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OBITUARY INDEX, 1862-1950
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WM. S. ADAIR COLUMNS:
List of Transcribed columns


Indices to Adair columns appearing
in The
Dallas Morning News:
1920-1925, 1926-1933


Wm. S. Adair Obituary


ADVERTISEMENTS:
Part 1 | Part 2

Part 3


ANNIVERSARIES


BIOGRAPHIES

The Life & Times of
LIZZIE HANDLEY


MADAME ANNIE WILSON:
"The Wickedest Woman in Dallas"


Georgia DeBeck/Carlin:
Dallas Madame


List of Biographies


BIRTHS/BIRTHDAYS:
1887-1889  (INDEX)


July-December 1903

Index of Parents, 1903

Jan-October 1904

Index of Parents, 1904

1905 | 1906 | 1907

1909 | 1912 | 1919

1920 | 1922 | 1923

1924


Related Articles


CEMETERY ARTICLES/LINKS:

DALLAS COUNTY CEMETERIES

Catholic Cemetery

Cochran Chapel Cemetery

Colored (Freedmans') Cemetery

Crown Hill Cemetery History (LINK)

"The Old Dallas Burial Ground" (plat map)
Related articles


Evergreen Cemetery

Floyd-Taylor Cemetery (Lancaster)

Haught (Slapfoot) Cemetery, Mesquite

Lagow Settlement Cemetery

Lincoln Memorial Cemetery

Oak Cliff Cemetery

Oakland Cemetery (Map showing lot numbers)
(Photos)

Old City (Masonic)
Cemetery

Old Pleasant Mound "Public" Cemetery

Potter Cemetery, Mesquite

Potter's Field/Pauper Cemeteries

Restland Memorial Cemetery

Routh Cemetery photos
(Plano)

Spring Creek Cemetery

Trinity/Greenwood Cemetery

Unidentified Cemeteries

Webb Chapel Cemetery Association (LINK)

PAUPER-RELATED ARTICLES


Allen Wheatley's
Dallas County Cemetery Photos
(LINK)

Gloria Mayfield's
Cemeteries of Dallas County, Texas
(LINK)


Texas Tombstone
Transcription Project

(Dallas County) (LINK)

Local Cemeteries:
(in general)
"
Cemeteries of the City..." (1904)


CEMETERY LOCATIONS:
(Links to Maps)


CEMETERY SURVEYS:
Anderson Family
Cemetery Survey

(Garland)

Albert Carver Cemetery

Beeman Cemetery Survey

Beeman Memorial Cemetery Marker Photos

Beeman Memorial Cemetery Map, 1945

Cottonwood Cemetery

Cox Cemetery

Dallas City Cemetery
(Pauper Cemetery):
Interments "A thru L"

Interments "M thru Z" & "Unknown"

Elmwood (Piedmont Baptist Church) Cemetery
(Dallas)

W. A. Ferris Cemetery

W. W. Glover Cemetery
King's Daughters
(at Greenwood Cemetery)

Lagow Cemetery

Old Letot Cemetery Survey

Lumley Cemetery Survey
@ Lawson (Mesquite)

Lyons Cemetery
(Sunnyvale)

McCree Cemetery
Z. Motley Cemetery
Myers Graves #1
(Garland)

L. Butler Nelson Memorial Park Cemetery

(Beaty) "Old" Oak Cliff Cemetery (LINK)
Oak Cliff Cemetery (LINK)
Old Pleasant Mound "Public" Cemetery

Overton Cemetery Survey

Pleasant Mound Cemetery (Partial) (Map)

Pleasant Valley Cemetery(History)

(Partial) List of Burials in Trinity Farm/El Rancho Grande Cemetery | Letter to Alejos


CENSUS:
1850 Dallas County Census
(LINK)
Pages 73 thru 87
Pages 88 thru 103
(Index)


1850 Mortality Schedule
(LINK)


1860 Dallas County Census (LINK)


1860 Mortality Schedule
(LINK)


1870 Mortality Schedule
(LINK)


Census-related Articles


CHARITIES


 COUNTY POOR FARM/
Convalescent Home:

