Burnet County BibliographyBurnet County Bibliography
The following resources are listed as possible aids for your genealogy research in this county. Many, but not all, are available through inter-library loan. Some are available only by visiting where they are presently housed. Special thanks to Robbie Giles for his help in compiling this bibliography.
ACCESSION: 30019201
AUTHOR: Parr, Allie C.
TITLE: A history of the enrolee [sic]
turnover at the National Youth Administration Center of Inks
Dam /
YEAR: 1941
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: viii, 63 leaves ; 28 cm.
NOTES: Thesis (M. A.)--Southwest Texas State University, 1941.
Includes bibliographical references.
SUBJECT: Inks Dam Resident Center (Burnet County, Tex.) United
States. -- National Youth Administration of Texas. Youth --
Employment -- Texas. Youth -- Education -- Texas. School enrollment
-- Texas. OTHER: History of the enrollee turnover at the National
Youth Administration Center of Inks Dam.
ACCESSION: 27250818
AUTHOR: Bowden, M. G. (Malvin George), 1914-
TITLE: History of Burnet County
...
PLACE: Austin, Tex.,
YEAR: 1940
PUB TYPE: Book FORMAT: v, 194 numb. l. plates, ports., maps, facsims.
28 cm. NOTES: Vita. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas, 1940.
Bibliography: numb. l. [166]-175. SUBJECT: Burnet County (Tex.) --
History.
ACCESSION: 26927821
AUTHOR: Johnson, Adam Rankin, 1834-
TITLE: Dictation from Adam Rankin
Johnson :
YEAR: 1886
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control
FORMAT: 5 leaves ; 26 cm. partial microfilm reel (8 exposures) :
negative (Rich. 117:15- 118:3) and positive (FILM P-O, reel 1)
NOTES: Settler at Burnet, 1854; first Burnet County surveyor; Civil
War service under General N.B. Forrest until the capture of Fort
Donelson; later commissioned a colonel and a general officer; raid
into Ohio and Indiana; blinded and captured; rancher in Llano County
and operator of a general land agency from which Johnson accumulated
wealth despite his blindness. An accompanying Ms. (4 p.) contains
excerpts from a biography written by Colonel Ed Starling, a Federal
officer. Dictation recorded by John William Hall.
SUBJECT: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal
narratives. Llano County (Tex.) -- Biography. Burnet County (Tex.) --
Biography. OTHER: Starling, Ed. Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918.
Collection.
ACCESSION: 25617184
TITLE: First Baptist Church, Marble Falls,
Texas, church membership records and minutes, Deacons meeting
minutes, Board of Trustees minutes, pictorial
directory
PLACE: [S.l.] :
PUBLISHER: Historical Committee of the Baptist General Convention of
Texas,
YEAR: 1990 uuuu
PUB TYPE: Serial
FORMAT: microfiches : negative.
NOTES: Includes: v.1-11 (Sept. 1888-Dec. 1985) -- v.12 (1977-1978) --
v.13 (pictorial directory) -- v.14 (Aug. 1913-Aug. 1925) Title from
accompanying sheet. Eye-legible header: Tx. Marble Falls. First
Baptist Church.
SUBJECT: First Baptist Church (Marble Falls, Tex.) -- History.
Baptists -- Texas -- Marble Falls -- History. Baptists -- Texas --
Burnet County -- History. Marble Falls (Tex.) -- Church history.
Burnet County (Tex.) -- Church history. ALT TITLE: Tx. Marble Falls.
First Baptist Church
ACCESSION: 23811116
AUTHOR: Bowden, M. G. (Malvin George), 1914-
TITLE: History of Burnet County
/
YEAR: 1940
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: v, 194 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
NOTES: Typescript (photocopy). Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas,
1940. Bibliography : leaves [167]-175.
SUBJECT: Burnet County (Tex.) -- History.
ACCESSION: 23127613
AUTHOR: Yarbrough, C. L.
