30. Lee Roy Sterling
1Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982, Certificate 76114.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Freestone County Genelogical Society, Freestone County Cemeteries, P.O. Box 14 Fairfield, TX 75840, Palestine Public Library, 1101 N. Cedar, Palestine, TX 75801, Gen 976.4232 Fre.
4Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 14856172, Jul 8 2006.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.5Betty Morrow, Freestone County Veterans of World War I and World War II, Freestone Genological Society P.O. Box 14 Fairfield, TX 75840, Clayton Library, Center for Genealogical Research, 5300 Caroline, Houston, TX 77004-6896, GEN 976.4232 M883 Freest.
6U.S. National Archives and Records Adminstration, Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca 1938-1946: Enlistment Records WWII Army Enlistment Records. Recrod Group 64, Box#1360 Film 6.126, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001.
Army Serial Number 38629987. Lived in Freestone County at time of enlistment, Enlisted in Dallas, TX.
1Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 16068365, Oct 9 2006.
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1TX Dept of Health, Texas Dept of Health-Birth Records 1950-1995
/I>, Birth Records 1950-1995, 1940.
Information in this database comes from the Texas Department of Health. As of March 2000, Birth Indexes from 1926-1995 and Death Indexes from 1964-1998 are available on the Internet, microfiche or CD-ROM. http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/index.htm.2Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 112409502, Jun 16 2003.
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1Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 138353260, Nov 5 2014.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.2Paris News, Page A3, Oct 31 2014.
"THE PARIS NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014, PAGE A3 - Wanda La Nell Clendenen Sterling, 74 of Reno, passed away Friday, Oct. 30, 2014, in Legend Healthcare where she had resided the last four years. She was born on Feb. 6, 1944, in Mexia, Texas, a daughter of J.B. Clendenen and Eunice Naomi Carter Clendenen. Wanda worked for Dallas Co. in the elections department and was a member of Calvary Assembly of God. On Nov. 28, 1968, in Mexia, she married Murvin Sterling. He preceded her in death. Wanda is survived by her sister, Shirley Jean Plunk and husband Claude Plunk; niece, Michella Burkhart and husband David; nephew, Christopher Plunk; great-niece, Kimberly Sandovall and husband Tim; great-nephews, Joshua Burkhart and wife Lindsey and Denson Plunk; great-great nephew, Madison Sandovall. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. on Monday in the chapel of Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home with the Rev. Claude Plunk officiating. Interment will be at 3 p.m. on Monday in the Mexia City Cemetery in Mexia."3Find A Grave Records, Find A Grave Memorial# 138353260, Nov 5 2014.
1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
3Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982, Certificate 59551.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.4Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 44557715, Nov 19 2009.
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Section E.
1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982, Certificate: 47775.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
4Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 44557714, Nov 19 2009.
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Section E.
1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982, Certificate 11821.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 148307423, Jun 25 2015.
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1Texas Department of State Health Services, TX Births General Index from 1903-1997, Microfiche. Texas Department of State Health Services, Texas., Roll Number: 1921_0013.
This database is an index to over 15 million births recorded in the State of Texas, USA, between 1903 and 1997. Information available in this index includes: child's name, sex, birth date, and birth county. Some records may also include: names of both parents.2Texas Department of State Health Services
TX Birth Certificates, 1903–1932
/I>, Ancestry.com. Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 201.
This database contains birth certificates from the Texas Department of State Health Services, for the years 1903–1932. Some amendments to certificates of birth are included as well.3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 44557712, Nov 19 2009.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1Texas Department of State Health Services
TX Birth Certificates, 1903–1932
/I>, Ancestry.com. Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 201, Roll Number: 1921_0013.
This database contains birth certificates from the Texas Department of State Health Services, for the years 1903–1932. Some amendments to certificates of birth are included as well.2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982, Certificate 43123.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 44557713, Nov 19 2009.
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1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 115183833, Aug 9 2013.
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1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.
137. Mildred M Sterling
1Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
1TX Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011 , Ancestry.com.
This database is a collection of marriage indexes from the State of Texas, USA, covering the years 1814-1909 and 1966-2011. Information contained in these indexes usually includes: spouses' names, ages at time of marriage, estimated birth year, gender, marriage date, marriage location (county).2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 12655281, Dec 11 2005.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Form SS-5.
This database picks up where the SSDI leaves off, with details such as birth date and parents’ names extracted from information filed with the Social Security Administration through the application or claims process.2Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
1State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.
California Death Index, 1940-1997
California Department of Health Services Office of Vital Records P.O. Box 997410 Sacramento, CA 95899-7410
Indexing death records in California between 1940 and 1997, this database is an invaluable tool for those researching in the state of California. Vital records in California have been kept by the state registrar of vital statistics since 01 July 1905. This database is an index to the death records in California from 1940 through 1997. The database provides such valuable information as first, last and middle names of the descendants, birth dates, mother's maiden name, father's last name, sex, birth place, death place, residence at time of death, death date, social security number (when available), and the age of the individual at the time they became deceased. The information provided in this database is sure to prove useful to those researching in the state of California.2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 142843301, Feb 20 2015.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 11102022, Jun 6 2005.
