Biographical Notes

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES CONCERNING
HOOD COUNTY COMMUNITIES,
FAMILIES & NOTEWORTHY CITIZENS

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• ‘DUG’ MASSEY’S PIONEER HOMEPLACE
• A Good Man Passes Away 1852-1927
• A. B. GATEWOOD
• A. J. DODSON
• AARON BENJAMINE ANDERSON
• AARON H. ALLARD
• ABEL LANDERS
• Alfred Cox
• ALFRED HAMILTON HAYES TOLAR, SR.
• ALONZO PEYTON GORDON
• AMON BOND
• ANDREW JACKSON 1822 – 1900
• ANDREW JACKSON LUTTRELL & FAMILIES 1831-1879
• ANDREW JACKSON MORGAN 1884 – 1950
• ANDY ASTON
• ANNIE BELLE REYNOLDS MILHOLLIN 1871 – 1949
• ARMINDA BARTON ROBERTSON 1858 – 1957
• Arthur Buck Cross
• Ashley Wilson Crockett
• Ashley Wilson Crockett – Texian
• Austen Newtin Yeats
• Austen Newtin Yeats
• AUSTIN MUSICK 1826 – 1897
• B. F. BONE, JR.
• B. F. LAUGHLIN
• BALLARD WOHLFORD 1849 – 1908
• BANKER’S 1907 HOUSE EARNS LANDMARK STATUS
• BASEBALL MEMORIES
• BATTLE OF LOOKOUT POINT
• Belle of the Starr Hollow
• BELLE STARR (1848 – 1889)
• Belle Starr: Granbury relative shares stories about ‘The Bandit Queen’
• Ben. H. Cruce
• BENJAMIN HARVEY FLINN 1856 – 1897
• BENJAMIN JOHN CARTER
• BILL ARCHER
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES CONCERNING HOOD COUNTY COMMUNITIES, FAMILIES & NOTE WORTHY CITIZENS
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES CONCERNING HOOD COUNTY FAMILIES & CITIZENS
• Biographical Notes Concerning Hood County Pioneer: JUANA CAVASOS BARNARD
• Black Star’s Memories Experiences Of An Indian Woman
• BLANCHE DABNEY GORDON
• BOB BAKER
• BURLIN MONROE THOMPSON
• BURLIN MONROE THOMPSON
• CALVIN GUY CARTER
• CAPTAIN ALFRED H. H. TOLAR 1845 – 1927
• Captain Peter Garland
• CARL DEAN ATOR
• CARRIE SEARS – A GENTEEL WOMAN
• CASWELL PURSELLEY 1845 – 1916
• CHARLES G. MULLINS
• CHARLES JEFFERSON RHEA 1897 – 1985
• CHARLES SHARP LANHAM 1881 – 1930
• CHARLIE CASH
• CIVIL WAR LETTER
• Cleveland, John Fred & Margaret Randle
• Collings (Collins) Family of Hood County
• COLONEL JOHN DAVE LANDERS 1920 – 1989
• CORA MAE TRIMBLE BROWN
• COUNTS FAMILY
• COUNTY HISTORIAN DAVIS DIES
• CRAWFORD B. REEDER
• Cresson Community Crossroads
• CRESSON CROSSTIES
• CRESSON FLYER BONE NO. 2 ON WWII LIST
• Cresson, Community Crossroad
• CURL GENEALOGY
• Cynthia Brants
• D. R. “DICK” RATLIFF 1868 – 1931
• DALLAS CARVEL (D. C.) HOPPER 1911 – 1997
• DANIEL CALHOUN COGDELL
• DAVID EDWARD WATKINS 1851 – 1935, by Hopper
• DAVID EDWARD WATKINS 1851 – 1935, by Wharton
• David H. Eddleman
• DAVID MORTON WOOD 1836 – 1905
• DAVID PORTER SMYTHE 1824 – 1889
• DAVID W. McDONALD 1822 – 1902
• DERA BLANCHE (BUN)TURNER
• DERA BLANCHE TURNER (BUN) BUN TURNER COVEY EDDLEMAN
• DESCENDANTS OF ANDON LOUYS MEYER
• DESCENDANTS OF JACOB FORMWALT
• DESCENDANTS OF JOHN HOOD
• DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS D’AUBINGE & DR. THOMAS HENRY DABNEY OF HOOD COUNTY, TEXAS
• DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS MADISON GINN
• DeWITT T. GILLIAM 1896 – 1968
• Dianne Rawls Davis
• Did Crook Christen Cresson?
