What's New on the Ellis County TXGenWeb website?
Updated the link to Henderson County TXGenWeb, on the Home Page.
Updated the link to TXGenWeb's Orphan Counties web page and edited the plea for volunteers as County Coordinators.
Updated the link to the Basic Criteria to judge for County of the Month candidates and edited the plea for volunteers to become Surfers.
Added a link so that you can Nominate Ellis County for County of the Month.
Updated the link to Tarrant County TXGenWeb.
Updated the link to TXGenWeb's list of all Texas County Websites.
Created a new page for the Confederate Monument on Courthouse Square.
Corrected a broken link to Dallas County TXGenWeb.
Added a memorial for Shirley Cullum on the Home Page.
Removed an external link to Mountain Peak Cemetery on the Cemeteries of Ellis County page because it has become a family page. The links to that inventory remain as they point to files in the Tombstone Project.
Repaired link to Boren-Reagor Springs Historical Society on Addresses Page.
Repaired broken link to Hill County Genealogical Society on Addresses Page.
Repaired broken link to Ellis County Museum on Addresses Page.
Repaired broken link inside Nash on Ghost Towns and Other Forgotten Communities.
Simplified the instructions to subscribe to the Mailing List and repaired a broken link to the Mailing List Archives.
Repaired broken links to our neighbors; Hill, Kaufman, Henderson and Tarrant Counties. (How did I overlook this?)
Repaired the Automatic Page Update Stamp at the bottom of this What's New page, the Bell's Chapel Community page, and the Ghost Towns Menu page.
Amended the location of St. Joseph Cemetery on the Cemetery Locations and Histories page.
Added the names from Bristol Cemetery to both WW-I Veterans Known to be buried in Ellis County and WW-II Veterans Known to be buried in Ellis County.
Replaced the text of Letters from Rebecca Wright Goodloe (Tenn) to Mary "Polly" Douglas (Red Oak) to correct numerous typographic errors.
Corrected some typos on the Obituary of J. W. Caldwell.
Corrected some typos on the Obituary of Martin M. Perry.
Corrected the birth date and wife's surname in the notes following the Obituary of Roscoe Eagle.
Added information to the bottom of McCulloch – Witten Cemetery.
Added McCulloch-Williams Cemetery to the Cemeteries of Ellis County page.
Grouped all of the 1836 Centennial Markers together on the Historic Markers and Monuments page.
Chasing down broken and stray links.
Several links were found in the old "What's New?" page that were never added to the
main page. They were: Cemeteries of Texas,
History of the Lone Star State -
TEXAS, DAR
Genealogical Research System, The
Texas Centennial, 1836-1936, DRT
Library Weblog, Texas Postcards,
Headstone Emblems, Texas
Gold Star Mothers and Widows, and The
Portal to Texas History.
We lost the link to Texas Landmarks. I believe that it was stored on a private server
and was lost when the volunteer, who managed the database, died.
I discovered that we didn't have this, so I added a link to The
TXGenWeb Project Orphan Counties.
Recovered lost file on Seven
Drowned in Sand Lake.
Recovered lost file on Aycock
and Sanford Information.
I found a file that contained a little more information that I added to the end of The Gilmore Family, although
it still appears to be an unfinished transcription.
I found another file that contained much more information that I added to the end of
Forreston Presbyterian
Church. A large portion of this is still missing.
Verified and deleted 32 files on the server that were simply duplicates of others.
Created a new page for Formal Acceptance of N. P. Sims Library.
Created a new page for The Warren and Allied Families.
Added sources to Historic Springs of Ellis County from an older file.
I split up a list of marriage notices that include: Spencer-McDuffie, Kirkland-Brooks, Powers-Couch, Render-Nall, Freeman-Hawkins, Burgess-White, Beale-Beaumont and Odum-Helton.
Deleted McCulloch Cemetery as is was the same a McCulloch-Whitten Cemetery.
Created a new page for Thomas Wilson Williams Bible Record.
I found a second version of a newspaper clipping transcript and added it to Winnie Davis News of Later Meetings.
I found and much better transcription of W. J. Spencer on Barbara's computer.
Recovered lost file on Newspapers on Microfilm at Sims Library, Waxahachie
Recovered lost file on Parsons' Camp Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Added recommended reading to Parson's Brigade - Company Rosters.
Recovered lost file on Waxahachie Rail Car Company.
Created a new page for Terrible Accident Near Ray.
Created a new page for Richard Vickery Biographical Sketch.
Created a new page for Letter from Giles Albert Giddings to his Parents.
Recovered lost file on Singleton Grave Yard.
Recovered lost file on Skinner-Getzendaner Marriage.
Created a new page for Confederate Record of Robert Springer.
Located a second version of the Telico Might Have Been Site of Texas Centennial.
Recovered lost file on Templelton-Watson Marriage.
Created a new page for J. A. "Happy" Drummond
Updated information for Midlothian Historical Society.
Created a new page for Thomas A. Miller Family.
Located a second version of the Frame-Miller Marriage.
Recovered lost file on Married in Dallas.
