Genealogy and History
About pioneer families and their lives.

Recalling the early days of Tyler County.

Vivid accounts of the pioneer families who first settled the "Bear Thicket," later to become the Big Thicket National Preserve, "...in the wild forest of East Texas where the scream of the panther, the howl of the wolf and the squeal of the razor-back in the fond embrace of bruin were not uncommon things."

Descriptions of events of the revolution that created the Republic of Texas, a first-hand account of one East Texan's travels to the battlefields of the Civil War and back, and more about the settlers of Tyler County, Texas.

Jewel Irene
RUDD HAMERLY
1897-1983
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Ernest Sherman
(E.S.) HAMERLY
1888-1954
SURNAMES:
Adams, Anderson, Barclay/Barkley, Barnes, Bowman, Bullock, Clay, Cockerham, Crews, Dean, Dudley, Forte, Foster, Goode, Hamerly/Hammerly, Harrell, Hart, Henley, Holland, Hough, Hutchins, Ishim, Johnstone, Jones, Ker/Kerr, Lawson, Lester, Lloyd, Madison, McGee, McGruder, McQueen, Meddows, Milner, Murray, Pearce, Phillips, Platt, Prather, Proctor, Richardson, Rudd, Shearman, Sheldon, Simmons, Sims/Symes, Smith, Tarver, Tipton, Walker, Watts, Wilson

Sisters fishing on the Neches River near Rockland
(Mrs. Georgia Ann Bramley SIMMONS HAMERLY WARD (left) and
Mrs. Mary Jane SIMMONS WEATHERLY at their favorite fishing hole)