Fort Bend Links
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USGenWeb Pages
- USGenWeb Project
- TXGenWeb Project
- USGenWeb Project Archives Texas
- USGenWeb Project Archives Fort Bend
Adoption
African American Links
- Texas Slavery Project
- Slavery in Early Texas
- Black Roots: A Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree
The years after the Civil War were a time of uneasy compromise between the political parties and officeholders. This resulted in a brief, but violent confrontation known as the Jaybird - Woodpecker War. During Reconstruction, several black men were elected to County offices, including Mr. Walter Burton, Sheriff and Tax Collector, Mr. Shade Croome, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2, and Mr. Tom Taylor, Commissioner. Mr. Burton was later a state senator. The era of reconstruction lasted until 1888, when the Jaybird Party took control. They were powerful in Fort Bend County until the 1950's.
Cemetery Links
- Fort Bend Tombstone Trascritption Project
- Fort Bend County Cemetery Photographs
- Cemetery Junction Directory
- Fort Bend County CEMETERIES (ePodunk)
Census Links
- Census Project Texas
- Fort Bend County, TEXAS: 1850 Census Index
- Fort Bend, TX 1850 Federal Census File 1 of 3
- Fort Bend, TX 1850 Federal Census File 2 of 3
- Fort Bend, TX 1850 Federal Census File 3 of 3
1850
1880
Military links
- Fort Bend County, Texas - Military: Confederate Pension Applications
- Fort Bend County, TX - Military - Indigent Families List
- Original Field Staff
- Terry Rangers, Company A
- Terry Rangers, Company B
- Terry Rangers, Company C
- Terry Rangers, Company D
- Terry Rangers, Company E
- Terry Rangers, Company F
- Terry Rangers, Company G
- Terry Rangers, Company I
- Terry Rangers, Company K
- F Company 24th Texas
- Other Members of Company H, from Fort Bend County
- Prisoners, Escaped at the time of Surrender
- Mier Prisoners, Fate Unknown
- List of Guards who Escaped from the River from Buster Company
