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Added 07/16/2011

Added a photo of Melissa Gilmore Bradley to the Grimes Photos Page. Thank you Gil Allison!
Updated Cross and David Chaple cemeteries. Grimes Cemeteries

Added 06/25/2011

Added a number of new cemetery pages to the Grimes Cemeteries Page
Adding 1930 death certificate information. 1930 Death Records

Added 06/15/2011

Added articles and tombstone photos about an Anderson shooting in 1900. Thank you Vanessa Burzynski! Anderson Shooting 1900

Added 04/23/2011

Added new Bedias Baptist Cemetery listing of over 1300 names! Thank you Dennis Morris! Bedias Baptist Cemetery
Updated Mustang Cemetery listing. Thank you Dennis Morris! Mustang Cemetery

Added 10/30/2010

Added numerous cemetery listings generously provided by Sandi Costa. Thank you Sandi! Grimes Cemeteries

Added 8/11/2010

Added link to Grimes County Spanish-American War veterans provided by Vanessa Burzynski. Thank you Vanessa!

Added 8/05/2010

Finished adding marriages between 1908-1918. If you know of any I missed, please let me know.

Added 7/23/2010

Finished adding marriages between 1898-1908. If you know of any I missed, please let me know.
Slowly adding more marriages from 1908-1918.

Added 7/12/2010

Added pictures of Navasota High School and the Navasota business district in 1919. Thank you Don Brownlee!1919 Navasota HS Photos

Added 7/10/2010

Added pictures of the 1919 Navasota High School men's and women's basketball teams as well as the football team. Shared by Don Brownlee. Thank you Don!1919 Navasota HS Photos

Added 7/6/2010

Added pictures of tombstones for some graves in Pleasant Hill, Salem Lutheran and St. Stanislaus Cemeteries Grimes Cemeteries Pictures taken by Emmy Bushman. Thank you! Looking for more pictures from these cemeteries including entrance photos.
Continuing to add marriages from 1898-1908. This is slow work. I also need to add more to the marriages from 1908-1918. Grimes Vital Records
Biographies added for James, Henry, Boland, and William Whiteside. Thank you Douglas Chojecki. Grimes Biographies
Currently working on death certificates from 1920.

Added 5/31/2010

Added pictures of Jesse Youens home and historical marker Grimes Historic Homes Picture taken by Bill Lehmann (Guthrie, OK) - provided to archive by Lynda Lehmann-French (2nd cousin). Thank you!
Added pictures of Iola High School class of 1929-1930 and Iola High School class of 1953. Thank you Bob Cleveland! Grimes Photos

Added 5/23/2010

I am beginning to add marriages again!Grimes Vital Records
Added pages for Grimes County death records. This is a work in progress. Grimes Death Records

Added 4/17/2010

A new cemetery page has been added for Independence Cemetery near Shiro. Thank you Dorris Gilliam!Independence Cemetery

Added 3/28/2010

A link has been added to a new listing for Oakland Cemetery in Navasota. This page belongs to Vanessa Burzynski and is still being added to. Thank you Vanessa!Grimes Cemetery

Added 1/31/2010

Added new listings for these cemeteries: Berryman, Piney Woods, Little Flock, Mason, Dedmons. Updated these cemeteries: Bryant, Sand Prairie. Grimes Cemetery

Added 1/17/2010

Added new cemetery page for Grimes Prairie Cemetery

Added 1/16/2010

Added new cemetery pages for Roan's Prairie Cemetery and Odd Fellows Cemetery

Added 1/9/2010

Added MacCedar Cemetery Page

Added 1/8/2010

Added Iola Cemetery Page Thank you Mervin Peters! This cemetery is listed on several death certificates as St. Louis Cemetery of Iola.

Added 1/5/2010

Added Floyd Cemetery Page Thank you Julie and Geoff Horn!

