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THE "HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF VICTORIA COUNTY, TEXAS, 1824-1999", Vol. I, II & III, Victoria County Genealogical Society. These volumes cover family stories from 2,000 families with indexes of about 70,000. Vol. I & II published in 2000 sell as a set for $129 + $10 postage. Vol. III published in 2003 sells for $75. +$5. for postage. Contact Director Sue Prudhomme, Museum of the Coastal Bend, 2200 East Red River, Victoria, Tx 77901.
VOLUME II OF "EXTRACTIONS OF VITAL RECORDS FROM THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE" is now available. Cost of the volume
is $20.00 plus $2.50 for postage and handling.
To order this book or Volume 1, Nov. 1846-Dec. 1880,
please copy and print the following order blank. MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO VICTORIA COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.
NAME:___________________________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS:________________________________________________________________________________
CITY:____________________________________STATE:_________________ZIP CODE:_______________
VOLUME NUMBER:_______________QUANTITY:_______________________ AMOUNT ENCLOSED (at$22.50 each)________________
To ensure prompt delivery please print "Victoria Advocate Order" on face of envelope.
For more information contact Patsy Hand.
"A Master Index for the Victoria County Genealogical Society Quarterly"
"Sandebeck to Weesatche - The Story of the Werner F. Dohmann Family"
published 1999, $25.00. Contains 255 pages, over 100 photographs, and an
every-name index with over 470 surnames. Includes many families from
Victoria and surrounding counties.
The Evergreen Cemetery books, 1 and supplement are no longer for sale but can be viewed at the Genealogy section of the Victoria Public Library and on the second floor of the Victoria College/University
Library Archives
"Victoria, Texas Evergreen Cemetery",Wanda Hoad Payne
published 1993.
"Supplement To Victoria, Texas, Evergreen Cemetery",Wanda Payne Hoad
"Victoria County Cemeteries, Book 1", Doris Felps Gilpatrick
"Victoria County Cemeteries, Book 2", Doris Felps Gilpatrick
"Victoria County Cemeteries, Book 3", Doris Felps Gilpatrick
For information about the Victoria Co. Cemetery Books 1,2 & 3 please contact Judy Bartee; 3301 Catalpa; Victoria Tx 77901 or [email protected]
Copies can be viewed in the Genealogy section of the Victoria Public Library
and on the second floor of the Victoria College/University Library Archives.
"Coletoville Cemetery History",
"The Life History of Ernestine Michling Keil Dohmann",
"The Joseph Preiss Family History",
"Peter Schindler and Family to America",
"The Webers, the Old to the New",
"The Memorial Park Cemetery Book",
"Records From J. E. Ryan & Son, and McCabe-Carruth Funeral Homes",
Coming Publications, by Gladys Preiss Arnold:
"Funeral Home Records From Goldman, Waters, Duckett, and Colonial
Funeral Homes, in Victoria".
"William Ratcliff/Ratliff of Maryland and Anson County, NC",
"Ancestors and Descendants of Tristram Thomas of Maryland",
"William Thomas of Richmond County, NC",
"A CLEVELAND Family History", published March 1982
"The JOHN and KATHERINE HABERKORN JUNKER Family", published 1990.
"DUCKETT Family Roots and Shoots", pub. over several years,
4 volumes, over 200 pages. Duckett Family.
"Indianola and Matagorda Island 1837-1887", published 1999.
A local history and visitor's guide for a lost seaport and a barrier island
on the Texas Gulf Coast. $15.95 at local bookstores or by mail for $20.00
-which includes autograph,
The following books by Henry Wolff, Jr. include collections of his
newspaper columns in the VICTORIA ADVOCATE newspaper about people,
places and events in the Texas midcoast area. These books, available
in both soft and hard back, are approximately 200 pages each.
Henry Wolff, Jr., "Henry's Journal," Volumes I and II For information
contact: "Henry's Journal", P.O. Box 1518, Victoria, TX 77902,
(361) 575-3689 or email Henry Wolff, Jr.
Please indicate which volume you are ordering.
Mail to: VCGS, P.O. Box 4711, Victoria, TX 77903
VCGS started publication of their quarterly magazine in January 1980. Now a master index is
on its way. It covers the first 18 years of names appearing in the magazine, and your
surname should now be easily found within our index.
A set of 6 Microfiche.....$12.00 (includes postage and handling.)
A softcover, spiral bound book of 377 pages of surnames.......$58.00 plus $5.00 postage and handling
Order your copies from: Victoria County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 4711,
Victoria TX 77903. Be sure to include your name and mailing address along with payment.
Edgar Dohmann, Rt. 5 Box 84, Alvin, TX 77511, 281-480-8904
Evergreen, a public cemetery established about 1850,
is located at Vine and Red River Street. It is the oldest cemetery in
Victoria still in use. This book is no longer in print.
published 1994. Contains information found in Wm. P. Rogers U.D.C.
