Eastland County, TXGenWeb Site

Welcome to the Eastland County genealogy pages, part of the TXGenWeb and USGenWeb projects. 

Tami Ramsey is the County Coordinator for this site

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Eastland County History 

Eastland County is in Central Texas, bordered on the east by Erath County, on the north by Stephens and Palo Pinto counties, on the west by Callahan County, and on the south by Brown and Comanche counties. The County was named for Capt. William Mosby Eastland, who died in the Texas Revolution. Eastland, the county seat, is located on Interstate Highway 20 in the north central part of the county, some ninety five miles west of Fort Worth and fifty five miles east of Abilene. Created in 1858 from Bosque, Travis and Coryell Counties-Organized in 1873-County Seats: Merriman (1873-75); Eastland (1875- )

Eastland County Oil Fields circa 1919 - Submitted by Stephanie Bertani

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Click here to POST and READ QUERIES for Eastland County, TX
Eastland County, TX on Genforum	USGenWeb Texas Archived Records Eastland County Archives Table Of Contents
County Clerk P.O.Box 110 Eastland, Texas 76448 1-(254) 629-1583	Search This Site The Web Get a free search engine for your site **Note that only webpages contained within this site will show up in your search

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ACCOMMODATIONS
Places to stay in Eastland County

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BIOGRAPHIES All Off Site Links
Texas Physicians Historical Biographical Database	Don Hampton BIGGERS- (1868-1957)
James Henry CALHOUN - (1849-1919)	Charles Ulrich CONNELEE-(1851-1930)	Jacamiah Seaman DAUGHERTY-(1849-1919)
Boyce HOUSE - (1896-1961)		August LIESKE - (1855-1939)
Joseph Seaborn  MCCOMB - (1854-1935)		Lyndel Nola HARWELL Hamilton STEPHENS
James Perry WHITAKER - 1855-1896	William (Bill) WILLIAMS - (1803-1894)	A Boy From Kokomo - My Life by Julius Dewitt Henley Submitted by: Terry Biegler a .pdf file

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BIRTHS
Year 1926	1936
1927	1937
1928	1938
1929	1939
1930	1940
1931	1941
1932	1942
1933	1943
1934	1944
1935

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BLACK HISTORY
	Freedmen's Bureau Records - Texas An Off site Link	The History of Juneteenth

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BOOKS
Eastland County Look-ups

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BUSINESSES
Some businesses in 1893	The Cisco and Northeastern Railway Company An Offsite Link
Carbon black Industry	The Wichita Falls, Ranger and Fort Worth Railroad Company	The Texas Central Railway Company
Ranger, Desdemona, and Breckenridge oilfields	Cotton Gin Okra, TX 1900 donated by Richard Foster

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CEMETERIES
Cemeteries of Eastland County	Alameda Cemetery	Bear Springs Cemetery An Offsite Link
Bedford or Smith Cemetery	Bollinger Cemetery   AKA Freedom	Carbon Restland Cemetery
	Christ Lutheran Cemetery
Center Point Cemetery An Off Site Link	Cook Cemetery	Crossroads Cemetery An Off Site Link
Dothan Cemetery An Offsite Link	The Eastland City Cemetery An Offsite Link
Flatwood Cemetery An Offsite Link Flatwood Cemetery Pictures An Offsite Link	Gorman Cemetery An Offsite Link	Lane Cemetery An Offsite Link
Latham Cemetery, Cisco AKA Reagan An Off Site Link	Liberty Cemetery  An Offsite Link	Long Branch Cemetery
Mitchell Cemetery  An Offsite Link	Monroe Cemetery	Murray Cemetery An Offsite Link
Nimrod Cemetery	Oaklawn Cemetery An Offsite Link	Oakwood Cemetery An Offsite Link
Pioneer Cemetery	Pioneer City Cemetery An Offsite Link  Click here for Photographs	Pisgah Cemetery An Offsite Link
Pleasant Valley Cemetery An Offsite Link	Pleasant Grove	Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Reagan or Latham Cemetery	Redeemer Lutheran Cemetery	Romney Lutheran Cemetery
Rising Star Cemetery	Romney Cemetery	Sabanno Cemetery An Offsite Link
Salt Tank Cemetery	Scranton Cemetery An Offsite Link	Staff Cemetery Photo Compliments of Hugh Swift
Thannisch/Morgan Cemetery An Offsite Link	Wayside Cemetery An Offsite Link	Texas Tombstone Project

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CENSUS
	1840 Census of Pensioners - Military An Offsite Link	1860 Eastland County Census
1870 Eastland County Census	1880 Census An Offlink Site	1900 Eastland Co. Census (partial)

