Gonzales County Bibliography

The following bibliography should help you in your own research into your connections with Gonzales County, Texas. Much of the material, may be available by inter-library loan through your local public library or genealogical society. Unfortunately many of the titles, like most Genealogy items, may not be available on a circulating basis. However, many libraries throughout the country will offer to make photocopies of indexes and a limited amount of information under the "fair use" concept.

ACCESSION: 35101120
AUTHOR: Saunders, Jo Ann Muenzler.
TITLE: The Herbrig family /
PLACE: Austin, Tex. :
PUBLISHER: J.A.M. Saunders, YEAR: 1995
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: viii, 131 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
NOTES: Includes bibliographical references and index. SUBJECT: Herbrig family.
Munzler family.
Herbrig, Johann Gottfried, -- 1750-1834 -- Family. Sorbs -- Genealogy.
Austin County (Tex.) -- Genealogy.
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy.

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ACCESSION: 35041132 
TITLE: The History of Gonzales County, Texas / PLACE: Dallas, Tex. : Gonzales Co., Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: Curtis Media Corp. ; Copies may be obtained from the Gonzales County Archives, 
		YEAR: 1995 9999 PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: v. <1   > : ill., maps ; 32 cm. NOTES: Maps on lining papers. 
Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, 6th prelim. p.) and index. 
SUBJECT: Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History. Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Biography. 
Texas -- Genealogy. 
ALT TITLE: Gonzales County history. 
OTHER: Gonzales County Historical Commission (Gonzales County, Tex.) 
Gonzales County history. 
 
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ACCESSION: 34590241 
AUTHOR: Parsons, Marjorie, 1936
TITLE: Gonzales County, Texas marriage licenses issued 1829-1900 / PLACE: Smiley, Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: M.B. Parsons, YEAR: 1996 1993 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: [2] leaves, ii, 278, 4 p. ; 28 cm. 
NOTES: Includes errata ([2] leaves at front) Includes index. 
SUBJECT: Marriage records -- Texas -- Gonzales County. Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. 
 
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ACCESSION: 33964014 
AUTHOR: Robertson, James Miller. 
TITLE: A tale of two families : 
		Robertson and Griffith / PLACE: Corpus Christi, Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: J.M. Robertson, 
YEAR: 1995 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: 412 p. : geneal. charts ; 28 cm. 
  NOTES: Includes index. SUBJECT: Robertson family. 
Griffith family. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. Williamson County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. 
 
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ACCESSION: 33502554 
AUTHOR: Saunders, Jo Ann Muenzler. 
TITLE: The Muenzler family history / PLACE: Austin, Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: J.A.M. Saunders, YEAR: 1977 
PUB TYPE: Book  
FORMAT: i, 140 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. 
  NOTES: Includes index. 
SUBJECT: Muntzler, Johann Matthaus, -- 1723-1793 -- Family. 
Munzler family. 
Bowers family. 
Horning family. 
Fayette County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. Gonzales County (Tex.) --  
Genealogy. Texas -- Genealogy. 
 
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ACCESSION: 32583576 
AUTHOR: Mansfield, Charles Wright, 1931
TITLE: Thomas Henry Wright : 
		the story of my grandfather and his Wright/Woodruff lineage / PLACE: Austin, Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: C.W. Mansfield, YEAR: 1994 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: 115 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. 
SUBJECT: Wright, Thomas Henry, -- 1858-1920 -- Family. Wright family. 
Woodruff family. 
Brunswick County (Va.) -- Genealogy. Virginia -- Genealogy. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. Texas -- Genealogy. 
ALT TITLE: Story of my grandfather and his Wright/Woodruff lineage 
 
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ACCESSION: 30719977 TITLE: Family ties : 
		the Parchman family / PLACE: [New Braunfels, Tex.] : 
PUBLISHER: K.R. Whitley, YEAR: 1993 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: vi, 203 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. 
SUBJECT: Parchman, Nicholas -- Family. Parchman family. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. Tennessee -- Genealogy. 
Monroe County (Miss.) -- Genealogy. 
 
OTHER: Whitley, Kenneth Rea. Parchman family. 
 
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ACCESSION: 28655527 
AUTHOR: Parsons, Marjorie, 1936
TITLE: Gonzales County, Texas marriage licenses issued 1829-1900 / PLACE: Smiley, Tex. (P.O. Box 61, Smiley 78159-0061) : 
 PUBLISHER: M.B. Parsons, YEAR: 1993 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: ii, 278, 4 p. ; 29 cm. 
  NOTES: Includes index. 
SUBJECT: Marriage records -- Texas -- Gonzales County. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. 
 