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1State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.
California Death Index, 1940-1997
California Department of Health Services Office of Vital Records P.O. Box 997410 Sacramento, CA 95899-7410
Indexing death records in California between 1940 and 1997, this database is an invaluable tool for those researching in the state of California. Vital records in California have been kept by the state registrar of vital statistics since 01 July 1905. This database is an index to the death records in California from 1940 through 1997. The database provides such valuable information as first, last and middle names of the descendants, birth dates, mother's maiden name, father's last name, sex, birth place, death place, residence at time of death, death date, social security number (when available), and the age of the individual at the time they became deceased. The information provided in this database is sure to prove useful to those researching in the state of California.2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 129448583, May 8 2014.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.
California Death Index, 1940-1997
California Department of Health Services Office of Vital Records P.O. Box 997410 Sacramento, CA 95899-7410
Indexing death records in California between 1940 and 1997, this database is an invaluable tool for those researching in the state of California. Vital records in California have been kept by the state registrar of vital statistics since 01 July 1905. This database is an index to the death records in California from 1940 through 1997. The database provides such valuable information as first, last and middle names of the descendants, birth dates, mother's maiden name, father's last name, sex, birth place, death place, residence at time of death, death date, social security number (when available), and the age of the individual at the time they became deceased. The information provided in this database is sure to prove useful to those researching in the state of California.2Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
141. Floyd Ray Sterling
1California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics., California Birth Index, 1905-1995, State of California Dept of Health Services, PO Box 997410, Sacramento, CA 95899-7410.
2Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 129447584, May 8 2014.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Washington, D.C.
U.S. Census Limestone County, Texas Thirteenth Census of the United States
1910, National Archives and Records Administration, 1910. T624, 1,178 rolls.
Justice Precinct 4, Limestone, Texas; Roll T624_1574; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 41; , National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001.2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
4Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 36229644, Apr 23 2009.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1World War I Draft Registration Cards
United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washin.2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
4Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 8036970, Oct 27 2003.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 35828734, Apr 13 2009.
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1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 61430512, Nov 11 2010.
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151. Mary Ellen Elizabeth Pringle
1Texas Department of State Health Services, TX Births General Index from 1903-1997, Microfiche. Texas Department of State Health Services, Texas., Page 1512, 1931.
This database is an index to over 15 million births recorded in the State of Texas, USA, between 1903 and 1997. Information available in this index includes: child's name, sex, birth date, and birth county. Some records may also include: names of both parents.2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 81497107, Dec 3 2011.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Form SS-5.
This database picks up where the SSDI leaves off, with details such as birth date and parents’ names extracted from information filed with the Social Security Administration through the application or claims process.2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 81497106, Dec 3 2011.
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39. Edgar Sterling
1Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.
1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.
1Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 43242387, Oct 18 2009.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.4U.S. National Archives and Records Adminstration, Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca 1938-1946: Enlistment Records WWII Army Enlistment Records. Recrod Group 64, Box# 1314 Film Reel# 6.80, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001.
Army Serial# 38283380 Record shows civilian occupation at time of enlistment was automobile serviceman. Lived in Limestone County at time of enlistment. Enlisted in Dallas, TX.
1Limestone County Marriages, p585 of the index.
2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982.
11940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. .
The 1940 United States Federal Census is the largest census released to date and the most recent census available for public access. The census gives us a glimpse into the lives of Americans in 1940, with details about a household’s occupants that include birthplaces, occupations, education, citizenship, and income.2Houston Hearld 113 N. Grand Ave. Houston, MO 65483 Phone: 417-967-2000.
"Goldia Mae Sterling McCallister, 89, daughter of George Washington and Mary Effie Kirkman Sterling, was born Nov. 20, 1911, at Summersville. She died April 30, 2001, at Lester E. Cox Medical Center in Springfield.
She married Glen McCallister October 1933. They had two children.
Mrs. McCallister received her education at Griffith Grade School, Summersville High School and her bachelor's degree from Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield. She taught in several rural schools, Summersville Elementary and retired from a St. Louis school.
She was a member of the Summersville Methodist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and a sister, Jessie, who died as a young child.
Surviving are her children, Roy Dean McCallister of Springfield and Rosa Lea Walls of Summersville; four grandchildren, four foster grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, five foster great-grandchildren; and a cousin, Edna Kirkman Widgeon of Albuquerque, N.M., who was raised as a sister in the Sterling home.
