Mam-ma's Southern Family

Using the Portal to Texas History Digital Newspaper Collection, I searched for “G.W. Lancaster” and “Warren Lancaster” filtering to Erath County. I further filtered to view the oldest articles first. Below is the result, showing only those items pertaining directly to him. Some of the “G. W. Lancaster” articles were about his grandfather, George Wilson Lancaster. Some of the articles were about his children and only mentioned being the son or daughter of Warren Lancaster. I omitted them. Those articles are a better fit for those children’s stories. Results of the Search The Dublin Progress , 14 June 1912, p. 3, col. 4. “Huckabay. Warren Lancaster of Harbin visited Jim Sones and wife Sunday and made preparations to attend school at Huckabay academy next term.” Jim Sones was Warren’s first cousin. Jim’s mother, Sallie Coor, was Warren’s mother, Martha Jane Coor’s sister.   The Tribune ( Stephenville, Texas), 3 January 1913. “Vital Statistics.” “Marriage licenses: . . . G. W. L...

George Warren Lancaster was born on 19 January 1893 in Erath County, Texas, to William Carlton Lancaster and Martha Jane “Doll” Coor. [1] His father was a farmer. He married Lela Ann Loveless on 15 December 1912 in Erath County by R. L. Smallwood, Minister of the Gospel. [2] Warren and Lela had four children:  Pansy Louise (my grandmother)  Rayburn Dinion “R.D.” Carl Elda Wayne.  Carl lived only a few days. Lela died first, on 17 May 1951 in Stephenville, Erath County. [3] Warren married a second time to Maidee Estell Grimland in 1960. [4] Warren died on 8 November 1964 in Hico, Hamilton County, Texas. [5] Previous research has involved using census records, vital records, newspapers, and deeds. When he is listed as Warren Lancaster, I know I have the correct man. However, when listed as G.W. Lancaster, am I looking at Warren or is it his grandfather, George Wilson Lancaster, who was also often listed as G.W. Lancaster? After 1919, when his grandfather died, it beco...

Sarah H. Selman Hutson’s father, Greenlee B. Selman, died in Leon County, Texas, on 15 July 1888 and is buried in Concord Cemetery in Concord, Leon County, Texas. [1] No death records for this time period exist and I have not yet found a newspaper available online from Leon County for 1888. Previously, he lived in Cherokee County, Texas, where many deeds were recorded by him and his wife, Amanda D. Oldham Selman. This report will put the various transactions with deeds, probate, and court records into chronological order, so it can be determined when he might have moved to Leon County. Cherokee County I first found a deed showing Green B. Selman selling land on 22 November 1853 to Robert N. Lewis. It is 110 acres, located south of the old San Antonia Road and in the bounds of the old William Barr and Davenport or John Durst Grant, at the most eastern portion of tract no. 8. The deed noted it had previously sold Green B. Selman by the executrix of the John Durst estate. Andrew B. O...