Marriages, Dallas County, Texas /
edited by Helen Mason Lu and Gwen Blomquist Neumann; compiled and
published by Dallas Genealogical Society.
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: The Society, 1978 9999.
NOTES: Vol. 2 edited by Margaret Ann Schmidt Hudson and Adrienne Bird
Jamieson.
v. 1. Books A-E (1846-1877).--v. 2. Books F-H (1877-1885).
ACCESSION: 17564842
TITLE: Records of the Church of Holy Trinity (Episcopal), Bonham, Texas
founded by the Rt. Rev. Alexander Charles Garrett, First Bishop
of Dallas, c.1876.
YEAR: ? 1980 1988
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control
FORMAT: 1 microfilm reel : positive ; 35 mm.
NOTES: Title page of original: The Service record book for a systematic
record of Sunday and week-day services, offerings, officiating
clergy, etc. etc.
Reproduction of original.
"The first records of this church where lost in the 1920's".
ACCESSION: 16781322
TITLE: Dallas County Texas marriage records, 1873-1876
PLACE: Dallas, TX. :
PUBLISHER: Microfilm Sales & Service, 1960 1969
FORMAT: 1 microfilm reel : positive ; 35 mm.
NOTES: Originally published as two separate items by the D.A.R.
Genealogical Records Committee 1956.
Original cover title: Genealogical records.
ACCESSION: 16742699
TITLE: Grand Prairie, Texas, cemetery inscriptions, Dallas County, Texas
PLACE: Grand Prairie, TX :
PUBLISHER: The Society, 1987
ACCESSION: 15305534
TITLE: Dallas County, Texas, 1877-1881.
PLACE: Hammond, La. :
PUBLISHER: Nicholas Russell Murray, Hunting for Bears, 1986
SERIES: Computer indexed marriage records
ACCESSION: 15187028
TITLE: Proud heritage :
pioneer families of Dallas County.
PLACE: [Dallas, Tex.] :
PUBLISHER: Dallas County Pioneer Association, 1986
ACCESSION: 14814644
AUTHOR: Dallas Public Library. Texas/Dallas History and Archives.
TITLE: W.R. Conger cemetery studies 1986
ACCESSION: 14575719
AUTHOR: Carlisle, Willie Flowers.
TITLE: Old cemeteries of Dallas County 1948
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control
ACCESSION: 13866818
AUTHOR: Taulbee, Dena.
TITLE: James Meaders & the lawsuits
PLACE: Lex[ington], Ky. (PO Box 25785, Lexington 40524) :
PUBLISHER: D. Taulbee, 1986
SUBJECT: Meaders, James, -- 1853-1925 -- Estates.
ACCESSION: 13348764
TITLE: 1860 mortality schedule Kaufman County, Texas; Dallas County,
Texas; Denton County, Texas; Cooke County, Texas; Montague
County, Texas.
YEAR: ? 1865 1965
NOTES: Listed in alphabetical order within each county.
ACCESSION: 12895286
TITLE: Dallas County marriage records, August, 1868 - May, 1873 /
PLACE: [Dallas, Tex.?] :
YEAR: ? 1970 1979
NOTES: Index : p. 2-47
Typed carbon pages bound in 3-ring notebook.
ACCESSION: 11364245
AUTHOR: Brown, John Henry, 1820-1895.
TITLE: History of Dallas County, Texas :
from 1837 to 1887 /
PLACE: Austin, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: D.A.R., Balcones Chapter, 1983
NOTES: "Texas Daughters of the American Revolution special project :
reproduction of genealogical records, committee source record
books prepared by Balcones Chapter"--Cover.
ACCESSION: 10899581
TITLE: Balch Springs Historical and Genealogical Society :
[quarterly].
PLACE: Balch Springs, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: The Society, 1972 1972
FREQUENCY: Quarterly
NUMBERING: -v. 1, no. 4 (Dec. 1972).
Began with Mar. 1972.
NOTES: Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 2 (June [1972]); title from
cover.
ISSN: 0748-2582
ACCESSION: 10654010
TITLE: 1860 census, Dallas County, Texas.
PLACE: Mesquite, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Mesquite Historical and Genealogical Society, 1980 1984
SUBJECT: Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Dallas County.
