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100 years, 100 yards : The story of Austin College
Football
Willie Jacobs
Sherman : Austin College, 1996
1012 Natchez
: a memoir of Grace, Hardship and Love
Njoki
McElroy
The
author grew up in Texas, spending summers in her maternal grandparents'
house at 1012 Natchez in Sherman. Her grandparents, Jefferson
and
Julia Washington, move to Sherman in the 1890s and attended Harmony
Baptist. She mentions Sherman neighbors with the surnames of
Tatum and Marant....review by Marjorie Castle |
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Ancestors
and Descendants
Grayson County Texas
Compiled &
edited by Grayson County, Texas Genealogical Society
1980
This book has an
Every Name index.
Out of print, copies
are in most large Texas Libraries and in all local libraries.
Also found in the
Card Catalog of any Family History Center - microfiche.
Copies can be
borrowed by interlibrary loan or request lookups by
mail at the Sherman
Library
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Baseball
on the Prairie: how seven small town teams shaped Texas League History
by Kris Rutherford
published by Arcadia Publishing
The towns were Sherman, Denison, Paris, Corsicana, Cleburne, Greenville
& Temple
Biographical
books on Grayson County Families
published
by Frontier Village
Available by
mail.
Both books are in all
local libraries.
Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, containing biographical sketches...many early settled families (with list of surnames)
Black Land, Red River: A Pictorial History of Grayson County, Texas
by Sherrie McLeroy
The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First
Westbound Stage
By Waterman L. Ormsby
available at amazon.com
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Christmas Eve on North Main (Van Alstyne, Texas) by Dusty Williams $17.05 amazon.com
Claiming
Their Land : Women Homesteaders in Texas
Florence
C. Gould & Patricia N. Pando
amazon
Cook, Flippin, Clay, Bryant Family History: From Tennessee to Pottsboro, Texas by Natalie Bauman available at amazon.com
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Daniel and Crabtree
History in Martin Springs, Pottsboro, and Hagerman Texas
by Natalie Bauman
Death Finds A Way: A Janie RIley Mystery by Lorine McGinnis Schulze
Denison150 : Celebrating Untold & Under-Told Stories From Denison's First 150 Years
Brian C. Hander, Dr. Mavis Bryant, Donna Hord Hunt & James K. Sears
amazon
"Denison
Dam - Taming the Raging Red"
Gene Lenore, producer
purchases online at above website - $1.99
Denison in 1900 ~ series
order form
INDUSTRIAL
DENISON: A North Texas Town in 1900
amazon.com
THE DOWNTOWN
COMMUNITY: Denison, Texas, in 1900
amazon.com
HEALTH AND
DEATH: Denison, Texas, in 1900
amazon.com
LAND,
MONEY, LAW, TYCOONS: Denison, Texas, in 1900
Down by Dixie
by Dusty Williams
$10 amazon.com
A family/community newsletter, 2013-2015.
Dixie
is a small community in northeastern Grayson County, Texas that dates
its existence to the mid-19th century. The newsletter tells
of
family and community events and happenings as well as several histories
that pertain to the area.
The
Descendants of Owen Dogharty of Ireland
compiled by
Donna J. Hart
Downtown Denison, Texas: a History of Denison's Commercial District by Brian C. Hander c2019 amazon.com
2 Chicks Home & Market 311 W. Main St. Denison, Texas
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Foundations
of American Grape Culture
T.V. Munson
c1909
From the People to the Steeple: History of Waples Memorial UMC by Brian C. Hander c2016 available at amazon.com |
Books available at Frontier Village or by mail |
Frontier Denison
by Donna Hord Hunt
Order now: order form available at amazon.com
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Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol. 1 ~
Preston Bend
by Natalie Clountz
Bauman Amazon.com
Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol. 2 ~ Hagerman
by Natalie Clountz
Bauman Amazon.com
Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol. 3 ~ Martin Springs & Mineral City
by Natalie Clountz
Bauman amazon.com
Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol. 4 ~ Georgetown, Fink & Reevesville
by Natalie Clountz
Bauman
available at amazon.com
Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol. 5 ~ Locust, Willow Springs, Overton, Mill Springs
by Natalie Clountz
Bauman
available at amazon.com
Ghosts of the Gate City by Brian C. Hander available at amazon.com, 2 Chicks Home & Market, 311 W. Main St., Denison Proceeds from book sales helps promote public art around downtown Denison
Gone with the Water...The Saga of Preton Bend and Glen Eden by Natalie Clountz Bauman available at amazon.com
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Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol 2 ~
Hagerman
by Natalie
Bauman
available at amazon.com |
Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol 3 ~
Martin Springs & Mineral City
by Natalie
Bauman
available at amazon.com
Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol 4 ~
Georgetown, Fink & Reevesville
by
Natalie Bauman
Large pring paperback
amazon.com
Ghost Towns of Texoma, vol 5 ~
Locust & Mill Springs, Willow Springs & Overton
by
Natalie Bauman
amazon.com
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Grape Man of Texas : The Life of
T.V. Munson
by Sherris S. McLeRoy &
Roy E. Renfro, Jr., P.H.D.
