Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemetery records
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Pleasant Grove Church and Cemetery Records, 1840-1985
Author: Periodical Source Index, 1847-1985: Places
Author: Periodical Source Index
Author: L-Z. Appendix
Author: Terry StollsteimerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Pleasant Bend
Author: Dan WorrallPublisher: Dan Michael Worrall
ISBN: 0982599625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Today’s Greater Houston is a vast urban place. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, Houston was a small town – a dot in a vast frontier. Extant written histories of Houston largely confine themselves to the small area within the city limits of the day, leaving nearly forgotten the history of large rural areas that later fell beneath the city’s late twentieth century urban sprawl. One such area is that of upper Buffalo Bayou, extending westward from downtown Houston to Katy. European settlement here began at Piney Point in 1824, over a decade before Houston was founded. Ox wagons full of cotton traveled across a seemingly endless tallgrass prairie from the Brazos River east to Harrisburg (and later to Houston) along the San Felipe Trail, built in 1830. Also here, Texan families fled eastward during the Runaway Scrape of 1836, immigrant German settlers trekked westward to new farms along the north bank of the bayou in the 1840s, and newly freed African American families walked east toward Houston from Brazos plantations after Emancipation. Pioneer settlers operated farms, ranches and sawmills. Near present-day Shepherd Drive, Reconstruction-era cowboys assembled herds of longhorns and headed north along a southeastern branch of the Chisholm Trail. Little physical evidence remains today of this former frontier world.
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author: The Genealogical Helper
Author: Mennonite Family History July 2016
Author: Lois Ann MastPublisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Mennonite Family History is a quarterly periodical covering Mennonite, Amish, and Brethren genealogy and family history. Check out the free sample articles on our website for a taste of what can be found inside each issue. The MFH has been published since January 1982. The magazine has an international advisory council, as well as writers. The editors are J. Lemar and Lois Ann Zook Mast.
Ohio Records and Pioneer Families
Author: Who's who in Genealogy & Heraldry
Author: Mary Keysor MeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogists
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description