ACCESSION: 10605805
AUTHOR: Wright, Betty Davis.
TITLE: Cemetery inscriptions, Garland, Dallas County, Texas
PLACE: [S.l.] :
PUBLISHER: B.D. Wright, 1983
ACCESSION: 10459242
TITLE: First half dozen years :
Dallas County, Texas, as seen through the Commissioners' Court
minutes /
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. (P.O. Box 4276, Sta. A, Dallas 75208) :
PUBLISHER: Lu & Newmann, 1982 .
ACCESSION: 9646036
AUTHOR: Darnell, Rubyann Thompson.
TITLE: Dallas County, Texas, genealogical data from early cemeteries /
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. (P.O. Box 12648, Dallas 75225) :
PUBLISHER: The Society, 1982 9999
SUBJECT: Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Dallas County.
ACCESSION: 9541844
TITLE: Report of the proceedings of the various associations of ex-
confederates :
held at Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, August 6th, 7th, 8th and
9th, 1884.
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Herald printing house, 1884
SUBJECT: Confederate States of America -- History -- Societies, etc.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Societies,
etc.
ACCESSION: 9355746
AUTHOR: Dallas County (Tex.). District Clerk Office.
TITLE: Index to naturalization records, Dallas County, Texas
PLACE: [Dallas, Tex. :
YEAR: 1982 1914
ACCESSION: 9071475
AUTHOR: Van Buren, Robert B., Mrs.
TITLE: Marriage records of the Reverend L. McD. Kennedy, D.D, associate
minister, Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Dallas County, Texas
while serving as chaplain in the United States Navy stationed at
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, October 13
through December 27, 1943
PLACE: [Dallas, Tex? :
YEAR: 1982
ACCESSION: 8927920
TITLE: Index to probate cases 1846-1900, Dallas County, Texas
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. (P.O. Box 12648, Dallas 75225) :
PUBLISHER: The Society, 1978 9999
ACCESSION: 8846639
AUTHOR: Lu, Helen M.
TITLE: Marriages, Dallas County, Texas :
books A-E (1846-1877)
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Genealogical Society, 1978 9999
ACCESSION: 7720516
AUTHOR: Clark, Robert M. (Robert Murel), 1948-
TITLE: The Schaerdel family of Dallas County, Texas
PLACE: [Dallas] :
PUBLISHER: R.M. Clark, 1981
ACCESSION: 7507009
TITLE: Marriage records of the Reverend L. McD. Kennedy, D.D, associate
minister, Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Dallas
County, Texas, 1963-1971
PLACE: [Texas] :
PUBLISHER: Texas Society Daughters of American Revolution, Geneological
Records Committee, 1980
ACCESSION: 5885022
AUTHOR: Conger, William R.
TITLE: Confederate Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
YEAR: 1961
NOTES: "Cemetery report number 3."
Information gathered by students at Sunset High School, 1961.
Typescript (carbon copy)
ACCESSION: 5884941
AUTHOR: Conger, William R.
TITLE: Pleasant Mound Public Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
YEAR: 1966
ACCESSION: 5884324
AUTHOR: Conger, William R.
TITLE: Western Heights Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
YEAR: 1966
ACCESSION: 5863038
TITLE: Texas kin
PLACE: Balch Springs, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: The Society, 1973
FREQUENCY: Quarterly
NUMBERING: Vol. 2, no. 1 (Mar. 1973)-
ISSN: 0748-2590
SUBJECT: Balch Springs Historical and Genealogical Society -- Periodicals.
Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Dallas County
ACCESSION: 3881238
AUTHOR: Fitzhugh, Newton.
TITLE: Hardscrabble, Pleasant Run, and the origins of Lancaster /
PLACE: Lancaster, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Lancaster Historical Society, 1969
SERIES: Miscellaneous publication - Lancaster Historical Society ; no. 1
ACCESSION: 3866368
AUTHOR: Lu, Helen M.
TITLE: Marriages Dallas County, Texas /
PLACE: Dallas, Texas :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Genealogical Society, 1978
NOTES: Library has:
v. 1. Books A-E, 1846-1877.
