Kathey Kelley Hunt is a Kaufman County historical researcher
and early Kaufman County families researcher/genealogist.
She has kindly volunteered to do LIMITED look-ups in the
resources listed in the sources below.
Kathey does NOT do look-ups for any sources (including
cemeteries) except the ones listed in their respective form.
Please do NOT send look-up requests directly to her e-mail
address; any such requests will not be answered.
Kathey cannot look up Death records or Birth records nor can
she get copies of Marriages certificates or Probate records or
any other records from the courthouse -- all that must be ordered
from the Kaufman County Clerk. See Kaufman
County Records in the Court House.
Although Kathey Hunt and Linda Harwell work extensively on
cemeteries in the County there is NOT a County-wide Index of
where people are buried in Kaufman County - each cemetery has
been enumerated individually. If the person you are looking
for died AFTER 1903, Kathey has this advise: order a Death
Certificate from the County Clerk -- the burial place is listed
on 99% of the certificates. See Kaufman
Co., TX Cemetery Books by Linda Kay Harwell for information
on the recently published cemetery books that are fully indexed.
Note that most of the cemetery enumerations are already
posted on this website; you can search the cemetery records by
going to the Kaufman
County TXGenWeb Project Search Page or to Kaufman
County Cemetery Central.
INSTRUCTIONS: PLEASE READ
Look-ups are usually answered within a few days. Please
be patient and submit only ONE request at a time (not one request
per source nor one request per surname or first name -- only
one REQUEST) and wait for your request to be answered before
submitting another request. Submitting multiple requests
will result in ONLY ONE of your requests being answered. If
you do not receive a reply in 2 weeks, you may re-submit your
request.
In order to be sure you receive a reply to your request,
be sure you have NOT sent an auto-reply to go out to senders
not on your list. Also be sure your e-mail has been typed
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"Mercer Colonists"
by Gifford White
Charles Fenton Mercer (1778-1858) became interested
in colonizing a portion of north eastern Texas after going there
from Florida as part of the Peter's Colony in 1843. He
managed to persuade Sam Houston, then president of the Texas
Republic, to grant him an empresario contract in 1844 & under
the terms of that contract agreed to bring 100 families to the
land that includes what is now Kaufman County by the year 1849.
Many of Kaufman County's earliest pioneers were Mercer Colonists.
Were your ancestors? Kathey is offering to do look-ups
in "Mercer Colonists" by Gifford White. It is
a list of persons who received land thru the colony 1846-1851.
Read
more about Mercer's Colony
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NEW LOOK-UP OFFERED!
Kathey Hunt will now also do look-ups in "Republic of
Texas: Poll Tax Lists for 1846" compiled by Marion
Day Mullins; this source shows name and county where they were
residing in 1846.
What are the 1846 Poll Tax Lists?
Explanation by Justin Sanders
The 1846 Poll Tax Lists contains names of men & women
who were Head of Households.
"Poll" in poll tax means "head" (as in
head count). It was sometimes called a "head tax"
for this reason. The idea was that you paid a fee to be
counted, say $1 a head. Usually, the only heads that they
cared about were attached to white males over 21. But presumably
female heads of households were also charged the poll tax --
that would account for them being on these rolls.
In 1901, with the Terrell Election Law, Texas made payment
of the poll tax a requirement for voting. Previously, there
was no such requirement and after women were given the right
to vote the law was abolished.
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*Have you been wondering where your Kaufman County ancestor
was married because they are not listed in the Kaufman County
Marriage Records? If so, try the ROCKWALL County Marriages!
Many of the residents in the northern portion of Kaufman
County went to Rockwall to get their marriage licenses because
it was much closer than riding all the way to the county seat.
**The enumeration used for Look-Ups in the Kaufman City Cemetery
was done in 1979. Any interments made after that date will
not be listed.
***The original papers filed for Probate are in the basement
of the Kaufman County Courthouse. When you enter the room,
there are labeled filing cabinets to your right (where the numbering
begins) and more are on your left. Copies are $1/page and
there is a surcharge if you use a credit card to pay for them.
Parking on the street that goes around the block that circles
the courthouse is limited to 2-hours; be careful not to park
there too long or you may get a ticket.
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You will be taken to a screen called MailMerge Gateway to
view your entry. IGNORE the "Back
to the form" link you will see below your entry.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE!
We have received many auto-replies when trying to
answer look-up requests, especially from earthlink.net users. If you have spam
control for your e-mail which sends out an auto-reply asking
the sender to fill out a form to be added to your list of approved
senders, you will NOT receive a look-up. Once a request
is received and before we do your look-up, we will send a REPLY
to you, if it is blocked then we will NOT look for the info you
requested. Thank you for your understanding.
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be sure you have filled out the form correctly before submitting
it. Incomplete forms or requests with "any",
"all", "unknown" etc. will not be answered.
If you do not understand how to use this form or if you
have problems using this form, notify the coordinator at kaufmantxgenweb
@ pacbell.net.
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