Category Archives: 1900’s

My Research and Images of the History of the Alamo

Posted on 2011-09-23 by Jan Wilkinson

Back in June 2011, I posted two different blog posts about my glass negative photos. In those posts I explained that I have three boxes of glass negatives found in an old home being torn down near Kerrville in the … Continue reading →

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Blog about my grandfather, Dan Auld, Sr.

Posted on 2011-09-03 by Jan Wilkinson

Nice blog post by my friend Joe Herring from Kerrville about my grandfather, Dan Auld Sr.  Thought you would enjoy reading, too. http://joeherringjr.blogspot.com/2011/09/dan-auld-kerrville.html

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Roy N. Brown, oldest of A. P. and Grace Brown of Kerrville, Texas

Posted on 2011-08-12 by Jan Wilkinson

I never met my grandmother Gussie May Auld’s brother, Roy Nicholas (Nickless) Brown.  Here are two great photos of my Great Uncle Roy, the oldest child and only son of Alonzo Potter Brown and Grace Stulting Brown. Roy was born … Continue reading →

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Part Two-Help Me Identify Texas 1800’s Glass Negatives

Posted on 2011-06-27 by Jan Wilkinson

Here are more of my photo treasures from three boxes of glass negatives found in an old home being torn down near Kerrville in the late 1960’s. It is quite something to see, between each negative is scrap paper printed … Continue reading →

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Milroy Powell, Concho Ranchman, 31, Started Career with Sheep at 5

Posted on 2011-06-16 by Jan Wilkinson

As a tribute to my father, Milroy Powell, here is a copy of the article featured in January 1959 Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  My parents were hard working ranchmen and I am proud to be their daughter.         … Continue reading →

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My ggrandparents, Grace Ida and Alonzo Potter Brown share April 17th birthdate

Posted on 2011-04-17 by Jan Wilkinson

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 year as 1870 and also on … Continue reading →

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1914 Tivy High School Graduating Class

Posted on 2011-04-13 by Jan Wilkinson

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, “The Girl Graduate and Her Own … Continue reading →

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Battle of Flowers Parade now Fiesta San Antonio

Posted on 2011-04-07 by Jan Wilkinson

                                      FIESTA SAN ANTONIO. Fiesta San Antonio, previously called Fiesta San Jacinto, is a ten-day festival held every spring in San Antonio. … Continue reading →

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Obituary of Nancy Mires Wilkinson

Posted on 2011-04-05 by Jan Wilkinson

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 died at 4 a.m. Friday at … Continue reading →

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Various Wilkinson’s photos

Posted on 2011-04-04 by Jan Wilkinson

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.

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