ACCESSION: 3634614
AUTHOR: Bates, O D
TITLE: Grave markers in cemeteries in and near Irving, Texas
PUBLISHER: Bates, 1974
ACCESSION: 34748445
TITLE: Richardson Heights Baptist Church, Richardson, Texas, church
minutes and financial statements
PLACE: [S.l.] :
PUBLISHER: Historical Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1994
FORMAT: microfiches : negative.
NOTES: Eye-legible header: Tx. Richardson. Richardson Heights Baptist
Church.
Title from accompanying sheet.
Vols. I-XIV. Church minutes and financial statements (1956-1993) -
Vol. XV. Church minutes and financial statements - Index (1956-1993)
Vol. XVI. Church membership records (1956-1958)
Vols. XVII-XVIII. Pastor Search Committee minutes (1981-1982, 1992) --
Vol. XIX. Pastor Search Committee - Ron Lewis (1992) --
Vols. XX- XXIV. Church newsletters and financial statements (1957-1962) --
Vols. XXV-XXXXI. Church newsletters - Baptist Standard (1971-1993).
ACCESSION: 32296238
AUTHOR: Cobb, Berry B.
TITLE: A history of Dallas lawyers, 1840 to 1890
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. :
YEAR: 1934
Microfilm. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
ACCESSION: 32249481
AUTHOR: McCombs, Holland.
TITLE: Holland McCombs papers,
YEAR: 1853 1991
NOTES: This collection consists of Holland McCombs' extensive personal
and subject files which contain six decades of research materials
and correspondence. The collection contains book and article
drafts, interview notes, photographs, artifacts and various items
related to the life and work of Holland McCombs. The significant
items in the collection are: the John F. Kennedy assassignation
records, the trial and hearing notes of Jack Ruby's
incarceration, the research notes and drafts to Tom Lea's "King
Ranch" and Diane Smith's "Armstrong Chronicle", historical
information relating to Texas and ranching, the stories of his
youth in Martin, Tennessee, and reports issued by McCombs while
he was a reporter in Central and South America in the 1930's and
1940's. Included in the collection are the letters and
photographs of the McCombs, Holland, and Freeman families dating
back to the 1850's.
ACCESSION: 31393065
AUTHOR: Baldwin, D. J.
TITLE: To the people of Texas :
after a night of war, confusion and bloodshed, a new era has
dawned upon us ...
PLACE: Dallas, TX :
YEAR: 1863 1865
NOTES: The 3 men accused of promulgating the 1863 broadside, "Common
sense" were: D. J. Baldwin, E. Seelinger, and Dr. Richard Rogers Peebles.
ACCESSION: 31043059
TITLE: 1887-1912, silver anniversary edition of the Garland news,
Garland, Texas, Friday, April 5, 1912.
PLACE: [Garland, Tex. :
YEAR: 1912
ACCESSION: 30988816
TITLE: Big Springs Baptist Church, Garland, Texas, church membership
records and minutes
PLACE: [S.l.] :
PUBLISHER: Historical Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1992
FORMAT: microfiches : negative.
NOTES: Includes: v.1-37. 1874-1989.
ACCESSION: 30102392
AUTHOR: DeGolyer, Homer.
TITLE: Warren A. Ferris and the conquest of the three forks of Trinity :
the beginnings of Dallas County :
YEAR: ? 1900 1970
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control
NOTES: Typescript with corrections. Describes the exploration, surveys,
and settlement of the present Greater Dallas area through the
life of Warren A. Ferris, who came to Texas in 1836. Appendix
includes newspaper articles by Ferris, poems attributed to
Ferris, and excerpts from LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
ACCESSION: 28598428
AUTHOR: Morris, Rhonda L.
TITLE: James R. Rylie, his descendants and Rylie Prairie, Dallas County,
Texas gone but not forgotten
PLACE: Mesquite, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: [R.L. Morris, 1990 1993
ACCESSION: 28416053
AUTHOR: Marshall, Thomas, 1811-1901.
YEAR: 1821 1901
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control
FORMAT: 2 v. and 5 boxes.
