Navidad Country
Table of Contents
Lyons, Mulberry
Chapters in Volume 1 – Acknowledgements Table of Contents Foreword Norman C. Krischke The Navidad Country – Section 1 “Land of Opportunity” Drought, Pestilence, War A State of Desperation Settling of Southern Fayette Old Lyons Corinth Baptist Church and Cemetery Mulberry Church and Cemetery Navidad Baptist Church and Cemetery The Navidad Settlers Bridges, Ranne Bruin, Rose Burns, Killough Chandler, Melor, Nunn, Houchin(s), Rees Clayton, Brooks Cooksey, Hanna Cryer, Hemphill, Taylor, Fitchett Drisdale, Norris, Faires FitzGerald, Criswell, Cleveland, Burke Glass, Hinds, May, Ray Green, Hatchett, Middleton Hildebrand, Whittenburg, Miles Huffor, Langley Kirk, Middlebrook, Plummer Lane, Horton, Wade Lyons, Tribble, Cottle McInteer, Thomas McKinnon, Nichols, Sherman Morrow, Armstrong, Winter(s) Murchison, Smith, Heller Murray Pennington, Wooldridge, Miles Perkins, LaVarre Ragsdale, Robinson, Card Rimmer, Crenshaw, Youngblood, Brown, Purcell Rose Gideon, Higgs, Knight Secrest, Flournoy Sommer, Schaefer, Hofmeier About the Author Index
Hackberry, Oakland (Prairie Point), and Clear Creek
Chapters in Volume 2 – Acknowledgements Table of Contents Foreword The Navidad Country – Section 2 Hackberry, A Forgotten Place Oakland (Prairie Point) and Clear Creek Andrews Chapel Cemetery Clear Creek Church and Cemetery Coffee Cemetery Williams Cemetery Wooldridge Cemetery Andrews, Payne Bostick, Hill Brown, Hargon, Blackburn Coffee (Coffey), Lockett, Williams Eason, Hancock, Allen Fowlkes, McClelland Frazer, Griffith, Townsend Hazel, Buckholts, Lee Holt, Williams, Tooke Horton, Crawford Joiner, Henderson, Mayes Lawrence, Simpson McCormick, Roberdeau, Foote McGary, Kornegay, Cook McMillan, McIntyre, Vester Overbay, Lawhorn Rhode(s), Brown Simpson, Boatright, Lacy Thompson Townsend, Harper, Stapleton Tubbs Wooldridge, Ivey, Calhoun Woolsey, Castleberry, Blount About the Author Index
Reviews
“On behalf of the citizens of Fayette County, allow me to thank you for this magnificent book. I am so impressed with the enormous amount of information and the sheer volume of research – it was an absolute joy to read. It is so important that we remember and honor our ancestors who have gone before us and you have indeed done that. After all, like I always say 'people who have forgotten their past have no future'.”
County Judge Ed Janecka
La Grange, Fayette County, Texas
“Only the river separated them as they busied themselves in the cultivation of the families and farms. What an important story Iris has documented.”
H. O. Strunk
Oakland "On the Navidad"
Colorado County, Texas
“According to the late Lavaca County historian, Judge Paul C. Boethel, the story of the Navidad is a unique one; (beginning with the buffalo grazing on the coastal plain, it offered wild life, such as deer, wild turkey and squirrels in abundance and wildflowers galore. As the Navidad rushed down to the Gulf, it had it beginnings in the creeks on its head water; the Rocky, Turkey, Mixon and Sandies).
The individuals who resided in this area he referred to as the "Navidad Nation". These earlier pioneers, who settled between and along the borders of the West and East Navidad Rivers in Fayette, Colorado and Lavaca counties, are given depth and breadth in "Navidad Country" by Iris Rose Guertin.
"Navidad Country" chronicles the lives of at least one hundred of the early Navidad settlers and the communities where they lived, worked and worshipped; Lyons, Clear Creek, Oakland and Hackberry among others.
Guertin has produced a rare product in the world of local history; a book that is extremely well-documented, meticulously researched, yet reads with a flair and ease only achieved by an author who is passionate about her subject. A must have for anyone interested in Texas history."
Brenda Lincke Fisseler
Friench Simpson Memorial Library
Hallettsville, Lavaca County, Texas
Navidad Country Cover Photography - Lynn Haist, 2008,
Sugar Land, Texas.