Created a new page for Alfred J. Moyers.
Recovered lost file on Mountain Peak News Items 1884-1930.
Created a new page for Abe Mulkey's Camp Meeting - 1897.
Restored the file for Naughton Farms.
Created a new page for Ellis County Odd Fellows Organize.
Recovered lost file on Killebrew - Harris Marriage.
Created a new page for John Thomas King II Family.
Recovered lost file on Langsford - Ward Marriage.
Added two newspaper clippings to the end of The Loyd Family.
Recovered lost file on More "Main Street Musings".
Created a new page for World War II - The Doolittle Raid.
Created a new page for Hector McNeil Autobiography.
Recovered lost file on The Gilmore Family.
Created a new page for Grandma Hawkins 90th Birthday Celebration.
Created a new page for Odum - Helton Marriage.
Recovered lost file on CSA Veteran - Henry Lilly Parker.
Created a new page for Hopkins Celebrate Golden Wedding Anniversary.
Created a new page for Italy's Good Neighbor Day.
Created a new page for The Italy I Remember.
Recovered lost file on If All Else Fails, Try the Jails.
Created a new page for Electricity Comes to Ellis County.
Created a new page for Richard Ellis Tomb Located.
Recovered lost file on The Ennis Weekly Local - Nov & Dec 1901.
I found a lost sketch and added it to Pioneer - George Cunningham.
Created a new page for $30,000 Brick Plant Burned at Ferris.
Recovered a second version of a tribute to Alfonso Calvin Marchbanks.
Created a new page for Frame - Miller Marriage.
Recovered lost file on Fugitives From Justice.
Created a new page for Migration from Giles County, Tennessee.
Created a new page for Dr. Zachary T. Bundy.
Created a new page for Telico Might Have Been Site of Texas Centennial.
Recovered lost file on Chastain - Trippett Marriage.
Recovered lost file on Traded Farm for Sack of Coffee.
Recovered lost file on County Line Sign Planned.
Recovered lost file on Historical Sketch of Forreston [TX].
Created a new page for Cummings-Kidd Marriage.
Created a new page for Davis Family of Reagor Springs.
Recovered lost file on Beauvoir destroyed by Hurricane.
Recovered lost file on Lafayette S. Nelson.
Added the USGenWeb logo to the Home Page. How long has that been missing?
Recovered lost file on Ellis County's Frontier Days.
Recovered lost file on There's No Business Like Show Business.
Created a new page for African-Americans
in Ellis County.
Created a new page for for the First
Meeting of African-American History in Ellis County.
Recovered lost file on African-American
Special Interest Group Formed
Recovered lost file on Akins
- Culbertson Marriage.
Created a new page for Farmers
Alliance Picnic.
Recovered lost file on Arthur
Alexander Family Line.
Recovered lost files on Avalon
Pioneer Settlers, with The
John Family, The
Loyds, The
Martins, The Smith Families,
Dr. W. B. Wallace, Colonel
Benjamin W. F. Watson, and William
Franklin Youngblood.
Created a new page for Ray
Cavender Remembers Bonnie Parker.
Installed a new visitor counter. It seems that RW dropped its support of this
function.
Replaced the Search Engine with FreeFind. The Google search utility just wasn't
working out.
Minor maintenance on multiple files, typos and such.
Updated "Dear Polly" letters and added it to Letters
From The Past.
Updated Gloria Tune Saunders' email address and info in Look-Ups.
Added "Deaths reported in Confederate Veteran" to Winnie Davis Camp Menu
Remodeled and moved 21 more obits to the new Obituaries, Death Notices and Memorials menu page.
Remodeled and moved an orphaned biography to Pioneers of Ellis County.
Added the following biographies to the Pioneers
of Ellis County: Dr. James Campbell Loggins, Ellis County Doctors, Dr. William
Pickney Sims,
Shooting of Deputy Sheriff Gathings remodeled and moved from Crimes to Yesterday's
News.
The Murder of William Riley Seaboalt Jr. was
remodeled and moved from Crimes to Pioneers
of Ellis County.
Repaired broken link to Eliza
Sims and Two Libraries & moved it to new section.
Reformatted the final 14 biographies for the Pioneers
of Ellis County Menu and moved them to the new side.
Added one orphaned biography (Sanderson and Chapman Families) to the above.
Chased down and deleted 58 duplicate files of these pioneers that were saved to the
wrong folder.
Remodeled and moved Sheriffs
of Ellis County.
Remodeled "Pioneer Days Re-lived" and moved it to Yesterday's News.
Redesigned and moved Korean War Burials and Viet Nam War Burials.
Moved the links for Jack Lummus Biography Page and Milford Men and Women in Service to the World War II Menu.
Remodeled the Pioneers of Ellis County Menu and reformatted the first 23 biographies that go with it.
Redesigned the 5 pages of Confederate Pension Applications, repaired 2 broken links and rolled them up into a single file. Then I reformatted and moved Civil War Veterans From Other States. Next comes the Confederate Soldiers Buried in Georgia. All were placed into the Civil War Menu.