Added 8/7/2009

Added listing for 1879 fugitives from justice for Grimes CountyAdjutant General's Report List of Fugitives from Justice

Added 8/4/2009

Added new page for 1891 fugitives from justice from Grimes CountyAdjutant General's Report List of Fugitives from Justice

Added 7/9/2009

Added new page for historic documents, pictures, etc dealing with Grimes CountyHistoric Documents

Added 6/16/2009

Added pictures to the photo page. Thank you Bob Cleveland! Grimes Photo Gallery

Added 5/29/2009

Beginning to add pictures to the listing for Shiro Cemetery. Thank you Nancy Oates Hazen! Shiro Cemetery

Added 5/25/2009

Beginning to add pictures for Stoneham Cemetery. Thank you Nancy Oates Hazen! This is a partial listing. Stoneham Cemetery

Added 5/12/2009

Beginning to add pictures for St. Mary's Cemetery. Thank you Nancy Oates Hazen! St. Mary's Cemetery

Added 5/9/2009

Beginning to add pictures to the Old Oakland Cemetery Listing. Thank you Nancy Oates Hazen! Old Oakland Cemetery

Added 5/5/2009

Beginning to add pictures to the Martins Prairie Cemetery Listing. Thank you Nancy Oates Hazen! Martins Prairie Cemetery

Added 5/3/2009

Waller Cemetery transcription and pictures. Thank you Nancy Oates Hazen! Waller Cemetery

Added 6/27/2008

A picture of the historical marker for the Sally Thompson School building has been added by Tana Shaffer who now owns the home to which it is attached. Sally Thompson School Building Historical Marker
A picture of the historical marker for the La Bahia Road / Upper Coushatta Trace has been added by Tana Shaffer. La Bahia Road / Upper Coushatta Trace Historical Marker
A picture of the historical marker for Plantersville Cemetery has been added by Tana Shaffer. Plantersville Cemetery Historical Marker

Added 3/17/2008

The cemetery page has been updated with links to cemetery transcriptions found in the TXGenWeb archives. Grimes County Cemetery
Tana Shaffer has updated the Plantersville Cemetery listing. Thank you Tana!
A link to cemetery photos has been added to the Shiro Cemetery page. Thank you Vanessa Burzynski!
Several photos have been added to the Who am I? page by Carolyn Gilbert. She also added a picture of Alice Stevens Martin to the Grimes Photos page. Thank you Carolyn!
A couple of names were added and one corrected on the World War II page
A genealogy was added for John Edwin Reagan to the Grimes County Genealogies page. Thank you J. Yarbrough!
Grimes County has again won the TXGenWeb county of the month for February 2008! Thank you to all of our volunteers who made this possible!

Added 11/18/2007

Newspaper transcription for an article from The Daily Examiner in February of 1901 added. Thank you Melba Jarvis Miller!Grimes News Daily Examiner 1901

Added 7/19/2007

Mustang cemetery listing updated. Thank you Dennis Morris!Mustang Cemetery

Added 6/17/2007

Added new picture of civil war scrip to Grimes County Civil War Scrip page. Picture submitted by John W. Wilson. Thank you John!
Added a cemetery listing and picture for a grave on the Old Johnson Ranch. Submitted by A. B. Jimenez. Thank you! Old Johnson Ranch

Added 3/14/2007

Added biography of Sen. Esther Neveille Higgs Colson to the Grimes County Biographies page. Source articles submitted by Kathy Day. Thank you Kathy!

Added 3/13/2007

Added Stephenson-Harris Cemetery to the Grimes County Cemetery page. Thank you Jim Harris!

Added 3/10/2007

Added history for Iola Missionary Baptist Church. Thank you Valorie Howard Cox!
Added Howard deeds to the Grimes County Land Records page. Submitted by Valorie Howard Cox. Thank you Valorie!
Added page for the Howard family to the Our Ancestors page. Also added the Howard family to the Grimes Pioneers page. Submitted by Valorie Howard Cox. Thank you Valorie!
Made additions to the genealogy of John William Morris. John William Morris Thank you Dennis Morris!

Added 12/20/2006

Added page for Thomas Harrison and Eliza Jane Edwards Lacy to the Our Ancestors page. Submitted by Faye Elder. Thank you Faye!

Added 12/17/2006

Added biography/obituary for Charity Brown to theGrimes Biographies page. Submitted by Joyce Coker. Thank you Joyce!

