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  Old Lyons, a CD of documents relating to the people and area of Lyons, Texas. DeWitt Clinton Lyons founded the village of Lyons in 1842 when he erected a store on the Keziah Cryer League. The store was located near the middle of the league on the stage road running from Victoria, passing through Hallettsville, Oakland, Lyons, High Hill, La Grange, and Round Top on its northward journey. When the railroad line bypassed the area in the 1870’s, the residents began to move away. By the mid-1870’s the town had practically vanished from the map with only a few farmers remaining in the area. The CD contains a large assortment of documents from the mid to late 1800's which include: portions of the McKinnon Store Daybook and Lyons Cotton Gin Book; family Bible records for the Lyons, Frazer, Rose, and Cryer families; the Bruin/Burns court case records; over 100 pages of Secrest family documents, including documents pertaining to the Secrest cattle rustling gang and killing of William Ragsdale; pages from the Mansel Coffee journals; FitzGerald, Hazel, Fitchett and Lane documents; and various records recorded by Norman C. Krischke. CD available at Lulu.com  During the 1800's, the area along and between the East and West Navidad Rivers in Texas was known as the Navidad Country. A majority of the pioneers came from the Old South, some arriving with Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred. Once settled, they proceeded to clear the land, till the soil and build homes and towns. The aftermath of the Civil War brought great change and loss to these once prosperous people. Information and photographs for over 100 of the families and their relationships is made available for the first time, in addition to descriptive accounts of the once thriving towns of the area. Navidad Country is available in a paperback in one complete volume and in hardback separated into Volume 1 and Volume 2.
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