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Mentioning Bastrop County, Texas ATTENTION AUTHORS IF YOU HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK OR
THESUS/DISSERTATION AND WOULD ALLOW IT TO BE COPIED (VIA DIGITAL CAMERA) AND
POSTED ON THE BASTROP COUNTY WEBSITE, PLEASE CONTACT THE COORDINATOR OF THIS
SITE. SPECIAL THANKS TO PAUL SMITH, AUTHOR
OF SEVERAL TEXAS CEMETERY BOOKS, WHO GRATIOUSLY CONTRIBUTED HIS WORK TO EACH
COUNTY COORDINATOR FOR SUBMISSION ON THEIR SITES. (There is a book about the
history of each building in Smithville, name of book unknown but possibly
authored by the owners of the Katy Boarding House. Information needed.) The Old Red Rock Cemetery (Volume 1) By the Old Red Rock Cemetery
Association @2003 Author: Bushnell, Myrna and Ramsey,
Tami Bastrop County Death Records 9/1917 to 3/1940 By Karen R Thompson and L. Richard Scroggins Mr. W. J. Schewe, Undertaker, started
keeping a “Death Record” ledger. Copyright Save Texas Cemeteries Inc. and Jim Cox April 2000 Old Time Stories of W. T. Higgins Typeset by Jill Metzger 1999 Not published publically The News of Texas By James Robert New Several additions from 1987 Hew, Wells, Barnett, Hudson, Truman, Florida, Dearduff, Hoskins, Wolf, Kadura Publishing company unknown The Shooting of Clara Grohman Author: Sandi Crinkelmeyer 2021 self published Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas Volume 23 By Robbie Moore Sanders Texas A&M Press History Genealogy Interest McDade Texas
Bastrop County Where Santa Scheduled a Visit, but the Devil Came Instead Large format hardbound book, McDade Where
Santa Scheduled a Visit, but the Devil Came Instead, 1st edition published by
the McDade historical society in 2008. Greatest Generation As Reported in the Weekly
Bastrop Advertiser During World War II Xlibris Corporation LLC 2010 Shudde BESS Bryson Fath Austin colony pioneers, including history of Bastrop, Fayette,
Grimes, Montgomery, and Washington Counties, Texas, Author: Ray, Worth S. b. 1877 Publication: Austin, Pemberton Press,
1970, ©1949 History of Bastrop County, Texas
before statehood / Author: Kesselus,
Kenneth. Publication: Austin
: Jenkins Pub. Co., 1986 First settlers of the Republic of
Texas : headright land grants which were reported as genuine and legal by the traveling
commissioners, January 1840. Author: Ericson, Carolyn Reeves,
1931-; Ingmire, Frances Terry. Publication: [Nacogdoches, Tex. : St.
Louis, Mo. : Distributed by Ericson Books ; Distributed by Ingmire Publications, 1982, 1841 Bastrop County, 1691-1900 / Author: Moore, Bill, 1943- Publication: Wichita Falls, Tex. : Nortex Press, 1977 Document: English : Book The T.C. Osborn tenant farm, 41BP314 : an early sharecropper site in Bastrop
County, Texas / Author: Zapata, José E.; Meissner, Barbara.; Kenmotsu, Nancy Adele. Publication: Austin, Tex. : [San
Antonio, Tex.] : Texas Dept. of Transportation, Environmental Affairs
Division ; Center for Archaeological Research, the University of Texas at San
Antonio, 2001 Excavations at 41BP19 : the Kennedy Bluffs Site, Bastrop County,
Texas / Author: Bement,
Leland C. Publication: Austin, Tex. : Texas
State Dept. of Highways and Public Transportation, Highway Design Division,
1989 Excavations at the Bull Pen Site
41BP280, Colorado River drainage, Bastrop County, Texas / Author: Ensor, H. Blaine; Mueller-Wille, Catherine S.; Drollinger,
Harold., and others Publication: Austin, Tex. : Texas
State Dept. of Highways and Public Transportation, Highway Design Division,
1988 History of Bastrop County, Texas,
1846-1865 / Author: Kesselus,
Kenneth. Publication: Austin
: Bastrop, Tex. : Jenkins Pub. Co. ; Bastrop Stationers Press
[distributors], 1987 First settlers of Bastrop and Travis
Counties, Texas : from the originals in the General Land
Office / Author: White, Gifford E. Publication: [Austin, Tex.] : [St.
Louis, Mo. : G. White ; Distributed by Ingmire
Publications], 1984 Rockne, Sacred Heart Parish, Bastrop
County, Texas, 1876-1976 / Author: Goertz,
Alois J. Publication: San Antonio : Graphic
Arts, 1976 Updated volume 1996 by Rockne
Historical Association A history of Central Texas. Author: Barkley, Mary (Starr) Publication: Austin, Tex., 1970 Watterson folk of Bastrop County,
Texas. Author: Vest, Deed L. Publication: Waco, Tex., Texian Pr., 1963 In the shadow of the lost pines; a history of Bastrop County and its people. Corp Author: Bastrop Historical
Society. Publication: Bastrop, Texas, Bastrop
Advertiser, 1955 Bastrop : a compilation of material relating to
the history of the town of Bastrop, with letters written by Terry Rangers / Author: Jones, Margaret Belle. Publication: Bastrop, Tex. : [s.n] 1936 Relocation of the Craddock Cemetery,
41BP581 : Three Oaks Mine, Bastrop County, Texas
/ Author: Turpin, Solveig A.; Bement, Leland C. Publication: Austin, Tex. : TAS, Inc.,
2002 An archaeological inventory of Camp
Swift, Bastrop County, Texas / Author: Robinson, David G.; Meissner,
Barbara., and others Publication: San Antonio, Tex. :
Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio,
2001 Fairview Cemetery, Bastrop, Texas / Author: Smith, Paul, 1926-; Smith,
Tommie. Publication: [S.l.