Poor Farm Census, 1900

Map of Poor Farm & Vicinity, 1900


THE COZY CORNER


CRIME:
Reconstruction Era:
1867-68

Fugitives from Justice:
1878  1891

Outlaws:
Belle Starr
Sam Bass


Crime-related articles


DAILY EVENTS:

1904 | 1912 | 1919

1920 | 1921 | 1927

1935


DALLAS CITY
DIRECTORIES:


1875:
(A thru Z)


1878-79:
(A thru L) (M thru Z)


1884-85:
(A thru L) (M thru Z)


1886-87:
(A thru L) (M thru Z)


1891-92:

Morrison & Fourmy's Dallas City Directory
(LINK)
Click on:
"free GENEALOGY library" link
Click on:
"MISC Books" link
Select:
"TX, TEXAS, DALLAS CO"
in window
Click on:
"SEARCH" button
Select:
the section of
1891-92 directory desired
Click on:
"SEARCH" button


1901:
Worley's
Dallas City Directory

(Alphabetical Listings Section)


Worley's
Dallas City Street Directory, 1901


1910:

Worley's
Dallas City Directory

(Alphabetical Listings Section)


Worley's Dallas Business Directory, 1910


1911:
Worley's
Dallas City Street Directory


Directory-related articles



DALLAS COUNTY
DIRECTORY, 1881-82:

Carrollton  Cedar Hill   Duck Creek  Eagle Ford  Farmers' Branch  Farmers & Others  Grand Prairie   Haught's Store  Hutchins   Jimtown  Lancaster  Letot  Lisbon  Mesquite  Pleasant Valley  Richardson  Scyene   Seago Post Office  Sower's Store  Sprowles  Trinity Mills


ETHNIC:
African-American
British
Canadians

Chinese
French

German
Greek

Irish
Japanese

Jewish
Middle Easterners

Scandinavian
(Danes, Norwegians & Swedes)
Scottish
Swiss


FUNERAL DIRECTORS:

1881-82, 1889-90, 1901, 1904, 1911, 1920, 1927, 1931, 1933-34, 1938, 1940, 1947-48


Related Articles


HEALTH-RELATED


 HOSPITALS
Bradford Memorial Hospital
Dallas Baby camp
(Original) City Hospital
City Hospital:
(Maple & Oak Lawn)
The Dallas Sanitarium

St. Paul's Sanitarium
Samuell Clinic

Suburban Hospital
Union Hospital
Woodlawn Hospital


IMAGES
(on separate page)


 IMMIGRATION/
NATURALIZATION:
news articles, 1887-1894
(List of Immigrants
contained in above articles)


INSANITY CASES
(INDEX)

Related article, 1896


LANDMARKS
1860-1874

1875-1888


Landmarks,
January-March 1889

General Index
Landmarks,
July-December 1889

General Index
1890
1891

1892-1895
1896-1900
1901-1902
1903

1904-1910
1911-1915
1916-1920
1921-1924

1925
1926-1930
1931-1940
1941-1945


List of Landmarks

City Designated Landmark Structures (LINK)

BUCKNER ORPHANS' HOME
:
1897 Fire

Buckner Orphanage Residents @ State Fair Photo, ca. 1900
(Courtesy of Virginia
Freeman Taylor)


Buckner Orphanage Residents Photos, circa 1900
(Courtesy of Virginia
Freeman Taylor)


 
"The First Cabin," by Tom Gooch (1936)


Grigsby Land Claim Case


"Overton House Has
Romantic Story..."
(1928)

Map showing Overton
residence & vicinity
(1900)


West Dallas Squatters Camp, 1930's


"The Queerest House
in Dallas County"
(1922)
(Dallas Salesmanship Club Camp at Bachman's Lake)


MAPS
(on separate page)


MARRIAGES/DIVORCES:
(Related article)


Marriage/Divorce Index, 1862-1950:
(A thru L) (M thru Z)


MEMORIAL &
BIOGRAPHICAL
HISTORY of DALLAS
COUNTY, 1892

(on separate page)


MIGRATIONS:
1887  (INDEX)
1889 (Jan-March; July-December) (INDEX)
1890 (INDEX)
1894
1854 Wagon Train: Kentucky to Northeast Dallas County
 