amazon.com
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Grayson County Marriage Records
1846 - 1877
Frances T.
Ingmire
Mountain
Press
P.O. Box 400
Signal Mountain, TN 37377
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Grayson County Texas : Miscellaneous Wills and Probates 1833-1923
Abstracted by
Charlotte Holder & Catherine Overturff
Bryan County Heritage
Assn., Inc.
PO Box 153
Calera, Oklahoma 74730
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Hall Cemetery c1999-2000 Hall Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 664, Howe, Texas 75459-0664
Hidden
Headlines of Texas : Strange, Unusual and Bizarre Newspaper
Stories, 1860-1910
Compiled by Chad Lewis |
High
on a Windy Hill
by Margery Evans Eldridge
Eakin Press, c2001
amazon.com
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History
and Business Guide of Sherman and Grayson County, Texas
Ed H. Anderson, c1940
OUT OF PRINT
Contact the Sherman Library for lookups or interlibrary loan
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The History of Building the Denison Dam
in Words & Pictures
By Natalie Clountz Bauman
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Images of America: Denison by Donna Hord Hunt & Mavis Anne Bryant order form available at amazon.com
Images of America: Sherman by Linda Ashby available at amazon.com
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Remember Things: An Informal History of Tioga, Texas
by Ross Estes
Quannah, TX: Nortex
Press, c1977
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James George Thompson,
1803-1879: Cherokee Trader, Texan, Secessionist
by Dr. Mavis P. Kelsey
Dr. Mavis P.
Kelsey of Houston, Texas, died this
morning at his home at the age of 101. Educated at Texas
A&M and the UT Medical School at Galveston, he is best
remembered in medicine as the founder of the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in
Houston, which was modeled on the Mayo Clinic and has grown into one of
the largest medical providers in Texas. In the 1990s, he
published two retrospective, autobiographical books about his medical
career. He was also a scholar of Texas
history and printing. His earliest book was The Family of John Massie,
1743-c. 1830
(1979), a work of genealogy. His next publication was James George Thompson,
1803-1879: Cherokee Trader, Texan, Secessionist (1988). That was
followed by Travel
Journals of Mary Wilson Kelsey (1990), which he
edited. He published The Courthouses of
Texas: A Guide
(1993 and revised in 2007), which is the standard reference on the
subject, featuring short histories and color photographs of every Texas
courthouse. It was meant to encourage historical tourism. His
last publication, Texas
Sayings and Folklore (2013) was
a compilation of Texas colloquialisms and regionalisms that he had
spent a lifetime compiling. His contribution to Texas
printing history and illustration is his Engraved Prints of Texas,
1554-1900
(2005), which lists and illustrates hundreds of engravings showing
Texas scenes and personalities and is the standard work on the
subject.
The
Jefferson Highway: Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans
by Lyell Henry
Order from The Jefferson Highway Association
Journey to Freedom:
A Genealogical Study of an African American Family and the Political
and Social Issues That Impacted Their Lives, 1778 - 2013
by Lonnie R. Bunkley
Terrell HS, class of 1948
Author : "Much of the
book, which begins the colonial year 1778, is about my
family's life in Denison"
The Bunkley
family ran a restaurant (Hollywood Gardens) on the corner of Morton
Street and Mirick Avenue in Denison for many years.
available at amazon.com
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Journey Through History : Chronological
Listing of Public
Officials Grayson
County, Texas, 1846
- 2000
with Related
Stories and Comments
Weldon O.
Williams
c2001
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Katy's Baby
by Jack
Mcguire & Robert S. Stevens
Nortex Press
amazon.com
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Kentuckytown and Its Baptist Church
Joe W.Chumbley, c1975
D. Armstong Company
Inc.
Houston, Texas
OUT OF PRINT
Contact the Sherman Public Library or the Whitewright Public
Library for lookups.