: s.n., 2000 Bastrop State Park, Settlers' Trail. Author: Benavides, Guillermo. Publication: [Austin, Tex.] : Texas
Parks & Wildlife, 1996 Bastrop County, Texas cemeteries / (2
Volumes) Author: Rother,
Audrey Morgan. Publication: McDade, Tex. : A. Rother, 1991- Archaeological investigations at
Morgan Chapel Cemetery (41 BP 200) : a historic cemetery in Bastrop County,
Texas / Author: Taylor, A. J.; Fox, Anne A.;
Cox, I. Waynne. Publication: San Antonio, Tex. :
Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1986 Bastrop and Lee counties, Texas : Wend colony, 1854 / Author: McManus, J.; Ingmire, Frances Terry. Publication: St. Louis, Mo. : San
Antonio, Tex. : Frances T. Ingmire ; Distributed by
Family Adventures, 1985 Bastrop County, Texas, marriage
records / Author: Stoddard, J. Publication: St. Louis, Mo. (10166 Clairmont Dr., St. Louis, Mo. 63136) : F.T. Ingmire, 1985- Index to the Lewis Publishing Company's
1893 History of Texas : biographical history of Milam,
Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee, and Burleson counties / Author: Walker, Charles Alborn.; Snell, Mary Kay Holmes. Publication: Austin : [s.n.], 1977 Inventory of the county archives of
Texas. No. 11, Bastrop County (Bastrop) / Publication: San Antonio, Tex. : The
Survey, 1941 Inventory of the county archives of
Texas, Corp Author: Historical Records Survey
(U.S.)., Texas. Publication: San Antonio, Tex., The
Historical Records Survey, 1939-1941 History of Texas, together with a
biographical history of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson
counties : containing a concise history of the state, with portraits and biographies of
prominent citizens of the above named counties, and personal histories of
many of the early settlers and leading families. Publication: Chicago : Lewis
Publishing Company, 1893 Selected cemeteries of Bastrop County,
Texas / Author: Smith, Paul, 1926-; Smith,
Tommie. Publication: Nacogdoches, Tex. (1614
Redbud St., Nacogdoches 75961-2936) : Ericson Books, 1999 Under the jail : historical archeology at the Bastrop
County courthouse and old jail, Bastrop County, Texas / Author: Robinson, David G. 1952-;
Utley, Dan K. Publication: Austin, Tex. : Texas
Archeological Research Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin, 1990 Bastrop County marriage records / Author: Wolf, Evelyn.;
Leonhardt, Loretta.; Johnson, Valerie. Publication: [Bastrop, Tex.? : Baron
de Bastrop Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas], 1990- Naturalization records : Belleville, Austin County, Texas
1856-1890, Austin, Guadalupe & Washington Counties, TX 1855-1910, Bastrop
County, TX Office of District Clerk 1918-1925 ; Marriage licenses : Comanche
County, Texas 1879-1916, Hamilton County, Texas 1877-1913 / Author: Oates, Addison. Publication: Tucson, Ariz. : Arizona
State Genealogical Society, 1986 History of Paige, Texas and vicinity / Author: Laake,
Doris Goerner. Publication: Austin, Tex. : Eakin Publications, 1983 Archaeological and historical
investigations in Bastrop and Lee counties, Texas / Author: Kelly, Thomas C.; Roemer,
Erwin. Publication: San Antonio, Tex. :
Center for Archaeological Research, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1981 History of St. John Lutheran Church,
Paige, Texas / Author: Laake,
Doris Goerner. Publication: Paige, Tex. (P.O. Box
109, Paige, Tex., 78659) : D. Laake, 1979 Original grantee, patentee / Author: Ingmire,
Frances Terry.; Thompson, Robert Lee, Publication: St. Louis : Ingmire, 1979 Records of Texas County and District
Clerks, 1837-1974 : special list of records available on microfilm at Texas State Archives,
Austin, Texas. Corp Author: Texas State Library. Publication: [Austin : Texas State
Library, 1977 South Texas Geological Society annual
field trip through Lower Tertiary, October 19, 1940 : route, Austin-Manor-Elgin-McDade-Paige- Bastrop-Smithville. Publication: [Austin, Tex.] : The
Society, 1940 The Marquis de Maison
Rouge, the Baron de Bastrop, and Colonel Abraham Morhouse
- three Ouachita Valley soldiers of fortune; the Maison
Rouge and Bastrop Spanish land "grants", Author: Mitchell, Jennie O'Kelly.;
Calhoun, Robert Dabney, Publication: [New Orleans, s.n] 1937 The Texas Centennial roster, 1836-1936
: for the counties of Bastrop, Bell,
Colorado, Fayette, Freestone, Frio, Harris, Harrison, Henderson, Hill, Jim
Wells, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Lamar, La Salle, Maverick, Medina, McLennan,
Potter, Robertson, Washington, Wharton, Wilbarger, Williamson, and Zavala,
with a miscellaneous list appended / Publication: San Antonio, Tex. :
Stationers Exchange, 1936 Bastrop; a compilation of material relating to
the history of the town of Bastrop Author: Jones, Margaret Belle, comp. Publication: Bastrop, Texas, s.n., 1936 The Baron de Bastrop, god-father of Texas. Author: Wharton, Clarence, 1873-1941. Publication: n.p. The McDade Cemetery / Author: Metcalfe, T. B. 1920- Publication: [Tex.?] : Pinehill Pub., 2000 Buckners Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Buckners
Creek, Texas Publication: [Dallas, Tex.] :
Historical Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1999- Document: English : Serial Publication
: Microfilm Colorado Primitive Baptist Church Publication: [Dallas, Tex.] :
Historical Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1999- Document: English : Serial Publication
: Microform New Providence Primitive Baptist
Church, Alum Creek, Texas Publication: [Dallas, Tex.] :
Historical Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1999- Document: English : Serial Publication
: Microform Texas DAR Genealogical Records
Committee report. Series 2, v. 272, Obituaries from
Smith times and Bastrop advertiser, August 22, 1991 through February 20,
1992. Publication: [Texas : Texas DAR], 1997 A history of the Saint Phillips
community, Bastrop County, Texas / Author: Fogle,
Velma. Publication: [Austin, Tex.] : V. Fogle, 1997 Filled with the Spirit : Cottonwood Baptist Church, 1875-1997. Publication: [Del Valle, Tex.? : The
Church?], 1997 First settlers of Bastrop and Travis
Counties, Texas / Author: White, Gifford. Publication: [Nacogdoches, Tex.] :