NOTES: Chiefly family correspondence discussing farm conditions,
politics, the Civil War, and family affairs, including letters
(1880-1901) written by Marshall and his wife in Economy, Civil
War letters from Marshall's sons, Swain Marshall, serving with
8th Indiana Infantry Regiment in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Texas, Virginia, and Georgia, and Alonzo Marshall, serving with
69th Indiana Infantry Regiment in Kentucky, Tennessee, and at a
military hospital in St. Louis, Mo., and from other relatives
serving in Indiana and Iowa regiments, letters from relatives in
Dallas County and elsewhere in Iowa (1855-1901), Memphis and
elsewhere in Tennesssee (1851-1860), and from Kansas (1890s), and
letters (1869-1873) from students at Spiceland Academy,
Spiceland, Ind.; together with minute book (1852-1854) of Economy
chapter of Daughters of Temperance.
Quaker farmer, of Economy, Ind.
ACCESSION: 27962781
TITLE: Memorial and biographical history of Dallas county, Texas ...
Containing a history of this important section of the great state
of Texas, from the earliest period of its occupancy to the
present time ... and biographical mention of many of its
pioneers, and also of prominent citizens of to-day.
PLACE: Chicago,
PUBLISHER: The Lewis publishing company,
YEAR: 1892
NOTES: Master microform held by: McI.
Microfiche. Dallas, Tex. : Microplex, 19--.
ACCESSION: 27962778
TITLE: Memorial and biographical history of Dallas county, Texas ...
Containing a history of this important section of the great state
of Texas, from the earliest period of its occupancy to the
present time ... and biographical mention of many of its
pioneers, and also of prominent citizens of to-day.
PLACE: Chicago,
PUBLISHER: The Lewis publishing company, 1892
NOTES: Master microform held by: UnM.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms
International, 19--. 1 reel ; 35 mm.
ACCESSION: 27038838
AUTHOR: Santerre, Francois, 1809-1889.
TITLE: Family papers,
YEAR: 1855 1889
NOTES: Correspondence, financial documents, legal documents,
photographs, certificate, memorabilia, clippings, periodicals,
and books. Collection is primarily in French language. Included
are certified birth certificates of several family members, a
copy of the act to incorporate the Societe de Colonisation
Europeo-Americaine, Francois Santerre's inscription into the
society, and deeds to property in La Reunion. Most of the
correspondence is from Augustin Houdin of St. Leonard, France.
Memorabilia includes greeting, advertising, and religious cards,
engravings, illustrations, and homemade paper items. Santerre's
French Army record books are present as well as 162 books and
several periodicals which were a part of the family's library.
Santerre and his wife and six children immigrated from France in
1856 to join La Reunion Colony, a socialist experiment founded in
1855 by the Societe de Colonisation Europeo-Americaine. The
colony, located a few miles west of Dallas, Texas, dissolved
after only two years, but the Santerres remained in the area.
ACCESSION: 26019578
AUTHOR: Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919.
TITLE: Papers,
YEAR: 1876 1968
NOTES: Includes correspondence (1876-1931), financial (1885-1935) and
legal (1916-1921) material, photographs (1876-1968), and literary
productions (1907) pertaining to Slaughter and his family. Bulks
(1876- 1921) with correspondence written to him by his second
wife Carrie Averill Slaughter and legal materials pertaining to
Slaughter's death and the division of his estate (1921). Of
particular interest is a speech written by Slaughter in 1907
entitled "The Passing of the Range" and his scrapbook pertaining
to the Confederate Veteran's Reunion held in Dallas, Texas, in
1902.
Trial driver, Texas Ranger, banker, philanthropist, and
cattleman. Born 1837 Sabine County, Texas. With his father
George Webb Slaughter and brothers, established frontier ranch in
Palo Pinto County, Texas, in 1857. Participated in Civil War as
frontier militia and Texas Rangers. Drove cattle over Chisholm
Trail and later moved operations to West Texas where by 1905 he
owned 40,000 cattle and controlled over one million acres.
Founder of American National Bank of Dallas (1884), and cofounder
of Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (1877),
Texas Baptist Education Commission (1897) and Baylor Hospital of
Dallas, Texas (1904). Died 1919 Dallas, Texas.
