Titus County, Texas History

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Titus County History Website (http://www.titushistory.com) provides a glimpse into Titus County, Texas history through photographs, newspaper articles, advertising, and narrative information.

If your site also includes genealogy information, we have a second site at:

Titus Cemetery Search (http://www.tituscemeteries.com) provides free Titus County, Texas burial information searches from our database of over 26,775 entries which is updated weekly. We provide marker photos and obituary text when available. Site also features a brief history, maps, and photographs of Titus County cemeteries.

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Here are links to official Titus County websites that may be of help to you:

City of Mount Pleasant, Texas - the official website of the City of Mt. Pleasant provides general information and contact numbers for city departments and officials.

Mount Pleasant/Titus County Chamber of Commerce - The Mount Pleasant/Titus County Chamber of Commerce provides tourism information and information about local businesses.

Mount Pleasant Public Library - The City of Mount Pleasant's Public Library contains a considerable amount of genealogy information and is the repository for the Titus County Genealogical Society's research materials.

Titus County, Texas - the offical websitepage of Titus County, Texas local government. This website provides general information and contact numbers for county government offices and officials.

Titus County Appraisal District - the offical websitepage of the Titus County Appraisal District. TCAD is responsible for assessing property in Titus County for local taxation purposes.

Here are links to other websites that you may enjoy:

The American Experience and the Genealogy Mine provide extensive links to sites containing information on the American Revolution, Civil War, Genealogy, and other subjects

Cass County Texas TXGenWeb Project page contains information on genealogy resources for Cass and surrounding counties.

Cyndi's List of Genealogy sites on the internet. A site containing a very large list of links to all kinds of genealogy sites and research materials.

GeneaLinks - Online Marriage Records. Marriage records database and links to genealogy and history sites in a categorized genealogy directory of well-known and not-so-well-known genealogy and history sites

Greenhill Community Website - Scott Hays' website showing the history of the Greenhill Presbyterian Church and the Greenhill Community. An excellent website of this small Titus County community's history!

The Inflation Calculator. In viewing historical dollar amounts, you must consider the dollar's purchasing power in that day, or what a dollar would buy, not the numerical dollar amount. Inflation of the currency is our federal government's way of covering up their many financial screw-ups by putting more money in circulation, which makes each dollar worth less, then repaying old debts with new money. This effectively reduces the amount of the debt by the amount of the currency inflation. For some reason, though, they don't appreciate it if people who are "running short" print more money on their own!

Inflation penalizes people who save and people on limited incomes because each dollar that they saved becomes worth less and less as time goes on and inflation increases. According to the inflation calculator, it only took $1.00 in 1957 to purchase the same amount of goods and services that now require $7.55 to purchase in 2007!

We found this neat website that converts past amounts of money into its current value, adjusted for inflation. We use this site to generate the comparitive values we use for amounts paid in the past to 2007 dollar values. You simply enter the amount to be converted, the original year, and 2007. (2007 is the latest year it can convert). There appears to be a minor bug in the conversion formula, but it is fairly close. We find this site invaluable in demonstrating the amount that the government has inflated our currency over the years and the amount of purchasing power that the dollar has lost.

Texas Confederate Veterans - Scott Hays' website showing articles pertaining to Confederate veterans in Northeast Texas, including a listing of all Confederate veterans known to be buried in Titus County.

Titus Cemetery Search - our sister site of information about Titus County cemeteries. Shows photos and driving maps of Titus County cemeteries. You can e-mail us for free burial listings which may include a photo of the grave marker, obituary, and other information. Please see instructions on the home page of that website for more information.

Titus County Cemeteries page of the Texas Genweb Project contains burial listings of all Titus County cemeteries compiled by David Horton through the year 2000. Mr. Horton no longer updates his listings, but is working with us to continue making Titus County burial information available to the public.

Virtual Pepetual Calendars. Did you ever wonder what day of the week June 27, 1932 was? The Virtual Pepetual Calendar can tell you. We find it to be very handy in writing historical stories. This is a really neat site and contains much more information.