CALDWELL COUNTY, TEXAS and Southwest Texas History

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CALDWELL COUNTY, TEXAS and Southwest Texas History - Goodspeed Publications - 76 pages - soft cover - full name index - reprinted 2016
The area around Caldwell County was first inhabited by the Paleo-Indians Hunter gatherers and later Tonkawa, Karankawa and Comanche.  Following the coming of white in the Mexicans the Green DeWitt petition for a land grant established a colony in Texas and by 1839 the first settlers came into the area.  On 7 August 1848 the county was established from Bastrop and Gonzales counties and named for Matthew Caldwell “Old Paint” who was a soldier and statesman as well as a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence also as a Commander of the Texas Rangers.  In this volume you will find a brief history of Southwest Texas and a collection of biographical sketches of persons living here in 1890 when the original was published.

Example from this volume:
“DR. FORT P. VERSER - He was born in Madison County, Tennessee, the sixth of eleven children born to Daniel and Lautha (Fort) Verser, was also a North Carolinian of French extraction, whose early ancestors settled in Virginia upon coming to this country.”

Surname index to the biographic section of this volume:
AUSTIN.

BARROW, BELL, BELLINGER, BENNER, BERRY, BLACKBURN, BLANKS, BOND, BOONE, BRECKINRIDGE, BURLESON.

CADY, CAHILL, CALDWELL, CAMPBELL, CARPENTER, CHEW, CLIETT, COCHREHAN, CRANE, CROCKER, CRUMP.

DeWITT, DILWORTH.

EARLY, EMERSON.

FERRIS, FIELD, FLIETT, FORREST, FORT, FOSTER, FOY, FRANCIS, FREMONT, FULLER.

GOLDEN, GOOD, GREEN, GREENWOOD, GRUBBS, GUTHERIDGE.

HALL, HAMILTON, HARDEMAN, HARPER, HARRIS, HARRISON, HAYS, HENDRICKS, HOUSTON, HUDSPETH.

IRELAND.

JOHNSON, JOLLY, JONES.

KELLEY, KENNEDY, KING, KIRTLEY, KYLE, KYSER.

LADY, LANCASTER, LANE, LEE, LIPSCOMB, LOWERY.

MAGSON, MALLOCH, MANNING, MARTIN, MARTINDALE, MATTHEWS, McCULLOCH, McDADE, McDOWELL, McKEAN, McKINNEY, McMAHAN, MEYERS, MILLER, MOONEY, MOORE, MORRISON, MURRELL, MYERS.

NIX, NORRIS, NORTHCRAFT.

OWEN, OWENS.

PALMER, PARCHMAN, PETTEY, PITTMAN, POWER, PRIOR.

RAGAN, RANDALL, RANKIN, RAYMOND, READ, REED, RHODES, ROGERS, RUNKLE, RUTLEDGE.

SALTER, SANTA ANNA, SCOTT, SHROPSHIRE, SIGEL, SKAGGS, SMITH, SNELL, STORY, STRINGFELLOW, SULLIVAN.

TAYLOR, THOMPSON.

VAN GASKEN, VASQUEZ, VERSER.

WALKER, WASHINGTON, WEBB, WEST, WILEY, WILLIAMS, WILSON, WITHERS, WITTER, WOLL.