Added 8/27/2006

Added genealogies for Arthur McCracken Darby, Hugh James Wells, and Samuel Andrew Jackson Pyle to the Genealogies page. Submitted by Charles Darby. Thank you Charles!

Added 8/12/2006

Added information and family picture of Clara Fagan Bown to the Biographies page. Submitted by Shirley Marks Whitmore. Thank you Shirley!

Added 7/15/2006

Added picture of the entrance to Fairview Cemetery in Richards. Submitted by Elsa Vorwerk & Bill Wood. Thank you Elsa and Bill! Fairview Cemetery, Richards

Added 6/17/2006

Adding marriages to the 1879-1882 marriage page. Transcribed and submitted by Eleanor Colson. Grimes County Marriages, 1879-1882

Added 6/11/2006

Pictures of Sarah Bradley Dodson grave marker and historical marker added to the Old Bethel Cemetery page. Thank you Vanessa Burzynski!

Added 6/10/2006

Pankey Cemetery added. Thank you Shirley Robison for your submission! The page is under construction. Pankey Cemetery

Added 4/07/2006

Mustang Cemetery updated. Thank you Dennis Morris! Mustang Cemetery

Added 3/19/2006

New page for tombstone photos from the Old Bethel Cemetery added. Old Bethel Cemetery Photos Thank you Annette Foster Ditto for sharing your photos of Mosley tombstones!

Added 2/05/2006

Membership of Zion United Methodist Church added to the Zion Methodist Church page. Thank you Charles Darby for sharing this with us!

Added 1/28/2006

History of Zion United Methodist Church added to the Grimes County Churches page. Thank you Charles Darby for sharing this with us!
Bracewell family reunion information posted at the Grimes County Reunions page. Thank you Russell Bracewell!

Added 1/07/2006

Plantersville Cemetery updated! Thank you Tana Shaffer! Plantersville Cemetery.

Added 12/22/2005

Added the biography of James Penn Daviss to the Biographies page as well as a link on the African American page.

Added 12/20/2005

Added the John Homer and Alsie Rebecca Barkley Family Reunion to the Grimes County Reunion page.

Added 11/04/2005

Updated the Mustang Cemetery page. Contributed by Dennis Morris. Thank you Dennis!

Added 07/31/2005

Added a Bible record for the James W. Hargrove family on the new Bible page
Added a picture of James W. Hargrove to the Photos page

Added 07/16/2005

Added a biography for John Wiley Jernigan. Contributed by Rosemary Cox . Thank you Rosemary!

Added 06/01/2005

Added a biography for Madison M. Smith. Contributed by Constance McAdams Dennis. Thank you Constance!

Added 05/07/2005

Added a biography for Jobe Iva Franklin Harman. Contributed by Don Hays. Thank you Don!

Added 04/09/2005

Added a cemetery listing for Mustang Cemetery. Contributed by Dennis Morris, Sr. Thank you Dennis!

Added 03/02/2005

Added a listing for Plantersville Cemetery. Contributed by Tana Shaffer. Thank you Tana!
Biography added for John Moore McGinty. Contributed by Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. Thank you Gerald!

Added 12/28/2004

Added picture of John S. and Maudie Perry Lands. Contributed by Lois Perry Richardson. Thank you Lois!

Added 12/23/2004

Three links for book lookups have been added to the Grimes Look Ups page. Russell Bracewell has graciously offered to do look ups in My Hometown: the Bedias Story, Bedias Baptist Chruch Historical Moments, and J. S. Bracewell Lawyer. Thank you Russell!

Added 11/21/2004

Union Hill Cemetery added to the Grimes Cemetery page. Submitted by David Kelley. Thank you David!
Historical Society page added Grimes Historical Societies with a link to the Shiro Historical and Preservation Society
Baptisms page added Grimes County Baptisms with a link to baptisms for Shiro United Methodist Church

Added 10/31/2004

Henderson and Spanish cemeteries added to the Grimes Cemetery page.