Ericson Books, 1995, 1984 Bastrop Christian Church building
celebrates 100 years, 1895- 1995. Publication: [Bastrop, Texas : Bastrop
Christian Church], 1995 Pettytown-- a heritage remembered : 50th anniversary, Pettytown
homecoming picnic, 1940-1990. Publication: [Pettytown,
Tex. : Pettytown Cemetery Assn., 1990 Historical research at the George
Washington Jones homestead, 41BP86, Bastrop County, Texas / Author: Robinson, David G. 1952- Publication: [Austin, Tex.] : Texas
Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, 1989 Antecedents & descendants of
Stephen Van Rensselaer Eggleston : b. Nov. 28, 1796, Troy, N. Y., d. Feb. 22, 1839, Bastrop, Texas. Publication: [United States : s.n., 1989 Discover Bastrop's historic old jail : Pine and Water Street / Author: McCollum, Irene. Publication: [Bastrop, Tex.] : Bastrop
Chamber of Commerce, 1987 Bastrop County, Texas land titles,
1831-1877 / Author: Ingmire,
Frances Terry.; Thompson, Robert Lee, Publication: Signal Mountain, Tenn. :
Mountain Press, 1979 Civilization on the Colorado to 1860 / Author: Krenek,
Harry Lynn. Publication: San Marcos, Tex. : The
author, 1966 The history of Bastrop, Texas
(1851-1935) Author: Sumerlin,
Oliver Wesley, 1912- Publication: [Austin, Tex.] 1963 The Baron de Bastrop : life and times of Philip Hendrik Nering Bögel, 1759 to 1827 / Author: Bacarisse,
Charles Albert, 1925- Publication: Austin, Tex. : C. Bacarisse, 1955 Collection of typewritten transcripts
of selected documents from the Nacogdoches Archives from 1729 to 1843,
[between 1925 and 1929]. Author: Revillagigedo, Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas
y Aguayo,; Muñoz, Manuel,, and others Publication:
1925-1929? Speech of Hon. A.W. Terrell delivered
at Bastrop, October 8th, A.D. 1886. The campaign. Author: Terrell, Alexander Watkins,
1827-1912. Publication: Austin, Press of E. von Boeckmann, 1886 Regulations of the Texas Military
Institute, Corp Author: Texas Military Institute
(Bastrop, Tex.) Publication: Baltimore, Kelly, Piet,
1869 A sermon preached on the occasion of
the death of Mrs. Sarah Milton Whipple, late wife of Rev. Josiah W. Whipple,
P.E., on Austin District, Texas annual conference, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, at Bastrop, March 18th, 1849 / Author: Richardson, Chauncey. Publication: Houston, TX : Published
at the Office of the "Telegraph", 1849 Bastrop County cemeteries / Author: Maynard, W. E.; Claiborne,
Mattie.; Houston, W. C. Rose Dingle, Publication: [S.l. : s.n.,
197-?] Salem Sayers Cemetery records
1893-2001 Bexar County, Texas & Walnut Creek Cemetery records 1883-1891
Rockne, Bastrop County Texas. Publication: [Texas : Texas DAR], 2002 History of Bastrop County, Texas
before statehood / Author: Kesselus,
Kenneth. Publication: Bastrop, Tex. : Wash
Jones Press, 1999 McPhaul families of Bastrop County, Texas, 1858-1920 / Author: McPhaul,
John J., 1930- Publication: [Dallas, Tex? : J.J. McPhaul?, 1999 Land, law and the Baron de Bastrop : the Ouachita and Austin Colonies / Author: Milam, Marjorie Pranik. Publication: 1997 Document: English : Book :
Thesis/dissertation/manuscript [Sons of Confederate Veterans
newsletters]. Publication: 1997-1999 Document: English : Book Texas DAR Genealogical Records
Committee report. Series 2, v. 197, Gage family records,
abstracts of title in Bastrop county, Texas, and bible records. Publication: [Texas : Texas DAR], 1994 Bastrop High School Bears football
history, 1911-1992 / Author: Martin, William T. Publication: [Austin, Tex. : Martin
Communications, 1993 Ex-slaves Martin and Sophia McDonald
legacy : from human property to human
achievement / Author: McDonald, Thaddeus Arnell. Publication: [Austin, Tex.? : The
Author, 1992 William Dunbar of Bastrop County,
Texas : his ancestory
[sic] and descendants / Author: Schilling, Ethel Eleanor
Dunbar, 1885-1969.; Lawhon, John Thomas.; Lawhon, Mary Ethel Huth, Publication: [Bastrop, Tex.?] : J.T. Lawhon, 1991 Bastrop County tax rolls, 1837-1910 Publication: Austin, Texas : Texas State Library Records Division for Texas
State Library Archives, 1986, ? Document: English : Book : Microform 150 years of Methodism in Bastrop : 1835-1985 / Author: Pape, Allan. Publication: Bastrop, Tex. : Bastrop
Stationers, 1985 A Texas country house / Author: Mitchell, Susan Elaine. Publication: 1980 Document: English : Book :
Thesis/dissertation/manuscript A survey of Texas historical markers
in Bastrop County. Corp Author: Bastrop County Historical
Commission. Publication: [Bastrop?] The
Commission, 1975 Wilcox field trip, Robertson, Milam,
and Bastrop Counties, Texas / Author: Atlee, W. A. Publication: [Waco, Tex.] : Baylor
Geological Society, 1968 A study of factors influencing
absenteeism of a group of third grade pupils in the Emile Elementary School,
Bastrop, Texas / Author: McDonald, Bobbry
T. Publication: 1962 Document: English : Book :
Thesis/dissertation/manuscript The Roll Call : directory of Texas' oldest corporate
cemetery formally laid-out in 1830 / Author: Maynard, W. E. Publication: Bastrop, Tex. : W.E.
Maynard, 1960s History of Camp Swift, Texas / Author: Houston, Parke.;
Long, Walter E. Publication: [s.l.
: s.n., 1958 Butler clay (Wilcox group), Bastrop
County, Texas. Author: Sharp, William Wheeler, 1923- Publication: Austin, Tex., 1951 A study of the farm management
programs of fifty negro farmers in Bastrop County, Texas / Author: Abrams, Larry Carl. Publication: 1949 Document: English : Book : Thesis/dissertation/manuscript Watterson : a Texas rural community / Author: Vest, Deed Lafayette. Publication: 1946 Document: English : Book :
Thesis/dissertation/manuscript Data on Camp Swift, Texas in support
of a permanent military installation Publication: 1945 Document: English : Book An educational survey of Bastrop
County, Texas with plans for the reorganization of its schools ... Author: Watson, Melvin Miley, 1905- Publication: Austin, Tex., 1937 Bastrop County, Texas: historical and educational development
... Author: Korges,
William Henry. Publication: Austin, Tex., 1933 Evans, Luther Harris, papers,
1923-1989. Author: Evans, Luther Harris, 1902- .
