LAVACA COUNTY, TEXAS - and Southwest Texas history

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LAVACA COUNTY, TEXAS - and Southwest Texas History - Goodspeed - 73 pages - soft cover - full name index - reprinted 2016.
Lavaca County, located in what was southwest Texas in the 1890s when this volume was written, was created in 1846 and named for the Lavaca River that flows towards to Matagorda Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.  In this volume there is a brief history of this county and the region around it in the southwestern section of the State.  There is included a collection of biographical sketches of some of the early families that help to make Lavaca County what it is today.

Example from this volume:
“J.W. BENNETT, was in Alabam, where his birth occurred in 1847.  He was the eldest child born to William F. And Amy (Cheschire) Bennett, the father, a native of the Palmetto State and the mother of Alabama.”

Surname index to the biographical sketches of this volume:
ALLEN, AVANT.

BAGBY, BAIRD, BALLARD, BASCOMB, BEAUREGARD, BENNETT, BLACKBURN, BRAGGER, BROWN, BRUCE, BUELL, BUNGE, BYARS, BYERS.

CHESCHIRE, CLARK, CLOUDT, COFFEE, CONNALLY, CRUCH, CULPEPPER.

DALY, DANIELS, DAWSON, DENSON, DICKSON, DUBOIS.

EAST, EDDS, EIDSON, EVENS.

FINK, FITE, FLATE, FONKHAUSER, FOREST.

GOODSON, GREEN, GUTHRIE.

HALLET, HARMON, HARRIS, HEATH, HEFNER, HEMPHILL, HENDERSON, HERDER, HEYER, HILLMANN, HINDS, HOCK, HOOPER, HOUCHINS, HOUSTON, HOXICE, HUDSON.

JACOBS, JOHNN, JOHNSON, JONES, JURY.

KESSLER, KNOK.

LANCASTER, LEATHERBURY, LEDBETTER, LEMONS.

MANNING, MASON, MAY, McCLEARY, McCULLOUCH, MILLER, MONTGOMERY, MOORE, MORGAN, MOSS, MULLEN, MYERS, MYLIUS.

NAVE, NICHOLAS, NICHOLS, NOLAN.

OLIVER.

PALMER, PATTERSON, PHILLIPS, PUNELL.

RECTOR, REES, ROBINSON, ROUE, RUCKER, RUSSELL.

SAUER, SCHAM, SCHWAB, SHELLEY, SHERMAN, SHINER, SMOTHERS.

TOWNSEND, TURNER.

VALLENTINE, VAN DORN, VOLT.

WALLER, WANGERMANN, WEST, WILLIAMS, WILLIAMSON, WOLTERS, WOODALL, WOOLSEY.