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ACCESSION: 26847396 
TITLE: The Gonzales inquirer PLACE: Gonzales, Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: Smith & Darst, 
YEAR: 1853 9999 
PUB TYPE: Serial 
FORMAT: v. : ill. ; 56 cm. 
FREQUENCY: Semiweekly, <Jan. 3, 1992-> 
Weekly, 1853
Daily (except Sat., Sun. & holidays), <Oct. 14, 1991-> 
NUMBERING: Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 4, 1853)
NOTES: Published later by Smith & Beach <1876>. 
Publisher: Guadalupe Valley Pub. Co., <Oct. 14, 1991-> 
Microfilm. [Texas? : s.n., 19--] microfilm reels : negative ; 35 mm. 
SUBJECT: American newspapers -- Texas -- Gonzales County. Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Gonzales County.  
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. 
ALT TITLE: Gonzales inquirer (Gonzales, Tex. : 1853) 
Gonzales weekly inquirer 
Waelder new era 
Nixon times 
Daily inquirer (Gonzales, Tex. : 1897) 0746-2794 (DLC)sn 
83004780 (OCoLC)9910121 
 
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ACCESSION: 24303661 
AUTHOR: Atkinson, Belle, collector. 
TITLE: Papers, YEAR: 1838 1927 
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control FORMAT: 85 items. 
NOTES: In the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (#2698). 
Genealogical data and miscellaneous family papers of members of 
the Atkinson family of San Marcos and Gonzales County, Tex.,  
18601927; a letter about making friends at the University of 
Virginia, 1838; and a Confederate Memorial Day speech to a gathering of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, ca. 1897, 
by M. A. Barber. 
SUBJECT: Atkins family. 
Barber, M. A. 
University of Virginia -- Students -- Social life and customs -
19th century. 
College students -- Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th 
century. 
Confederate Memorial Day addresses 
Family -- Texas -- Social life and customs. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Social life and customs. 
 San Marcos (Tex.) -- Social life and customs. 
Texas -- Genealogy. 
 
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ACCESSION: 22408392 
TITLE: 1850 U.S. census, Gonzales County, Texas / PLACE: Wichita, KS : 
PUBLISHER: S-K Publications, YEAR: 1988 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 28 cm. 
NOTES: Includes index. 
Photocopies of the census schedules. 
SUBJECT: Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Gonzales County. Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Census, 1850. United States -- Census, 7th, 1850. 
OTHER: Schunk, John F. (John Frederick), 1914
 
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ACCESSION: 17604802 
TITLE: Cemeteries of Gonzales County, TX : 
Gonzales Memorial Park, St. Andrew Catholic, Spanish Woodman of the World. 
PLACE: [Houston, TX? : 
PUBLISHER: s.n., YEAR: 1986 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: [33] leaves ; 30 cm. 
NOTES: Various inventories done by Louisa and Todd Ontiveros, Paulina Torres Vasquez, and Sandra and Arturo Vasquez of Houston. 
SUBJECT: Gonzales Memorial Park Cemetery (Gonzales County, Tex.)  
-Registers. 
St. Andrew Catholic Cemetery (Gonzales County, Tex.) -
Registers. 
Spanish Woodman of the World Cemetery (Gonzales County, Tex.)  
-Registers. 
Inscriptions -- Texas -- Gonzales County. 
Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Gonzales County. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. 
  
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ACCESSION: 14985253 
TITLE: The History of Gonzales County, Texas / PLACE: Dallas, Tex. : Gonzales Co., Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: Curtis Media Corp. ; Copies may be obtained from the Gonzales County Archives, 
		YEAR: 1986 9999 PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: v. <1   > : ill., maps, ports. ; 32 cm. NOTES: Cover title: Gonzales County history. 		Maps on lining papers. 
Includes index. 
Bibliography: v. 1, 6th prelim. p. 
   ISBN: 0881070637 (v. 1) 
SUBJECT: Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Biography. Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. 
OTHER: Gonzales County Historical Commission (Gonzales County, Tex.)  Gonzales County history. 
 
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ACCESSION: 6605054 
AUTHOR: Hyatt, Marjorie Burnett. 
TITLE: The ties that bind : 
		families of Precinct Five, Gonzales County, Texas, 1850-1900 / PLACE: Cut and Shoot, Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: Clan MacBean Press, YEAR: 1980 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: 321 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. 
  NOTES: Includes index. 
SUBJECT: Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Gonzales County. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Census. 
 