Publication: 1923-1989 Document: English : Archival Material Directory of the First Methodist
Church, South, Bastrop, Texas, 1923. Publication: [Bastrop? : s.n. , 1923 Second annual Bastrop County Fair
under the management of Bastrop County Fair Association. Meeting Name: Bastrop County Fair (2nd : 1922 : Bastrop, Tex.) Publication: [Bastrop : The Fair, 1922 Catalogue and prize list of the 2nd
annual Bastrop County Fair : to be held under the auspices of the
Bastrop Commercial Club, Bastrop, Texas, October 16 and 17, 1912. Meeting Name: Bastrop County Fair (2nd : 1912 : Bastrop, Tex.) Publication: [Bastrop : The Fair, 1912 Cemetery records of Austin, Bastrop,
Burleson, Lee, McCulloch, Milam, Mills, San Saba, Travis, & Williamson
counties of Texas / Author: Cole, Ethel Stewart.;
Harrison, Sallie Stewart. Publication: [Brady, Tex. : E.S. Cole,
1900s George Willrich
law brief collection : Court of Civil Appeals of the First
Supreme Judicial District of Texas. 1894-1902. Part 2, Author: Willrich,
George.; Rosenthal, A. J.; Warner, C. M.,, and others Publication: 1894-1902 Bastrop Histrionic and Literary Club,
Opera House, to-night, Dec. 5 : benefit of Mrs. Will Kennedy : True as steel : a comedy in three acts : to
conclude with the laughable farce, The dentist clerk, or, Pulling teeth by
steam. Corp Author: Bastrop Histrionic and
Literary Club (Bastrop, Tex.) Publication: [S.l.
: s.n., 1891 C. Erhard & Son papers, 1890-1900. Corp Author: C. Erhard & Son
Drugstore (Bastrop, Tex.). Publication: 1890-1900 Document: English : Archival Material Billingsley, Elisha, letter, 1890. Author: Billingsley, Elisha.
Publication: 1890 Document: English : Archival Material Dictation from S. Moore
: Bastrop, Bastrop County : 1888. ms., Author: Moore, S., 1856-; Bancroft,
Hubert Howe, Publication: 1888 Document: English : Archival Material George Willrich
law brief collection : Court of Civil Appeals of the First
Supreme Judicial District of Texas. 1887-1894. Part 1, Author: Willrich,
George.; Koester, A.; Klicka, Joseph., and others Publication: 1887-1894 Articles of incorporation, by-laws, and
minutes of stockholders and directors meetings, 1886-1892. Corp Author: Taylor, Bastrop, and
Houston Railway Company. Publication: 1886-1892 Document: English : Book :
Thesis/dissertation/manuscript Records, 1871-1972. Corp Author: Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company. Publication: 1871-1872 Document: English : Archival Material Goodman, Edwin C., papers, 1868-1880. Author: Goodman, Edwin C. Publication:
1868-1880 Document: English : Archival Material In the Senate of the United States. May 19, 1854. Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Pettit made the following report: "A bill to confirm the claim of
John Ervin to a certain tract of land in the Bastrop grant."
... Corp Author: United States.,
Congress., Senate., Committee on Private Land Claims. Publication: [Washington : s.n., 1854 In the Senate of the United States. : May 25, 1854. Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Benjamin made the following report ... "A bill to confirm the claim
of Wm. H. Henderson and the heirs of Robert Henderson, to five hundred acres
of land in the Bastrop grant," ... Corp Author: United States.,
Congress., Senate., Committee on Private Land Claims. Publication: [Washington : s.n., 1854 Address delivered by George W.
Paschal, of Austin, Texas, before the Bastrop Academy, August 20, 1852 : published at the request of the trustees. Author: Paschal, George W. 1812-1878. Publication: Austin : Printed at the
South-Western American office, 1852 Papers, 1835-1888. Author: Fisk, Greenleaf, 1807-1888.;
Billingsley, Jesse. Publication: 1835-1888 Document: English : Archival Material Slaughter-Eanes
family papers, 1835-1944. Author: Slaughter family.; Eanes family.; Slaughter, Agustin B.,, and others
Publication: 1835-1944 Document: English : Archival Material McNeill, Hector and D.L., papers, 1838-1867. Author: McNeill, Hector. Publication: 1838-1867 Document: English : Book :
Thesis/dissertation/manuscript Maddox, Edward F., papers, 1845-1971. Author: Maddox, Edward Finnin, b. 1892.; Adams, William
Kelsey. Publication: 1845-1971 Document: English : Archival Material Bastrop's land claim. January 25, 1832. Reprinted by order
of the House of Representatives. Mr. Brent, from the Committee appointed on
the subject, made the following report: ... Author: Brent, William Leigh, Corp
Author: United States., Congress., House., Committee
on Private Land Claims. Publication: [Washington : Gales &
Seaton?, 1832 Papers, 1832-1838. Author: Hamlin, Zacheus.; Andrews,
Edmund.; Reed, John. Publication: 1832-1838 Document: English : Archival Material Papers, 1830-1971, 1882-1970. Author: Carpenter, Fred A.; Austin,
Stephen F. Publication: 1830-1971 Document: English : Archival Material Bastrop, Baron de, papers, 1795-1823. Author: Bastrop, Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de, 1766-1827. Publication: 1795-1823 In:
Natchez Trace Collection. Document: Spanish : Archival Material Austin papers, 1676-1889. Author: Austin, Stephen F. 1793-1836.;
Austin, Moses, Publication: 1676-1889 Document: English : Archival Material Dictation from S.C. Olive
: Waco, Texas. Author: Olive, S. C., 1833-; Bancroft,
Hubert Howe, Document: English : Archival Material eBooks on netLibrary (ask your Texas Library for user name
and password to TexShare Databases) 1. The Soul of a Small Texas Town :
Photographs, Memories, and History From McDade by Wharton, David. Norman University of Oklahoma Press,
2000. 2. Stagecoach Inns of Texas by Carter, Kathryn Turner. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1994. Excerpts: Mrs. Angelina B. Eberly had moved to Austin from Bastrop in 1839. Famed
for the food she served, her first success was dinner served at three o'clock
on October 17, 1839 for President Lamar and his cabinet. During her days in
Austin, she served suppers at most of the celebrations. Perhaps she is
remembered most for her part on December 30, 1842, in the "War of the
Archives," when she spun the cannon around from the front of Bullock's
Inn and fired at the wagons trying to move the state archives. First known as Mina, the town is rich
in history, century-old buildings and homes. One of the historic homes is the
Campbell Taylor House, a stagecoach inn, which was built in 1836 at the
crossing on the Old San Antonio Road, which goes through Bastrop. Destroyed by fire in 1899, the
Nicholson House was proclaimed as one of the most famous and beautiful of the
early day Texas stagecoach inns. It was known far and wide as one of
the best "feeders" in all of Texas. Travelers could endure an
uncomfortable ride on the stage with the knowledge that they eventually would
enjoy the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. James Nicholson in Bastrop. 3. Indian Depredations in Texas :
Original Narratives of Texas History and Adventure by Wilbarger, J. W. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1985. 4. Romantic Weekends : Texas Romantic Weekends by Abbott, Mary Lu. Edison, N.J. Hunter Publishing, 1999. 5. The Bob Love Story : If It's Gonna Be,
It's Up to Me by Love, Bob.; Watkins, Mel Chicago, Ill. NTC Contemporary, 2000. 6. Austin's Old Three Hundred : The First Anglo Colony in Texas by Autrey, Russell. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1999. 7. Texas Mammals East of the Balcones Fault Zone W.L. Moody, Jr., Natural History