Services were May 3 at the Bradford Funeral Home Chapel in Summersville with the Rev. Albert Steelman officiating. Burial was in the Bethel Cemetery near Summersville."3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 71075883, Jun 9 2011.
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1Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 77576908, Oct 3 2011.
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159. Roy Dean McAllister
11940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. .
The 1940 United States Federal Census is the largest census released to date and the most recent census available for public access. The census gives us a glimpse into the lives of Americans in 1940, with details about a household’s occupants that include birthplaces, occupations, education, citizenship, and income.2Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
1Ray A. Walter, A History of Limestone, Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1959.
"Tehuacana is at the intersection of State Highway 171 and Farm Road 638, six miles northwest of Mexia in northeastern Limestone County. A post office called Tewockony Springs was established there in 1847. It was named for the Tawakoni Indians, who lived in the area until the late 1840s. When Tehuacana Academy opened in 1852, the community was known as Tehuacana Hills, though the post office continued to be called after the springs. The post office was discontinued during the Civil War,qv but service resumed in 1869, at which time the name of the office was changed to Tehuacana. Also in 1869, John Boydqv persuaded the Cumberland Presbyterian Church to make Tehuacana the site of Trinity University. By the mid-1880s Tehuacana had three churches, two gristmills and cotton gins, and 500 residents. It was incorporated in 1890 with a mayor-council form of city government.qv The census of 1900 reported 382 residents in Tehuacana. Trinity University moved to Waxahachie in 1902, and the property was deeded to the Methodist Church, which opened Westminster College. In 1903 the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway completed its track between Cleburne and Mexia, passing through Tehuacana. The population increased to 425 by 1910 and to 615 by the mid-1920s. Tehuacana lost its rail service in 1942, when the track between Hubbard and Mexia was abandoned as part of the war effort. Westminster College became part of Southwestern University in 1942 but was closed in 1950; the campus reopened in 1953 as Westminster Junior College and Bible Institute. The population of Tehuacana fell to 412 in the early 1930s and continued to decline through the early 1980s, reaching a low of 265 in 1982. Moderate growth in the 1980s brought the population to 322 by 1990.".2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Louise Bates, Limestone County Cemeteries-Shiloh Cemetery, 1999.
4Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 31577022, Nov 20 2008.
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1Carolyn Rebuck, Sterling Family History Records of Carolyn Rebuck.
2TX, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-2015 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-2015. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2014.
3Carolyn Rebuck, Sterling Family History Records of Carolyn Rebuck.
4Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.5Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
6Louise Bates, Limestone County Cemeteries-Shiloh Cemetery, 1999.
7Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 31576997, Nov 20 2008.
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44. William Archie Sterling Sr
1Limestone County History Museum Board, A Family History of Limestone County Volume I, Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX Published 1986, Page 246, Palestine Public Library, 1101 N. Cedar, Palestine, TX 75801, GEN 976.4285 FAM.
2Texas Department of State Health Services, TX Births General Index from 1903-1997, Microfiche. Texas Department of State Health Services, Texas.
This database is an index to over 15 million births recorded in the State of Texas, USA, between 1903 and 1997. Information available in this index includes: child's name, sex, birth date, and birth county. Some records may also include: names of both parents.3Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.4Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
5Louise Bates, Cemetery Records of Limestone County, 1999.
6Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 31577093, Nov 20 2008.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982, Certificate: 14593.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Louise Bates, Cemetery Records of Limestone County, 1999.
4Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 31577117, Nov 20 2008.
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1Limestone County History Museum Board, A Family History of Limestone County Volume II, Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX, Volume II Page 153, 1993, Palestine Public Library, 1101 N. Cedar, Palestine, TX 75801, GEN 976.4285 FAM.
2Blair Stubbs Funeral Home, Blair Stubbs Obituary release, 605 S. McKinney Mexia, TX 76667.
"Melvin (Billy) Sterling (October 28, 1924 - October 7, 2006)
Funeral services for Melvin R. (Billy) Sterling,81, of Mexia will be 2 p.m. October 10, 2006 at Calvary Baptist Church in Mexia with Rev. James Hopper, former pastor, and Rev. Bill Wright, Sr. officiating. Interment will be in Shiloh Cemetery.
Mr. Sterling was born October 28, 1924 in Limestone County (between Mexia and Wortham) on a farm. His parents were William A. and Evie Fleming Sterling. He Passed away on October 7, 2006 in Mexia.
Until he went into the army, Billy farmed and worked at Reuben Sunday’s store at Box Car Center. When he returned from the service,he went back to work parttime for the Sundays and was substitute rural mail carrier. He was then hired as carrier-clerk in Mexia postoffice and was assigned a city route. Later he was assigned a rural route which he carried until he retired in 1980. (34 years). After retirement there he worked for Barham Feed Store and Sheffield Farm and Ranch Supply, retiring in 1987.
