Local History & Genealogy
Resources
at the East Parker County Library, Aledo, Texas
( Revised 4-27-2004)
Local History - Yearbooks
The Ledoian 1945 - Aledo ISD Yearbook
The Ledoian 1946 - Aledo ISD Yearbook
The Ledoian 1947 - Aledo ISD Yearbook
Longhorn 1987 - Weatherford Middle School Yearbook
The Oak Leaf 1930 - Weatherford College Yearbook
Phone Books
Weatherford, Texas Southwestern Bell Phone Book 1958
Membership Booklets & Organizations
W’ford, TX - Knights of the Pythias Lone Star Lodge No. 4 - Membership
Booklet - Nov. 30, 1937
History of the Aledo Volunteer Fire Department by Freddy Detherage
History of the Aledo Volunteer Fire Department by Dub Bearden
History of the First Baptist Church of Aledo 1879 - 1979 by Reubene
Scott
Census
CD - Texas Parker County 1860, 1870, 1880 - Currently Being Indexed - 1880 Precinct 7 Finished
CD - Texas Hood County 1880 - Not Indexed
Book - Tarrant County 1850 - Indexed
Book - Texas Henderson County 1850, 1860 includes Slave Schedule &
Tax List of 1846
Parker County, Texas
“A New History of Parker County” (First Published in 1906) by Jno. S.
Grace and R.B. Jones
“Trails West Parker County Cemetery Book, Northeast Quadrant” by Parker
Co. Genealogy Society
“Trails West Parker County Cemetery Book, Southern Half of Co.” by
Parker Co. Genealogy Society
“Ramblin Reubene” Book 1 by Reubene Scott
“A Parker County Texas Cowboy “All Over” by Leon Tanner and Mary Kemp
“Abstracts of Parker County Texas Pre-Emption Land Records 1850-1858”
by Jerry Wright Jordan
“The School Under The Live Oak Tree” by Doyle Marshall
“A Cry Unheard, The Story of Indian Attacks In and Around Parker County
Texas 1858-1872”
“Parker County In Review, 100 Years of History”
“Parker County Prairie Sketchbook” by Homer Norris
“Aledo Country Sketchbook” by Homer Norris & Doyle Marshall
“Weatherford, Parker County, Texas Immigrants Guide” by Parker County
Immigration Society
“Pictorial History of Parker County”
“Gay as a Grig” by Ellen Bowie Holland
“Trails West” Vol. 16 & 17
“Trails West” Vol. 20 & 21
“Trails West” Vol. 22 No. 1
“Trails West” Vol. 25 & Vol. 26 No. 1 & 2
“Trails West” Vol. 27 - Vol 30 No. 1
“Trails West” Vol. 29 No. 1, 2, 3,
“Trails West” Vol. 31 No. 1, 2, 3, 4
“Trails West” Vol. 32 No. 1. 2, 3
Texas
“Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier” by J. Evetts Haley
“Alamo Defenders, A Genealogy: The People and Their Words” by Bill
Groneman
“Pioneers: The Scott Family of Henderson Co., TX” by Evelyn Vogt Horton
& Beverly Scott Bass
“Interwoven, A Pioneer Chronicle” by Sallie Reynolds Matthews
“Stalkin Kin, In Old West Texas”
Glasscock, Sterling, Coke, Runnels, Reagan, Irion, Tom Green,
Concho, Crockett, Schleicher, Menard, Sutton, Kimble Counties
Published by San Angelo, Texas Genealogical Society 24 Issues Vol. 13 -
18
4 Issues Vol. 20
“Foot Prints” Published by Fort Worth, Texas Genealogical Society 35
Issues Feb 85 - Nov 92
FWGS Topical Index” Vol. 1 - 27 Fort Worth Genealogy Society
“Fort Worth Genealogy Society Surname Index” 1988
“Biographical Table of Contents for a History of Central & Western
Texas” Vol. 1
“ A Numerical Index for West Texas Frontier”
“Texas Safari” by Al Micallef
“Digging into South Texas Prehistory” by Thos. Hester
“Texas Legends” by Jackye Havenhill
“Van Zandt County, TX Marriage Records 1848-1909” by Van Zandt Co.