"Vickery Woman Has Lived in Same House for Past Fifty-Three Years; Came to Texas in Covered Wagon From Kentucky in 1869 With Husband and 18-Months-Old Baby" (1925)


MILITARY-RELATED
ARTICLES


 MISCELLANEOUS
ARTICLES:
(Part 1) (Part 2)
(Part 3) (Part 4)
(Part 5) (Part 6)


"What About This Flapper Generation?..." (1926)


Dallas Area Dairies,
1920, 1927 & 1933


NEWSPAPERS
(Dallas County microfilms held by Dallas Public Library/7th Floor


OBITUARIES/MORTUARY
REPORTS/REGISTER OF DEATHS

(located on separate page)


PARKS


PIONEERS


POSTMASTERS
& POST OFFICES
of DALLAS COUNTY,
TEXAS, 1846-1930

Related articles


RAILWAYS


RECOLLECTIONS:
(Part 1) (Part 2)

 William Wald Glover Interview (1846-1928)


"Bad Spelling Gave Little
Town Of Scyene Its Name, Pioneer Resident of County Declares; Intended to Name It After a Well-Known River of
France
" (1925)

Pioneer Farm; Memories of "Aunt Annie" Annie Martilla Glover McCarley Sims
(1883 ­ 1968)


William H. Beeman
Interview, 1902


RELICS:

Two-thirds Exchange Certificate...receipt for exchange of old CSA notes for the new issue....at Confederate States Depository Office, Dallas, Texas, Oct 31, 1864
(Courtesy of Mike Thompson)


Sanger Brothers 10¢ Merchandise Scrip, circa Depression era
(Courtesy of Mike Thompson)


Dallas Bridge Company Certificate, 1872
(first iron bridge
over the Trinity)
(Courtesy of Mike Thompson)


Stoneleigh Pharmacy label, 1920's


Store Fixture Bracket, 1894


DALLAS COUNTY-RELATED
SITES
:

Dallas County
TXGenWeb Project


The Garland Landmark Society


Dallas History Society
Message Board


Dallas Public Library:
Texas/Dallas History and Archives 7th Floor


Archives Collection


Researching the History
of a Building


Dallas Sights


RELIGION:

Early Methodism
in Dallas County,

by Rev. W. H.
("Uncle Buck") Hughes


PIONEERS RECALL DAYS LONG PASSED; MANY ATTEND CELEBRATION OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF COCHRAN'S CHAPEL...


REUNIONS:
Part 1 | Part 2


Fisher Station/Pleasant View Missionary Baptist Church,
1910


Harmon Newman
family reunion,

circa 1925


White Rock Campmeeting


ROADS
County Road Contributors,
1889


RURAL ROUTE RESIDENTS:
1903   1904

Related articles


SANTA LETTERS:

Santa's Letter Box, 1899

Santa's Letter Box, 1900
(Dallas County letters only)

Santa's Letter Box, 1900
(Complete Listing - Dallas
County & non-Dallas County
letters)



SCHOOLS:

Assignment of Teachers in the County Public Schools, 1889
Public School Fund, 1889
Condition of Dallas Schools, 1890
Dallas Free Kindergarten

Dallas School Enrollment Statistics, 1885-1999
Dallas School Officials, 1884-2000
Schools in Dallas & Vicinity, 1920
Garland School Census, 1922-23
Garland Elementary School
Class Photos (M. D. Williams,
1956-1960 & Sam Houston Jr. High, 1960-61)
Mesquite Elementary School Class Photos 1922 1923

Dallas (City) School Teachers, 1928  (INDEX)
"Candidates for High School Graduation in Dallas" (1934)
 Candidates for Graduation
Dallas Technical High School,
(1939)
Cole's Select School

1962 Rylie High School Annual
("The SHADOW") Excerpts

1966 H. Grady Spruce High School Annual ("The TIPI") Excerpts

St. Mary's College

Sunset High School
(as archived on June 10,
2004; some of the links on
the above site are dead)


Sunset Alumni Association

Schools Miscellany


SOCIETIES

Benevolent Societies


SPORTS


STREETS
Oak Cliff & West Dallas
Street Directory, 1901:
"A" thru Dallas ave.
Dallas or Fort Worth ave.
thru Hopkins

Hord thru Pierce ave.
Pine thru Wright ave.


