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The Coastal Bend Genealogical Society has published several books which are offered as an aid to researchers.

To order: Send name, address and check or money order, payable to CBGS, to 

Coastal Bend Genealogical Society, PO Box  2826, Corpus Christi, TX 78401

SOUTH OF THE ALAMO -
Autobiography of Frances Bramlette Cochran whose family came to Texas from Mississippi in 1838.  Her family life, along with "star border" of thirty years, Bigfoot Wallace, was anything but typical.  Edited by Brooks Noel.  Illustrated, 150 + pages.   $19.95. + $2.50 postage.  Surnames included:  Arnold,, Baldwin, Bank, Sam Bass, Blackaller, Blockers, Oliver Brown, Burleson, Carmichael, Clements, Collins, Crawford, Cude, Davis, Dawson, Duck, Esterbrook, Frank, Galbreath, Gardner, Graham, Grumbles, Hader, Halsey, Haynes, Hearn, Hennings, Holcombe, Holmes, Johnson, Jones, Kercheville, King, Lackey, Laxson, Long, Luethy, Massey, McCoy, McMahon, Nixon, Noel, O'Grady, Owens, Perryman, Pyle, Ridgeway, Roach, Sadler, Slaughter, Smith, Wilkins, Williams, Wilson Winters, Woodward. 

 Texas counties:  Atascosa, Frio, Medina;  Towns, Bigfoot, Benton City, Devine, Frio Town, Long View, Lytle, Moore, Obite, Pearsall, Pleasanton, San Miguel, and Somerset.
    Cost of this book is $25.00.



 CEMETERY DATA OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS
Dr. Charles A. Ward and Brooks Noel compiled CEMETERY DATA OF NUECES COUNTY in 1990.
It contains information on over 25,000 people from twenty-five of the twenty-six known Nueces County cemetery locations that have tombstones. A comprehensive search was also made in both the Nueces County Courthouse and the Corpus Christi Public Library for cemetery maps and cemetery deed records. An extensive reference list is included after the cemetery listings.  This book includes the early formative history of the cemeteries, as well as inscriptions by plot.  (Note: Seaside and Rose Hill Cemeteries were not included in this work, as there were plans at the time for the cemeteries to compile their own volume.  It has not, as yet, been published, but their offices may give information

CEMETERY AND CREMATION DATA OF THE COASTAL BEND OF SOUTH TEXAS was published in the summer of 2000.
The second volume picks up where the first leaves off, starting with listings from 1988, and going through December 31, 1999.   In addition to Nueces County, it includes listings for Aransas, Bee, Brooks, part of Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties.  It also includes all local veterans buried in National Cemeteries during this time period.  The book is 735 pages, looseleaf, in a hardback plastic "D" ring binder.
Each Cemetery Book is $30.00 plus $3.00 for postage.



CATALOG OF GENEALOGICAL BOOKS IN THE CORPUS CHRISTI PUBLIC LIBRARY, LOCAL HISTORY ROOM, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.  Compiled and annotated by Dr. Charles A. Ward in 1993.  The 275 page notebook lists approximately 5,325 books or sets of  books in tables of call number, title, author, and publisher with date.   This can be a valuable tool to research in the print medium anywhere. $15. + $3 postage.

  
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Coastal Bend Genealogical Society Quarterly, REFLECTIONS, back issues:  all prices include postage.
Vol. 1 - 14:         one issue - $2.00,          two or more issues - $1.50 each
Vol. 15 - 33:        one issue - $3.00         two or more issues - $2.50 each
Complete set of 33 volumes (134 issues) = $125.
If you have any questions, e-mail Marie.

 


                    ARTICLES FROM REFLECTIONS,

COASTAL BEND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY

The following information was started by Allen David and published in 1990. He continued to update the information and, after his death, it was continued by Marie Gray, the current editor of REFLECTIONS, the CBGS Quarterly.

To find a name,  click on "edit" and "find" and type in a name you are looking for.  If you are interested in one of these families, back copies of REFLECTIONS can be ordered from Marie Gray.

                      

                 Alphabetical Index to Past Issues of REFLECTIONS