He served in the U. S. Army from March 12, 1943 until his discharge as corporal on December 13, 1946. He served in the European Theatre of Operation, being a truck driver, stationed in France (landed two days ahead of the invasion), then to Belguim, Holland and Germany. He was with the 2490th Truck Co. and received 5 battle stars, 3 good conduct medals and four overseas bars.
Billy first joined the Shiloh Baptist Church and then Calvary Baptist Church in Mexia where he served as music director and later as organist. He was the first music director and youth director at Forest Glade Baptist Church after its organization..
For five years he served as treasurer of Bi-Stone Baptist Association and was vice- President and later president of Limestone County Singing Convention, president of Limestone Organ Association and was involved in organization of Shiloh School Home- coming and served as its first president. In 1950 he was elected Secretary-Treasurer of Shiloh Cemetery Association and held that position until 2005 (55 years) when he resigned because of declining health.
He was a member of Woodmen of the World and Rural Letter Carrier’s Association.
In his autobiography Billy writes “I have had a good life and have enjoyed it. I love my family and my friends. I thank God for being my Savior and taking care of me and my family”.
Mr. Sterling was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Flora Lee Anderson and Alta Mae Sterling and a brother, James Clyde (Jack) Sterling.
He is survived by a sister, Willie Faye Roberts of Haughton, LA and nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Harold Roberts, Fred Scarbrough, William Anderson, James Miller, Bobby Neeley and Russell Neeley. Honorary pallbearers are John Barham, Kent Sheffield, Wayman Hullum, Ben Glensman, Derward Cook, Harry Johnson and Cecil McDonald."3Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
4Blair Stubbs Funeral Home, Blair Stubbs Obituary release.
5Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 16065479, Oct 9 2006.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.6Blair Stubbs Funeral Home, Blair Stubbs Obituary release.
169. Alta Mae Sterling
1TX Dept of Health, Texas Dept of Health-Birth Records 1950-1995
/I>, Birth Records 1950-1995.
Information in this database comes from the Texas Department of Health. As of March 2000, Birth Indexes from 1926-1995 and Death Indexes from 1964-1998 are available on the Internet, microfiche or CD-ROM. http://www.tdh.state.tx.us/bvs/registra/index.htm.2Texas Department of State Health Services
TX Birth Certificates, 1903–1932
/I>, Ancestry.com. Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 201.
This database contains birth certificates from the Texas Department of State Health Services, for the years 1903–1932. Some amendments to certificates of birth are included as well.3Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.4Waco Tribune Herald, P.O. Box 2588 Waco, Texas 76702-2588 Toll-free: (800) 678-8742, Mar 11 1950.
The newspaper has its roots in five predecessors, beginning with the Waco Evening Telephone in 1892. The Tribune-Herald took its current identity when E.S. Fentress and Charles Marsh, who owned the Waco News-Tribune, bought the Waco Times-Herald. That purchase was the beginning of Newspapers, Inc., a chain which eventually owned 13 newspapers. Founded 1892 (as the Waco Evening Telephone).
The Waco Tribune-Herald is an American daily newspaper serving Waco, Texas and vicinity.
"Wortham Car Victim Buried
Mexia March 11 Funeral services for Miss Alta Mae Sterling, 19, who was killed in an automobile accident at Wortham Wednesday night, were held at the Baptist Church in the Shiloh Community Friday Afternoon with burial in Shiloh Cemetery. Rev. Bernie Hayter, pastor of the church, conducted the service. Miss Sterling was killed when the car in which she was riding left the road and crashed through two telephone poles. Otha Laird, driver of the car, was seriously injured. He was taken to a Mexia hospital and later was transferred to a Temple hospital. Miss Sterling is survived by her father, William Sterling, of Tehuacana."5Louise Bates, Cemetery Records of Limestone County, 1999, Shiloh Cemetery, 1999.
6Limestone County History Museum Board, A Family History of Limestone County Volume I, Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX Published 1986, Page 247, Palestine Public Library, 1101 N. Cedar, Palestine, TX 75801, GEN 976.4285 FAM.
1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 13671985, Mar 19 2006.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1Social Security Administration Office of Public Inquiries Windsor Park Building 6401 Security Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21235, Social Security Administration Death Index 1935-2014 (Vital Records-death index).
2Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit., TX Death Index 1903-2000
/I>, Death Indexes from 1903-2000, Texas Vital Statistics, Department of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, TX 78756.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.3Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 67227473, Mar 21 2011.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
1Texas Department of Health, State Vital Statistics Unit, TX Death Certificates1903-1982, file# 11119.
For additional information or copies of death records, please contact: Texas Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics P. O. Box 12040 Austin, TX 78711-2040(512) 458-7111.2Find A Grave Records, www.findagrave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 67227525, Mar 21 2011.
This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.
