Sarah Jones Bartlett

About 1862

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Zenas Bartlett

1858

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Sarah Jones Bartlett holding her son, Charles

1858

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Captain John Watkins

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James Sanford Jones

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James Daniel Oltorf

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Zenas Bartlett

About 1880

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Sarah Jones Bartlett

About 1880

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Bartlett Home

1885

Zenas Bartlett is standing in the yard near the gate with Maude Battle and Reagan Dickson.

On the porch L - R:
Rosa Bartlett, Ozella Bartlett, Lalla Bartlett, Churchill Bartlett, Charles Bartlett, and Sarah Jones Bartlett.

Kay Cunningham

The Marlin Shakespeare Society

1889

Top Row Standing:
Second from the left, Ozella Bartlett
Fifth from the left, Rosa Bartlett.

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King's Opera House

1889

Madeline Bartlett in center.

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Charles Bartlett

About 1880

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Mollie Dickson Bartlett

1884

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Zenas Bartlett and grandchildren

1897

L - R:
Thomas Battle Bartlett, Zenas Bartlett, III, Lawrence Bartlett, Mame and Madeline Bartlett standing behind him.

Zenas Bartlett passed away right after this picture was made in 1897.

Kay Cunningham

Frank Oltorf

1906

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Madeline Bartlett Oltorf

About 1910

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Rosa Bartlett

1883

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Sarah Jones Bartlett

1899

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Thomas Battle Bartlett

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Lawrence and Donald Cobb

Gillett Cobb

Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Cobb

Gillett Cobb

Lawrence Morgan Cobb

About 1930

Lawrence was the son of H. L. Cobb and my uncle, Lawrence Morgan Cobb.

Gillett Cobb

Newspaper picture of George Atkins Buchanan

 and friends on his 8th Birthday

November 2, 1936

Top row, standing L-R
Wesley Glass, Jack Phipps, Gene Gallaher, Lillian Shelton, George Atkins Buchanan, Martha Belle McKinley, Abbie Eddins, Bennie Ruth Tomlinson, Billy Jane Spears.

Seated --- Left to right:
Burr Russell, Georgia Ann Langford, P. A. Lindsay, Jr., Katherine Cole, Louis Williams.

Kay Cunningham

Georgia Allie Wyres
1875

Alton Blevins

Postcard of the Harris House in Marlin, Falls County, Texas.

It was also a Boarding House.

Ken Gates

Newspaper article

4-H Club Girls talk at

Marlin Rotary Luncheon
1933

Ken Gates

A picture of Jessie Willis and Stanley Dobbs (maybe on their marriage day).

Cherie Lantz

McCoy Family

L - R:
Frank, Anna, Doll, Pete, Granny, Kate, Cliff, Mary and Beatrice McCoy.

This picture was taken in Stranger, Falls Co., Texas at the of Grady and Kate Hair.

Picture owned by
Frances Hodges Newman

Submitted by Jim Newman

Marlin Democrat Newspaper Ads

October 9, 1907
18th Year
No. 40

Lena Stone Criswell

Marlin Democrat Newspaper Ads

October 9, 1907
18th Year
No. 40

Lena Stone Criswell

Marlin Democrat Newspaper Ad for
Marlin National Bank

October 9, 1907
18th Year
No. 40

Lena Stone Criswell

Postcard of drinking fountain in Marlin, Falls Co., Texas

Does not wish to be named

A water jug marked, "Marlin - Hottest Water In Texas"

Does not wish to be named

This was given to me by Capt. Henry Gray Carter's great-great grandchildren.

Jessica Griffin

This was given to me by Mary Cleopatra (Williams) Carter's, great-great grandchildren. She went by the name of Cleopatra and was the wife of Capt. Henry Gray Carter.

Jessica Griffin

This is a picture of a young Alma Woodland as she was getting ready to leave with her daddy, George Woodland in the background.

Alma is the daughter of George & Clarac Alma Woodland. Clarac is the daughter of Lydia Clementine Jackson and Albert P. Johnson of Marlin, Falls County, TX. Don't you just love that car!

George Woodland and Yad Edwards, son of Margie Dillard Edwards were business partners in Marlin. Yad sold his share and George continued to prosper in several endeavors.