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The Last Buffalo : Walter Potts, Oldest Documented Buffalo Soldier
E.B. Hogan
Chronicles
Walter Potts' life and family (Denison). Includes some
Fannin & Grayson County families.
amazon.com
bookshop.org
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Legends
of the Red River Valley
by Bright Ray (aka G.B. Ray)
Collection
of stories from the early days of the Red River Valley
$15.00
Whitewright Public Library
Send check or money order for the price of the
book(s),
plus $2.00 s/h for each item
Whitewright Public Library
PO Box 984
Whitewright TX 75491
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Little Good : The Sisters of St. Mary in Texas
John Begnaud
amazon.com
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Little Stories of Frontier
Denison by B.C. Murray
Available
at
Denison
Chamber of Commerce
313
W. Woodard St.
Denison,
TX 75020
OR
Main
Street Mall
500
W. Main St.
Denison,
TX 75020
OR
amazon.com
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Lives in Photography : Denison,
Texas, 1872 - 1999
by Mavis Ann
Bryant
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The Many Faces of Texoma's Red River by Natalie Clountz Bauman
Mac
and His Yellow Jacket Boats
by Marty Franz
Accumulated history of the Yellow Jacket Boat Company of Denison, Texas
and its president, Mac McDerby
Murder at the Corners
by G.B. Ray
Details the Lee-Peacock Feud which took place 1867-1871 in the
contiguous corners of Fannin, Grayson, Collin, & Hunt counties.
$12.50
Send a check or
money order for the price of the
book(s), plus $3.00 s/h for each item.
Whitewright Public Library
PO Box 984
Whitewright TX 75491
My Life in Print
by Donna Hunt
Donna
Hunt's new book, MY LIFE IN PRINT, has arrived! Here Donna tells about
her life as a child growing up in Denison, as a young woman journalist
and then editor of the Denison
Herald, and as a historian, columnist with the Herald Democrat,
and author of local history books. The book has lots of photos and a
section listing all of Donna's writings over the years. It's for sale
at the Denison Chamber of Commerce, and at Main Street Mall (500 W.
Main, Denison). You can also order by mail, by printing out this form (Linked from title above)
and following the instructions!
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Mt.
Zion
Cooke
Co., Texas
History of
Community, School, Church, and Cemetery
By Cass
& Sue Reasor
$30 with $10 of the sale price going to the Mt. Zion Cemetery
Association
Recipes
of Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Mt. Zion
Cemetery Association
The sale price of $7 goes to the Mt. Zion Cemetery Association
contact :
Cass Reasor
cwreasor@gmail.com
OR
Sue Reasor
grangran0330@yahoo.com
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New Town in Texas
by Siddie
Joe Johnson
C1942
a Juvenile novel about Red River Co. and early Grayson Co.
available at: AbeBooks
(6 copies), ebay.com, amazon.com, The
Dust Jacket (1 copy), Easy
Chair Books (1 copy)
Availalbe free checkout for 14 days at Internet
Archive
info. as of March 6, 2017
Northwestern
Grayson County, Texas Cemetery: List of Burials
by Natalie Clountz
Bauman
c2016
available at amazon.com |
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The
Old Country Store
by Natalie
Clountz Bauman
c2016
Available
at amazon.com |
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The Poor Farm of Grayson County, Texas
by Dusty Williams
c2015
amazon.com
Order
now. $12.95
A
place
vanished from many record books was a home to many residents of Grayson
County, Texas...it was, The Poor Farm. Follow the colorful history of
this eventful place from its begining to its end. The County Farm of
Grayson County, like other County Poor Farms, provided a home for the
needy and less fortunate. From times of peace, prosperity and
production, to Edna Gladney's famous march on the dire circumstances
that surrounded the county farm of Grayson County. Trace the intimate
history of many of the residents, including farmers, doctors and even a
niece of Davy Crockett who once called this place home. This book not
only documents the history of the home, but provides biographies of
those who lived here as well as those who ran the farm throughout its
long history. -Also
includes a history of the Pecan Grove Community, west of Sherman.
Postcard
History Series : Denison
by Brian
Hander
purchase at:
Barnes
& Noble
Arcadia
Publishing
amazon.com
Denison
Chamber of Commerce
Mary
Karam Gallery, Denison
Pottsboro
Texas & Lake Texoma Then...and Now
vol. 1 & 2
by Natalie Bauman
ORDER FORM
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Quantrill's Raiders in North Texas & Grayson County (updated edition)
by
Natalie Clountz Bauman
Print version
@ amazon.com
Kindle version
@ amazon.com
Quantrill's Raiders in Texas
Evault
Boswell
Ft.