Series ; No. 6 by Schmidly, David J. College Station, Tex. Texas A&M
University Press, 1983. 8. Biographical Directory of the
American Congress, 1774-1996 : The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774,
to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, From the First
Through the 104th Congress, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1997 by Treese, Joel D. Alexandria, Va. Congressional
Quarterly Press, 1997. 9. African American Historic Places by Savage, Beth L.; Shull, Carol D. New York John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
(US), 1996. Many of these benevolent associations
(YWCA) sprang up in towns like Bastrop, Texas, where the local population's
determination to ensure community stability and prosperity was enhanced by
significant black home ownership at a time when relatively few blacks could
afford to own their own homes. Bastrop's Kohler-McPhaul,
Harriet and Charlie McNeil, Beverly and Lula Kerr, and Jennie Brooks Houses,
all recognized in the National Register, reflect such community efforts. Jennie Brooks House, 1009 Walnut,
Bastrop, This vernacular Greek Revival style house is significant for its
association with Jennie Brooks, an early black settler in Bastrop and
daughter of a slave. Brooks purchased this lot and built this house around
1890. This house is also one of the oldest houses in Bastrop built by a black
family, and Brooks was one of the few black home owners in the growing black
community. Kerr Community Center, 1308 Walnut,
Bastrop, Built in 1914, this two-story frame building represents the social
history of African Americans in Bastrop. Beverly and Lula Kerr, prominent
black community leaders and talented music teachers, built the Kerr Community
Center and rented out the facility for social activities, lodge meetings, and
entertainment events. The building was erected just behind their house, which
still stands at 1305 Pine. Kohler-McPhaul
House, 1901 Pecan, Bastrop, Kohler-McPhaul House,
with its unique architectural style showing German-influenced proportions, is
associated with the McPhauls, a black family that
purchased the house around the turn of the century. This house represents
black home ownership during a time when few African Americans owned their own
homes . Harriet and Charlie McNeil House, 1805
Pecan, Bastrop, Built in 1870, the Harriet and Charlie McNeil House is one of
the oldest houses in Bastrop owned by a black family. In the early 20th
century, Harriet McNeil, an African American, purchased this house, and it
remained the home of Harriet and her son, Charlie, throughout most of this
century. Ploeger-Kerr-White House, 806 Marion, Bastrop, This one-story frame house was
constructed by Carl Ludwig Ploeger, a native of
Prussia, soon after he married in 1863. It was later purchased by Robert
Kerr, the first black legislator from Bastrop and one of the few African
Americans to hold political office in the years immediately following
Reconstruction. Robert Kerr came to Bastrop from the Kerr Creek community,
near Victoria, Texas sometime around 1865. Kerr's first job was keeping books
for Hasler Grocery on Main Street; later he drove
an express wagon and delivered groceries to people around the town. He became
a member of Paul Quinn African Methodist Episcopal Church and was active in
church affairs and community activities. Most important, Kerr was elected to
the state legislature in 1881, and he remained in office until 1883. Robert
Kerr and his wife, Sarah, resided at Ploeger-KerrWhite
House throughout his career. The house was later sold to Beverly and Lula
Kerr, black leaders and educators, as well as the founders of Kerr Community
Center in Bastrop. The house remained in the Kerr-family for 47 years. 10. The Battle of the Alamo : You Are There by Milligan, Bryce. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1999. 11. Dare-Devils All : The Texan Mier
Expedition, 1842-1844 by Nance, Joseph Milton.; McDonald, Archie P. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1998. Those executed: James L. Shepherd, a
lad of about seventeen years of age, formerly from Alabama and a resident of
Bastrop, Texas, in 1842; When William Dunbar returned to
Galveston from imprisonment in Mexico, he married Caroline Simpson on February
9, 1846. By 1850 he had moved to Bastrop, where he was elected clerk of the
Bastrop County Court, and served from 1850 to 1854.4 He died in Bastrop on
December 20, 1855 When John Harvey got home, he was
elected surveyor of Bastrop County on February 3, 1845, and commissioned on
November 22, 1845. Mark M. Rodgers returned to Bastrop
after he was released and was elected tax assessor for the County of Bastrop
in 1846. In 1848 he was elected sheriff for two years. Congress provided on February 3, 1844,
that Monia E. Goodwin, Louisiana Harris, Eliza
Harris, “and other heirs at law,” of Robert W. Harris, one of the decimated Mier men, should receive a Land Office certificate for
320 acres of land in place of Certificate No. 217 (2nd class) which had been
issued to Robert W. Harris by the Board of Land Commissioners for Bastrop
County, dated December 19, 1839. The heirs of James Barber of Bastrop,
on October 23, 1851, sought land from the legislature for his services on the
Somervell Expedition in 1842; he continued on the Mier
Expedition and was wounded in the battle at Mier
and died in Matamoros on March 14, 1843. Has list of Mier
men and their residences. 12. Adventure Guide to Texas Adventure Guide Series by Young, Kimberly. Edison, N.J. Hunter Publishing, 1999. 13. A Life Among the Texas Flora :
Ferdinand Lindheimer's Letters to George Engelmann by Lindheimer,
Ferdinand.; Engelmann, George; Goyne, Minetta Altgelt College Station Texas A&M
University Press, 1991. For the time being I do not think I
will be going to Bastrop, since my friend Ernst Kleberg has written me during
the last few days that things are very uncertain at their place because of
the Indians now; within a few days six men have been killed by them in the
vicinity of the town. Not only does one have to keep the horses in stalls and
chain them, but also guard the slits in the walls of the stalls, because the
Indians kill the horses with arrows if they cannot steal them. Henceforth you
must send letters and everything else (e.g., newspapers) for me to Industry,
Austin County. Just now I read in the newspaper that
a number of horses were stolen at Bastrop again on 6 May, but that nineteen
well-armed Texans followed the tracks of the Indians on the very next morning
after the theft and, as is often the case here, they got their horses back
and got some other loot too. - (It would be worth the effort to start a
collection of anecdotes concerning these little excursions by Texans against
the Indians. What tireless perseverance and romantic boldness on the one
hand, and what panicky fear and cheating cowardice on the other often come to
light there. The Anglo Americans are not all cast in
the same mold, you see; they are a people but not a nation.) 14. Texas Ranger Tales : Stories That Need Telling by Cox, Mike. Plano, Tex. Republic of Texas Press,
1997. Born in Bastrop on July 5, 1855, Ahijah W. Grimes was named for his mother's father, Ahijah M. Highsmith. On March 2, 1874—Texas Independence
Day as well as his bride-to-be's twentieth birthday—Caige
