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North America » United States » Texas » Mount Pleasant April 4th 2017

Geo: 33.1571, -94.9686Today was all about wandering through cemeteries. We also stopped by one more library, the Daingerfield Public Library, where we found two chatty and helpful librarians right before they closed for lunch. The older one gave Phil directions to one of the cemeteries that we could not find on a map.We walked the Clark, Daingerfield, Bradfield Chapel, Naples, Wilder, and Spring Hill Cemeteries finding a few ancestors and some more distant relatives in each one. The last cemetery we saw was the Loving Cemetery right next to Spring Hill. Its sign said that it was established in 1958 so we did not walk through thinking that none of the people we were looking for lived that long. However, we thought later that perhaps we should have stopped in since sometimes graves are moved long ... read more
Clark Cemetery
Clark Cemetery
Daingerfield Public Library

North America » United States » Texas » Mount Pleasant April 3rd 2017

Geo: 33.1571, -94.9686After breakfast in the hotel, we checked out and left for Mount Pleasant about 9:30. Morning rush hour traffic had died down by then, and we got through Dallas fairly smoothly. We arrived in Mount Pleasant about two hours later. We found the town square and the Titus County Courthouse before they closed for the noon hour and went in to look through birth, death, and marriage records. One of the clerks on duty showed us the ledgers that she had for the late 19th and early 20th centuries and let us browse by ourselves in the storage room. She used her computer to look through some indexes, too, that made our search a little easier. We photographed the certificates that we found. Copy machines are too hard on those huge books .After searching, ... read more
Titus County Courthouse
Titus County Courthouse
Titus County Courthouse

North America » United States » Texas » Mount Pleasant October 7th 2015

We left East Fork RV Park shortly after noon on Sunday. We didn't make it to mom's until about 3:30. We all get used to estimating how long it will take us to make a trip based on what it takes in our automobile. But that does not apply in a big old motorhome like this. Everything takes longer. We stopped at a Loves or Flying "J" to buy fuel. We have a "Pilot" card that gives us $.08 a gal discount. But it kept getting declined. Come to find out they did not set up the pin number that Les told them, but one a digit off. Once we figured that out we'd killed half an hour or more, but I was able to get online and change the pin number, then Les was able ... read more
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