TITLE: Canyon of the eagles : a history of
Lake Buchanan and official guide to the Vanishing Texas River Cruise
/
PLACE: [Texas :
PUBLISHER: s.n.,
YEAR: 1989
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: iv, 59 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm. NOTES: Cover
title. "A brief history of the Vanishing Texas River Cruise" (p.
i-iii) signed: O.C. Garza, general manager.
SUBJECT: Vanishing Texas River Cruise. Llano County (Tex.) --
History. Burnet County (Tex.) -- History. Buchanan, Lake (Tex.) --
History. OTHER: Garza, O. C.
ACCESSION: 21349316
AUTHOR: Giesecke, Walter Christian, family.
TITLE: Giesecke, Walter Christian, family papers,
YEAR: 1835 1976
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control
FORMAT: 1 ft., 3 in.
NOTES: Papers concern the business and personal affairs of the
families of Christian Giesecke and Adolf Fuchs, both with
professional, intellectual, and artistic backgrounds, who emigrated
from Germany to Texas in the 1840s and whose family lines were joined
by the marriage of their grandchildren Walter Christian Giesecke and
Ulrike Matern. The collection contains much genealogical material in
the form of charts as well as reminiscences. Included is Walter
Christian Giesecke's trail drive diary (1882) and Albert Giesecke's
travel diary (1845) as well as a songbook created by Adolf Fuchs with
music and words, mostly in German. Adolf Fuchs was a minister in
Mecklenburg, Germany, who became a music teacher in Texas when he
failed to prove successful at farming; Christian Giesecke was a
mining engineer in Clausthal, and his son Albert was a surveyor, a
profession he followed in Texas as well as farming.
SUBJECT: Pauline Fisseler, -- d. 1861. Fuchs, Adolf, -- 1805-1885.
Fuchs, Louise Ruemker, -- 1809-1886. Fuchs family. Giesecke, Albert,
-- 1819-1914. Giesecke, Ulrike Matern, -- 1867-1942. Giesecke, Walter
Christian, -- 1856-1935 -- Archives. Giesecke family. Goeth, Ottilie
Fuchs, -- b. 1836. Matern family. Cattle trails. Frontier and pioneer
life -- Texas. German Americans -- Texas. Mining engineering --
Germany -- History -- Sources. Songs, German. Burnet County (Tex.) --
History -- Sources. Denver (Colo.) -- History -- Sources. Shovel
Mountain (Tex.) -- History -- Sources.
ACCESSION: 20414023
AUTHOR: Garrett, Gavin R.
TITLE: The Goodrich Ranch, and other pioneer
ranches of Burnet County /
EDITION: 1st ed. PLACE: Austin, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: Nortex Press,
YEAR: 1986
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: viii, 103 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
NOTES: Bibliography: p. 101-103.
SUBJECT: Ranches -- Texas -- Burnet County. Burnet County (Tex.) --
History.
ACCESSION: 19796568
AUTHOR: Woods, Norman, d.1843.
TITLE: Woods, Norman, papers,
YEAR: 1827 1899
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control
FORMAT: 4 in.
NOTES: Papers consist of letters written and received in Perote
Prison in Mexico by Woods and his friends (1843) and also contain a
church membership certificate for Woods's mother (1829) and two
letters from a descendant Andy Glimp (1890). In addition transcripts
and photostats of the Perote letters as well as of land titles and
other family documents are included and some handwritten
autobiographical notes. Woods, son of Austin's Colony Old Three
Hundred settler Zadock Woods, was wounded in the Dawson Massacre
during the Battle of Salado (September 1842) and taken as a prisoner
to Mexico, where he died in Perote Prison.
SUBJECT: Barclay, R. A. Glimp, Andrew. Woods, Norman, -- d.1843 --
Archives. Woods, Zadock. Wood family. Austin's Colony (Tex.) Perote
Prison (Mexico). Land titles -- Texas -- De Witt County. Land titles
-- Texas -- Burnet County. Burnet County (Tex.) -- History -- 19th
century -- Sources. De Witt County (Tex.) -- History -- 19th century
-- Sources. Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846 -- Sources. Texas
-- History -- To 1846 -- Sources.
ACCESSION: 3859183
AUTHOR: Skaggs, Stella Shaffer.
