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Guide to Limestone County Texas genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
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Cheryl Burks
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County Courthouse
200 West State Street PO Box 350
Groesbeck, Texas 76642
Phone: 254.729.5504
County Clerk has birth and death records from 1903, marriage records from 1873, probate records from 1880’s, land records from late 1800’s, court records from 1900’s and military records from 1920’s; Distric Clerk has divorce
records[1]
History
Parent County
1846--Limestone County was created 11 April 1846 from Robertson County. County seat: Springfield 1846-1873; Groesbeck 1873-present.[2][3]
Boundary Changes
Record Loss
1873--Limestone County Courthouse at Springfield and most county records were destroyed by fire in October 1873.
1891--Limestone County Courthouse at Groesbeck destroyed by fire on February 1, 1891. Records were stored in vaults and were not lost. [4]
1954--The Old Limestone County Courthouse, built in 1891, was destroyed by fire in May 1954. It had not been used as a courthouse since 1924, when the current courthouse was built.[5]
Places / Localities
Populated Places
Cities and Towns: Groesbeck | Mexia | Coolidge | Fair Oaks | Kosse | Tehuacana | Thornton
Neighboring Counties
Resources
Cemeteries
Cemetery Index from TXGenWeb Limestone Co., TX
Rootsweb.ancestry cemetery project.
Gloria B. Mayfield Cemetery Project for Limestone County, Texas
Church
Court
Land
Local Histories
- A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas, 1883. Digital book on line from the Portal to Texas History.
Maps
Texas Counties Map. Click on the county to go to the TXGenWeb site.
Military
Newspapers
Probate
Taxation
Vital Records
- Texas Death Index 1964 to 1998 [no images] Name index to Texas Statewide Death Certificates or four million people who have died since 1964.
- Texas Death Records 1890 – 1976 [with images]
Name index and images of statewide death certificates, 1890-1976. The name index has been created by FamilySearch and is tied to images of the Texas death certificates. Few certificates are available prior to 1903.
Societies and Libraries
Family History Centers
Web Sites
- TXGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the county.
References
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Limestone County, Texas. Page 669 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ Limestone County: Handbook of Texas Online http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcl09
- ↑ GenDisasters.com - Groesbeck, TX Courthouse Fire, Feb 1891 http://www3.gendisasters.com/texas/7310/groesbeck-tx-courthouse-fire-feb-1891
- ↑ GenDisasters.com - Groesbeck, TX Old Courthouse Fire, May 1954 http://www3.gendisasters.com/texas/17517/groesbeck-tx-old-courthouse-fire-may-1954
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