Abstracts of Early East Texas Newspaper, 1839--1856.

Texas did not require the filing of death certificates until 1903 and hence for someone trying to locate the death of a family member for early to mid 19th century deaths. A number of EAST TEXAS counties have suffered devastating losses of records due to courthouse fires. 1994, Reprinted 2017, 166 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-503-0.This new title of newspaper abstracts covers papers in Clarksville, Marshall, Nacogdoches, and San Augustine. In cases of "burned" counties, not only were marriages included, but so is other information ordinarily found in county records, such as probate notices.. By: Linda Cheves Nicklas, Pub. Also included is data of hist

Abstracts of Early East Texas Newspapers, 1839-1856 R. Riley Wonderful glimpse of life mid 1800s Texas! They definitely went into a lot of graphic description of hangings, deaths, etc.. "Great research tool" according to Lee Dickson. Perfect for the time and research, This book has helped my research in so many ways, Wish other areas of my research had this tool available