• DORA JARRETT MITCHELL “DODO”
• DOYLE C. BRISBY
• DR. A. R. JARRETT & FAMILY
• DR. EDWIN AUGUSTUS HANNAFORD 1841 – 1915
• DR. G. B. WALKER
• DR. J. H. REEVES
• DR. SEABIRD RAY McPHERSON 1818 – 1905
• DR. T.H. DABNEY PIONEER DOCTOR
• DR. WILLIAM SAMUEL WALKER
• E. H. CHANDLER
• ED C. BAKER
• EDDLEMAN FAMILY HISTORY
• EDNA CLAUNCH STARNES 1904 – 2001
• EDWARD BARRY MULLINS
• EDWARD WOODROW WARD
• ELIAS BARBEE
• ELISHA BLANTON
• ELIZABETH CROCKETT
• ELLIS J. BAKER
• ELSIE ELDORA DUCKWORTH BOYD
• Emma Perkins
• ENOCH TOLBERT SHIPLEY 1840 – 1884
• ESTELLE CHERRY
• EUDORAH ALICE (DORA) MULLINS HALL-HANCOCK
• EULA GIDEON 1897 – 1991
• FALL CREEK SAGA
• FLEDA MAE WILLIAMSON KEITH SCHULTZ
• FORMER SHERIFF OF HOOD COUNTY THINKS REAL JESSE JAMES DIED IN GRANBURY
• FORREST BLAND CARTER
• FOSTER / COMPTON FARM
• FRANCES CHARLEY HOWARD 1835 – 1917
• FRANCES NEWMAN GIBSON
• FRANCIS CAROLINE WEATHERBY GLENN
• FRANCIS MARION “FRANZ” PEVELER 1843 – 1936
• FRANCIS MARION BERRY
• FRANK MORRIS PURSELLEY 1915 – 1992
• FREDERICK MOSS CLEVELAND
• FREDERICK SYLVESTER LARNED FAMILY
• FUNERAL DISCOURSE ON THE DEATH OF WYLIE P. JONES
• G. S. TUMLIN
• G. S. TUMLIN
• GAFFORD / HALE FAMILY LIPAN, TEXAS
• GEE DESCENDANTS GATHER IN ACTON
• GENE B. HADLEY
• GENE JORGENSON
• General Granbury Statue on Granbury Square
• GEORGE E. JACKSON 1849 – 1923
• GEORGE FRANKLIN BROCK
• GEORGE MARTIN
• GEORGE T. SEARS – LIPAN CITIZEN
• GEORGE TARRANT
• GEORGE WASHINGTON CARLTON
• GEORGE WASHINGTON ELLIOTT 1882 – 1905 HOOD COUNTY MEMORIES
• GEORGE WASHINGTON ELLIOTT 1863 – 1932
• GEORGE WASHINGTON MOLDER descendants
• GERALD TIDWELL
• Gertrude Irene Cogdell
• GIDEON BAXTER MAHAN FAMILY
• GLENN L. WARD
• GRADY LEE HUFFMAN 1916 – 1988
• Granberry family Loammi Granberry (1780 – Feb. 1842)
• H. L. HOLT
• H. P. Walker
• HANGING RECALLED 100 YEARS LATER
• HANNAFORD HOUSE
• HARDIN GRIFFITH
• HARRISON L. NEELY 1843 – 1913
• HAZEL KENNON PERKINS
• HENRY CLAY JOHNSON, JR. 1918 – 1999
• HENRY MUSICK 1853 – 1928
• HENRY ROBERTSON
• HENRY W. STRONG 1849 – 1927