married Lottie A. Lyman in Bastrop. Like many Texas men of his time,
Grimes was a Mason. He belonged to Gamble Lodge 244 in Bastrop. Although the
original lodge records were destroyed in a fire in 1862, Grimes' father was a
charter member of the lodge. Caige was initiated
March 10, 1873, passed on April 26, and raised on May 14. He and his brother
Masons met the fourth Sunday of each month on the second floor of a building
at Chestnut and Pecan Streets. In 1874 the twenty-three-year-old
Grimes was serving as city marshal of Bastrop, earning $40 a month plus fees. If Grimes was involved in
investigating any major criminal cases while serving as city marshal, the
Bastrop newspaper was silent on the subject. All the action seems to have
been taking place at the nearby Bastrop County community of McDade, where a
murder and the hasty lynching of the alleged perpetrator were reported on May
9, 1874. By then Caige
and Lottie had two children: Elizabeth, born January 31, 1875, and Benjamin
Lyman Grimes, born May 10, 1876. On September 21, 1876, the Bastrop
County Commissioner's Court appointed Grimes as Precinct 6 Constable. He put
up his bond and was sworn in on October 25. 15. Good Times in Texas : A Pretty Complete Guide to Where the Fun Is by Hodge, Larry D. Plano, Tex. Republic of Texas Press,
1999. 16. The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston. Vol 4, 1852-1863 by Houston, Sam.; Roberts, Madge Thornall Denton, Tex. University of North Texas
Press, 2001. 17. The Episcopal Church in Texas. Vol. 2 by Brown, Lawrence L. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1988. 18. The Kingfish and His Realm : The Life and Times of Huey P. Long by Hair, William Ivy. Baton Rouge Louisiana State University
Press, 1991. 19. Texas : With Particular Reference to German Immigration and the
Physical Appearance of the Country by Roemer, Ferdinand. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1983. Since we tarried at a number of
plantations, we did not reach Bastrop until late at night although covering
only thirty miles that day. Despite the lateness of the hour we not only
found good lodging in the hotel, but also had a good supper composed of
coffee, cornbread, fried chicken and canned fruits. On the following morning we inspected
the city, but soon convinced ourselves that like other Central Texas towns it
offered little of note. About eighty to ninety frame houses, painted white,
stood on several broad, straight unpaved streets. Among them were six to
eight stores and three or four saloons. Most of the houses looked rather
dilapidated and the place needed a ''new start" apparently (as the
Americans say) to keep it from losing its appearance of a town altogether.
The location of the town was not badly chosen, as it was situated on a
fruitful, small plain on which mesquite trees grew, and near the fifty to
sixty feet high steep banks of the Colorado. The city was named after a
German, Baron von Bastrop, who had planned an extensive German colonization
here at the time when the first American settlements were still under Mexican
rule. He bought a large tract of land for this purpose, but death prevented
him from carrying out his plans. Prior to the founding of Austin the
city was for a long time the most northern settlement in the Colorado Valley
and as such was constantly harassed by the Indians. It was abandoned several
times for this reason. In the course of the day we continued our journey to
Austin. The character of the country along this stretch remained more or less
the same. Sand hills overgrown with pine and oak alternated with small
fertile valleys. The prospects for a corn crop were excellent everywhere. Our camp on the next night was made
about fifteen miles on the other side of the San Marcos, at a water hole
called by the uninviting name of ''Alligator Hole." Alligators, however,
did not molest us, but swarms of mosquitoes fell over us as soon as we lay
down. 20. Overreached On All Sides : The
Freedmen's Bureau Administrators in Texas, 1865-1868 by Richter, William L. College Station, Tex. Texas A&M
University Press, 1991. In another case, an informant charged
Captain Alex B. Coggeshall at the Bastrop agency of
conspiring with his brother-in-law, Julius Schuetze,
to provide laborers to planters for a kickback. Coggeshall's
replacement uncovered the story, and accused Coggeshall
of sloppy record-keeping to hide the evidence. Coggeshall
admitted that he had married into the Schuetze
family after coming to Bastrop as the bureau representative, that Julius Schuetze provided hands to many planters, and that he and
his relatives had plantation interests in common. He conceded that "I
was not born a clerk." But he denied any corruption. Later charges
appeared in the Galveston Daily News, but evidently nothing could be proven. Another agent who had lost his left
arm, this time at Chancellorsville while an officer with the famous Berdan Sharpshooters, Captain William H. Horton served
the bureau at Wharton, Dallas, and Bastrop. His wound never stopped him from
rendering a good account of himself, until his greed got the better of him,
and he was forced to resign for accepting bribes. Just before his resignation as
assistant commissioner, Kiddoo sent Porter on an
inspection tour of Columbus, La Grange, and Bastrop. Griffin so liked Porter's
report on matters at the Bastrop office that he gave Porter the troubled
agency for his own. Porter had a rough time at Bastrop. He faced a prolonged
hassle with a local tough, William J.A. Bell, and his son, Willis, over their
shooting of a Negro. No one would arrest the Bells, and the elder man rode
about town defying Porter to act. When Bell threatened twice in one day to
shoot the subassistant commissioner, Porter managed
to get some soldiers to arrest him. He fined the old man fifty dollars. Bell
refused to pay, said Porter later, until he spent two hours in jail thinking
it over. Since Bell quarreled with everyone, local authorities decided to
appoint him deputy sheriff, much to Porter's disgust. In his new job, Porter
said, Bell assisted the persecutors of Unionists to escape. Bell still
maintained that he would force Porter to refund his fine or else kill the subassistant commissioner. Yet he was defended by a large
portion of the town, including ex-agent Alex B. Coggeshall
and Throckmorton's lieutenant governor, George W. Jones. Porter figured that
Bell gave him more trouble than all the rest of his subdistrict
combined. When the subassistant commissioner was
taken to court on a matter growing out of the Bell case, he decided that he
had had enough. After receiving immunity from prosecution as a Federal
employee doing his assigned job, Porter resigned his commission and went
North. Although Steinberg was caught rather
quickly, Reynolds was not so lucky in the case of William H. Horton, the one-armed
subassistant commissioner at Bastrop. Horton
suffered the same fate as his predecessor, Byron Porter, at the hands of the
same men, led by the notorious William J.A. Bell. By now, Bell's reputation
was so bad at headquarters that Horton could not accept a ride out to Bell's
plantation to inspect the conditions of the freedmen without being accused of
consorting with a known felon. Bell continued his reign of terror against
blacks and Union men. His arrest in one case led to a guilty verdict and a one-cent
fine, much to Horton's disgust. Bell was not alone in his misdeeds.
