Author: Terry G. Jordan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.
Texas Graveyards
Author: Terry G. Jordan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.
Daughters of Republic of Texas - Vol II
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563116413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563116413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Daughters of Republic of Texas - Vol I
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563112140
Category : Pioneers
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Republic of Texas has a vivid past - its ancestors ventured west to settle an uneasy land - from exploration by the Spaniards to war with the Mexican government and its declaration of independence in 1836. Read about these ancestor's stories through hundreds of biographies with photographs of most. A comprehensive index provides easy reference for genealogical research.
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563112140
Category : Pioneers
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Republic of Texas has a vivid past - its ancestors ventured west to settle an uneasy land - from exploration by the Spaniards to war with the Mexican government and its declaration of independence in 1836. Read about these ancestor's stories through hundreds of biographies with photographs of most. A comprehensive index provides easy reference for genealogical research.
Heart of Texas Records
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Mize Genealogy in America
Author: Joel Sanford Mize
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Henry Mize (ca. 1751-1853) married Kesiah Overby in 1794 in Brunswick County, Virginia, and moved to Union District, South Carolina by 1800. By 1816 the family moved to Franklin County, Georgia. Descen- dants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro- lina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes other Mize individuals and families. often immigrants in the colonial era, without tracing exact relationships.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Henry Mize (ca. 1751-1853) married Kesiah Overby in 1794 in Brunswick County, Virginia, and moved to Union District, South Carolina by 1800. By 1816 the family moved to Franklin County, Georgia. Descen- dants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro- lina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes other Mize individuals and families. often immigrants in the colonial era, without tracing exact relationships.
Family Genealogy of Christian Marty, Barbara Ruegsegger
Author: Wilma Ruth Harshbarger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Descendants of immigrant Christian Marty located primarily in Ohio, from 1850 to 1985.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Descendants of immigrant Christian Marty located primarily in Ohio, from 1850 to 1985.
Heart of Texas Records, Topical Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heart of Texas records
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heart of Texas records
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Texas Testimony Carved in Stone
Author: William Moses Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical markers
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A partial listing of the Texas highway historic markers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical markers
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A partial listing of the Texas highway historic markers.
Thomas Powell, Colonial-yeoman-planter
Author: George Travis Powell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description