• HERBERT E. O’NEAL 1905 – 1980
• HERMAN D. HOWARD 1926 – 1985
• HEZEKIAH K. & ELIZABETH ROBERSON FAMILY
• Hiram Bronson Granbury
• Historic trading post due state marker
• History of Acton
• HISTORY OF THE WELLS CEMETERY AT ELM FLAT IN HOOD COUNTY, TEXAS
• HON. A. J. HART
• HOOD COUNTY INDIAN DEPREDATIONS
• HOOD COUNTY SHERIFFS
• HOWARD CLEMMONS
• HUGH W. WOODS 1847 – 1905
• ILES FAMILIES
• INDIANS WOUND E. B. DENNIS
• Isaac F. Cowan
• ISAAC MOORE 1831 – 1916
• ISAAC WETHERSTONE STEPHENS 1850 – 1945
• J. P. JACKSON 1850 – 1926
• J. V. BROOKS
• J. W. BOLTON
• J. W. LILES, JR. 1919 – 1993
• J. WALTER WILLIAMS 1896 – 1941
• J.D. Banks
• JACK MOORE
• JAMES C. WILLIAMSON 1846 – 1936
• JAMES E. SCIRRATT
• JAMES H. DOYLE
• JAMES KNOX POLK HARRIS 1846 – 1925
• JAMES L. ELAM 1826 – 1899
• JAMES M. HALFORD 1815 – 1863
• JAMES M. PEVELER 1838 – 1906
• JAMES MAXWELL
• JAMES MILTON MEYER
• JAMES NAULON RATLIFF, JR. 1909 – 1970
• JAMES TRAVIS SHIRLEY 1844 – 1922
• JEREMIAH GREEN
• JERRY L. GLISSON
• Jess Alexander BAKER
• JESSE CARAWAY
• JESSE F. NUTT 1833 – 1913
• Jesse G. Cooke
• Jesse James
• Jim & Norma Coleman
• JIM and DONNA SMITH at OLEO FARM
• JIM CLEMENTS
• Jim K. Bone
• JOE BROWN
• JOHN A. WOOD
• JOHN ALEXANDER FORMWALT 1820 – 1914
• John and Gresella SNELSON
• JOHN ASBURY POE
• John B. MASSIES Letters From Kentucky to Hood Co., Texas
• JOHN C. R. LOCKHART
• JOHN C. TANDY
• JOHN CARLTON ALLISON
• John Cresson
• JOHN G. CAMPBELL
• JOHN GILKEY WAR OF 1812 BOUNTY LAND & PENSION APPLICATION
• JOHN H. ALLEN
• JOHN HARRISON BAKER
• JOHN HARVEY ETHRIDGE
• JOHN HENRY TRAYLOR
• JOHN J. HINER
• JOHN MANOAH WILLIAMS 1832 – 1897
• JOHN McCURRY EARLS 1857 – 1937
• JOHN McEWAN FORMWALT 1848 – 1928
• JOHN PHILLIP STALCUP 1854 – 1892
• JOHN R. NORTHCUTT
• JOHN SLOMAN WATSON 1859 – 1944
• JOHN WESLEY HUGGINS 1875 – 1949
• JOHNNIE W. MULLINS
• Johnny Green War on ice: a veteran’s story
• JOSEPH ADDISON “JOE” CLARK
• JOSEPH ANDERSON MULLINS
• JOSEPH BENJAMIN LIKE 1844 – 1933
• JOSEPH BROWN GORDON
• JOSEPH CLARK (DICK) STEWART 1855 – 1953