Jody Dillard

This is a photo of Bertha Schieblich and O. A. "Yad" Edwards celebrating their 60th Wedding Anniversary in Marlin, TX. Yad lived in Marlin all his life.

He was the son of Margie Jane Dillard and William Edwards.

Born in 1885, he had lost both his parents by 1901. He went to live with the J. W. Harber family in Marlin.

Jody Dillard

Bethesda Baths House Invitation Card

Ken Gates

George F. Beck born December 1864 in Georgia. He died in Falls County, Texas. His wife Mary "Molly" (Beard) born October 1871 Clay County, Georgia. She died ca 1965 Falls County, Texas. Ada, their daughter was born December 2, 1891 in Texas. She died ca1965 in Falls County, Texas. They also had a son named Paul, who is not pictured here. Paul and Ada both are buried in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Falls Co., Texas.

This picture was taken in the mid 1890's from looking at how old Ada is in it.

LaVelle Henderson

Ada Beck

Ada was the daughter of George F. and Mary "Molly" (Beard) Beck. She was born December 2, 1891.

See picture above for details.

LaVelle Henderson

Postcard picture of the Arlington Hotel.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of the Arlington Hotel in 1912.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of the I. & G. N. Lake.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of Live Oak Street around 1900.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of Marlin City Park in 1940.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of Dr. Torbett Sanitorium, Hot Well, Bethesda Bath House, Majestic Hotel, and Dr. Cook's Bath House.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of Marlin Cotton Compress in 1905.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of a Multiview of Marlin. Buie Clinic, Marlin Sanitarium, Bath House, and Hotel Falls.

These were all connected by an underground passage. This was designed this way to keep one from having to get out in the cold or rain to get from one place to another.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of Marlin Post Office.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of Marlin Sanitarium and Bath House in 1915.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of Marlin V. A. Hospital in the 1950's.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of the May Belle Inn in 1921.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of one of Marlin's beautiful homes.

Elaine Martin

Postcard picture of the Court House in Marlin.

Elaine Martin

Parade in Marlin, Texas on
October 9, 1941

Picture 1 Left to right: Lena Stone, Clois David Stone and Mark Bridgewater

Note as Correction: Sonora Hartley says that Mark Bridgewater is Mart Bridgewater and was married to Lena 'Dutchie' Smith.

Photograph developed by Baeuchle Studio, Marlin, Texas

Picture 2 Lena Stone

Location: On the Square - see the Morgan Cafe Sign in the background

If anyone can give an official title to the parade please let Lindsay Hale Boyd know. Any other pictures that were taken that day and you would like to share, it would be appreciated.

Lena Stone Criswell

Bluebonnet Festival

East of Marlin c 1940

Picture 1 Group of professional and amateur photographers snapping picture of the Queen of the Festival with her Court - in a pasture of Bluebonnets.

Picture 2 l to r: Lena Stone, Clois David Stone & and Edna Earle Stone Notice the automobiles and people in background of the picture.

Picture 3 l to r: Lena and Edna Stone, and our mother, Lella May (Bowers) Stone.

Picture 4 l to r: Edna Earle Stone and Lena Stone

If you know the date of this Bluebonnet Festival or when this was put in the Marlin Democrat paper, please let Lindsay Hale Boyd know. Also, do you know who was crowned Queen? I would love to know this too! Any and all pictures like this are always welcome!!

Lena Stone Criswell

Falls County Fandango

Cover Page

Lena Stone Criswell

Mrs. Ona (Jolly) Posey celebrates her 90th Birthday

Newspaper article abt. November 1962

Thad Grimshaw

1950 Jolly Reunion

Marlin, Falls Co., Texas

1. Verdie Jolly Simmons Moncrief

2. Mary Griffin Jolly (wife of Bob Jolly)

3. Bob Jolly

4. Buelah Jolly (may be Beulah)

5. Ona Jolly Posey

6. Zona Jolly Grimshaw

7. Emma Jolly Gamble

Verdie, Buelah, Ona & Zona were daughters of Robert Washington & Susan (Cain) Jolly.

Boby & Emma were children of William Kilabrew & Sallie Rebecca (Cain) Jolly.