ACCESSION: 25557764
TITLE: First Baptist Church, Richardson, Texas, church membership
records and minutes
PLACE: [S.l.] :
PUBLISHER: Historical Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas,1988
FORMAT: microfiches : negative.
NOTES: Includes: Vols. 1-23 (Dec. 1865-Dec. 1986)
ACCESSION: 23987537
AUTHOR: Brown, John Henry, 1820-1895.
TITLE: Brown, John Henry, family papers,
YEAR: 1691 1951
NOTES: Materials related to the family and career of Brown include
papers accumulated in connection with his historical writings and
others produced by family members.
Journalist, military hero, politician, and historian
ACCESSION: 22397747
AUTHOR: Dallas Public Library. Texas/Dallas History and Archives.
TITLE: Dallas County Pioneers Association :
MA 87-20 register
YEAR: 1990
ACCESSION: 21183242
TITLE: Hicks family papers,
YEAR: 1880 1977
NOTES: Correspondence, diary, minutes, photographs, negatives, newspaper
clippings, scrapbooks, poems, pamphlet, membership cards,
cassette tape, newspapers, and books. Includes a family tree;
scrapbooks complied by Joshua Louis Hicks of poems and essays
clipped from newspapers; Socialist Party membership cards, union
membership and working cards; the World War I diary of Louis
Hodge Hicks; The Hatchet, July 19-30, 1918; The Arrow Head,
February 27 -May 2, 1919; the Scout, September, 1911; Dallas
newspapers and national magazines on President Kennedy's
assassination, Lyndon Johnson, the moon walk, and the Gerald Ford
administration, 1963-1977; and an oral history interview with
Louis H. Hicks.
Also included are various Dallas Democratic Precinct Convention
minutes and correspondence and clippings concerning Louis Hicks'
involvement in Democratic Party activities. Louis H. Hicks'
papers are primarily photocopies. Includes the September 13,
1900, issue of the Galveston Daily News covering the Galveston
hurricane.
Louis H. Hicks was a writer, editor, and printer. He was active
throughout his career in several Texas labor union locals of the
International Typographical Union. His father, Joshua, was a
pioneer printer, publisher, and editor during the late 19th and
early 20th centuries in West Texas. He was a member of the
Socailist Party of America and an ardent Prohibitionist.
ACCESSION: 21181561
AUTHOR: Hawn, Joe P., 1915-1973.
TITLE: Papers,
YEAR: 1961 1973
NOTES: Correspondence, financial records, newspaper clippings,
pamphlets, brochures, house bills, news releases, certificates,
reports, rosters, minutes, speeches, biographical data, and
scrapbooks. Includes campaign records, certificates of election,
and legislative files as well as personal correspondence. The
scrapbook is a photocopy of newspaper clippings and
correspondence which trace Hawn's political career. The papers
include a history and records of Angels, Incorporated, a Dallas
area school for mentally retarded children, and a report of two
Wood County cemeteries (which includes a list of persons buried
there): Smyrna Cemetery (1873-1972) and Old Mt. Zion Cemetery
(1893-1972).
Hawn was the representative from the Pleasant Grove section of
Dallas during the 61st through 63rd sessions (1969-1973) of the
Texas House of Representatives. He was a retired Captain of the
Dallas Fire Department and served six years as Manager of the
Pleasant Grove Chamber of Commerce before being elected a state
representative in 1968.
ACCESSION: 21142662
AUTHOR: Smith, Michael Kalen.
TITLE: Every-name index to John Henry Brown's History of Dallas County,
Texas from 1837 to 1887 ... & John H. Cochran's Dallas County, a
record of its pioneers and progress ...
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Taproot, 1988
SERIES: Every-name index series ; no. 1
ISBN: 0940187000
ACCESSION: 15140456
TITLE: Index to Memorial and biographical history of Dallas County,
Texas
PLACE: Dallas, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Dallas Genealogical Society, 1986
ACCESSION: 15132577
AUTHOR: Dallas Public Library. Texas/Dallas History and Archives.
TITLE: Henry F.C. Johnson Civil War letters
YEAR: 1986
NOTES: Typescript (photocopy).
Title from cover.
"Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public
Library."
"MA 83.19."