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ACCESSION: 4556023 
AUTHOR: Jarratt, John Littlefield. 
TITLE: Leesville Cemetery and historical notes on the Leesville Community, Gonzales County, Texas / 
PLACE: [s.l.] : 
PUBLISHER: Jarratt, YEAR: 1966 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: [40] p. : ill. ; 22 cm. 
SUBJECT: Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Gonzales County. Leesville (Tex.) -- History. 
		Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Genealogy. 
OTHER: Historical notes on the Leesville Community, Gonzales County, 
Texas. 
 
 
 
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ACCESSION: 34996834 
AUTHOR: Griffith, Ofelia Garcia. 
TITLE: Nixon and its people 
the beginning / 
		YEAR: 1995 PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: vi, 115 leaves ; 29 cm. NOTES: Vita. 
Thesis (M.S.)--Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 1995. 
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-114). 
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms International, 1995. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. 
SUBJECT: Railroads -- Texas -- History. Nixon (Tex.) -- History. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History. 
 
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ACCESSION: 33295348 
AUTHOR: Saunders, Jo Ann Muenzler. 
TITLE: Cost, Texas / PLACE: Austin, Tex.  
: 
PUBLISHER: J.A.M. Saunders, YEAR: 1990  
PUB TYPE: Book 
 FORMAT: vi, 207 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. 
  NOTES: Includes index. 
SUBJECT: Cemeteries -- Texas -- Gonzales County -- History. 
Cost (Tex.) -- History. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History. 
 
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ACCESSION: 27235245 
AUTHOR: Beach, Lola Doyle. 
TITLE: A history of Gonzales County in the World war. PLACE: Austin, 
		YEAR: 1930 PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: v, 371 p. form. 
NOTES: Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas. 
SUBJECT: European war -- 1914-1918 -- Gonzales County. Gonzales County  (Tex.) -- History. 
 
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ACCESSION: 25617237 
TITLE: First Baptist Church, Gonzales, Texas, church membership  records 
		and minutes PLACE: [S.l.] : 
PUBLISHER: Historical Committee of the Baptist General Convention of  Texas, YEAR: 1992 uuuu 
PUB TYPE: Serial 
FORMAT: microfiches : negative. 
NOTES: Includes: v.1-12 (1847-1975) 
Title from accompanying sheet. 
Eye-legible header: Tx. Gonzalez [sic]. First Baptist Church. 
SUBJECT: First Baptist Church (Gonzales, Tex.) -- History. Baptists --  Texas -- Gonzales -- History. 
Baptists -- Texas -- Gonzales County -- History. 
Gonzales (Tex.) -- Church history. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Church history. 
ALT TITLE: Tx. Gonzalez [sic]. First Baptist Church 
 
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ACCESSION: 25087020 
AUTHOR: Burkett, Nathan Boone. 
TITLE: Papers, YEAR: 1895 1895 
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control FORMAT: 37 leaves 
NOTES: Consists of Burkett's memoirs, which he dictated to his  
son-inlaw.  Later, grandson J. W. Arnold prepared a typescript taking 
some liberties in the process.  The original is in delicate 
condition. 
Republic of Texas pioneer, and Texas Ranger.  Born October 20, 1820  near Jefferson City, Missouri.  Came with his family at  
age nine to Texas and settled in the DeWitt Colony near Gonzales.  During the Republic decade served with Captain Mathew  
Caldwell's Texas Ranger unit and took part in the Battle of Plum Creek  (1840) and the Battle of Salado in (1842).  In January, 1895, while  living at Moulton, Texas, he dictated a memoir of those early days to  his son-in-law, who wrote them down. SUBJECT: Burkett, Nathan Boone. 
Caldwell, Mathew. 
Houston, Sam, -- 1793-1863. 
 McCulloch, Ben. 
McCulloch, Henry. 
Texas Rangers. 
Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas. 
Atrocities -- Texas. 
Indians of North America -- Texas -- Wars. 
Texas -- Militia -- History. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History. 
Lavaca County (Tex.) -- History. 
 
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ACCESSION: 24067428 
AUTHOR: Parsons, Chuck. 
TITLE: Bowen and Hardin / PLACE: College Station, Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: Creative Pub. Co.,   
YEAR: 1991 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: 159 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. SERIES: The Early West 
NOTES: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0932702910 : 
SUBJECT: Bowen, Brown, -- 1849-1878. 
Hardin, John Wesley, -- 1853-1895. 
Outlaws -- Texas -- Biography. 
Vendetta -- Texas -- History -- 19th century. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History. 
Texas -- History -- 1846-1950. 
  OTHER: Parsons, Marjorie, 1936
 
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ACCESSION: 22290860 AUTHOR: Young, B. S. 
TITLE: Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church, Gonzales County, Texas,  
18971983 / 
PLACE: Cuero, Tex. : 
PUBLISHER: B.S. Young, YEAR: 1988 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: i, 168 p. ; 22 cm. 
  NOTES: Includes index. 
SUBJECT: Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church (Gonzales County, Tex.) -
History. 
 
