Erath County Texas Genealogy Research
Although Erath County was organized in 1856, a court house fire destroyed records prior to 1869. Birth and death records were not required by the state until 1903.
About Erath County Records:
Births from 1903 although some Affidavits and Delayed-Births may go back farther
Deaths from 1903
Marriages from 1869 Digital copies available of each record, 1869-1921.
Probate from 1876
Deeds from 1867
Obituaries - from mid-1980s - present Digital copies available.
Additional resources you may wish to research:
Death Records of Erath County, Texas Volume I (1903-1917), Shirley Brittain Cawyer, edited by James Pylant, 1993
Cemetery Inscriptions, Erath County, Texas Volume I, Weldon I Hudson and Shirley Brittain Cawyer
Cemetery Inscriptions, Erath County, Texas Volume II, Weldon I Hudson and Shirley Brittain Cawyer, 1983
Cemetery Inscriptions, Erath County, Texas Volume III, Weldon I Hudson and Shirley Brittain Cawyer, 1983
At Rest in Huckabay, Texas, Annotated Cemetery Transcript, Local History Project, Huckabay School, 2000-2001
At Rest in Hannibal, Texas, Annotated Cemetery Transcript, Local History Project, Huckabay School, 2001-2002
At Rest in Hannibal, Texas, Annotated Cemetery Transcript, Local History Project, Huckabay School, 2001-2002
At Rest in Exray, Texas, Local History Project, Huckabay School, 2001-2003
Erath County, Texas Marks and Brands 1867-1884, Weldon I Hudson, 1983
(Note: We have digitized all of these original records and they will be available soon.)
Erath County, Texas Census Records Including the 1860 and 1870 Federal Census, the 1860 Slave List, and the
1867 Voter's Registration, Weldon I Hudson and Shirley Brittain Cawyer, 1981
Purves, Erath County, Texas, Raymond Hancock, 1975
Purves Live Oak Cemetery, Purves Live Oak Cemetery Assn, 1997
Some History of the Johnsonville, Pony Creek and Chalk Mountain Communities Who Consolidated to Form the Three
Way School District, Erath County, Texas, Marilyn Giesecke Mills Ewers, 1995
Some History of the Duffau Community, Erath County, Texas, Marilyn Giesecke Mills Ewers, 2002
Early Settlers of the Millerville Community, Erath County, Texas, Marilyn Giesecke Mills Ewers, 2003
Photos of Hico, Texas Area People, Marilyn Giesecke Mills Ewers, 2002
Alexander, A D Gray and Cecilia Gilbert
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