TITLE: Deep in the heart of Texas
/
PLACE: [s.l. : PUBLISHER: s.n.], Davis Bros.).
YEAR: 1971 PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: iii, 70 p., [3] leaves of plates : ports. ; 25 cm.
SUBJECT: Country life -- United States -- Texas. Burnet County (Tex.)
-- History.
ACCESSION: 2481818
AUTHOR: McGuff, Paul R.
TITLE: A survey of the archeological and
historical resources to be affected by the Burnet, Crystal and Scott
Bays and vicinity flood control project, Baytown, Texas
/
PLACE: Austin :
PUBLISHER: Texas Archeological Survey, The University of Texas at
Austin,
YEAR: 1973
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: i, 44 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
SERIES: Texas Archeological Survey research report ; no. 31 Texas
Archeological Survey. Research report ; no. 31. NOTES: Bibliography:
leaves 35-44.
SUBJECT: Historic sites -- Texas -- Harris County. Harris County
(Tex.) -- Antiquities. Harris County (Tex.) -- History. OTHER: Ford,
Mary Margaret, joint author.
ACCESSION: 127253
AUTHOR: Barkley, Mary Starr.
TITLE: A history of Central
Texas.
EDITION: [1st ed. PLACE: Austin, Tex.,
YEAR: 1970
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: 235 p. illus., maps. 23 cm.
SUBJECT: Bastrop County (Tex.) -- History. Burnet County (Tex.) --
History. Hays County (Tex.) -- History. Travis County (Tex.) --
History. Williamson County (Tex.) -- History.
ACCESSION: 12407662
TITLE: Supplemental schedules nos. 1-7, for
the defective, dependent and delinquent classes-- enumerated-- June
1880 ; [Seventh census of the United States, 1850, Texas, mortality ;
Eighth census of the United States, 1860, Texas, mortality ; Ninth
census of the United States, 1870, Texas, mortality ; Ninth census of
the United States, 1870, Utah Territory, mortality; Tenth census of
the United States, 1880, Texas, mortality]
YEAR: 1850 1880 PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control
FORMAT: v.
NOTES: reel 53: 1880 supplemental schedules ; 1850 Texas mortality
schedules, Anderson County-Camal County -- reel 54: Camal County-
Wharton County : 1860 Texas mortality schedules, Anderson County-
Titus County -- reel 55: Titus County-Zapata County ; 1870 Texas
mortality schedules, Anderson County-Menard County -- reel 56: Menard
County-Zavala County ; 1870 Utah Territory mortality schedules
(Beaver County-Iron County) ; 1880 Texas mortality schedules,
Anderson County-Cherokee County -- reel 57: Cherokee County-Grayson
County -- reel 58: Grayson County-McLennan County - - reel 59: Upshur
County-Zavala County -- reel 60: McLennan County-Upshur County.
Microfilm. [Austin, Tex.] : Texas State Library, 1950. 8 microfilm
reels ; 35 mm. (National Archives microfilm publication ; microcopy
no. T1134, rolls 53-60).
SUBJECT: Registers of births, etc. -- Texas. Registers of births,
etc. -- Utah. Texas -- Genealogy. Utah -- Genealogy. Texas --
Statistics, Vital. Utah -- Statistics, Vital. Texas -- Census, 1850.
Texas -- Census, 1860. Texas -- Census, 1870. Utah -- Census, 1870.
Texas -- Census, 1880.
ALT TITLE: Census of the United States (1880). Population. Texas.
OTHER: United States. National Archives and Records Service. Census
of the United States (1850). Mortality. Texas. Census of the United
States (1860). Mortality. Texas. Census of the United States (1870).
Mortality. Texas. Census of the United States (1870). Mortality.
Utah. Census of the United States (1880). Mortality. Texas. Seventh
census of the United States, 1850, Texas, mortality. Eighth census of
the United States, 1860, Texas, mortality. Ninth census of the United
States, 1870, Texas, mortality. Ninth census of the United States,
1870, Utah, mortality. Tenth census of the United States, 1880,
Texas, mortality.