From the Collection of
Neil Ragland

Submitted by
Thad Grimshaw

Robert W. Jolly and Susan Arillia (Cain) Jolly's Descendants Marlin, Texas

1950’s

Top row (l to r):

__________Jumper, (?) Jess Posey, Lee Moncrief, J. P. Posey

2nd row:

Verdie Moncrief, Beulah Lewis, Frances Sue Lewis Birkhead, Elvira Posey, Jewell Posey Jumper.

Bottom row:

________Jumper, Ona Posey, Zona Grimshaw, Tinsy Harden , Susan Gertrude Simmons Erskine.

1) Boy in bottom of picture ___________Jumper.

2) The four Jumper boys were: Arlen, Cecil Boyd, Kenneth, Glenn

3) Verdie, Beulah, Ona and Zona were daughters of Robert W. and Susan (Cain) Jolly.

4) Tinay Harden was Bobbie (Jolly) Umberfied's daughter.

Identification: courtesy of Susan Dillard and her mother, Josephine, most of the people in the old photographs are identified-tg

From the Collection of
Neil Ragland

Submitted by Thad Grimshaw

Newspaper Advertising for W. M. Gunnell
October 30, 1907

Lena Stone Criswell

Newspaper Article

Father Takes Over For Son In Service

Joseph A. Gibbs, Lt. Col. US Army Retired

My great-grandfather was William Selby Hardin, but was commonly known (and remembered) as Bud Hardin. He married Aurelia Ellen Sherman, daughter of the Reverand James M. Sherman (Methodist-Episcopal Church), in August, 1896 in Franklin, Texas, Robertson County. They had one child, Violet Webb Hardin (my grandmother), born September 5, 1897 in Williamson County, Texas. Bud is said to have been wounded during service in Cuba with the Rough Riders, but his name does not appear in any known military roster. He died a year or so later from complications of that wound, supposedly at his parent's in Marlin. This would have occurred between 1898 - 1900. His grave site is not known. All information on the Hardin family was lost in a fire in Burnet, Texas in 1967.

According to the very scant information preserved in oral family lore, Bud Hardin's family was a prosperous one. They are said to have lived in a fine in Marlin, which was still standing in the 1950s, possibly on a main road through town. Bud's father was a businessman, based in Marlin, and is believed to have owned a chain of livery related business (saddlery, harness, tack, buggies, wagons, horses) throughout Central Texas. The name of Bud Hardin's father is not recalled by the eldest of my family, just turned 85 in July. Bud Hardin's mother is believed to have been named Elizabeth. There is a chance her maiden name was Webb.

Paul Kerr

Violet Webb Hardin (standing), was the daughter of William Selby and Aurelia Ellen (Sherman) Hardin.

The little girl on the left is Carolyn Lamb, Violet Webb Hardin's half sister.

Paul Kerr

Gibbs Family Reunion
1950's

L - R
Seated
William Gaston Gibbs, William Robert Kendrick Gibbs, Willie Laurine (Lucas) Gibbs, Joseph Gibbs.

Standing
Garland Gillis Gibbs, Clifford Henry Gibbs, Laura Catherine Gibbs, & Robert Woodrow Gibbs.

Joseph A. Gibbs, Lt. Col. US Army Retired

Marlin
The Hot Springs of Texas

Kay Cunningham

Panarama View of Marlin, Falls Co., Texas

Kay Cunningham

Boat on the Lake

Kay Cunningham

Court House
Marlin, Falls Co., Texas

Kay Cunningham

Arlington Hotel
Marlin, Texas

Kay Cunningham

Main Street
Marlin, Texas

Kay Cunningham

Dr. Torbett's Bethesda Bath House
Marlin, Texas

Kay Cunningham

Hotel Majestic and Imperial Bath House
Marlin, Texas

Kay Cunningham

City Fire Department
Marlin, Texas

Kay Cunningham

School Building
1903 - 1950's
Marlin, Texas

Kay Cunningham

Falls on the Brazos

Kay Cunningham

Fishing and Boating Club
Early 1900's

Kay Cunningham

Homes of B. J. Linthicum
B. C. Clark
A. E. Watson
L. A. Robinson
Early 1900's

Kay Cunningham

Marlin Opera House
Early 1900's

Kay Cunningham

Scene on the Brazos
The Old Brazos Bridge

Kay Cunningham

Views of the I. & G. N. Lake
early 1900's

Kay Cunningham

Fannin Hotel
Rice Allen Infirmary
Maybell Inn
Hotel Artesia

Kay Cunningham

Marlin National Bank
Early 1900's

Kay Cunningham

Bartlett Park
Early 1900's

Kay Cunningham

Puddy House

1920

Barbara Askins sent to me back in 2000. I am posting here in hopes that someone help in giving location of this boarding house in Marlin - and identify the folks in the picture. Please notify Lindsay Hale Boyd if you are able to give any information.

