Walker County, Texas, Genealogical Society
Pioneer Registry Project
Approved First Families and Century Families of Walker County
The Walker County, Texas, Genealogical Society's Pioneer Registry Project is a program to recognize families whose ancestors were in Walker County prior to October 1850, or prior to June 1900. Over 625 certificates have been issued and this is an on-going project.
A First Family of Walker County Certificate is awarded to those persons proving their ancestor to have resided in Walker County prior to October 1850.
A Century Family of Walker County Certificate is awarded to those persons proving their ancestor to have resided in Walker County prior to June 1900.
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The following is a list of approved Pioneer Families of Walker County, Texas, whose family records are in the Vertical Files of the Huntsville, Texas, Public Library - Genealogy/Texana/Local History Collection. These records may be viewed during the library's regular hours.
First Families of Walker County Century Families of Walker County
| Allen | George |
| Allphin | Shelton |
| Baldwin | Francis Marion |
| Balwin | Jane |
| Bankhead | Richard & Sarah N. |
| Barker | William Nichols |
| Besser | John Slater |
| Besser | Julia Hampton |
| Birdwell | Thomas Gaines |
| Calhoun | Samuel |
| Collard | Elijah |
| Collard | Elizabeth Lindley |
| Collard | Job Stark |
| Collard | Jonathan Stark |
| Collard | Lemuel |
| Collard | Lydia Vick |
| Collard | Mary Stark |
| Cook | William Alston |
| Cotton | John |
| Crabb | Lowery |
| Durham | James Blair, Sr. |
| Edinburgh | Christopher C. |
| Ellisor | Sarah Pursley |
| Faris | Hezekiah |
| Farris | Hezekiah |
| Foster | Norris, Sr. |
| Fry | Benjamin |
| Fry | Benjamin Franklin |
| Fulcher | Francis |
| Gibbs | Elizabeth Walton Walker |
| Gibbs | Sandford St. John |
| Gibson | Anthony Palmer |
| Gibson | Catherine Green |
| Greer | Joseph |
| Guerrant | Daniel B. & Eady B. |
| Hamilton | Dr. Calvin S. |
| Hampton | Hugh |
| Harrison | William |
| High | Edward |
| High | Ellen |
| High | Peter |
| Hightower | James B. |
| Hodge | Mary Holly |
| Houston | David |
| Hudson | James J. |
| Hume | John |
| Hunter | George Elliot |
| Hunter | George Elliott |
| Hunter | Tamar Stephens |
| Jardine | Edward |
| Jergins | Ultman |
| Jones | James H. & Nancy Winters |
| Jones | Thomas A. & Piety T. |
| Keenan | Charles Gradison |
| Kimbro | Nancy McAdams |
| Larrison | Daniel |
| Leakey | Joel |
| Lehr | John Peter, Sr. |
| Manning | Markham Lott |
| McAdams | Hiram Augusta |
| McAdams | John, Jr. |
| McAdams | John, Sr. |
| McCulloch | David |
| McDonald | Alexander |
| McGary | Jonathon A., Sr. |
| McGary | Sarah Noble B. Lamb |
| McMillian | John |
| McMillian | Martha |
| McMillian | Monroe |
| McMillian | William Robert |
| Mercer | George Ritchie |
| Mercer | George R. & Elizabeth L. |
| Murray | Walter |
| Oliphint | Bluford A. |
| Oliphint | John William |
| Pace | Annie Busey |
| Pace | Richard E. |
| Pace | Virgil Homer |
| Palmer | Anthony C. |
| Palmer | Anthony C. & Martha A. |
| Palmer | John Martin |
| Park | Andrew |
| Parker | Jesse |
| Parker | Jesse & Elizabeth Barker |
| Paul | Andrew J. |
| Petree | Peter |
| Powell | William Robert |
| Pursley | Sarah Elizabeth |
| Randolph | Francis Cooper |
| Randolph | John |
| Randolph | Mansel |
| Reynolds | Reynold |
| Roberts | Allen |
| Roberts | John |
| Robinson | Benjamin W. |
| Robinson | William |
| Rodgers | John |
