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1850 Smith County, Texas, Slave Schedule

1860 Smith County, Texas, Slave Schedule

• Index to the Beats
• Page 1 - Garden Valley, Flora, Jones and 7 Leagues Beats
• Page 16 - 7 Leagues, Mt Carmel and Jamestown Beats
• Page 31 - Jamestown, Starrville, and Canton Beats
• Page 46 - Canton and Tyler Beats

1882 City Of Tyler Directory - Persons of Color listed under Inhabitants of the City of Tyler

Abstracts From Funeral Programs

African-American Resources in the Tyler Public Library

Apprentice Records - Smith County, Texas -1867-1870

BIOGRAPHIES

• BUCHANAN, "Uncle Ned" - (Former Slave) Harrison County, TX
• CAMPBELL, Earl - Professional Football Player

Black Genealogy and the African American Museum: A Common Mission by Theodore M. Lawe, Curator/Archivist/ Historian, The A. C. McMillan African American Museum, Emory, TX (Presentation at ETGS, Tyler, TX, 8 Feb 2003)

COLEMAN, Preely
TAYLOR, Emma
WOODSON, Willis

CEMETERIES - Predominantly African American

CHURCHES in Smith County and nearby!

• County Line Missionary Baptist Church, Redland Community (on the county line of Van Zandt and Smith Counties)
• Galilee Baptist Church, 87th Anniversary, Flint, TX
• St. James Baptist Church History, Tyler

Emmett J. Scott High School - Reunion 2000 

Freedman's Bureau Report of an Inspection of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, Walker County - Smith County People.

MEDICAL RECORDS - Dr. Samuel Overton treated many African American citizens living in and around the pioneer community of Omen, Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century. Click on Medical Records for a full listing of all patients. African American patients are identified in the "Status" column by "f" (indicating freedman or freedwoman) or "c" (indicating colored).

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

• Colored Baptist B.Y.P.U Convention, 1921
• Jas. L. Smith - September 1905
• Murder of Peter Cooper, 1875
• Jack Haddock & Joe Walthal Convicted of Bootlegging, 1916
• Jim King Burned at the Stake, 1895
• Negro Woman Struck by Automobile this Afternoon - 1916
• News Reports Concerning Negroes in Smith County, TX - 1859-1875
• Texas Christian Advocate - 1880-1890
• Texas Christian Advocate - Texas College, 1897-1900

OBITUARIES

• NICHOLAS, Emma - 1905
• WALKER, Mrs. Palace - 1960

PERSONAL HOME PAGES

• Dewberry Family Tree - BELL, BERRY, BRITTON, BROWN, CHILTON, COWAN, DEWBERRY, DIXON, DRIGGUS, DUNBAR, GASTON, GEORGE, GRAHAM, GRISSETT, HARRISON, HARRISON-MASTERS, HOUSTON, HUDSON, JACKSON, JOHNSON, JONES, LEWIS, LOVE, MASTERS, MCDONALD, MCFALL, MENEFEE, NALL, OLDEST, OWENS, PORTER, PRESTON, RAIBON, SANDERS, SCOTT, STEWART, STUBBS, TAYLOR, TURNER, TYLER, WHITE, WHITING, WILLIAMS, YOUNG
• Linda's Genealogy Page - Terrell, Williams, Jones & Harris
• Tracey Hughes Genealogy Home Page - ARMSTRONG, BLACKWELL, BROWN, CALHOUN, EUBANKS, EVANS HAWTHORNE/HOWTORNE, HODGES, HUGHES, ISAAC(S), ISOME, KELLY/KELLEY, LEDBETTER, McCARTHY/McCARTER, McCRIMMON, MITCHELL, MOSS, SIMON, STEVERSON, TRICE, WALTERS, YOUNG

REUNIONS

The Descendants of Squire & Susan Flernoy Dewberry, Irving, Texas, July 23-25, 2004, with a trip to the Dewberry Plantation, Smith Co.

SLAVES - Named in Smith County Records

• Caleb Barron Administration

TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION

• African Americans in Texas: Historical and Cultural Legacies
• Texas' Historically Black Colleges and Universities

VITAL RECORDS

• African-American Marriages from the Files of Ken Stebbings. These marriages were recorded between 1870-1926 and were transcribed from either the Original License or a certified copy. Most of these people resided in the Whitehouse/Troup area.

   

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African-American Griots A website that is dedicated to assisting all of those in pursuit of their African-American ancestry by being a central depository for African-American records of  historical proportion. Texas specific.

Black Soldiers in the American Revolution

Buffalo Soldiers

Cyndi's List of African-American Links

Introduction to African-American Genealogy - About Genealogy Site

The Texas Slavery Project - seeks to recover the names and biographical
information for every slave who ever lived in Texas.

United States Colored Troops - Civil War

This And That Genealogy Tips on African-American Genealogy

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