Chapter, Victoria; some Victoria families,1914-1955,; some funeral records of
about 225 burials in Evergreen with no markers; and author�s personal research.
published 1988. Includes 22 county cemeteries. Indexed, Table of
Contents. Each cemetery listing has persons found in the cemetery listed as
found, side by side. Does not include Evergreen Cemetery.
published 1994. Includes 30 city and county cemeteries. Indexed, Table of
Contents. Each cemetery listing has persons found in the cemetery listed as
found, side by side. Does not include Evergreen Cemetery.
published 1996. Includes 2 city and 3 county cemeteries. Indexed, Table of
Contents. Each cemetery listing has persons found in the cemetery listed as
found, side by side. Does not include Evergreen Cemetery.
published 1994, $4.00. Established 1872, on property donated by Spitzer
Family. Includes burials of local families and people of nearby Martin Luther
Lutheran Church.
Gladys Preiss Arnold, 680 Frontage Rd., Victoria, TX 77905-4261, 361-575-0560
published 1991, $17.00. Includes Keil, Kolle, Dohmann, Albrecht, Weber,
Maurer, Roell, Wehmann, Schubert, Baecker families, and other families.
Gladys Preiss Arnold , 680 Frontage Rd., Victoria, TX 77905-4261, 361-575-0560
published 1992, $22.00. Includes families of Geisler, Preiss, Schindler,
Duderstadt
Gladys Preiss Arnold, 680 Frontage Rd., Victoria, TX 77905-4261, 361-575-0560
published 1993, $17.00. Includes families of: Schindler, Reimann, Preiss
Gladys Preiss Arnold, 680 Frontage Rd., Victoria, TX 77905-4261, 361-575-0560
published 1994, $27.00.Includes families of: Weber, Pippert
Gladys Preiss Arnold, 680 Frontage Rd., Victoria, TX 77905-4261, 361-575-0560
published 1995, $22.00. Established 1933 by Janie S. Fly, this public
cemetery is located across from St. Joseph High School, on North Main Street.
Gladys Preiss Arnold, 680 Frontage Rd., Victoria, TX 77905-4261, 361-575-0560
published 1996. Records from these funeral homes cover a time span
of about 1911 through 1995
Gladys Preiss Arnold, 680 Frontage Rd., Victoria, TX 77905-4261, 361-575-0560
published 1992, $15.00. Ratliff-Thomas families, of North Carolina and
various other states. 3 hole spiral binding, 72 pages, softcover.
Co-authors: Howard S. Hazlewood, 206 Avalon Dr., Victoria, TX, 77901-3686,
361-573-6730
Betty J. Carson, 10045 E. Chestnut Dr., Sun Lakes, AZ 85248,
602-895-6714
published 1993, $18.00. Early Thomas families to America, from England to
Maryland, then to North Carolina. Covers 2-3 generations, from 1590 to 1790.
Plastic cover, spiral bound, 87 pages, softcover.
Co-authors: Howard S. Hazlewood, 206 Avalon Dr., Victoria, TX, 77901-3686,
361-573-6730
Betty J. Carson, 10045 E. Chestnut Dr., Sun Lakes, AZ 85248,
602-895-6714
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741-1800, published 1994, $10.00. Descendants of William Thomas; 3 hole
spiral binding, 24 pages, softcover.
Co-authors: Howard S. Hazlewood, 206 Avalon Dr., Victoria, TX, 77901-3686,
361-573-6730
Betty J. Carson, 10045 E. Chestnut Dr., Sun Lakes, AZ 85248,
602-895-6714
Cleveland descendants, from descendants of Immigrant MOSES CLEVELAND,
1619/20, through 1982, through his son AARON. Family from MA to NY to
WI to TX. 250 pages. Indexed.
Co-authored by Olivia E. Milberger, Joyce L. Tharpe, and Billye D. Jackson
Out of Print lookup:
Billye D. Jackson, 3004 Coffey St., Victoria, TX
77901-7427, 512-573-9415
Includes Haberkor-Junker families of Victoria County, TX
Out of Print lookup:
Elorine Frederick Hartman, Rt. 4, Box 44AA, Cuero, TX 77954, 512-275-2082
Out of Print lookup:
Co-Authors: Billy and Dorothy Duckett, 405 Antietam Dr., Victoria, TX 77904, 512-573-7748
Ed Duckett, 13300 Indian Rock Rd., Largo, FL 33774, 813-596-6698
Jim Duckett, 3708 Skylark Trail, Chattanooga, TN 37146, 423-899-2149
tax, S & H.
Author: Linda Wolff, email address
Henry Wolff, Jr., "The Way It Used To Be"
