Kaufman County, TX Look-ups offered by Kathey Hunt

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Look-ups offered by Kathey Hunt

These look-ups (as well as everything offered on this site) are offered on a voluntary basis. If a person offers their time and efforts to voluntarily contribute to this site, they always reserve the right to stop volunteering. The volunteers' time is limited and they cannot spend hours on one person's request. Requests for "all of the people" with the same family name would take hours to fill so they will NOT be answered; you must provide the person's first name in order to have your request answered. Please be respectful to the volunteers and do not send harrassing e-mail to them as they may decide their time and efforts are better spent elsewhere.

Kathey Kelley Hunt is a Kaufman County historical researcher and early Kaufman County families researcher/genealogist. She has kindly volunteered to do LIMITED look-ups in the resources listed in the sources below.

Kathey does NOT do look-ups for any sources (including cemeteries) except the ones listed in their respective form. Please do NOT send look-up requests directly to her e-mail address; any such requests will not be answered.

Kathey cannot look up Death records or Birth records nor can they get copies of Marriages certificates or Probate records or any other records from the courthouse -- all that must be ordered from the Kaufman County Clerk. See Kaufman County Records in the Court House.

Although Kathey Hunt and Linda Harwell work extensively on cemeteries in the County there is NOT a County-wide Index of where people are buried in Kaufman County - each cemetery has been enumerated individually. If the person you are looking for died AFTER 1903, Kathey has this advise: order a Death Certificate from the County Clerk -- the burial place is listed on 99% of the certificates. See Kaufman Co., TX Cemetery Books by Linda Kay Harwell for information on the recently published cemetery books that are fully indexed.

Note that most of the cemetery enumerations are already posted on this website; you can search the cemetery records by going to the Kaufman County TXGenWeb Project Search Page or to Kaufman County Cemetery Central.

INSTRUCTIONS: PLEASE READ

Look-ups are usually answered within a few days. Please be patient and submit only ONE request at a time (not one request per source nor one request per surname or first name -- only one REQUEST) and wait for your request to be answered before submitting another request. Submitting multiple requests will result in ONLY ONE of your requests being answered. If you do not receive a reply in 2 weeks, you may re-submit your request.

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"Mercer Colonists" by Gifford White

Charles Fenton Mercer (1778-1858) became interested in colonizing a portion of north eastern Texas after going there from Florida as part of the Peter's Colony in 1843. He managed to persuade Sam Houston, then president of the Texas Republic, to grant him an empresario contract in 1844 & under the terms of that contract agreed to bring 100 families to the land that includes what is now Kaufman County by the year 1849. Many of Kaufman County's earliest pioneers were Mercer Colonists.

Were your ancestors? Kathey is offering to do look-ups in "Mercer Colonists" by Gifford White. It is a list of persons who received land thru the colony 1846-1851.

NEW LOOK-UP OFFERED!

Kathey Hunt will now also do look-ups in "Republic of Texas: Poll Tax Lists for 1846" compiled by Marion Day Mullins; this source shows name and county where they were residing in 1846.

What are the 1846 Poll Tax Lists?

Explanation by Justin Sanders

The 1846 Poll Tax Lists contains names of men & women who were Head of Households.

"Poll" in poll tax means "head" (as in head count). It was sometimes called a "head tax" for this reason. The idea was that you paid a fee to be counted, say $1 a head. Usually, the only heads that they cared about were attached to white males over 21. But presumably female heads of households were also charged the poll tax -- that would account for them being on these rolls.

In 1901, with the Terrell Election Law, Texas made payment of the poll tax a requirement for voting. Previously, there was no such requirement and after women were given the right to vote the law was abolished.

*Have you been wondering where your Kaufman County ancestor was married because they are not listed in the Kaufman County Marriage Records? If so, try the ROCKWALL County Marriages! Many of the residents in the northern portion of Kaufman County went to Rockwall to get their marriage licenses because it was much closer than riding all the way to the county seat.

**The enumeration used for Look-Ups in the Kaufman City Cemetery was done in 1979. Any interments made after that date will not be listed.

***The original papers filed for Probate are in the basement of the Kaufman County Courthouse. When you enter the room, there are labeled filing cabinets to your right (where the numbering begins) and more are on your left. Copies are $1/page and there is a surcharge if you use a credit card to pay for them. Parking on the street that goes around the block that circles the courthouse is limited to 2-hours; be careful not to park there too long or you may get a ticket.

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Kaufman City Cemetery (burials only through 1979)**

Kaufman County, TX Marriages, 1921-1930
Rockwall County, TX Marriages, 1875-1894*

Kaufman Co Probate 1848-1940***

Mercer Colonists by Gifford White

Poll Tax Lists for 1846 by Marion Day Mullins

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