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CHURCHES
Catholic Archives of Texas	Cisco's First Methodist Church An Offsite Link	Photo of Cisco Baptist Church Submitted by Nelda Conant

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COURT DOCUMENTS
Eastland County Archives (Wills, Deeds, Marriages, etc.)	Postmasters & Post Offices of Eastland County, Texas	County Clerk P.O.Box 110 Eastland, Texas 76448 1-(254) 629-1583
Eastland County, Texas County Officials, 1904	Federal Land Patents Database

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DEATHS All Off Site Links
Edwards Funeral Home Records Database	Texas Death Records 1964 thru 1998	Political Graveyard for Eastland County

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EDUCATION/SCHOOLS All Off Site Links
Pleasant Grove Reunion	Randolph College, at Cisco, opened as Cisco Christian College in 1922	Cisco Junior College
Crossroads School Photo - March 17, 1909 Photo donated by Bill and Patsy Walton
1951 Roundup, Yearbook Of Cisco Junior College, Cisco, Eastland County, Texas	1959 Round-Up, Yearbook of Cisco Jr. College, Cisco, Texas	Eastland County, Texas School Teachers and Officials, 1904
Ranger Ex's Memorial	New Hope School, ca. 1924 Submitted by Shirley Warren	New Hope Gilrs Basketball Team, ca. 1925 Submitted by Shirley Warren
1912 or 1915 School Class Picture Okra TX Submitted by Richard Foster	Okra First Grade Class Submitted by Richard Foster	Okra High School Submitted by Richard Foster

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FAMILY PAGES All Off Site Links
AINSWORTH Family	COX Family	CROSSLEY Family
DAVENPORT Family	FREE Family	HONEA/HONEY Family
MANSKER Family		Howard/Harvey's
VAUGHT Family		The SCHMICK Brothers of Eastland County

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HISTORY All Off Site Links
Eastland County, Texas - Index of Landmarks & Vanished Communities	Texas State Library & Archives
The McArdle Notebooks Henry McArdle's battle paintings, Dawn at the Alamo and The Battle of San Jacinto, have become Texas icons. The painstaking detail of the paintings was reflected in exhaustive research. McArdle's notebooks are packed with letters, notes, and photographs documenting the paintings and the events they depict.	Texas Treasures- Online Early Texas Documents
Robertson's Colony (also known as the Texas Association, Leftwich's Grant, the Nashville Colony, or the Upper Colony)	Texas State Historical Association	Texas State Genealogical Society

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Library
	Eastland Centennial Memorial Library, 210 S. Lamar. 12:30-5:30 Monday thrugh Friday Closed Saturdays	Ranger Public Library

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LINKS All Off Site Links
Eastland County Visitors Guide	Another Eastland County Page	Ol' Rip, The Entombed Horned Toad of Eastland County
Eastland County, Texas Free Public Records Directory

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LOOK-UPS
Look-ups for Eastland County, Texas

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MARRIAGES
Eastland County Marriages 1966-2001  An Off Site Link	Eastland County, Texas Divorces 1968 - 2001 An Off Site Link	Various Marriage Records from Eastland County, Texas

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MAPS All Off Site Links
Eastland County 1895 Map	Texas General Land Office Map Collection	Current Eastland County Map
Interactive Map of all Texas Counties	Texas Land Grant Database

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MILITARY All Off Site Links
Eastland County Pensions	Eastland County, Texas Veterans	Ellison Spring Fight- August 8, 1864
Civil War Pension - Mrs. L. A. BRASHEARS, widow of W. C. BRASHEARS An Offsite Link	War of 1812 Forts
Confederate Pensions Search for Texas	Confederate Indigent Families Lists (1863-1865)	The Desdemona "Bomb"
Texas Adjutant General Service Records 1836-1935	Index to Military Rolls of The Republic of Texas 1835-1845	Military Conflicts & Wars
List of Camps, Fort and Posts in Texas	Texas Civil War Map of Battles	Eastland County, Texas - Military: Confederate Pension Applications

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NEWSPAPERS
	Ft. Worth Star-Telegram An Off site Link	Texas Early Newspapers For Eastland County and surrounding areas

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NATIVE AMERICAN All Off Site Links
The Indians of Texas	Native American Records	The Ellison Springs Indian Fight

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OBITUARIES
Eastland County Obituaries	Texas Obituaries An Off site Link	Eastland County Obituaries An Off site Link

