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 1909 Upshur County Court House Gilmer, Texas |
The first settler within the limits of modern
Upshur County was probably Isaac Moody, who settled on the Cherokee
Trace near West Mountain in 1836. The area that is now Upshur County
was originally part of Nacogdoches County and later was incorporated
into Harrison County. On April 27, 1846, after Texas was admitted
to the Union, the first legislature of the state of Texas established
Upshur County; at that time the county included the area of present
Camp County and part of modern Gregg County. On May 1, 1848, the county's
voters chose the location for Gilmer, the county seat, and in August
the sale of blocks and lots in the new town began. (More) |
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We would like to dedicate these awards to the wonderful
patrons of Upshur County. They are truely the ones that made this
possible by sending in such a vast amount of information. Their names are
too numerous to list, but they have worked hard
reading cemeteries, taking pictures, digging through personal files, transcribing
data, sending old photographs, doing lookups,
typing, etc. We appreciate all their hard work and input, and we look forward
to being able to continue working with each
and every one. Congratulations Upshur County Patrons and lets continue to
make the Upshur County TXGenWeb site grow!
A special thank you goes to Sharon Pierce for her 6
years as Co-CC of Upshur County. She has retired, and will be
greatly missed. Sharon gave countless hours gathering information, typing,
walking/transcribing cemeteries, taking
photographs, answering queries, and doing anything she could to help make
the Upshur County TXGenWeb site as
informative and helpful to the researchers as is possible.
We are Elaine Martin & Etta Withers, the Upshur County TXGenWeb county
coordinators. If you would like to submit
any information, or volunteer for any projects, please feel free to contact
us. Our motto is that there is no information that
is too large or too small to be of benefit to our fellow researchers.
We never know what little tidbit is going to break
down a brick wall for someone.
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A listing of all Upshur County towns/communities,
past & present:
Gilmer is the county seat.
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