Lena Stone Criswell (Barbara Askins)

Photo of Marlin Oil Co. gin located in Marlin, Texas.

Photo donated by:
Mike & Nancy Kelsey

Submitted by:
Robert L. Haddock

First Courthouse in Falls County, built in 1851.

Photo owned by Mrs. Jim Bow

Submitted by L. Virginia Plocek

This picture was taken in Marlin back when the Model T was about the only auto on the road. The pic also contains wagons and teams of mules/horses. I think it was taken looking toward the old Highway 6 intersection with the Court House spiral in the background.

A. W. Storrs

This picture was taken Christmas 1918 (marked on photo)

This was in front of her boarding house. Margaret was the owner/operator of a rooming & boarding house in Marlin. She was in business for 38 years in Marlin, Texas.

Front Row: Julia Ruth Cooley and Lottie Marguerite Cooley Second Row: Hattie Coyal Powell and Bessie Lee Cooley

They were the four daughters of Margaret Ann Sylvester Powell Cooley. Margaret Ann Cooley is stand behind the four daughters.

Margaret Ann Sylvester was the daughter of John Adam Sylvester and Kitty Standley Sylvester. She was born December 19, 1868 in Washington, Texas and died October 2, 1957 in Falls County, Texas.

Her first marriage was to Henry Thomas Powell, son of John and Nancy Caroline Inman Powell of Falls County, Texas. Mr. Powell was born November 15, 1864 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas and died in early 1889 in Chilton, Falls County, Texas. It is unknown at this time where Henry Thomas Powell is buried.

Ann's second marriage was to Byron Bedford Cooley. They were married on September 18, 1889 in Falls County, Texas. Mr. Cooley was born in Henry County, Tennessee, and died on October 1933 in Falls County, Texas.

Margaret Ann and Byron B. Cooley also had a son, Herbert Clint Cooley, born October 7, 1890 in Falls County, Texas. In the above photo is a young man standing at the window in the picture, we feel sure that is Herbert Cooley.

Mrs. Margaret Cooley was Marlin's oldest rooming and boarding house operator. She was engaged in this business for 38 years in Marlin. Mr. Cooley was a police officer for 33 years in Marlin.

Coyal Maxey Gorman

This picture was one of our unknown ones. We now have an ID for it.

Molly Ann "Molly" Jeans Bland
1848 - ????
Wife of William Calvin Bland
1848 - 1933

The 3 children of William Calvin & Molly Ann "Molly" (Jeans) Bland were Warren Oscar Bland, Ollie Jane Bland, and Lillie B. Bland

Warren Oscar Bland 1876 - 1945 who married Maggie Lee Oglesby
Children of Warren Oscar and Maggie Lee Oglesby Bland are:
Beryl Ray Bland 1903 who married Edna Mae Kirkpatrick
Gladys Bland 1905 who married Ike McCauley
Beatrice Bland 1905 who married Edwin Haak
Lillie Mae Bland 1907 who married William Mack Connor

Ollie Jane Bland 1878 - 1969 who married Wiley Ausborn Coleman

Lillie B Bland 1882 - ???? who married Mitt Utley

Molly Ann "Molly" Jeans Bland was the daughter of Lillie Bland. See her picture is below.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Submitted by Lena Stone

ID from
Carl Matthews Collection

Submitted by Carl W. Matthews

This picture was one of our unknown ones. We now have an ID for it.

Lillie Bland was the daughter of William Calvin & Molly Ann "Molly" (Jeans) Bland, and wife of Mitt Utley. Lillie B. Bland was born in 1882. It is unknown at this time when she died.

Identified on back of picture as Lillie Bland in fancy handwriting.

Bowers-Concilio-Stone Collection

Submitted by Lena Stone Criswell

ID from Carl Matthews Collection

Submitted by Carl W. Matthews

Annie Lee (McCarver) Davis standing in front of Torbett Hospital in Marlin where she worked in 1945.

