Jan's Blog - History and Genealogy
by Jan Wilkinson · Published April 22, 2011 · Last modified April 25, 2021
On January 26, 1856, Kerr County was formed from Bexar Land District No. 2. At the request of Joshua D. Brown, the name of Brownsboro was changed to Kerrsville, for his friend and fellow...
2000's / Menard County Texas / Out My Kitchen Window / Texas / Wilkinson
by Jan Wilkinson · Published April 19, 2011 · Last modified April 25, 2021
Watch a video of hungry hummingbirds in Menard County, Texas.
1800's / 1900's / Auld / Brown / Kerr County Texas / Texas
by Jan Wilkinson · Published April 17, 2011 · Last modified May 10, 2021
My mother’s, maternal grandmother was Grace Ida Stulting. Grace was born on 17 April 1869 in Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas to Christopher Columbus Stulting and Elizabeth Virginia Tyler. [Note: the death certificate shows birth...
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~~~Maya Angelou
1900's / Auld / Brown / Kerr County Texas / Texas
by Jan Wilkinson · Published April 13, 2011 · Last modified April 25, 2021
My grandmother, Gussie May Brown (Mrs. Dan Auld, Sr.) graduated from Tivy High School on Friday, May 29, 1914, in Kerrville, Texas. She describes many events in her leather covered diary, embossed in gold,...
1800's / Bexar County Texas / Texas / Wilkinson
by Jan Wilkinson · Published April 7, 2011 · Last modified April 25, 2021
FIESTA SAN ANTONIO. Fiesta San Antonio, previously called Fiesta San Jacinto, is a ten-day festival...
1800's / 1900's / Menard County Texas / Texas / Wilkinson
by Jan Wilkinson · Published April 5, 2011 · Last modified April 25, 2021
Pioneer Ranch Woman Dies at Her Menard County Home As published in the Fort Worth Star Telegram MENARD, July 16, 1955— Mrs. W. J. Wilkinson, Sr., 95 a pioneer Menard County ranch woman, who...
1900's / Menard County Texas / Texas / Wilkinson
by Jan Wilkinson · Published April 4, 2011 · Last modified April 25, 2021
Four generations of Wilkinson’s taken at the Wilkinson Clear Creek Ranch, Menard County, Texas in 1949. Nancy Mires Wilkinson William Jackson Montgomery Wilkinson taken at Clear Creek.
1700's / 1800's / 1900's / 2000's / Centuries of History / Menard County Texas / Texas
by Jan Wilkinson · Published April 2, 2011 · Last modified April 25, 2021
Centuries of History By John Hallowell Mon, Oct 18, 2010 Menard has a century more history than most Hill Country towns, since the Spanish built a presidio here in the mid-1700s. Menard has a...
1800's / 1900's / Menard County Texas / Texas / Wilkinson
by Jan Wilkinson · Published April 1, 2011 · Last modified April 22, 2022
About 1890, portrait of only part of the W. J. and Nancy Mires Wilkinson family.
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