• JOSEPH EDMOND ARRINGTON
• JOSEPH HUGH LONG 1907 – 1987
• JOSEPH ISAAC TAYLOR 1893 – 1971
• JOSEPH MITCHELL HOLDER 1838 – 1914
• JOSEPH NEWTON CHANDLER
• JOSEPH ROBINSON 1827 – 1881
• JOSEPHINE CAVASAS BARNARD
• JOSIAH CLINTON GOODWIN
• Josiah Covington
• JOSIAH GORDON “DOC” SCURLOCK 1849 – 1929
• JUDGE HENRY DAVIS Collector of Hood County Records
• JUDGE J. J. MATTHEWS
• JULIAN DURANT
• JULIAN TEXAS DENDY
• JUSTUS F. TRACY 1824 – 1904
• KEEPING UP WITH SMITHS NOT EASY
• KEY BROTHERS BLACKSMITH SHOP
• Killing of Bird Tracy
• L. F. GORDON
• L. H. DAVIS
• L. S. Ginn, (Loveless Savage II)
• LEANDER PAINTER 1847 – 1885
• Lena Owens Ratliff
• LEOPOLD STAVENHAGEN 1833 – 1911
• LETTER DATED JULY 7, 1868
• LETTER FROM HENRY ATOR
• Letter from John Gilmartin
• LETTER FROM WORLD WAR I TO LIPAN, TEXAS
• LEWIS EDMOND CARLILE
• LIFE OF JOSEPH ADDISON CLARK
• LILLIAN LLOYD BOWERS (HOCKERSMITH)
• LON MORRIS
• LOREN WILSON
• LOUIS DEAN SHOEMAKER
• LOUIS J. CARAWAY
• LUCY JULIFF MARTIN
• LULA MULLINS
• MACE MARTIN ROBINETT 1862 – 1949
• MADORA CHANDLER
• MAGGIE GRUBBS UMPHRESS
• Major Arch Carmichael
• MAJOR ARNOLD DEAN HAMILTON U.S. AIR FORCE, RETIRED 1921 – 2000
• Major John Alexander Formwalt and the Tenth Texas Infantry
• Major John Bennett Dickson
• MARIE RAIFSNIDER WILLIAMS
• MARY ALICE COMPTON ELLIOTT 1868 – 1952
• MARY J. JAMES GLENN 1860 – 1933
• Mary Jane Ferguson Experiences Of Early Settlers
• MARY LOU WATKINS 1918 – 2001
• MARY LOUISA HAYES DAVIS HOLMES
• MASSEYS
• MASSIES OF HOOD COUNTY
• MATHEW DAUGHERTY
• MAXFIELD F. HENSLEE 1849 – 1933
• McLin (Macklin) Bird
• McMILLAN BROTHERS
• McPHERSON FAMILIES 1693 – 1970
• ME AND PC – An Essay
• MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN HOOD COUNTY
• Memories Rare Report Card Reveals History Lesson
• MILDRED SLOCUM BROTHERS
• Milford Flavious Whitaker
• MILLINGTON RANCH
• MILLINGTON RANCH OVER CENTURY OLD
• MILT KENNON
• MILTON ASHLEY HARDIN, (1813-1894)
• MITCHELL BROWN “HUMPHREY” UMPHRESS
• MORRIS FAMILY
• MOTHER I DON’T FROLLICK NOW . . .