Delores Oliver

Elaine Wyatt Branham
(Redding, Byers, and Mathews descendant)
and Marian (Garrett) Gibbs
April 1993

These pictures were taken in April 1993 in the office of Falls County historian Marian (Garrett) Gibbs in Marlin, Texas

On the left is Elaine and on the right is Marian.

Elaine (Wyatt) Branham

Sebesta Hotel
Marlin, Texas
September 20, 1917

Sitting on the porch #1 man (I believe to be my husbands grandfather Charles Sontag). Charles' wife is the lady standing under the house numbers just pasted the right hand porch column, she is not the lady next to the column but the second lady in the long light colored dress. I believe her name to be Marie Sebesta Orsag Sontag. Charles was much younger than his wife. They lived in the Burleson County area and must have been visiting Marlin.

Use this picture if you like.

If you can ID anyone else in this picture, please let Lindsay Hale Boyd know.

Barbara Zalmanek

Live Oak
Marlin, Texas
July 20, 1916

This photo we found in a box after a recent reunion at Nacogdoches. The photo is in pretty bad shape but, we want to see if anyone knows who these gentlemen where and what they were doing in Marlin in 1916.

The man standing left of center is Wiley Ephraim Dorman, Jr. of Nacogdoches, 1889-1974. The man standing next to him is one of his brothers, probably Oscar August Dorman, 1893-1967.

If you can ID anyone else in this picture, please let Lindsay Hale Boyd know.

Annie Geoghegan

Postcard
Drinking Marlin's Famous Hot Mineral Waters
Marlin, Texas

Edward L. Williams

Andrew Jackson Flowers and wife, Catharine (Collier) Flowers with their family on their way to Texas from Smith Co., Mississippi. This would be around 1853-1855 or so.

They were camping on the banks of the Mississippi. A tornado came along and destroyed a lot of their possessions, turned things over and killed 3 of the slaves. They traveled with 25 slaves. Two older sons are not shown in the picture. They had already gone on ahead to Hallettsville, Texas.

Worth noting is that not among the children pictured is their oldest son, William H., who married Hannah Elizabeth Gillett and are the parents of Mattie Flowers. I would love to know if there is a picture of him out there somewhere.

Source for pic and info by Margie Cowan

Submitted by Dale Scheihagen

Hannah Elizabeth (Gillette) Flowers Johnson in her later years.

Hannah was first married to William Flowers and they had 8 children.

On July 15, 1873 in Falls County, Texas, Hannah Elizabeth (Gillett) Flowers was married second to William Henry Clay Johnson. He and Hannah lived in his log cabin at Reagan, where six of their seven children were born.

Dale Scheihagen

Martha "Mattie" Catharine (Flowers) Scheihagen as a teenager. She was a daughter of William & Hannah Elizabeth (Gillette) Flowers.

Mattie married William Henry Clay Sheihagen in 1878 and they were parents of 11 children.

Dale Scheihagen

The boys are Curry T. Marlin, b: 1910; and Fred E. Marlin, b: 1911, d: 1965. 

Fred and his wife Hazel, (b: 1909, d: 1994), are buried with Sallie, Tate and sister Ritchie Marlin in West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, TX. 

The sisters are: Cassie Reba Marlin, b: 1901; Ritchie M. Marlin, b: 3-1-1902, d: 5-1-1970; Julia Belle Marlin, b: 1909, Lou Estelle Marlin, b: 1914; and Lovey L. Marlin, b: 1924. 

Lovey is in the upper left corner. Cassie, of course, looks older than the other sisters but otherwise I can't put names with the other faces.  I don't have married names for the girls yet.

If you have any other info, please let Lindsay Hale Boyd or Barbara know.

Barbara Woodside

Shaw Clinic and Hospital

Reunion of the Babies

1933

My father, Waddell P. Williams III is probably in both pictures but I haven't been able to pick him out yet.  He was born 11 Jan 1933.

Invitation to Party

Cyndie (Williams) Thacker

Shaw Clinic and Hospital

Reunion of the Babies

1935

My father, Waddell P. Williams III is probably in both pictures but I haven't been able to pick him out yet.  He was born 11 Jan 1933.

Cyndie (Williams) Thacker