Eastland County TXGenWeb Site 

Eastland County Courthouse

 

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Wanda Derington Brewer

UPDATED
March 08, 2024 09:43:42 AM -0600

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 served 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

Texas Landmarks (Images)	USGenWeb Texas Archived Records
County Clerk P.O.Box 110 Eastland, Texas 76448 1-(254) 629-1583	Family Search

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BIOGRAPHIES All Off Site Links
Don Hampton BIGGERS - (1868-1957)	James Henry CALHOUN - (1849-1919)	Charles Ulrich CONNELLEE - (1951-1930)
Jacamiah Seaman DAUGHERTY - (1849-1919)	Boyce B. HOUSE - (1896-1961)	David Blackshear Perdue
Joseph Seaborn  MCCOMB - (1854-1935)	Lyndel Nola HARWELL Hamilton STEPHENS August LIESKE - (1851-1930)
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
1926	Texas Births and Other Assorted Records
1927
1928
1929 part 1     1929 part 2
1930 part 1     1930 part 2
1931
1932
1933
1934

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

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BOOKS AND LOOK-UPS
Eastland County Look-ups	WorldCat (OCLC)  Enter "Eastland County, Texas" in the search  box and ask your local public or academic librarian for an Interlibrary Loan

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BUSINESSES
Some businesses in 1893	The Cisco and Northeastern Railway Company	Modern Business Links
Carbon Black Industry	The Wichita Falls, Ranger and Fort Worth Railroad Company	The Texas Central Railway Company
	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
Gorman Cemetery An Offsite Link	Gregg Family Cemetery	Lane Cemetery Offsite Links
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 (Contrary to the information given, this cemetery is now very well maintained)
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 Scranton Cemetery Offsite Links	Staff Cemetery Photo Compliments of Hugh Swift
Thannisch/Morgan Cemetery An Offsite Link	Wayside Cemetery An Offsite Link Find-A-Grave	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 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 1984 familysearch.org	Political Graveyard for Eastland County

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EDUCATION/SCHOOLS All Off Site Links
Pleasant Grove Reunion Temporarily Offline	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 Exes Memorial	New Hope School, ca. 1924 Submitted by Shirley Warren	New Hope Girls 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
CROSSLEY Family Some information can be found by searching your Browser	FREE Family	MANSKER Family
BAIRD Family Temporarily Offline	VAUGHT Family	The SCHMICK Brothers of Eastland County
	MAUNEY Family

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HISTORY All Off Site Links
History of Eastland County, Texas Available through Internet Archives	Texas State Library & Archives	Eastland County Historical Markers
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	Portal to Texas History
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 Eastland TX	Ranger Public Library

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LINKS All Off Site Links
Eastland Visitor Center	Another Eastland County Page

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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
	Texas County Map

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MILITARY All Off Site Links (If anything links to RootsWeb, it is  offline)
Eastland County Pensions	Eastland County, Texas Veterans	The Ellison Springs Indian Fight Aug. 8, 1864
Civil War Pension - Mrs. L. A. BRASHEARS, widow of W. C. BRASHEARS An Offsite Link	War of 1812 Forts	American Battle Monuments Commission
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	Civil War Soldiers & Sailors War Memorial
List of Camps, Forts and Posts in Texas	Texas Civil War Map of Battles Temporarily Offline	Eastland County, Texas - Military: Confederate Pension Applications

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

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NATIVE AMERICAN All Off Site Links
The Indians of Texas	Native American Records	The Ellison Springs Indian Fight Aug. 8, 1864

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OBITUARIES
Eastland County Obituaries	Check Newspapers above	Familysearch.org

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ORGANIZATIONS
	The Ranger Historical Preservation Society	Grand Lodge of Texas (Masons)

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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
Cross Timbers Historic Images Project	??? MYSTERY PHOTOS ???	1948 Ranger Junior College Yearbook
	Photo Album

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PLACES All Off Site Links
Carbon, Texas	Lela Latch Lloyd Memorial Museum	Alameda, Texas
Blair's Fort, Texas	The History of Carbon Texas from : History of Eastland County, Texas Dallas, Tex.: A.D. Aldridge & Co., 1904	Chaney, Texas
	Cisco, Texas	Desdemona, 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	Mangum, 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	Blackwell Hospital The Tabernacle By Jeff Clark
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	Dr. Jackson Evans brings 1872 medicine to Eastland County By Jeff Clark

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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)	Cousin Calculator
Where to Write for Vital Statistics	Create a timeline of History	Common Nicknames
US Newspapers Link	The Association for Gravestone Studies	Deciphering Old Handwriting
	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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