• Mrs Mary Green
• Mrs. J. D. (Sadie) Rylee,
• MRS. MARY JANE (WILSON) (NICKELLS) WARD
• MRS. MARY L. WILLIAMS, PIONEER,
• N. B. (Nathan Benjamin) SELF
• N. B. SELF 1937 Interview in Lipan
• N. C. ADDISON
• NANCY JANE McKENZIE JAMES 1832 – 1912
• NANNIE ELIZABETH (BESSIE) MULLINS NEELY
• NANNIE ELIZABETH TERRELL MULLINS
• NAOMI BROTHERS OF CRESSON, TEXAS
• NATHAN HOLT
• NATHAN S. DAVIS 1842 – 1921
• NELSON A. “COONEY” MITCHELL 1796 – 1875
• NELSON FAMILIES
• NEWTON JASPER GILLILAND 1844 – 1921
• NONA MORAN
• O. B. Powell Amulet School Tolar Public School
• O. P. (OBADIAH PAUL) LEONARD 1898 – 1987
• OBITUARY OF J. J. GARNER
• OBITUARY OF LETA BLACKWELL VANCE
• OBITUARY OF THOMAS ALLEN BURNS
• OSCAR UMPHRESS, JR. 1904 – 2000
• OUR HERO GENERAL HIRAM BRONSON GRANBURY
• P. D. Self
• PAGE FAMILIES
• PATRICK HENRY THRASH
• PETER H. JAMES ~1825 – 1898
• PEVELER FAMILY Republic of Texas Pioneers
• PHIL JACKSON
• PIERCE B. WARD
• PIG WILLIAMS
• PLEASANT AND NANCY THORP
• POWELL MIGRATION TO TEXAS 1854-1856
• PUBLIC DEBT CLAIM FOR ELIZABETH CROCKETT, WIDOW OF DAVID CROCKETT
• QUINTON MILHOLLIN 1896 – 1909
• RANDOLPH CLARK
• RANDOLPH LEE CLARK
• Remember the Crocketts
• Reminiscences
• Republic of Texas Pioneers 1803 – 1875
• REUBEN FERGUSON JONES
• REV. HENRY JEFFERSON SEARS
• REV. JOSEPH NEWTON CHANDLER
• REVEREND HIRAM JOHNSON
• ROBERT & DORA NEWTON
• ROBERT CLIFTON WATKINS 1876-1918 & LANORA CARLILE WATKINS 1881-1980
• ROBERT FANNING HOLLOWAY 1867 – 1939
• ROBERT FRANKLIN DUNN 1855-1929
• ROBERT LEE MILHOLLIN 1863 – 1947
• Rogers Family
• RUBY (MENEFEE) HAMMOCK
• S. ERASTUS UMPHRESS
• SADIE INEZ SMITH FRY
• SALLIE ALFORD PEVELER 1850 – 1940
• SALLIE FRANCIS LANDERS BISHOP
• SAM BOYD
• SAM CURL
• SAMUEL HANCOCK SMITH 1842 – 1906
• Samuel Larking Cleveland
• SAMUEL LEVERT TARRANT 1842 – 1921
• SAMUEL PATRICK MULLINS
• Sarah Jane “Sally” Cunningham Brazell
• SEABORN J. FOUST 1848 – 1913
• SEAMAN 1/C ROY ERNEST THOMASON 1925-1943
• SERASTUS “RAS” UMPHRESS 1851 – 1914
• SLOCUM BROTHERS OF CRESSON
• SOME HISTORY OF THE ACTON COMMUNITY
• Some MEN WHO MADE HOOD COUNTY
• ST. CLAIR FAMILIES AROUND LIPAN
• STAGECOACHES & STARR HOLLOW
• STAVENHAGEN
• STAVENHAGEN FAMILY MEETING
• STEPHEN DECATUR WINDSOR 1845 – 1931
• Sue (Zue) FAMILY
• SURF’S UP
• Susan Townsend Sears
• SUSIE BAKER GORDON ? to 1925
• SWEETIE MULLINS LEITCH
• T. A. WOOD
• T. W. “DUB” THOMAS
• TED SEARS Hood County Banker
• The BARKER-JACKSON-DEAVER Families
• THE COLONY RESTS IN PEACE
• THE FAMILY HISTORY OF ADAM PIERCE BOWERS
• THE GREENWOOD LEE FAMILY OF LIPAN, TEXAS
• THE HOUSES THAT DAN BUILT
• THE JOHN BRYANT SEARS FAMILY- HOOD COUNTY SETTLERS OF 1867
• The Key Family
• THE LIFE OF ROBERT MILTON NEWTON
• THE MILTON HENRY JONES FAMILY
• The NISBETT Family
• The Nutt Family
• THE RAID OF THE SEVEN INDIANS
• THE RANDLE FAMILY
• THE RANDLE FAMILY: Letter
• THE ROZELL MASSACRE OF 1872
• THE SIMPLE PARADISE OF CHARLIE CASH
• THE STORY OF COONEY MITCHELL
• The Valentine Anglin Family
• THE WEST FAMILY
• The William Burns Malone Family
• The Willis (Lyhugh) Allison Family from Camden County Missouri
• The Wilson Barker Family Experiences Of Early Settlers
• THOMAS A. BURNS
• THOMAS ALLEN BURNS
• THOMAS HENRY DABNEY
• THOMAS HENRY DABNEY 1860 – 1960
• Thomas J. Barlow
• THOMAS J. HURST
• THOMAS L. MORRIS 1835 – 1918
• THOMAS LAMBERT
• THOMAS LAWRENCE BROTHERS
• THOMAS LOVE BURNS
• THOMAS PARKINSON 1829 – 1890 OWNED FLOUR MILL & GIN
• THOMAS PATRICK MULLINS FAMILY
• THOMAS PATRICK MULLINS, JR.
