Find Baylor County Ancestors in the Wichita Daily Times

Today, I saw that 152 issues of the Wichita Daily Times are named as one of the newest collections at The Portal to Texas History (a free site).  These issues are from 1922 and 1924. Baylor County news is often found in Wichita County newspapers. 

I found my Aunt DeRay Bryan attending a "goodbye meeting" for Alma Cockerel at the home of Florence Britton. The surnames of others at the party include Francher, Humphries, Dickson, Tipton, England, Daugherty, and Fox. 

My father's brother, Buster Bryan, attended at B.Y. P. U. Party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Bradshaw. The surnames of those attending along with Buster were Smith, Haggard, Gaither, Lowry, Lee, Howell, Lankford, Toons, Onstott, Siddens, Crouch, Morris, Holcomb, and Nichols. 

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Diana

© 2023 

B.Y.P.U. Party, Wichita Daily Times (Wichita County, Texas), 4 June 1922,  p.2, part 2; database and images, The Portal to Texas History (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1563852/m1/10/zoom/?q=bryan&resolution=4&lat=4681.511983035819&lon=2596.3979971063495 : accessed 17 May 2023). 

Miss Cockerel Honored, Wichita Daily Times (Seymour, Texas), 30 April 1922,  p.4, part 3; database and images, The Portal to Texas History (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1563816/m1/28/zoom/?q=bryan&resolution=4&lat=3453&lon=2660.5 : accessed 17 May 2023). 

"The Portal to Texas History," (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ : accessed 17 May 2023).

If Your Family Lived in Erath County, Texas . . .

I wrote in a previous post, if your family lived in Texas, you should be continually looking for them at The Portal to Texas History. This is especially true if your family lived in Erath County!

The Portal to Texas History is a fabulous FREE website created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries. Enjoy the searchable newspaper collections published in large cities and small towns. You will find yearbooks, photographs, maps, personal and community records, bank notes, city directories, county histories, and much, much more. New information is continually added. 

If your family lived in Erath County, you currently have 47 collections to search. My current favorites are the newspapers. The Dublin Progress and The Stephenville Empire reported important genealogical information - marriages, deaths, and births. However, some of the trivial information reported in those newspapers gives us such good insight into the lives of our ancestors. 

A few weeks ago, when I realized the Stephenville Empire was available to search, I found the following facts about my great-grandfather, Terrell Bryan. 

- In 1883, Terrell Bryan purchased a New Home Sewing Machine for his wife, Harriet.

- That same year, he managed and lived at the county Poor Farm. He was known to have managed the Poor Farm until at least 1886.

If your family lived in Texas . . .

If your family lived in Texas, you should be continually looking for them at the The Portal to Texas History. The Portal to Texas History is a fabulous FREE website created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries. Enjoy the searchable newspaper collections published in large cities and small towns. You will find yearbooks, photographs, maps, personal and community records, bank notes, city directories, county histories, and much, much more. New information is continually added. 

There is a lot about my grandparents in the small town newspapers. I found my father's sisters and brother in high school and college year books. And, even a photo of my father when he was stationed aboard the U.S. Adams and heading for Shanghai in 1946. 

So, if your family lived in Texas . . . 

                                      don't hesitate to check out the Portal to Texas History!!

Diana

© 2016

Source
Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn.

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #31 Robert Hairston Married Sarah Lang

The solid lines indicate that the connection to the family is documented while
the dotted lines indicate that direct evidence has not yet been found to
make the connection. Click on the family tree to see a larger image.

No Story Too Small

I am a little behind in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. This is post #31 and by Wednesday, I hope to be caught up with post #33. 

Since my last post about John Hairston of Alabama (NOT my great-great-grandfather), three distant relatives mentioned Robert Hairston and Sarah Lang in their email. So, as usual, I had to know more. 

The Hairston History and many Public Trees at Ancestry.com state that John and Ann Robertson are the parents of Hugh Brown Hairston, Robert Hairston and several others. However, no sources were given to verify this information. 

So, I don't know if Robert Hairston and Hugh Brown Hairston were brothers or even the sons of John Hairston and Ann Robertson, but my DNA matches indicate that they were probably related in some way. Note, on my family tree, dotted lines indicate that no direct evidence has been found to make the connection. 

In a 1981 publication of the Texas State Genealogical Society, Maxine Alcorn submitted a transcription of Robert Hairston's family Bible which gives a record of Robert Hairston, his wives, and his children.  Click on this link to The Portal to Texas History to see the two page transcription. 

The will of Ann Robertson Hairston, as found in The Hairston History, gives everything to Sarah Ann Hairston, a granddaughter. According to Robert Hairston's Bible, he had a child named Sarah Ann.  So, what do we know about Sarah Ann? Can this Sarah Ann can be definitively linked to Ann Robertson Hairston?  

Diana

© 2014

Sources 

Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006.

Hairston, Victor , and Edward Bregenzer. The Hairston History.  1998. Print.

Texas State Genealogical Society. Stirpes, Volume 21, Number 3, September 1981, Christine Knox Wood, editor, Journal/Magazine/Newsletter, September 1981; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29528/ : accessed August 15, 2014), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Genealogical Society, Tyler, Texas.