Harrison County Research Resources
Come visit the Harrison County Research Library!!!
Research Library
You will also find genealogy books, ledgers, pictures, scrapbooks, loose papers, census indexes, some census records, cemetery records, church histories, birth, death and marriage records from early newspapers, as well as family histories. If a surname appears in an early county census record, there may be some information in the files on that family.
The best way to access information about your family is to visit the library, located inside the the Harrison County Historical Museum, which is now in the old Ginocchio Hotel, 707 N. Washington, Marshall, TX 75670. The museum and library are open Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. If distance prevents you from visiting the Research Library, our volunteer staff, all genealogists, will do its best to assist you with look-ups. Research conducted within the library is at no charge, except for the copy fee of 25 cents per page. Copies of available obituaries may be obtained for $2.50. If research outside the library is necessary, arrangements can be made for a modest fee. There are many resource materials in the Research Library at the Harrison County Historical Museum. For more information send e-mail or call 903-938-2680.
This is a clickable map for the Harrison County Historical Museum and Research Library, by Expedia.
You may request a look-up from any of the following resources. Please limit your request to one name per request. Please put HARRISON COUNTY LOOKUP in the subject line of your request. In the first line of the message please specify the resource from which you are requesting a lookup. Remember that the person from whom you are requesting a lookup is a volunteer and may not be able to respond right away. If you don't receive an answer within a week, please send the request again. If you still have no response from the volunteer, please let me know. And remember to thank your volunteer for his or her time.
If you own any materials from which you could do lookups, please let me know
USGenWeb's Official Lookups Policy
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which includes births, deaths, and marriages from early newspapers, cemetery index,
census lookups for the county for 1850,60,70,80 (Caucasians) and 1900,
civil war index of those who served in the county, some African-American research, etc.
Jaqueline Busby Cochran Jacqueline@busby-cochran.name has a copy of this book and will be happy to do lookups for you.
Greenwood Cemetery
Cathy Carter ccarter@shreve.net and her husband are reading this cemetery and the listing will be placed online. Until then, Cathy says she'd be happy to look up names from her list.
Concord Cemetery
Marty Vaughan has a copy of
the Concord Cemetery Book (1973) and lives near the site. She'd be glad to do
lookups and provide pictures. She would also to update information on
those buried since 1973.
Harrison County, Texas, Caucasian Residents in 1880
by Nancy Blakeley Ruff, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore 1987
Ronald C. Hall ronchall@swbell.net
Donna Schultz dschultz@shreve.net
Birth, Death, and Marriage Notices from the Tri-Weekly Herald, Marshall, TX 1875-1888
Marriage, Birth and Death Notices from the Marshall Messenger Newspapers,
Marshall, Texas 1890-1900
Marriage, Birth and Death Notices from the Marshall Messenger Newspapers,
Marshall, Texas 1901-1910
Marriage, Birth and Death Notices from the Marshall Messenger Newspapers,
Marshall, Texas 1911-1915
Donna Schultz
dschultz@shreve.net
HCGS museum@shreve.net
Harrison County Lancers
Jane Johansson will do lookups from her book Peculiar Honor: A History of the 28th Texas Cavalry, 1862-1865, published 1998, by University of Arkansas Press. Jane writes, "A number of men from Harrison County served in Company F (the
Harrison County Lancers) of the 28th Texas Cavalry. Company F was organized in the spring of 1862 and was first commanded by Captain Phil BROWN. The 28th Texas served in Arkansas and Louisiana from 1862-1865." She is looking for wartime photographs, letters, and diaries of men who served in the 28th Texas Cavalry. Please e-mail her at johan@viagrafix.net if you have any of these documents or if you have queries. If you're interested in adding this book to your personal library, please call the University of Arkansas Press at 1-800-626-0090, for more information.
She offers free lookups in her collection of Texas resources, including Bible Records, Birth Records, Cemetery Records, Census Records, Confederate Records, Death Records, Church Records, Marriage Records, and many more. Pam lists several Harrison County resources, and will do free lookups. If you want copies and she has them, it will cost you only the cost for postage. However if you can view a picture by e-mail, she has a scanner and will scan it in; and you can print it at your home. She says she doesn't want to make any money; she just doesn't want to be out any. I haven't asked Pam for any lookups yet, but this looks like a terrific site to me!
More Helpful Addresses
Harrison County Clerk
P. O. Box 1365
Marshall, TX 75671
903-935-4858
Marshall Public Library
300 S. Alamo
Marshall, TX 75670
903-935-4465
Note: There is little genealogical information in the public library,
but all the newspaper microfilm is there.
East Texas Baptist University Library
1209 N. Grove
Marshall, TX 75670
903-935-7963
Note: There is some genealogical information and newspaper microfilm
located in the ETBU library.