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ORGANIZATIONS
Genealogy Interest Group for Eastland County and Surrounding Areas	The Ranger Historical Preservation Society	Eastland Lodge No. 467 Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Texas

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PHOTOGRAPHS
Eastland County ??MYSTERY?? Photographs	Eastland County Family Photographs	Eastland County Photographs of Places
Old Photographs of Ranger, Texas An Off Site Link	Carbon Baseball Team, ca. 1928 Submitted by Shirley Warren	Coffer Family

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PLACES All Off Site Links
Eastland County, Texas - Index of Landmarks & Vanished Communities	Lela Llatch Lloyd Memorial Museum	Alameda, Texas
Blair's Fort, Texas	Carbon, Texas The History of Carbon Texas from : History of Eastland County, Texas Dallas, Tex.: A.D. Aldridge & Co., 1904	Chaney, Texas
Another Cisco Page	Cisco, Texas	Desdemonia, Texas
Dothan, Texas	Ellison Springs, Texas	Gorman, Texas The History of Gorman Texas from : History of Eastland County, Texas Dallas, Tex.: A.D. Aldridge & Co., 1904
		Hilburn, Texas
Howard, Texas	Hydro, Texas	Jewel, Texas
Kokomo, Texas	Long Branch, Texas
Magnum, Texas	Merriman, Texas	Mitchell, Texas
Morton Valley, Texas	Mountain Top, Texas	Nimrod, Texas
Okra, Texas	Olden, Texas	Pioneer, Texas
Pleasant Grove, Texas	Pleasant Hill, Texas	Pueblo, Texas
Nimrod, Texas	Ranger, Texas The History of Ranger Texas from : History of Eastland County, Texas Dallas, Tex.: A.D. Aldridge & Co., 1904	Rising Star, Texas The History of Rising Star Texas from : History of Eastland County, Texas Dallas, Tex.: A.D. Aldridge & Co., 1904
Romney, Texas	Rustler, Texas	Sabanno, Texas
School Hill, Texas	Scranton, Texas	Staff, Texas
Tiffin, Texas

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STORIES & LETTERS
The Early 20’s in the West Texas Oil Fields By Paul Teter	A Boy From Kokomo - My Life by Julius Dewitt Henley Submitted by: Terry Biegler a .pdf file	Letter from Elisha COLLINGS (1876) An Offsite Link
PIPPIN Family Reunion, 1918 Written by Benjamin J. "Jodie" Camp, Jr. Submitted by: Linda Preston *a .pdf file	Walton Remembers Childhood in 1920s - 30s Alameda & Cheaney Communities By Jeff Clark	1887 Drought Fells County - The Lemley Letters I Send Help Now By Jeff Clark
J. P. Strickler - Cheaney Pioneer By Jeff Clark	Charles Sullivan Story By Jeff Clark	The Hermit Lives - Puzzle Refuses Completion By Jeff Clark
Alameda Mosquitoes and Other Tales By Jeff Clark	New Year's Day is Moving Day In Alameda, Cheaney & Salem Communities By Jeff Clark	Cheaney Store Burglar Apprehended By Armed Posse By Jeff Clark
Different Times & Country Cures Alameda, Texas By Jeff Clark	Ainsworth shares memories of Alameda Summers By Jeff Clark	Cook Cemetery By Jeff Clark
Alameda School Teaches 1874-1943 A Sixty-Nine Year Tradition "A GoodThing Gone" By Jeff Clark	The Whisper of Old Owl   By Jeff Clark	1917 Eastland County Map Unlocks Historic Secrets By Jeff Clark
Eyewitness Account of Amanda Cofer's Murder By Comanches Surfaces By Jeff Clark	First Day of Alameda School -1930 Times on the Farm Remembered By Jeff Clark and Harlon Perrin

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GENEALOGY HELPERS All Off Site Links
Geographic Nameserver Put in a city name and find out what county it is in	USGenWeb Archive Search Engine, State-by-State	American Memory Collections
Biographical Dictionary of The United States Congress, 1799 to Present	Birthdate Calculator Calculates birthdate from tombstone, death certificate or obituary and age at death	Texas Department of Health
Search the LDS website	The Handbook of Texas Online	Search the DAR Library Catalog
Free Genealogy Charts in .pdf	Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK)
Where to Write for Vital Statistics	Create a timeline of History	Common Nicknames
US Newspapers Link	The Association for Gravestone Studies	Deciphering Old Handwriting
CENSUS A list of questions asked on each census	Colonial America	National Archives Administration
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet	Inflation Calculator  Adjusts for inflation, any $ amount, from the year 1800 through 1997	USA White Pages & Yellow Pages

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