For now Jane Keppler is fostering the site and will welcome the help.
Welcome
to Marion County
TXGenWeb
Hello, my name is
Jane Keppler,
Foster
County Coordinator, and I would like
to welcome you to the Marion County
TXGenWeb Project.
If
you have a question or information, you
can share it there and have access to
others that may be researching the same
names or places.
I am only fostering
this county until someone that has a heart for the love of this county to come
along and adopt it. I have no family or ties to the county, but the
former coordinator spent hours and hours to put this site up for others to
research.
If you have a question or information, you can email me.
I'm very glad you stopped by
and hope that you find this website
useful for your genealogical research. I
do not live in Marion County so I am not
able to do local research, but should you
have any questions or comments regarding
the Marion County TXGenWeb Project, please email me. This website is
totally supported by volunteers and
patrons like yourself, who contribute
family history information pertaining to
Marion County, Texas. I am always looking
for ideas to improve this website. If you
see a page that is difficult to read,
because of color or fonts, please be sure
to email me and let me know.
Be sure to put which page it is, so I can
find it and make changes.
If you have submitted information and added your email address to be used on the site, please update old email addresses.
If your email address is no longer valid, researchers will not be able to contact you. Please send me new contact information here.
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Marion County was formed from the southern portion of Cass County on February 8, 1860. Jefferson, the county seat, founded in the early 1840s, rapidly developed a booming river trade with New Orleans, due to a large natural log-jam that formed a series of navigable lakes and bayous in the river valleys of Marion County. Jefferson quickly became the favored inland Texas port for the deposit and transport of North Texas agricultural produce. Thus, Marion County became the commercial conduit for frontier Texas and did not relinquish this position until the establishment of transcontinental rail links that bypassed its wharves in the mid-1870s. Marion county was named for Francis Marion, the legendary "Swamp Fox." Link for documentary on Chasing the Swamp Fox.
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WE NEED YOUR HELP! Marion County TXGenWeb Project needs your records. Please consider submitting anything that may be of value to other researchers: Bible records, marriage records, wills, pension records, land records, death and obituary records, photos, and old letters, county, community, church, and school histories. Your help in helping other researchers is vital to the success of the TXGenWeb Project. Just contact me, County Coordinator, with your information or questions.
1871
Marion County Map
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Website maintained by Jane Keppler,
Marion Foster County Coordinator.
Gina Heffernan
- TX State Coordinator
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18 September 2024