Texas Graveyards
Texas Graveyards

Author: Terry G. Jordan

Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM

Published: 2010-07-05

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0292757387

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Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.

Mize Genealogy in America
Mize Genealogy in America

Author: Joel Sanford Mize

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 836

ISBN-13:

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Henry Mize (ca. 1751-1853) married Kesiah Overby in 1794 in Brunswick County, Virginia, and moved to Union District, South Carolina by 1800. By 1816 the family moved to Franklin County, Georgia. Descen- dants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro- lina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes other Mize individuals and families. often immigrants in the colonial era, without tracing exact relationships.

Cleburne County and Its People
Cleburne County and Its People

Author: Carl J. Barger

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2008-05-13

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 1467859648

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Cleburne County and Its Peopleis a historical account of Cleburne County and the men and women who made it what it is today. These men and women were as diverse as the Ozark Mountain's rock-laden landscapes. The pioneers who settled Cleburne County were as strong as the land, of hardy pioneer stock, and bold in thought and action. They were shrewd, strong-willed individuals who brought staunch beliefs and strong disciplines with them and settled in an untamed wilderness which became Cleburne County. Cleburne County and Its Peoplehas drawn from the past and the present--chronicling the lives of settlers facing hardships and tragedies, discovering profound beauty, mastering vast natural resources, and formulating democratic ideals. The stories in this book are honest interpretations of the human experience intertwined with the old and the new and adding exciting dimensions to the county and Cleburne and the state of Arkansas. The objective of Carl J. Barger, the compilerofCleburne County and Its People, is to preserve a history of the county of his birth for students, historians, and all of the citizens of Cleburne County. Carl J. Barger is the author of Swords and Plowshares, a Civil War love story, and Mamie, an Ozark Mountain Girl of Courage, a story of the Ozark Mountain People, set in Cleburne and Van Buren Counties.