For now Jane Keppler is fostering the site and will welcome the help.

Welcome to Marion County
TXGenWeb

 

Hello, my name is Jane Keppler, Foster County Coordinator, and I would like to welcome you to the Marion County TXGenWeb Project.
If you have a question or information, you can share it there and have access to others that may be researching the same names or places.        We can all help each other.


   I'm very glad you stopped by and hope that you find this website useful for your genealogical research. I do not live in Marion County               so I am not able to do local research, but should you have any questions or comments regarding the Marion County TXGenWeb Project,       please email me. This website is totally supported by volunteers and patrons like yourself, who contribute family history information        pertaining to Marion County, Texas. I am always looking for ideas to improve this website. If you see a page that is difficult to read,             because of color or fonts, please be sure to email me and let me know. Be sure to put which page it is, so I can find it and make changes.

If you have submitted information and added your email address to be used on the site, please update old email addresses. If your email address is no                    longer valid, researchers will not be able to contact you. Please send me new contact information here.

 

 

Marion County was formed from the southern portion of Cass County on February 8, 1860. Jefferson, the county seat, founded in the early 1840s, rapidly developed a booming river trade with New Orleans, due to a large natural log-jam that formed a series of navigable lakes and bayous in the river valleys of Marion County. Jefferson quickly became the favored inland Texas port for the deposit and transport of North Texas agricultural produce. Thus, Marion County became the commercial conduit for frontier Texas and did not relinquish this position until the establishment of transcontinental rail links that bypassed its wharves in the mid-1870s.

Marion county was named for Francis Marion, the legendary "Swamp Fox."

Link for documentary on Chasing the Swamp Fox.

 

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WE NEED YOUR HELP! Marion County TXGenWeb Project needs your records. Please consider submitting anything that may be of value to other researchers: Bible records, marriage records, wills, pension records, land records, death and obituary records, photos, and old letters, county, community, church, and school histories. Your help in helping other researchers is vital to the success of the TXGenWeb Project. Just contact me, County Coordinator, with your information or questions.

 

1871 Marion County Map
with Land Owner names.
Link to The Portal to Texas History website

County Information Queries
History Records and Resources
Links TXGenWeb all Counties
Local Addresses and Contacts Marion Co. Archives
Lookup Volunteers
Can you help? email me
Neighors:
C
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Morris
Upshur
 Harrison
Caddo, LA
Marion County Genealogical Society
updated 3/5/2023
TXGenWeb Archives
More Interesting Pages USGenWeb Archives

 

 

 



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Website maintained by Jane Keppler, Marion Foster County Coordinator.
Gina Heffernan  - TX State Coordinator

 

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Page Modified: 09 October 2023