Dallas Street Name Changes (1911)
Dallas Street Name Changes (1933-34)


TOWNS & VILLAGES:

Breckenridge
Bug Eye
Calhoun (@ Fisher Station),
1887
 Diagram
Calhoun (@ Fisher Station),
1905
 Diagram

Carrollton
Cedar Hill
Cement City
Dallas Heights

De Soto
"Deep Ellum" (Elm St.) Directory

Duck Creek/Embree
Duncanville

Eagle Ford
East Dallas

Farmers' Branch
Garland | Garland (1892)
Gorbit/Gorbitt/Gorbet
Grand Prairie

Haught's Store
Honey Springs

Hutchins
Irving

Jim Town
Ka (Map of Ka, 1900)
Kleburg

La Reunion
Lancaster
Letot
Lisbon

Mesquite
Mesquite Tap (see Truman)
Morris
New Hope

Oak Cliff
Pleasant Mound
Pleasant Run
Possum Trot
Richardson

Rinehardt/Reinhardt
Rose Hill
Rowlett

Rylie
Sachse (Saxie)

Scyene
Seago/Seagoville
Shantytown
("Hoover Heights"/"The Camp")
Simonds

Trinity Mills
Truman

Vickery
West Dallas
Wilmer


RELATED ARTICLE


TRINITY RIVER


URBAN DEVELOPMENT:
Avion Village
Belmont Addition (1913)
(east of Greenville Ave.)
Belmont on the Hill ad (1913)
Bluff View Estates ad (1925)
Buckingham Estates Addition

Caruth Switch (1913)
Cedar Springs Place (1937)
3992 Beechwood Lane
(North Dallas) (1951)
Forest Avenue Heights (1914)
Greenville Ave. & Goodwin St. (1931)
Hollywood/Santa Monica History (LINK)
Junius Heights
La Reunion Housing Project Residents (1947-48)
Mount Auburn
(1913)
Mustang Village Residents (1947-48)
"
New East Dallas" (1926)
(White Rock Lake area)
Oak Lawn Heights ad (1926)
Stevens Park Estates (1930)
Swiss Avenue Historic District (LINK)
Texan Courts Residents (1947-48)
Vickery Place ad
(1913)
Westlake Park ad (1931)


USEFUL SEARCH TOOLS:
(LINKS)

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System


Confederate Indigent Families (Texas) Index


Confederate Pensions Search
(Texas)


TEXAS (STATEWIDE & COUNTY) BIRTHS, MARRIAGES & DIVORCES DATABASE
is accessible here


Convict Record Ledgers (1849-1954) (LINK)

Convict Record Ledgers Indexes (1849-1970) (LINK)


Dallas County ftp files:
Dallas County Births, 1926-1995

Dallas County Marriages, 1966-2002

Dallas County Divorces, 1968-2001


Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
(requires registration
and log-in)

Dallas County Deaths,
1964 - 1999


Dallas County Tax Appraisal District Database

Texas Death Certificates, 1890-1976 NEW

Handbook of Texas online

Social Security Death Index Database

Processed State Records
(Texas State Library)

Texas Adjutant General
Service Records, 1836-1935

Texas Archival
Resources Online

Texas Birth Records
(statewide search engine)

Texas Death Records
Database, 1964 - 1998

Texas General Land Office
Land Grant Database / Map Collection

Texas Marriage Records
(statewide search engine)

Texas Public Records
(statewide birth, marriage & death search engine)

World War I Civilian Draft Registration Database

World War II Honor List of
Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel
from: Texas

State Summary of War Casualties from World War
II for Navy, Marine Corps,
and Coast Guard Personnel from: Texas


VISITATIONS/RELATIONS:
1887 (INDEX)
1889 (Jan-March; July-December) (INDEX)
1890 (INDEX)

1898


WEATHER-RELATED

WHEN YOU AND I
WERE YOUNG:
(articles by
Fannie Segur Foster)

Early Dallas Schools (1925)


Lane, Crutchfield & Norton Families/Dallas' First Post Office


West Dallas/Eagle Ford/Oak Cliff/1875 Directory


The Cole Family/Millermore


Greenwood Cemetery


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

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