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Re: Newspaper Lookup

pdsain  (View posts) Posted: 19 Jul 2008 12:37PM GMT
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Jackson B Wigley, Texas death certificate # 5086

http://www.txgenweb4.org/txborden/
There is a cemetery named Durham. From US Hwy 180 past Gail, turn onto Wicker Road, road will dead end at a field, turn left on unimproved dirt road through the field, proceed abt 1/2 mile, road will dead end at the cemetery. Photo of entrance and some markers, not many.

Joe Harvy Wigley, Mapp, Texas, Scurry county
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txscurry/
Fluvanna Cemetery, Dermott Cemetery, Cottonwood Flat, Snyder, Camp Springs, Canyon, Bluff Creek, Ira, Dunn, Lone Wolf, Pyron, Hermleigh. None mention area of Mapp nor is Mapp found in list of communities in the Hand Book of Texas.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/browse/we.html

Male Sledd born 29 Nov 1927 Scurry county, father James W, mother Bessie May Wigley

Eula Marea Wigley, # 32555
25 Apr 1938, Waco Texas
14 July 1938, Evant, Hamilton County
W A Wigley of Alabama
Eula Sanders of Texas
Emaline Cemetery, Purmela, Texas
cholera infantum

PURMELA, Texas. Purmela is near the intersection of Farm roads 932 and 1241, thirteen miles northwest of Gatesville in northwestern Coryell County. It was established by Martin Dremien, a storeowner who became postmaster when the post office was granted in 1879. According to one local source, Dremien tried to have the town named for his sweetheart, Furmela, but the postal service made a mistake; after that Dremien is said to have sold his store and moved to another state. The Purmela school district was formed in 1901 as a result of the consolidation of the Basham, Sycamore, and Evergreen schools. Purmela school was in turn consolidated with the Gatesville Independent School District sometime after 1950. The community maintained a population of 125 in the 1950s and most of the 1960s, but the number of residents fell to sixty-five in 1968, and to forty in 1970. Purmela had a church and a post office in the 1980s; the population was reported as sixty-one in 1990.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Coryell County Genealogical Society, Coryell County, Texas, Families, 1854-1985 (Dallas: Taylor, 1986).

http://www.txgenweb2.org/txcoryell/

William Andrew Wigley, married, # 120
16 Apr 1870, Alabama
30 Jan 1943, Belton Rt 2, Bell, at home 7 1/2 miles south of Belton
Jas or John W Wigley
mother unknown
J W Shedd, Rt 2 Belton informant
Sharp Cemetery near Youngport, 31 Jan 1943
old age & lingering illness

Eula Wigley, widowed, # 21133
01 Jan 1901, Texas
06 May 1955, Belton Dam Road, Belton, Bell
Father: John Alexander, Alabama
Mother: unknown
Earnest Wigley
Sharp Cemetery, Youngsport, Texas
doa, probably heart attack

http://cemeteries.txbell.net/
Sharp Cemetery, south of Killeen, west of Youngsport

YOUNGSPORT, Texas. Youngsport is on the Lampasas River and Farm Road 2484, nine miles south of Killeen in southwestern Bell County. Michael Young brought his family to the area before 1850. A wagontrain led by Joel Cosper came with 106 people in 1870. A post office was opened in the community in 1871 and probably named either for P. G. Young, the proprietor of the town's hotel in 1884, or for Michael Young; the latter, reputedly a former ship's captain, is said to have named the site "Young's port" when he arrived as the earliest settler. In 1875 a local church, the Live Oak Baptist Church, was organized. A Church of Christ congregation, predecessor of the current congregation, was meeting in a brush arbor by 1882; the church met in the school for many years, evidently built a building in 1925 or 1926, and completed a new building in 1988. By 1884 Youngsport had become a cotton-shipping town with as many as 200 inhabitants, three churches, two cotton gins, a hotel, and flour and corn mills. The first local school of record began operation around 1886. The school, one of the larger rural schools in the county in the early twentieth century, had seventy-seven pupils and two teachers in 1905. The community supported a Grangeqv chapter and a Woodmen's lodge in the early 1900s. The population had dropped to 100 by 1890 and declined slowly to some seventy people by 1914. The post office was closed in 1930, and by 1948 Youngsport had a population of fifty, two churches, and two businesses. Local students were transferred to the Killeen Independent School District in 1938. In 1988 the population stood at forty inhabitants, and there were no business establishments in the community. The population remained at forty through 2000.

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