| Rogers | Micajah Clack |
| Ross | Ely Franklin |
| Ross | Oscar Gates |
| Ross | William Brown |
| Shannon | Jacob |
| Sheets | Henry |
| Sheppard | Jacob H. |
| Simons | Paul James |
| Smith | James D. |
| Smith | John Stephens |
| Smither | John |
| Smither | Mary Patience G. |
| Smither | Robert Goodloe |
| Spiller | John |
| Stevens | Thomas |
| Stubblefield | Clayton |
| Thomas | Helen |
| Tinsley | James |
| Vick | Isaiah |
| Vick | John & Mary E. Spiller |
| Webb | Isham Green |
| Wells | John |
| Wiley | Andrew Parks |
| Wiley | John Keenan |
| Wilson | James |
| Winters | James & Rhonda Beall |
| Winters | James Washington |
| Winters | John |
| Winters | John Frelan |
| Winters | John Frelan & Ruth |
| Wooderson | William M. |
| Wyatt | Joseph |
| Yoakum | Henderson King |
| Young | William Foster |
| Alston | Thomas P. |
| Archie | Ed |
| Ashworth | Pinkney Oliver |
| Ballard | Junius Chambers |
| Barker | Cicero |
| Barron | Reese Owen |
| Birdwell | Thomas Gaines |
| Birmingham | C. B. |
| Bochnia | Dunot & Usgula W. |
| Brooks | Richard & Vashti V. |
| Brooks | Robert Logan & Mary M. |
| Brooks | Robert M. & Lillah G. |
| Burgess | Joseph |
| Burt | Henry |
| Bush | James Madison |
| Bushen | Bernard |
| Bushen | Nancy Jane |
| Clepper | Hopie Allen Walton |
| Cline | Lavina |
| Coleman | William Goodwin |
| Cook | Francis M. Monroe |
| Cooper | Robert Alexander |
| DeWalt | Lubbock & Mary Ann C. |
| Dickie | Willie W. |
| Dixon | Mary Elizabeth |
| Doughtie | Thomas James |
| Eastham | Byrd |
| Eastham | Delha Alston |
| Edinburg | Christopher C. |
| Ellington | Andrew Middleton |
| Ellisor | Godfrey T. |
| Everett | Andrew D. |
| Fails | Morning Cole |
| Fisher | William Phillips |
| Gaines | Carlos L. |
| Gaines | T. L. |
| Grimes | Allen |
| Hardy | Elsie W. Traylor |
| Hardy | Hugh Felix |
| Hardy | John |
| Hardy | Robert L. |
| Helflin | Rufus Turner |
| Heymann | Matthew & Mary |
| Hill | John |
| Holland | Devereux Dunlap, Sr. |
| Hunter | George Elliot |
| Jackson | John Andrew & Mary L. |
| Johnson | Benjamin |
| Johnson | Robert |
| Jordy | Louis P., Jr. |
| Jordy | Louis P., Sr. |
| Jordy | Mary Elizabeth |
| Kuykendall | Herman Hayes |
| Lee | James B. & Amanda Pettit |
| Lee | Thomas |
| Lewis | Nancy Jane |
| Lightsey | David & Orlena Tubbs |
| Mabry | John Howard |
| Mabry | John Robert |
| Malak | John, & Anna Tafelski |
| Mallery | Willie Peak, Sr. |
| Mann | John C. |
| Martin | William A. & Jessie Sprott |
| McCaffety | John Jefferson |
| McGar | Lucy Alice |
| McMillian | Monroe |
| Mitchell | Benjamin B. & Augusta M. |
| Mitchell | Claud Lee |
| Morgan | Linda Morgan |
| Morgan | William Thomas |
| Morrison | Anne C. |
| Niederhofer | August & Rue Ann |
| Nixon | Thomas C. & Gatsy M. R. |
| Pace | Anne E. |
| Parker | Andrew & Nancy Johnson |
| Pollard | Dean |
| Pool | Henry Joseph & Cebell B. |
| Randall | Dudley |
| Rhodes | John Elmer |
| Robinson | Charles Horace |
| Rohmer | Therese Braun Bock |
| Ross | Annie Brownie |
| Sandel | John Wesley |
| Sandel | Rev. Peter W. |
| Scott | Mary Martin Elmore Lewis |
| Smith | George W. |
| Smith | James Madison |
| Spriggs | William 'Billy' |
| Sprott | James A. & Mittie |
| Steely | Benjamin N. |
| Stubblefield | Clayton |
| Tafelski | Michael & Mary S. |
| Thomason | James |
| Thomason | Dr. Joshua Allen |
| Traylor | Joseph Dury |
| White | Dr. John Allen |
| Wiley | Andrew Parks |
| Winiarski | Thomas |
| Wood | James E. |
| Wyser | Gustavus Adolphus |
| Yost | Eva Robbins |