Worth, Texas : Eakin Press
c2003
In
the fall of 1863, William Clarke Quantrill, the Missouri bushwacker,
took about 300 of his followers across Indian Territory to Sherman,
Texas. There they made camp at Mineral Creek until returning
to
Missouri in 1864.
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The
Remarkable T.L. Reber
Red
River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle
by
Rusty Williams
Red
River Valley
Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University, Texarkana
c2016
Red River Hauntings, vol. 1 : Ghost Stories in Grayson County, Texas & Southern Oklahoma
Red River Hauntings, vol. 2 : Ghost Stories in Grayson County, Texas & Southern Oklahoma
Red River Hauntings, vol. 3 : Ghost Stories in Grayson County, North Texas & Southern Oklahoma
Red River Hauntings, vol. 4 : The Haunted History & Ghost Stories of Denison, Texas
Red River Hauntings, vol. 5 : The Haunted History & Ghost Stories of North Texas
Red River Hauntings, vol. 6 : The Haunted History & Ghost Stories of North Texas
Red
River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle
by
Rusty Williams
Red
River Valley
Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University, Texarkana
c2016
Red
River Women
Sherrie
S.
McLeRoy
Republic of Texas
Press, c1966
Includes stories
about these Grayson County Women:
Sophia Porter, Lydia
McPherson, Olive Ann Oatman Fairchild, Lucy
Ann Thornton Kidd-Key, Edna Browning Kahly
Gladney
amazon.com
The
Remarkable T.L. Reber
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft amazon.com
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Reflections Of Faith
The Windows
of St. Patrick Catholic Church
Denison, Texas
by Suzanne Broussard
Photography by Marie Anderson
available at
amazon.com
Reflections on the Beauty of Lake Texoma by Natalie Clountz Bauman available at amazon.com
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School
Days Around Pottsboro, Texas - 1850-1978
by Natalie Clountz Bauman Amazon.com
ebay.com
Sherman Museum
Book Shop |
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Two
Schools On Main Street
Texoma Tales, vol. 1 ~ Stories of Grayson
County, Texas
amazon.com
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Theater
Row : Movie Palaces of Denison, Texas
Billy Holcomb
c1999
Tioga
& Collinsville
Images of America
by Don & J.R. Davenport
c2014
available at
Arcadia
Publishing
Amazon.com
Kindle edition
Barnes
& Noble
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Trails of Our Past
By Dusty
Williams
amazon.com
Cost - $15.00
While
documenting the small portion of Grayson
County History presented here in this book, I have met many individuals
who
were and are vital to the retelling of this history. A special thank
you to all
those involved in every aspect of our local history. While this book
comes to
a close, we know that with history it is never, “The End,” but rather,
“Until Next
Time.” And should, for some reason, I not be able to continue the documentation
and publication of Grayson County History, please, dear reader, use
this as a dock as you set sail on your own voyage of discovery. As you
read, research
and uncover long forgotten histories and mysteries, please share them with
the world by publishing your own compilation of your discoveries. It is
the greatest
gift that we are able to give those who have gone before us…to honor and
to remember them and to share their stories with all those who are
willing
to
read.
Until
Next Time…
Dusty
Williams
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True Ghost Stories & Other Strange and Scary Tales, vol. 1 - 3
by Natalie
Clountz Bauman
available
at amazon.com
also
available locally on Denison's Main Street : The Book Rack, Main Street
Antique Mall
Sherman's
Touch of Class Antique Mall
Pottsboro's
Patsy's Cafe
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Vittitoe
Cemetery Book
published by
Vittitoe Cemetery Board of Directors
2014
Contact :
Laverne Darwin
903-364-2456 |
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When The West
Was Wild in Pottsboro, Texas, vol. 1
by
Natalie Clountz Bauman re-published 2018
When
the West Was Wild in Denison, Texas, vol. 2
by Natalie Clountz Bauman
When the West Was Won: Crime and Calmity at Preston Bend, vol. 3 by Natalie Clountz Bauman amazon.com
When the West Was Won: Crime and Calmity in Pottsboro, vol. 4 by Natalie Clountz Bauman amazon.com
When the West Was Wild in Delaware Bend, vol. 5 by Natalie Clountz Bauman
When the West was Wild in Gordonville and Cedar Mills, Texas, vol. 6
by
Natalie Clountz Bauman
July 2020
When the West was Wild in Sadler and Basin Springs, Texas, vol . 7
by Natalie Clountz Bauman
c August 2021
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Elaine
Nall Bay
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