WELCOME!

We're Tim Seawolf-Self and Barbara Peck. We're the TXGenWeb Project coordinators for
Comanche County. If you'd like to contribute information for Comanche County
or volunteer to help with lookups, please e-mail me at [email protected]

If you would like to sponsor a county, please e-mail Shirley Cullum, State Coordinator

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VISIT
  THE COMANCHE PUBLIC LIBRARY 



The Comanche Public Library is located at 311 N. Austin St. (1 1/2 blocks north
of the Square on HWY #16 north). Mailing address P.O. Box 777, Comanche, Texas 76442.
The e-mail address is: [email protected]

Comanche Public Library
The library is closed on Thursday and
on Saturday of long holiday week-ends

Additional information appears on the library’s home page at :

Comanche Public Library Web Site
Now Search the Library Catalog Online

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HISTORY OF COMANCHE COUNTY

Comanche County, Texas Handbook

Comanche County TX Archives

TXGenWeb Archives

Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Texas Landmarks

Portal to Texas History


Old Comanche County Courthouse

Comanche County Courthouse, 1950's

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Message Boards View Comanche County Queries
(1996 - 1998)

  New Queries (2006 -     )

  Old Surname Postings


  Surnames

A-C     D-F     G-I     J-L     M-P     Q-S     T-Z

Please note:   During the years, many e-mail addresses of those posting queries and/or surnames have become invalid.  We have checked them all and removed the invalid links.  However, the name of the posting person has been retained in case they wish to update their information.  Names with links still contain valid addresses,,,

Comanche County Lookups

  View Comanche County Map

 
  1911 Postcard

  Transcriptions of Early Comanche Newspapers

  County Officials and Taxpayers

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CENSUS

1860

1870

1880

  NEW     1900     NEW

1900 Index

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CEMETERIES

  Margaret Waring's Cemetery List

  Comanche CSA Pension Applications

   Stone Family Cemetery

  Antioch Cemetery

  Indian Creek Cemetery

  Board Church Cemetery

  Newburg Cemetery (partial listing)

  Newburg Cemetery--Photos
          Featuring Flippin Grave Markers

Oakwood Cemetery (partial listing)

Old De Leon Cemetery

Oliver Springs Cemetery

Union Cemetery (partial listing)

Unknown Cemetery (Burials in field near Albin Cemetery, Comanche County,
Texas 2/10 mile south of Albin Cemetery entrance
GPS coordinates: N 31 47' 51.6" W 098 29' 28.1")

Hanson Cemetery

Sipe Springs Cemetery 

Rock Bluff Cemetery

DeLeon Cemetery

Downing Cemetery
DOWNING CEMETERY IS NOW BACK ONLINE!
Please report any broken links to us

Union Cemetery Photographs

Hazeldell Cemetery (for some reason misspelled on the gate)
Thank you Sandy Madison for the picture

   Hazeldell Cemetery Photos

  Welch Family at Sand Hill Cemetery

  Sipe Springs--Ghost Town Cemetery

Ebenezer Cemetery

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PHOTO GALLERY

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Mystery Photos

Old Pictures of Comanche County

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FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE

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THE LIFE OF JOHN R. NIGH
by James Clark

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GENEALOGY

  John Washington Stephens Family

  Walter and Mary Eudora Tidmore Jordan Smith

FamilySearch.org:  Texas, Comanche County Records, 1858 - 1955

Price Family
Provided by Roxie Logan Calsada and posted with her permission.

To see photos of the Beggs/Wilson Family, click here

The Descendants of John Bernard Roch

The Boyntons

Family Group Sheet of John Breckenridge Cooper

From Here to There, by Rose Parks (Cooper and other surnames)

Descendants of James Mackey
by Penny Argroves Holmes

J. A. Stevens Family
by Evelyn Ruth Owens

B. D. Owen
by Evelyn Owens

Family Tree of Bill Norwood
Primary Surnames: Norwood, Duckworth, Allen, Brashier/Brasher, Speed, Magee, Travis, Cooley

The White Family
by Brenda Parker Dunbar

Holdridge Family of Texas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina
by Cindy Smith
  
A Walcott Family in Texas
by Melvin Walcott

Judge Nathan Yarbrough
by Jim Yarbrough

Texas Divorce Records (1968-2001)
transcribed by Patrick White

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NEIGHBORING COUNTIES

Brown

Eastland

Erath

Hamilton

Mills

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OTHER SITES OF INTEREST

County Formation and Census Maps

Texas State Genealogical Society

WorldGenWeb Project

Interment.net

Comanche County Genealogical Society

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Contributor Julia found this photograph
in an antique store in Ft. Worth, TX.
Can you identify these two girls?
Julia would like to give it to a member of their family.



Contributor Virgil found this picture among his collection of old photos.
It's of "Mr. and Mrs. Long," but he doesn't know who they are.
If you can identify them, please contact us.
Virgil would like to give it to a member of the family.

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