Genealogical Society 1989
“Henderson County, TX Cemetery Records Book 1” by Athens Genealogical
Org. 2000
“Our Heritage” Published by Van Zandt Co. Genealogical Society 1985 1-4
“Our Heritage” Published by Van Zandt Co. Genealogical Society 1987 1-4
“Our Heritage” Published by Van Zandt Co. Genealogical Society 1988 1-4
“Our Heritage” Published by Van Zandt Co. Genealogical Society 1996 1-4
“Our Heritage” Published by Van Zandt Co. Genealogical Society 2003 1-4
Kentucky
“Reconstructed Marriage Records of Breathitt, County, 1839 - 1873 1874
- 1877” by M.M. Hayes
Virginia
“Early Marriages, Wills, and Some Rev. War Records, Botetourt Co. Va.”
by Anne Lowry Worrell
“Marriage Bonds of Bedford County Virginia 1755 - 1800” Dennis &
Smith
“Brunswick County Marriages 1750 - 1853” Vogt & Kethley
“Cumberland Parish Lunenburg County, Virginia 1746-1816 Vestry Book
1746-1816” by Landon C. Bell
“The Deeds of Amherst County, Virginia 1761-1807 & Albemarle
County, Virginia 1748-1763” by Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.
Mississippi
“Marriages & Deaths From Miss. Newspapers, Vol 1 1837-1863”
Compiled by Betty C. Wiltshire
“Marriages & Deaths From Miss. Newspapers, Vol 2 1801-1850”
Compiled by Betty C. Wiltshire
“Marriages & Deaths From Miss. Newspapers, Vol 3 1813-1850”
Compiled by Betty C. Wiltshire
“Marriages & Deaths From Miss. Newspapers, Vol 4 1850-1861”
Compiled by Betty C. Wiltshire
“Mississippi Confederate Grave Registrations A-L” By Betty Couch
Wiltshire
“Mississippi Court Records 1799-1835” Compiled by J. Estelle Stewart
King
“Lee County, Mississippi Cemetery Records 1820-1979” By NE Mississippi
Historical & Genealogical Society 1981
North Carolina
“Abstracts of Deeds Edgecombe Precinct, Edgecombe County, North
Carolina 1732-1758”
By Margaret M. Hofmann
Pennsylvania
“ Emigrants to Pennsylvania 1641-1819” A Consolidation of Ship
Passenger Lists From Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography
by Michael Tepper
Tennessee
“Red River Settlers” Records of Settlers of Northern Montgomery,
Robertson & Sumner Counties,
Tennessee By Edythe Rucker Whitley
“ East Tennessee History” Reprinted from Goodspeed’s History of
Tennessee by Sam McDowell
” Tennessee Mortality Schedules” by Byron & Barbara Sistler
“Cemetery Records of Bedford County Tennessee” By Helen Crawford Marsh,
Timothy Marsh 1976
Georgia
“ Index to The Headright & Bounty Grants of Georgia” 1756-1909 By
Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr.
“First Settlers of Upper Georgia” By George R. Gilmer
“ 1805 Georgia Land Lottery” By Virginia Wood & Ralph Wood
“30,638 Burials in Georgia” By Jeannette Holland Austin
“40,000 Early Georgia Marriages” By Maddox, Carter 1977
Misc.
“Cherokee By Blood, Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry In the US
Court of Claims 1906-1910” Vol. 1-3
“Mining Frontiers of the Far West” by Rodman W. Paul
“Tragedies of the Osage Hills, As Told by the Sage of the Osage” by
Arthur H. Lamb
“ From Muskets to Mohair, The History of Fort Terrett” by Grace King,
Sherwood Noel McGuigan, & Gem Meacham
“Passports of Southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823” Indian, Spanish and
other Land Passports
for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, North &
South Carolina
Dorothy Williams Potter
“The Fail--Fales And Related Families” By Welton Ruel Fail
“Testimony of General Douglas MacArthur Before the Armed Services &
Foreign Relations
Committees of the US Senate” 82 Congress First Session May 3-5 1951
“National Genealogical Society Quarterly” 1993 Vol 81 Books 1-4
“National Genealogical Society Quarterly” 1997 Vol 85 Books 1-4
“National Genealogical Society Quarterly” 1998 Vol 86 Books 1-4
“Genealogical Helper” Quarterlies 30 Sept. 94 - Aug. 99
“The Surname Bulletin” 1986
“Family Periodicals” 1986
“Unpuzzling Your Past, A Basic Guide to Genealogy”
“The Handybook for Genealogists” 10th Edition
“Librarians Guide to Genealogical Research”