Remodeled the Sevier Family Old Letters and the Marchbanks Letters and moved them to Letters From The Past.
Moved the Muster Roll of the Texas Mounted Guards into the Civil War Menu.
Remodeled and moved Spanish American War Burials.
Remodeled and moved The Texas Spirit of '17 - [Ellis County men who served in WW1]
Reformatted and moved World War II War Dead.
Created menus for both World War I and World War II to keep like information together.
Redesigned the following 2 pages and added them to Yesterday's News: News from Ennis Commercial Recorder and The Ennis Weekly Local.
Redesigned and moved the following to the Ghost
Towns menu page: Bethel Community, Pecan Grove, Howard, Telico/Trinity City,
Tight Wad, Trumbull, Twin Elm, Union Hill, Village Creek, Walnut Springs, Wardlaw,
White League, Wilton, Winniford School and Wyatt.
Added Winniford School House and Robert Mayfield Reminiscences to Yesterday's
News
Redesigned and moved the following to the Ghost Towns menu page: Berry's Chapel,Hurley Station, Oak, Oak Grove, Onion Creek, Onward, Pluto, Progress, Quinlan, Rankin, Reagor Springs, Rockett, Sand Lake, Sanderson, Saralvo, Sardis, Sims Post Office, Slate Rock, Slay, Sonoma, South Prong, Spout Springs, St. Paul, Sterrett. Corrected an error found on the Alex Rankin Home in the Photo Gallery while I was updating a link to the new Rankin page in Ghost Towns.
Began working to remodel the files of the Thriving Cities, Towns and Communities of Ellis County. Remodeled nine files associated with Alma alone, one for Avalon, Ferris, Forreston, Midlothian, Milford, Palmer, five files with Red Oak, and seven for Waxahachie.
Added The Ellis County Press, Ennis Chamber of Commerce, Ennis Historic Landmark Commission, and Ennis Public Library to Addresses You May Need.
Remodeled and moved Everett House Lost in Fire, Midlothian and Mountain Peak News and The Weekly Argus to Yesterday's News.
Located lost file: Have You Ever Talked with Anyone in a Cemetery?
Updated location information for Kranz Farm Cemetery.
Removed one person from the Look-Ups volunteers.
Made numerous updates to Addresses You May Need.
Added 5 links to headstone photos to the Cemeteries of Ellis County webpage.
Remodeled the Funeral Manual of Rev. A. D. Brooks and moved it to the new side
Remodeled the 1850 Mortality Schedule and moved it to the new area
Remodeled The Confusing 1850 Census of Navarro District, Texas and moved it
Remodeled the 1860 Mortality Schedule and moved it to the new area
Remodeled the 1870 Mortality Schedule and moved it to the new area
Remodeled the 1890 Federal Census and moved it to the new area
Remodeled the Beauchamp Families in the 1880 Census and moved it
Remodeled 40 pages of Marriage Records and reduced them down to 4 pages
Found a page of Marriage Records from 1866 that was unlinked
Moved Texas Czech Genealogical Society to the Addresses
page
Deleted broken link to Texas Surnames
Deleted broken link to WPA Life Histories in Texas
Repaired broken link to Texas
Landmarks and moved it to the new area
Removed link to Addresses for Texas Vital Records because it's a pay site
Removed broken link to Texas Obituaries
Moved all other Texas Resources links to the new area
Moved Boren-Reagor Springs Historical Society to the Addresses
page
Remodeled the Historic Markers and Monuments
pages and moved them to new area
Remodeled the Famous Cattle Trails page and
moved it to new area
Remodeled the Trails, the Forerunners of Rails
page and moved it to new area
Remodeled the Historic Springs of Ellis County
page and moved it to new area
Moved link to National
Register of Historic Places to the new area
Moved link to African
American History in Ellis County to the new area
Repaired link and moved UTA Special Collections to Addresses
Moved Ellis County Historical Commission to the Addresses page
Moved Hill County Genealogical Society to the Addresses page
Moved City of Midlothian to the Addresses page
Moved City of Ennis to the Addresses page
Moved City of Waxahachie to the Addresses page
Moved Records in County Clerk's Office to the Addresses page
Moved A. H. Meadows Library to the Addresses page
Moved Ellis County Museum to the Addresses page
Moved Sims Library (+ 3 pages) to the Addresses page
Added code to all remodeled pages to print last modified date
Remodeled the Addresses page and moved it
Remodeled the Look-Ups page and moved it to the new side
Combined the two query websites on the same Queries page
Remodeled the Bibliography and moved it to the new side
Updated the email pages for Sylvia, Rob and State Coordinator
Corrected the text on 1936 Centennial Highway Marker and remodeled the page
Began a RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT by giving half of the Homepage a new look, new background and new page banner.
Added Barbara's 20 Year Service Badge from TXGenWeb. Barbara has been the County Coordinator of Ellis County and Co-Coordinator of Navarro County since September 1996. She had also been Co-Coordinator of Tarrant County for 18 years.
County Coordinator Barbara Knox passed away on January 2, 2016.
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