Held on this spot April 4, 1964, to honor Texans who made up the greater part of forces fighting in the Civil War Red River Campaign of 1864–1865, that prevented a Federal invasion of Texas.
Descendants answering to roll call for soldiers . . . — — Map (db m110999) HM
John Moosberg was born in Fort Worth in 1899. He received his education at Texas A&M University and moved to Shelby County in 1936 to serve as county agent. His tenure as county agent began with Moosberg realizing that Shelby County was losing . . . — — Map (db m111093) HM
In 1948, the farming income of Shelby County was disappearing due to competitive prices on cotton from West Texas and on tomatoes and watermelons from South Texas. To survive, it was imperative that the county and its farmers find an alternative . . . — — Map (db m111079) HM
Malcolm Samuel Weaver was born June 5, 1918 in Center, Texas.
He served as an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, World War II, where he met his wife, Constance Mary Stanley.
Malcolm built custom homes and poultry houses throughout East Texas . . . — — Map (db m111094) HM
Georgia natives Henry L. and William Rubin Brook, brothers who married sisters Mary Jane and Caroline E. Henry, respectively, migrated from Alabama to Shelby County by 1850. Henry Brook settled 320 acres through an 1845 Republic of Texas Act . . . — — Map (db m160610) HM
A native of Tennessee who settled in East Texas in the 1820s, James English fought in the siege of Bexar (1835) and served as comissioner for the Shelby County Militia during the Texas Revolution. English received a land grant in Houston County for . . . — — Map (db m286848) HM
Georgia native Manaen T. Smith arrived in present Shelby County, Texas in 1822. He became active in civic affairs, and served in the Texas Army from October 1835 to January 1836. He was a participant in the Siege of Bexar in December 1835. He . . . — — Map (db m171550) HM
A veteran of 1835 Texas armed resistance to Mexican forces. Participated in the Grass Fight (Nov. 26), and in victory at San Antonio on Dec. 10, 1835. Haley was born in Tennessee. In 1824, he moved to present Shelby County, Texas. For his services . . . — — Map (db m171529) HM
Kentucky native Jonathan "Old Shelby" Anderson, a grandson of American Revolution veteran Bailey Anderson, settled in this area when Texas was part of Mexico. He served in the Texas Revolution and fought at the Battle of San Jacinto. In 1848 he . . . — — Map (db m105277) HM
Part of the neutral ground, 1803–1819. Settled by Anglo-Americans, 1824–1836. In 1833 a district of the Municipality of Nacogdoches, known as Tenehaw. In 1835 became municipality of Tenehaw with Nashville as the seat of government.
Name changed . . . — — Map (db m111000) HM
James Taylor Gaines (1776-1856) was an early Texas entrepreneur, adventurer, Republic of Texas congressman, and signee of the Texas Declaration of Independence. He was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, to Thomas and Susanah Strother Gaines. In . . . — — Map (db m290386) HM
Georgia native George Washington Green grew up in Tennessee and in 1878 set out for Texas. He married Tempie Ann Fowler in Logansport, Louisiana, that year, and they settled in this part of Texas. Green worked first as a sharecropper, growing cotton . . . — — Map (db m268298) HM
Born in Tenaha, Texas, January 4, 1910 to Luke and Pauline Motley Sr.
Moved to Center, Texas in 1937 to begin his banking career at Farmers State Bank serving as President 38 years and as Shelby County’s banker a total of 61 years.
He was one of . . . — — Map (db m111106) HM
Marion Martin Weaver, Jr. was a driving force in the broiler, timber, and commercial/residential construction industries, building over 2,000 poultry houses across East Texas and Western Louisiana.
As a proud lifelong resident of Center and an . . . — — Map (db m111086) HM
Born in Maine in 1812, Milton Irish came to East Texas in 1835 at age 23. His service in the Texas Army in 1835 and 1836 included action with Capt. John English's Company of Shelby County volunteers and Ben Milam's assault during the Siege of Bexar, . . . — — Map (db m268285) HM
August 14, 1844, between Regulators and Moderators, warring factions in Shelby County 1841-1844, who caused heavy sacrifice of life and property before General James Smith with Texas troops restored order — — Map (db m221239) HM
Canadian born Ephraim Merrill Daggett was reared on a farm in Indiana. He traded with the Indians at Fort Dearborn (Chicago) in the early 1830s then moved to Shelby County, Republic of Texas, in 1838. There he and his family became involved in . . . — — Map (db m304305) HM
John Joseph Emmett (J.J.E.) Gibson was born in Dublin, Ireland. Because of an illness, he was left behind with an aunt when his family immigrated to the United States about 1851. Gibson reportedly studied architecture in Dublin, and finally joined . . . — — Map (db m110998) HM
Martin M. Middleton, son of Drue and Maggie Middleton, was a lifelong resident of Shelby County. He married Shirley Faye Booth in July 1941, five months before the war started in December of that year. Soon after serving his country in the United . . . — — Map (db m111083) HM
Born in Louisburg, N.C.; came to Texas 1833. Never carried a gun, though he lived in locality of 1840's Regulator - Moderator Feud, and risked life to help bury Robert Potter (first Secretary of Navy, Republic of Texas), who had been shot by an . . . — — Map (db m191268) HM
Born in Shelby County, Kentucky, to Stephen and Birthia (Ford) Drane, Meritt Drane exemplified leadership in early Navarro County. His father was a wealthy farmer and stock raiser. Meritt's education consisted of homeschooling and learning how to . . . — — Map (db m309661) HM
The Republic of Texas granted Peter Whetstone land that
included this homesite for his participation in the siege of Bexar in December 1835, during the Texas Revolution.
Whetstone gave a portion of the property for a town
square, courthouse, . . . — — Map (db m232731) HM
Among the early settlers of Fort Worth, Charles Biggers (C.B.) Daggett (1812-1888) was born in Canada and moved to Indiana when he was eight years old. Around 1839–40, His family moved to Shelby County, Texas, where they participated in the . . . — — Map (db m190872) HM
Formed from Shelby County
Created January 28, 1839 Organized June 12, 1842
Named in honor of
Jonas Harrison
A pioneer statesman of New Jersey
who came to Texas in 1820
A member of the First Convention of . . . — — Map (db m119552) HM
The First United Methodist Church Cemetery, one of the oldest in Shelby County, is located in the Nancy Smith Survey on land deeded by Judge M.W. Wheeler and Sam Samford to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The first burial was that of a small . . . — — Map (db m268216) HM
Originally known as Mount Carmel, the community served by this cemetery adopted the name Tennessee, as many families from that state settled here. Ancestors of John B. Woodfin (1856-1945) are said to have first set aside land for this burial ground, . . . — — Map (db m268296) HM
Common schools (public schools) sometimes including both primary and secondary grades but usually primary grades alone, blanketed most of rural Texas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the 1880s, the citizens of Aiken created . . . — — Map (db m268213) HM
Racial Terror Lynchings
Thousands of black people were the victims of lynching and racial violence in the
United States between 1877 and 1950. During this era, racial terror lynching of
African Americans emerged as a stunning form of violent . . . — — Map (db m221216) HM
Organized in 1857, this church was originally known as Mount Carmel. It was the First Presbyterian Congregation established in Shelby County. A one-room log cabin served as a meeting place until a large two-story frame building was constructed in . . . — — Map (db m268297) HM
Pottery-Making Families of Randolph County
During the 1830s, pottery-making families moved directly from the Carolinas and Georgia. Most came from the Edgefield District of western South Carolina, which boasted an important pottery-making . . . — — Map (db m118124) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