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ACCESSION: 13828095 AUTHOR: Texas. 
TITLE: [Certificate of election] : 
		DS, YEAR:  
1845 
PUB TYPE: Archive/Manuscript Control FORMAT: 1 item ([1] p.) ; 29 cm. 
NOTES: Certifies, on printed form, the election of Benjamin B. Peck to the office of County Clerk of Gonzales County, Texas. 
			Signed in ms.: Anson Jones, Eben. Allen. SUBJECT: Peck, Benjamin B. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History -- Sources. 
Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846 -- Sources. OTHER: Jones, Anson, 1798-1858. 
 Allen, Ebenezer, d. 1863. 
 
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ACCESSION: 8023577 
AUTHOR: Dixon, Frederick Kemp, 1938
TITLE: A history of Gonzales County in the nineteenth century / PLACE: [Austin, Tex.] : 
PUBLISHER: F.K. Dixon, YEAR: 1964 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: vi, 175 leaves : map ; 29 cm. 
NOTES: "August, 1964." 
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas, 1964. Bibliography: leaves 174-175. 
SUBJECT: Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History. 
 
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ACCESSION: 2869636 
AUTHOR: Fouts, George, 1897
TITLE: Gonzales County, Texas - a study in personal politics / PLACE: Chicago, Illinois : 
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago, YEAR: 1949 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: 183 leaves ; 22 cm. 
NOTES: Thesis--University of Chicago. Reduced reproduction of typescript. Includes bibliographical references. SUBJECT: Sociology, Rural. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History. 
Gonzales County (Tex.) -- Politics and government. 
 
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ACCESSION: 2707947  
AUTHOR: Patterson, Cyril Leone, 1873
TITLE: Nixon, Gonzales County, Texas; 
a progressive diversified agricultural haven. 
	PLACE: San Antonio, PUBLISHER: Sid Murray & Son, 
		YEAR: 1938 PUB TYPE: Book 
 FORMAT: 32 p. plates. 23 cm. 
SUBJECT: Gonzales County (Tex.) -- History. 
 
 
 
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ACCESSION: 16639389 
AUTHOR: Texas State Library. 
TITLE: Records of Texas county and district clerks : 
		special lists of records available on microfilm at ... / PLACE: [Austin : 
PUBLISHER: The Library, 1977?] YEAR: uuuu uuuu 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT:   v. in 1. (loose-leaf) ; 28 cm. 
NOTES: Microfilm on Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Montague, and Wise counties, 1820-1950, housed at North Texas State University  
-Microfilm on Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Webb, and Zapata counties, 1848-1958, housed at Pan American University -- Microfilm on 
 Bastrop, Blanco, Caldwell, Gillespie, Gonzales, Hays, Llano, and 
Travis counties, 1837-1974, housed at Texas State Archives -
Microfilm on Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, 
Sabine, San Augustine, and Shelby counties, 1820-1950, housed at Stephen F. Austin State University -- Microfilm on Anderson, 
Freestone, Grimes, Houston, Leon, Madison, Montgomery, and 
Trinity counties, 1820-1960, housed at Sam Houston State 
University -- Microfilm on Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, 
Hamilton, Hill, Lampasas, Limestone, and McLennan counties, 1820
1975, housed at Baylor University -- Microfilm on Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio, and San Patricio 
counties, 1835-1975, housed at Texas A & I University at Kingsville -- Microfilm on Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange, Polk, San Jacinto, and Tyler counties, 1820-1976, housed at Sam Houston Regional Library and Research 
Center. 
SUBJECT: Public records -- Texas. 
County government -- Texas. 
Texas -- History, Local -- Sources -- Indexes. 
 
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ACCESSION: 4654951 
AUTHOR: Texas State Library 
TITLE: Records of Texas County and District Clerks, 1837-1974 : 
special list of records available on microfilm at Texas State Archives, Austin, Texas. 
PLACE: [Austin : 
PUBLISHER: Texas State Library, YEAR: 1977 
PUB TYPE: Book 
FORMAT: [ca. 30] leaves ; 28 cm. 
NOTES: Bastrop County.--Blanco County.--Caldwell County.--Gillespie County.--Gonzales County.--Hays County.--Llano County.--Travis County. 
SUBJECT: County government -- Texas. 
Public records -- Texas. 
Texas -- History, Local -- Sources -- Indexes. 
 

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