Jack County, TXGenWeb Site

photo by Rafael Seibert

Welcome to the Jack County genealogy pages, part of the TXGenWeb and USGenWeb projects. 

Special thanks to the previous Coordinators Kevin L. Lee, Tami Ramsey and Lois Kennedy

Jack County History 

Jack County was created from Cooke County in 1856. The first court met July 22, 1857 in the front yard of one T. S. Nettles somewhere in the old Salt Creek community. Jacksboro, known at first as Mesquiteville, is the site of Fort Richardson which is now a part of a State Park and displays the restored fort historically. Fort Richardson was established in 1867 as one of the second line forts against the Indians. It was also on the Butterfield Stage Route, known as the Upper California Road and the Southern Overland Mail route. From 1875-1876 the Mooar Brothers' buffalo trail led through Fort Richardson, and the Old Emigrant Trail passed through Jacksboro, traveling from Gainsville to Fort Griffin. bordered by Clay, Archer, and Montague counties to the north, Young County to the west, Palo Pinto and Parker counties to the south, and Wise County to the east. Jacksboro is the county seat and the largest town in the county.

Where to Start

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Click here to POST and READ QUERIES for Jack County, TX	Mailing List for Jack County, Texas
Jack County, TX on Genforum	USGenWeb Texas Archived Records Jack County Archives Table Of Contents
Jack County Clerk 100 N. Main St. Jacksboro, TX 76458-1746 Phone: (940) 567-2111 Birth & Death records from 1903 Probate records from 1857 Land records from 1860 Marriage & Civil Court records District Clerk has Divorce records	powered by FreeFind *Note - This search engine will only search material contained within this website

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BIOGRAPHIES
James W. Aynes	Stewart Castleberry	David Hodges Foreman
Miles A. Graves	James M. Hefley	Hickman Hensley
Ozias Denton Jones	William B. Martine	Albert Galatin McClure
John S. Newman	Judge Emmett W. Nicholson	Noah Risley
William A. Shown	Captain George Spiller	Rufus K. Stewart
Walter Preston Stewart	LaFayette Abraham Wilson
Why not add your families biography? txarchives @me.com

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BOOKS
Look-ups for Jack County, Texas	Bibliography of Jack County Books	1911 Jack County Phone Book

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CEMETERIES
Cemeteries of Jack County Gloria B. Mayfield	Jack County, Texas Cemeteries by Paul Smith	Find-a-Grave Cemeteries Jack County

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CENSUS
1840 Census of Pensioners - Military		1870 Jack County Federal Census
1880 Jack County Federal Census Images	1900 Jack County Federal Census	1910 Jack County Federal Census
1920 Jack County Federal Census

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COURT DOCUMENTS
Jack County Archives (Wills, Deeds, Marriages, etc.)	Postmasters / Post Offices Jack County

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DEATHS
Hawkins Funeral Home - Old Records	Maddox Funeral Home Old Records	Thompson Funeral Home Old Records
Obituaries Jack County Archives	Jack County Funeral Home records	Texas Death Records 1964 - 1998
Coker Funeral Home Jackboro, Texas

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EDUCATION/SCHOOLS
1954 Jacksboro School Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Contributed by Nelda [Erwin] Conant	1909-10 Union School students The school was six miles south of Bryson Contributed by Jerry Herd and Angie Randall

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FAMILY PAGES
Joseph Henson Family	Dill Family

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HISTORY LINKS
The McArdle Notebooks Henry McArdle's battle paintings, Dawn at the Alamo and The Battle of San Jacinto, have become Texas icons. The painstaking detail of the paintings was reflected in exhaustive research. McArdle's notebooks are packed with letters, notes, and photographs documenting the paintings and the events they depict.	Texas State Library and Archives	Texas Treasures Online Early Texas Documents

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LIBRARIES
Gladys Johnson Ritchie Public Library 626 W. College Street Jacksboro, TX 76458-1655 940-567-2240 Monday-Friday

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MAPS
Jack County 1895 Map	Texas General Land Office Map Collection	Texas Land Grant Database

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MILITARY
Texas Confederate Pensions	Confederate Indigent Families 1863-1865
War of 1812 Forts	Texas Patriots - Extracted from John Henry Brown's History of Texas, 1685- 1892	List of Camps, Fort and Posts in Texas
Texas Adjutant General Service Records 1836-1935	Index to Military Rolls of the Republic of Texas 1835-1845	Texas Civil War Map of Battles

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NEWSPAPERS
Times Record Online Includes some Jacksboro News and Obituaries	Jacksboro Newspapers Abstracts 1880-1930 by Dorman Holub	Jacksboro Gazette May - June 1947

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NATIVE AMERICAN
The Indians of Texas	Battlesites and Massacres in Texas	Indian Fighting in Jack County - 1870s
Indian Trials Satanta and Big Tree following the Warren Wagon Train Massacre in Young County, Texas

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OBITUARIES
	Texas Obituaries

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ORGANIZATIONS
North Texas Genealogical Association P.O. Box 4602 Wichita Falls, TX 76308	Jacksboro Chamber of Commerce

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PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs of Wester - Shook - Morgan - Moffitt - Barrow - Fischhof families	Jack County Photographs	Jack County Today by Dorman Holub

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PLACES
	Ft. Richardson State Park
Antelope Barton's Chapel Berwick Bryson Connor Creek Crafton Cundiff Finis Gertrude Gibtown Hensley Hogeye Jacksboro Jermyn Joplin Maryetta Newport Perrin Postoak Sebree Senate Truce Vineyard Wizard Wells

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TAXES
Tax Rolls for 1858	Tax Rolls for 1859

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Shortcuts to our Neighbors  Archer Clay  Montague   Young  Jack County  Wise  Stephens County Palo Pinto  Parker County

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