Justice of the Peace W.T. Allen was rumored to have raped a freedwoman who
worked for him. Nothing was done. Horton protested, but not even Governor
Pease thought the case could be prosecuted successfully. Murders were common
on the county roads. Prisoners escaped from the jail regularly. Concerned by
Horton's troubles, Reynolds sent Sinclair to nearby Bastrop to assist him in
two sticky cases. The first involved a murderer and cattle rustler whose
friends threatened to break him out of jail. Reynolds wanted the man
transferred to Austin, but Sinclair thought the trip too hazardous to
attempt. Instead, the inspector had a troop detachment sent to Bastrop to
secure the jail for the civil authorities. In the second matter, a defendant
would not pay a fifty-dollar fine for contempt of court, involving his
refusal to be arrested by the local sheriff. Horton said that the sheriff had
been lackadaisical in his duties or the incident could not have occurred. The
sheriff wanted the support of the army to arrest such a dangerous fugitive.
Sinclair placed the sheriff on probation for his refusal to act and ordered
the army to assist him in the arrest. After the matter was successfully
concluded, Sinclair released the sheriff from his bond. About this same time, Horton was
greatly embarrassed on a personal level when Commissioner Oliver O. Howard's
ambulance broke down opposite town as the general was going back to
Washington on his only trip to Texas during Reconstruction. Howard's driver
could not rouse the ferryman, and the general and his driver had to spend the
night in the ambulance. Horton said that the real problem was that the
general's driver had pushed the horses too fast and they both played out. One
never recovered from the trip and died. Horton took Howard personally to the
steamboat wharf at Columbus to continue his journey. Shortly after this
incident, Horton was told to turn his records over to the despised Judge
Allen, and report to Austin. After Beath
grumpily complied with Reynolds's orders, the general sent him to Bastrop,
which needed an agent more desperately even than Cotton Gin. When Beath arrived, the town believed that it had run off
Byron Porter and Horton before him, and now it was Beath's
turn to fly. But Beath was a tough man with seven
years' military experience behind him, and he fought instead of running.
Reynolds warned Beath that he could not have
military assistance and to stay out of matters that should have been settled
by his predecessors, but Beath bulled ahead with
what he thought was right. He set a black defendant free from the city jail,
because he thought him wrongly accused and unfairly denied bail. Judge W.T.
Allen, the man Horton had accused of raping a freedwoman, threatened Beath in public, and loudly damned Congress, General
Reynolds, and the bureau. Beath refused to fight
him, although many blacks said that they would back up the subassistant commissioner, because he feared a race riot
was exactly what the judge wanted. A few nights later, Allen's carriage
house went up in smoke. The fire was prevented from spreading throughout the
town only by a providential rainstorm. Allen accused Beath
of starting the fire. The judge said that Beath was
so objectionable as the bureau representative in
Bastrop that he and other allegedly loyal military appointees to civil office
would resign in protest. Allen and his friends claimed that Beath had threatened to burn the town, and spent most of
his time drinking in a saloon with an army buddy. Beath,
for his part, denied that he had started the fire. He begged Reynolds to
remove Allen and his cronies from office and give Bastrop a decent local
government. Reynolds refused to back Beath, who
resigned his position. But the end of the bureau a week later made the whole
argument moot. Beath left Bastrop and secured an
appointment as the Federal postmaster at Weatherford, close to his old Sixth
Cavalry stamping grounds 21. Samuel May Williams, Early Texas Entrepreneur by Henson, Margaret Swett. College Station Texas A&M
University Press, 1976. 22. Till Freedom Cried Out : Memories of Texas Slave Life Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life
Series ; No. 6 by Baker, T. Lindsay. College Station, Tex. Texas A&M
University Press, 1997. Harriett Robinson's mother's master
was Samuel W. Simms, who with his wife, Julia, was recorded in the 1860
census as having real estate worth $14,000 and having a personal estate,
including nineteen slaves, valued at $14,650. Samuel W. Simms became prominent
in local affairs, built and operated steamboats, helped to organize the
Bastrop Military Academy, and promoted railway construction. The master for
the interviewee's father was Eli C. M. (Meke)
Smith, who with his wife, Harriet E. M. Smith, was recorded by the census
enumerator in i86o as having real estate worth 46,500 and a personal estate,
including thirty-four slaves, valued at $54,870. Overseer Daniel Ivory was
recorded by the census as residing only two dwellings away from planter Smith
(Kenneth Kesselus, History of Bastrop County,
Texas, 1846–1865, 26, 32, 38–40, 48–49, 64–65, 70, 74, 85, 92, 161; Census of
1860, Population Schedules, Bastrop County, 1, 61; Census of 1860, Slave
Schedules, Bastrop County, 1, 8). For the remembrances from another former
slave on the plantation of Eli C. M. (Meke) Smith,
see “Alfred E. Menn[,] Travis County, Texas[,] District No. 9[,] March 5,
1938[, interview with former slave] Nancy Thomas,” typescript, UT Texas Slave
Narratives. 23. Alamo Legacy : Alamo Descendants Remember the Alamo by Jackson, Ron. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1997. Cottle's uncle, George Washington Cottle, rode into
the Alamo with thirty-one other volunteers from Gonzales in March of 1836.
The news of his uncle's death came to Zebulon months later. The story told to
Zebulon and other family members was of George vowing to never let the
Mexican soldiers get their hands on the garrison's ammunition supply. He was
said to have been found dead in the magazine room of the Alamo chapel. In 1835 Warnell
became a resident of Bastrop, Texas, where he hooked up with Edward Burleson.
Warnell lived with Burleson and tended his horses.