Sullivan Funeral Home
100 E. Travis St.
Marshall, TX 75670
903-938-7777
Morgan Funeral Home
1804 S. Washington
Marshall, TX 75670
903-935-2019
Hayward Funeral Home
301 S. Alamo Blvd.
Marshall, TX 75670
903-938-4062
Lewis Funeral Home
508 Bowie
Marshall, TX 75670
903-935-5285
Peoples Funeral Home
1301 W. Grand
Marshall, TX 75670
903-935-3513
Rambo Funeral Home
622 S. Carter St.
Marshall, TX 75670
903-935-2185
Books from the following list may be found in your local library and may be helpful in your research. They are not necessarily to be found in the Harrison County Research Library, and there is no one available to do any lookups in them.
Selected List of Sources for Texas Genealogical Research Prepared by Diana Pearson White
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Carefoot, Jean. Guide to Genealogical Resources in the Texas State Archives, A. Austin: Texas State Library, 1984.
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Fehrenbach, T.H. Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1968.
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Heskett, Michael, compiler. Texas County Records: A Guide to the Holdings of Local Records Division. Austin: Texas State Library, 1990.
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Hogan, William Ransom. The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969.
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Jenkins, John H. Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works for a Research Library. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1988.
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Kennedy, Imogene Kinard and J. Leon Kennedy. Genealogical Records in T*E*X*A*S. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987.
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McDowell, Catherine. A Guide to the Texana Holdings of the Texas History Library of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. San Antonio: DRT, 1978.
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McLean, Malcolm D., ed. Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in TX Vol 1: 1788-1822. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1974. [Many Vols of this collection have been published.]
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Miller, Thomas Lloyd . The Public Lands of Texas 1519-1970. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1972.
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Morris, Louise (Mrs. Harry Joseph). Citizens of the Republic of Texas. Dallas: Texas State Genealogical Society, 1978
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Mueller-Wille, Christopher, director. Roads of Texas. Fredericksburg: Shearer Publishing, 1988.
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Muir, Andrew Forest, ed. (anonymous narrative) Texas in 1837. Austin: Univ of TX Press, 1958.
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Pearson, Mary, Director, et al. Inventory of County Records [Texas] Denton County. Austin: NTSU/Texas Archives, 1975. [In the early 1970s the state legislature ordered the compiling of an index for each county in Texas. However, they did not adequately fund it, so only a small part of the counties were indexed. Most of them are within 200 miles from Dallas/Ft. Worth.]
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Ramos, Mary G., ed. 1996-1997 Texas Almanac. Dallas: Dallas Morning News, 1995.
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Steely, Skipper. Combined 1850 Census of Lamar and Red River Counties, Texas. Paris: Wright Press, 1985.
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Stephens, A. Ray and William M. Holmes. Historical Atlas of Texas. Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
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Texas General Land Office. Texas Land Titles: Vol. 1-8 plus supplements. Austin: General Land Office, 1941. [This set is the most complete list of original land entries in Texas. Most are 19th century but others come up into the 20th century. These are available from the GLO on microfilm.] ____________________. Texas Land Titles: Vol. 1-A (extreme NE Texas Counties). Paris: Wright Press. [This book contains only the extreme NE counties found in Vol. 1 of Texas Land Titles compiled by Bascom Giles while he was Land Commissioner.] _____________________. The GLO has original land ownership maps for each county in Texas. They sell for about $15.OO EACH. Contact the GLO in Austin for them.
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Thetford, Margaret Ann and Jeanne Tabb. Bishop Garrett's Journal, Texas, 1875-1890. Dallas: Thetford and Tabb. 1987.
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Thorndale, William and William Dollarhide. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses 1790-1920. Baltimore: GPC, 1987.
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Tyler, Ron, ed-in-chief. New Handbook of Texas, The. (6 vols., 1996) Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996.
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Wallace, Ernest. Charles DeMorse: Pioneer Statesman and Father of Texas Journalism. Paris: Wright Press, 1985.
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Webb, Walter Prescott, ed-in-Chief. Handbook of Texas, The. (2 vols; + supplement, 1976) Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1952.
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White, Gifford . 1840 Citizens of Texas: Vol. 2, Tax Rolls. Austin: Gifford White, 1984.
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____________. Character Certificates in the General Land Office of Texas. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985.
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____________. Scholastic Census, 1854-1856. St. Louis, Mo. : Ingmire Publications, c. 1986.
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Young , Louise Myers. Peters Colonists: Their Descendants and Others, Vol. I. Denton: Myers, 1972.
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__________________. Peters Colonists: Their Descendants and Others, Vol. II. Denton: Myers, 1973.
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