• THOMAS PATRICK MULLINS, SENIOR
• THOMAS STEPHENSON DREW 1802 – 1879
• THOMAS STEPHENSON DREW Gov 1802 – 1879
• THOMAS TAYLOR EWELL 1844 – 1897
• TIDWELLs
• TOBY MORRIS 1899 – 1973
• TOLAR’S 19th CENTURY DOCTOR
• TOWARD A HISTORY OF KRISTENSTAD
• TRADING POSTS & LOVE IN THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
• Twins, Wed to Brothers, to Mark Golden Wedding Day
• UMPHRESS & HORTON GROUP SHEET
• VAN ZANDT JARVIS 1873 – 1940
• VERNON H. MUSICK 1901 – 1974
• VIRGIL McINTOSH
• W. A. ANDREWS
• W. A. WOOD
• W. BEN DAVIS 1874 – 1926
• W. F. REEVES
• W. M. McMILLAN
• W. R. JOYCE
• W. W. BAKER
• W.G.W. POWELL AND HIS SON, JOHN R. POWELL
• Waddy Thompson Abbott
• WALTER BRALEY GLENN
• Walter Thomas Lee Autobiography
• Want to know Granbury history? Ask Mary Kate
• WELDON ALLEN NEWMAN 1912 – 1993
• WILEY M. CROOK
• WILLIAM “CHOCTAW BILL” ROBINSON 1809 – 1898
• WILLIAM ALFRED TRIMBLE MASSEY 1856 – 1930
• WILLIAM BUCHANAN DANIEL 1857 – 1940
• WILLIAM C. DEAVER 1849 – 1917
• WILLIAM CLAYTON POE 1848 – 1930
• William Cogdill
• WILLIAM E. JACKSON 1850 – 1932
• WILLIAM ELLIS
• WILLIAM ERNEST DODSON
• WILLIAM FREDERICK FOWLER
• William Harvey Millwee
• William Henry Holland
• WILLIAM HOOD
• WILLIAM JEFFERSON DUCKWORTH
• WILLIAM JEFFERSON DUCKWORTH 1851 – 1927
• WILLIAM L. DEAN
• WILLIAM L. McGAUGHEY 1837 – 1912
• WILLIAM LEWIS CARTER
• WILLIAM LORENZO JONES 1827 – 1896
• WILLIAM LOURY McPHERSON
• WILLIAM M. CAMPBELL
• William Monroe Brazell
• William Pair/Pare
• WILLIAM POOLE SAVAGE 1864 – 1933 & EMMA G. SKIPPER SAVAGE 1878 – 1956
• WILLIAM R. SHANNON
• WILLIAM RILEY PAIR
• WILLIAM S. ETHRIDGE
• WILLIAM TAYLOR HOWARD 1853 – 1949
• WILLIAM THOMAS SELLARS 1841 – 1905
• William Townsend Vickers
• WILLIAM WEIR
• Young J. Rylee Family Early Hood County Pioneers