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HELLO - WELCOME!
My name is LaRae
Halsey-Brooks, and my daughter,
Eireann Brooks, and I are the County Co-Coordinators for the Gray County TXGenWeb Project. ***We are moving this website to a new location for the time being. Please note that the move will be done in stages and some pages will be unavailable until it is completed.*** If you would like to contribute Biographical Sketches of your Gray County families to this website, please let us know. We will be happy to create a special page for your material and include any photographs, scanned documents, or other items you'd like to add to the page. If you live in or near Gray County and would like to take digital photographs of cemeteries and tombstones, please let us know. If you have access to existing cemetery transcriptions, land records, tax rolls, school class rosters/photos, etc., we would be most grateful for any and all submissions. If you are interested in hosting another county in Texas for the TXGenWeb Project, please visit the Adoptable Counties page. Please check back from time to time as we add more information to the page! Thank you! LaRae & Eireann |
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About Gray County Gray County is located in the central part of the Panhandle and the eastern edge of the High Plains. Its center point is at 35°25' north latitude and 100°49' west longitude. Lefors is located near the center of the county, and Pampa, the county seat, is about twelve miles away in the northwestern corner. Pampa is approximately sixty miles northeast of Amarillo on U.S. Highway 60. The county occupies 934 square miles of level prairie and rolling river break. Formed in 1876 out of the Bexar District, the county was named for Peter W. Gray, a lawyer and politician of the Republic of Texas and Civil War eras. Ranchers began to reach the region as early as 1877. In 1878 a well-known local rancher, Perry LeFors, established a small ranch on Cantonment Creek. Other small ranching operations developed in the eastern part of the county. For the rest of the nineteenth century Gray County remained the domain of cattle ranchers. By the turn of the century, farmers began to appear in the county. The county population grew to 3,405 by 1910 and 4,663 by 1920. The newly arriving farmers settled in the western and northern parts of the county, planting wheat, corn, and grain sorghums on fertile, newly broken lands. Farming and ranching dominated the county's economy for a short time, and then major petroleum discoveries greatly altered the county. By the 1980s the great bulk of the county's population lived in urban areas served by the highway and rail system. Pampa had 19,959 residents in 1980, and McLean had 849 and Lefors 656. Other communities were Alanreed, Kings Mill, Laketon, and Hoover. The modern economy of the county depends upon a healthy mix of oil, petrochemicals, farming, and ranching. |
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NARA -- Access to Military Service and Pension Records The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the official repository for records of military personnel who have been discharged from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard. |
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Gray County Family Genealogies If you would like to
submit your Gray County Family Genealogy for
inclusion on the page, please send it as an
e-mail attachment to me at TimeTrvlrO@aol.com. |
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TURNER, HUGG, BARNES, KITE |
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Bunia
Jackson KUNKEL |
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JONES
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Descendants of John Austin
ROBINSON |
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Jesse Roberts BLALACK
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Ranches.org is home for several Ranches
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The Gray County
Sheriff's Office Officers
featured include the first female sheriff
in The collection is
currently on display in Pampa, Our thanks to Sheriff
Copeland |
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We maintain eight Texas panhandle
counties for the TXGenWeb Project, as well
as three more counties and five Special
Project pages for the OKGenWeb Project.
If your families spread westward
over the past century and a half like
mine did, you might have need of
some research we've done for the other
counties.
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Gray
County Co-Coordinators:
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Bluebonnets - Texas State Flower
(Image from I Am A Texan - Facebook Group)
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Coordinator
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