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Winkler County Texas

2001

Greetings from West Texas! 
Come back and visit often.  Watch these pages fill up with history. 
If you would like to contribute information for Winkler County, offer suggestions, comments or
volunteer to help with look-ups, please
email Carolyn Harrison, Carolyn Griffith  or Elaine Stone
and we will be glad to get them online!


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"Winkler County Remembers 9/11"

 

*** NEW Items Added ***

Census Records

1900, 1910, 1920 & a partial of 1930

Obituaries

An on-going process of compiling obits

text files and original scans of local newspapers!

Cemetery Info

Listing of all cemeteries along with indexes

Vital Records

Births, Deaths, Marriages & Divorces

Confederate Pensions

Government Records

1948-1955 Hospital Registry, Jail Book,

Docket Books

High School Annuals

Kermit 1938-1959 & Wink 1930-1945

& Photos &

1974 Class Reunion Photo

Newspaper Clippings

Wink Times Herald

Winkler County News

Odessa American

Land Surveys

Folks from Winkler County

Dietz, Odom & Beatty

Military Markers

Text file of Kermit Cemetery

Memories of Winkler County

E-Mails from folks

(residents past and present)

and their memories of Winkler County

Winkler County Mailing List

Join our mailing list here

Winkler County Message Board Archives

Browse posts to the Mailing List here

Queries

Please post your queries here

You never know what you might find!

Family Group Sheets

Neighbors

Look Ups

History of Local High School Given

KHS in 1937

Local History Remembered As Texas Schools Celebrate

KHS in 1954

Cattlemen's Marks & Brands

Dates from 1888

Brands included!

 

HISTORY

 

History of Blue Mountain

History of Cheyenne, Texas

History of Hay Flat, Texas

History of Kermit, Texas

Photos of present day Kermit!

History of Tulsa, Texas

History of Wink, Texas

Old Photos!

History of Winkler County

How we came to be!

 

Historical markers

Lots of Info

 

PHOTO ALBUM

 

Lillian Horner

Wink School

Photo Collection #1

Lillian Horner

Wink School

Photo Collection #2

First Train in Kermit, Texas

The Infamous Wink Sink Hole

Need I say more?

Miscellaneous

NNG Plant Fire, Historical Markers

Potato Farming, TxDOT Map

Winkler County Courthouse

Then and Now

Post Cards

Kermit

 

Around Town

Photos of Kermit

 

WAR CASUALTIES

 

War Casualties ~ World War II

War Casualties ~ Korean

War Casualties ~ Vietnam

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Address Book

Everything you need to know and more!

County, City & State Listings

Books

Many Books!

Links

Interesting & Useful Links!

Map of Winkler County

Compiled by Kay Woods-Lopez

with images from Rand McNally

Occupations

Winkler County Archives on TXGenWeb

Highway of Death

Winkler County News Article


There is NO Genealogical Society

Winkler County Rootsweb Message Board

Join or search our Message Board! 

Mailing Lists

Search for a Mailing List

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Lost Words

(Has nothing to do with Genealogy but you might enjoy a trip into the past)

SEARCH ENGINE

 

Loads of THANKS to Carolyn Harrison, Charlene Beauchamp and Kay Woods-Lopez for your hard work and dedication to Winkler County. Know that this will help others for years to come!


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Last Updated: March 6, 2009

Copyright 2006 to 2009 by Kay Woods-Lopez

Copyright 2009 to present by Carolyn Harrison & Carolyn Griffith