Folks called Warnell a jockey, and not merely for
his ability to ride a thoroughbred. He knew horses, talked about them all the
time, and more important to his livelihood, knew where to find buyers for his
stolen horses. He died with the distinction of being the only defender to
leave the battle alive. Pigtailed Katie Jennings was just ten
years old when her mother, Catherine, hoisted her onto the family's best
horse in March of 1836. Little did the youngster know she would become the
Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution. Catherine had
just learned that the Mexican Army, led by dictator Santa Anna, had captured
the Alamo. She wondered if her husband, Gordon C. Jennings, had survived the
battle. He had joined the Alamo garrison shortly before the December 11,
1835, battle at Bexar, leaving his wife and their four children behind at
their cabin near the town of Bastrop. Since Connell was widowed in 1834, his
eldest daughter, Elizabeth, became head of the household in Bastrop. Siblings
William, James, George, and Mary Ann intently listened to Elizabeth when they
heard the news of the advancing Mexican Army. The Alamo had fallen and the Mexicans
were coming. David Cook Connell's future wife,
Sarah Jane Clark, would also encounter the danger of the revolution. Sarah
was a nine-year-old at the time of the Alamo's fall. She was living with her
mother, Mary Brisbin Clark Deleplain,
and her stepfather, Absalom C. Deleplain, when news
of the Alamo slaughter reached their Mina home. 24. Legendary Texians. Vol. 2 by Davis, Joe Tom. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1985. Since the two families were the
"outside settlers" in the area, the Hornsbys
and Wilbargers became close friends. They were also
joined by a common bond of danger since this frontier region was on the
extreme fringe of Comanche country. At this time Gonzales, Wilson and
DeWitt counties were living under a threat of violence because of the
Sutton-Taylor Feud. This war was triggered in March 1868 at Bastrop when
Deputy William Sutton killed cousins Charlie and Buck Taylor; the first
victim was accused of stealing cattle and Buck died when he sought revenge.
The sons of Creek Taylor then became rebels much as Wes Hardin and began to
best Union soldiers in the area while Jack Helm, a captain in the state
police, organized some fifty gunmen into the "Regulators" to fight
the Taylors. When William Sutton joined him the group became known as the
Sutton Party. 25. Raw Frontier Vol. 2 / : Armed Conflict Along the Texas Coastal Bend by Guthrie, Keith. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 2000. 26. The Great Comanche Raid : Boldest Indian Attack of the Texas
Republic by Brice, Donaly E. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1987. 27. Lone Star Justice : A
Comprehensive Overview of the Texas Criminal Justice System by Horton, David M.; Turner, Ryan Kellus. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1999. 28. A Long Ride in Texas : The Explorations of John Leonard Riddell Centennial Series of the Association
of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; No. 51 by Riddell, John Leonard.; Breeden, James O. College Station Texas A&M University
Press, 1994. 29. The Alamo Story : From Early History to Current Conflicts by Edmondson, J. R. Plano, Tex. Republic of Texas Press,
2000. 30. The Texas Senate. Vol. 1, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 by Spaw,
Patsy McDonald College Station Texas A&M
University Press, 1990. 31. Hands to the Spindle : Texas Women and Home Textile Production,
1822-1880 Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life
Series ; No. 5 by Marks, Paula Mitchell. College Station, Tex. Texas A&M
University Press, 1996. 32. Wild Camp Tales by Blakely, Mike. Plano, Tex. Republic of Texas Press,
1995. 33. Interim in the Desert : Stories by Sodowsky, Roland. Fort Worth Texas Christian University
Press, 1990. 34. Texas Baptists : A Sesquicentennial History by McBeth, Leon. Dallas, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1998. Excerpt: The first Baptist church
actually formed in Texas was the Providence Church, formed on March 29, 1834,
on the Colorado River below the present town of Bastrop, with Abner Smith as
the first pastor. Plum Grove. The Plum Grove community was located on the
Colorado River, just below the present town of Bastrop. After he left
Washington, Morrell located in that area where he began to preach in the home
of William Scallorn. In April, 1839, Robert G.
Green and Asael Dancer led in forming a church at
Plum Grove, with Dancer as the first pastor. Dancer had been associated with
the Primitive Baptists, and occasionally Abner Smith, the anti-missionary
colleague of Daniel Parker, preached at Plum Grove and for a time the church included
both missionary and anti-missionary members. Morrell also preached
occasionally at Smith's Providence church, and baptized converts for them
(including Mrs. Dancer) when the pastor was disabled. Several other converts
presented themselves for baptism in the Plum Grove church. Paul C. Bell had the unique role for
several years of serving as pastor of both the Anglo and Mexican churches in
Bastrop, dividing his time between them. He resigned the Anglo church to
devote his full time to educational ministry among the Mexicans. He led in
forming the Instituto Bautista Mexicana de Bastrop,
emphasizing both secular and religious training. The first building was
erected on a site donated by Mrs. S. J. Orgain, an
Anglo member of FBC Bastrop. She also gave $700 to start the building. Bell
won the support of Mexicans and partial support from the Home Mission Board
but, for some reason, the BGCT never looked with any great favor upon his
school. The Mexican Baptist Institute was closed in 1941 when Bell, whose wife
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2000. 38. Alamo Defenders : A Genealogy, the People and Their Words by Groneman, Bill. Austin, Tex. Eakin
Press, 1990. 39. Legendary Texians. Vol. 4 by Davis, Joe Tom. Austin, Tex. Eakin
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in Texas by Williams, David A. Austin, Tex. Eakin
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Jerry Bryan; Phillips, Edward Hake. College Station Texas A&M
University Press, 1994. 45. Great Garden Sources for Texans :
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Scott. Portland, Or. Eakin
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Press, 1982. Extract: (William Alexander Wallace,
i.e. Bigfoot Wallace) After visiting the former home of the pirate Jean
Lafitte, he traveled on to Bastrop on the Colorado River, then settled for a
time at Moore's Fort (La Grange). He would later recall that a man named
Boone operated a saloon there and sold whiskey so watered that it froze one
cold winter. One night William was warming himself in the cabin of a man
named Woods twelve miles above La Grange when a stranger came in, bent over
the fire, then removed a strange-looking fur cap. Wallace noticed his raw,
sore, bald scalp and remarked, "My friend, excuse me, but what is the
matter with your head?" The stranger, Josiah Wilbarger, matter-of-factly
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Press, 1979. Excerpt: Despite such obstacles, the
cattle drives from Texas continued. In 1856 Texans trailed at least one herd
to Chicago. In the following year they walked two herds to Quincy, Illinois.
The outfits went by Waco, Preston, and Fort Gibson. One herd was taken by
William McCutcheon and his son Willis from rolling Bastrop County. The other
was the herd of Jesse Day of Hays County. Day, of Tennessee birth, was well
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