African-American Resources in the Tyler Public Library

Apprentice Records - Smith County, Texas -1867-1870

BIOGRAPHIES

• BUCHANAN, "Uncle Ned" - (Former Slave) Harrison Co, Texas

Black Genealogy and the African American Museum: A Common Mission by Theodore M. Lawe, Curator/Archivist/ Historian, The A. C. McMillan African American Museum, Emory, Texas (Presentation at ETGS, Tyler, Texas, 8 Feb 2003)

BOOKS

• Remembering When We Were Colored In Tyler, Texas - Two Volumes - Author: Dr. Rodney L. Atkins - Chronicles the African-American Community that flourished in Tyler before desegregation.
• Encyclopedia of African American rural life in Smith County, 1870-1970 by Dr. Rodney Lamar Atkins, and Endia Robertson Gregory
• Index to African American Life in Tyler, Texas by Dr. Rodney Lamar Atkins / compiled by East Texas Genealogical Society
• African American soldiers : Double Victory / compiled by Dr. Rodney Lamar Atkins
• Index to African American soldiers : Double Victory by Dr. Rodney Lamar Atkins / compiled by East Texas Genealogical Society
• Women of grace and power : Church of God in Christ, V.1 / compiled and edited by Dr. Rodney Lamar Atkins
• Church of God in Christ : 1964 Texas Northeast Jurisdiction : paved the way for the present / history compiled by Dr. Rodney Lamar Atkins

BORN IN SLAVERY: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

• COLEMAN, Preely
• TAYLOR, Emma
• WOODSON, Willis

CEMETERIES - Predominantly African American

CHURCHES in Smith County and nearby!

• County Line Missionary Baptist Church, Redland Community (on the county line of Van Zandt and Smith Counties)
• Galilee Baptist Church, 87th Anniversary, Flint, Texas
• St. James Baptist Church History, Tyler

CITY DIRECTORY

• 1882 City Of Tyler Directory - Persons of Color listed under Inhabitants of the City of Tyler

Freedman's Bureau Report of an Inspection of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, Walker County - Smith County People.

MEDICAL RECORDS

• Dr. Samuel Overton treated many African American citizens living in and around the pioneer community of Omen, Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century. Click on Medical Records for a full listing of all patients. African American patients are identified in the "Status" column by "f" (indicating freedman or freedwoman) or "c" (indicating colored).

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

• Colored Baptist B.Y.P.U Convention,1921
• Jas. L. Smith - September 1905
• Murder of Peter Cooper, 1875
• Jack Haddock & Joe Walthal Convicted of Bootlegging, 1916
• Jim King Burned at the Stake, 1895
• Negro Woman Struck by Automobile this Afternoon, 1916
• News Reports Concerning Negroes in Smith Co, Texas, 1859-1875
• Texas Christian Advocate, 1880-1890
• Texas Christian Advocate - Texas College, 1897-1900

OBITUARIES

• NICHOLAS, Emma, 1905
• WALKER, Mrs. Palace, 1960

REUNIONS

• The Descendants of Squire & Susan Flernoy Dewberry, Irving, Texas, July 23-25, 2004, with a trip to the Dewberry Plantation, Smith Co.
• Emmett J. Scott High School - Reunion 2000

SCHOOLS

• Texas College, Vesper Exercises, July 25, 1948

SLAVES - Named in Smith County Records

• Caleb Barron Administration
• 1850 Smith County, Texas, Slave Schedule
• 1860 Smith County, Texas, Slave Schedule
  • Index to the Beats
  • Page 1 - Garden Valley, Flora, Jones and 7 Leagues Beats
  • Page 16 - 7 Leagues, Mt Carmel and Jamestown Beats
  • Page 31 - Jamestown, Starrville, and Canton Beats
  • Page 46 - Canton and Tyler Beats

TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION

• African Americans in Texas: Historical and Cultural Legacies
• Texas' Historically Black Colleges and Universities

VITAL RECORDS

• African-American Marriages from the Files of Ken Stebbings. These marriages were recorded between 1870-1926 and were transcribed from either the Original License or a certified copy. Most of these people resided in the Whitehouse/Troup area.

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Contributed by Claude Terrell

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EXCELLENT HELP FROM OTHER SOURCES

• African-American GriotsA website that is dedicated to assisting all of those in pursuit of their African-American ancestry by being a central depository for African-American records of historical proportion. Texas specific.
• Black Soldiers in the American Revolution
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Cyndi's List of African-American Links
• Introduction to African-American Genealogy - About Genealogy Site
• The Texas Slavery Project - seeks to recover the names and biographical information for every slave who ever lived in Texas.
• United States Colored Troops - Civil War
• This And That Genealogy Tips on African-American Genealogy

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