Added 10/17/2004

Added pictures of Anderson, Texas, Fanthorp Inn and Cemetery, and tombstones of Henry Fanthorp, Mark Moore Kennard, and Mary Ann Kennard to the Anderson Tour Photo page.

Added 10/16/2004

Added obituary for Martha Lucinda Isbell Bookman to the Grimes County Obituary page.
Added biography for Claiborne B. Sanders to the Grimes County Biography page.

Added 09/11/2004

Added Concord Cemetery listing to the Grimes County Cemeteries page. Submitted by Shirley Robison.

Added 09/06/2004

Added Red Top and Shiro Cemetery listings to the Grimes County Cemeteries page. Submitted by Sam Fechenbach.

Added 08/14/2004

Added a descendant outline for Thomas Plaster to the Grimes County Genealogies page. Submitted by Jackie Worthington.
Added Singleton Cemetery listing to the Grimes County Cemeteries page. Submitted by Jane Keppler.

Added 07/26/2004

Added a cemetery listing for Old Oakland Cemetery. Submitted by Jane Keppler.

Added 07/25/2004

Added a cemetery listing for Apolonia Cemetery. Submitted by Jane Keppler.
Added listings for Sand Prairie Cemetery, Walker-Cox-Somerford Cemetery, Camp Family Cemetery, and Peteete Cemetery

Added 07/24/2004

Finished adding the 1898 newspaper items from the The Daily Examiner to the Grimes County News page.
Added transcription of Dennis Bryant Cemetery to the Cemetery page. Submitted by Wynell Simpson.

Added 07/21/2004

Added a new page for news abstracts from the 1898 The Daily Examiner to the Grimes County News page.
Adding death notices found from the early The Daily Examiner and linking them to the Obituary page.

Added 07/12/2004

Added picture of entrance to [Dennis] Bryant Cemetery to the Grimes Cemetery page. Submitted by Wynell Simpson.
Completed addition of Courtney Cemetery pictures.

Added 07/08/2004

Starting to add pictures of the tombstones to the Courtney Cemetery page. Submitted by Wynell Simpson. Thank you so much Wynell for your contribution! Check back often as we add pictures to the page.

Added 06/30/2004

Added a cemetery survey for Courtney Cemetery to the Cemetery page. Submitted by Wynell Simpson.

Added 06/23/2004

Added biography on Caleb Wallace, James Wallace, Dudley J. White, Borland Whiteside(s), Henry Whiteside(s), James Whiteside(s), and John J. Whiteside(s) to the Biographies page. Submitted by Robert L. Smith.
Added a page of old business letterheads to the Grimes Businesses page.
Funeral home record for a Stoneham Cemetery burial added to Grimes Cemetery page.
A link for Metcalf Funeral Home records for some persons buried in Grimes County has been added to the Grimes Vital Records page.

Added 06/22/2004

Added pictures of Stoneham Cemetery to the Cemetery page. Submitted by Jane Keppler.
Added names of Grimes County World War I and World War II veterans to the Veterans page. Submitted by Vanessa Burzynski.
Added page for John David Diserens to the Our Ancestors page. Submitted by Brenda Coon.

Added 06/21/2004

Added a Davis/Chaney Cemetery page to the Cemetery section. This contains burial information and pictures of tombstones. Submitted by Brenda Coon.

Added 06/18/2004

Added a Robert Marmaduke Hudson Family page to the Our Ancestors section. Biography and pictures submitted by Johanna Hudson Raupe.

Added 03/16/2004

Added aGrimes County Historic Places page. This has links to schools, railroads, roads of the past in Grimes County.

Added 03/16/2004

Added Steele's Grove Cemetery and partial listing for Enon Cemetery to the Cemetery page. Thank you Brenda Coon for the Enon Cemetery listings!

Added 03/14/2004

Added many more names and information to the Grimes County Civil War Veteran page.
Added pages for John Bullock, William Taylor and John Henry Sollock to the Our Ancestors Page

Added 02/28/2004

Finished adding marriages from 1889-1899 to the Grimes County Marriages 1889-1899 page.

Added 02/06/2004

Finished adding marriages from 1871-1879 to the Grimes County Marriages 1871-1879 page.

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