Below are links to pages of biographies of people with ties to Texas County, from the Goodspeed 1889 History. Special thanks to Janet Johnson for her hard work transcribing most of these articles. For the most part, these biographies were written while the people listed here were still living. Wherever such information can be found, usually through FindAGrave.com, birth and death years are also supplied here.
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Judge John N. Angel (1832-1899)
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Reverend Joseph S. Bailey (1850-1913)
John E. Barnes, M. D. (1829-1884)
Perry Barricklow (1837-1914)
William O. Bartholomew (1860-1934)
James P. Bates (1837-1911)
James W. Beard (1830-1914)
Jesse Franklin Beeler (1805-1896)
Henry H. Bell (1838-1908)
John R. Blankenship (1842-1910)
James Bradford (1807-1876)
Thomas N. Bradford (1841-1915)
Alfred H. Brown (1853-1940)
Charles Wesley Brown (1855-1929) and family
George W. Brown (1834-1911)
Elder John W. Brown (1840-1919)
Reverend Martin Collins Brown (1831-1921)
William J. Brown (1842-1904)
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John Cameron (1839-1910)
John S. Cameron (1848-1930)
William F. Cavaness (1832-1901)
L. A. Cochrane (1849-1934)
David T. Collier (1836-1914)
William Burrell Connelly (1834-1911)
Alfred Randolph Craven, M. D. (1854-1927)
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Craven (1845-1930)
James A. Craven (1848-1930)
William W. Cronin (1856-1931)
David T. M. Crow (1833-1911)
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Daniel G. Elliott (1834-1912)
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John R. Farris (1842-1901)
Albert T. Fengler (1843-1923)
Richard T. Foard (1839-1907)
James C. Fox (1833-1920)
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John Geers (1841-1915)
Thomas N. Gibson (1834-1904)
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Joel S. Halbert (1840-1929)
Samuel & Sarah Hardin (1818-1859 & 1823-1882, respectively)
Henry Harmon (1828-1907)
Henry J. Herrick (1835-? (no death date on grave marker))
Virgil M. Hines (1851-1899)
Robert F. Hoeck (1862-1957)
Spencer M. Hubbard (1857-1937)
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Alexander Jadwin (1815-1894)
William C. Jadwin (1848-1912)
Frank L. Johnson (1821-1897)
James W. Jones (1823-1895)
Michael C. Jones (1827-1892)
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Enoch Keen (1825-1905)
Colonel John S. Kirwan (1839-1907)
Christopher Kofahl (1825-1917)
John W. Kyle (1837-1889)
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Charles Harvey Latimer (1820-1875)
Guilford A. Leavitt (1844-1928)
Tyre M. Lingo (1821-1903)
Stephen D. Lyles, M. D. (1858-1919)
Colonel William Lavender Lyles (1829-1900)
Reverend Dabney B. Lynch (1810-1896)
John T. Lynch (1841-1901)
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Robert C. McBride (1849-1924)
James McCaskill (1854-1909)
David McKinney (1814-1900)
Peter T. Mason (1847-1919)
Alfred Merrell (1818-1865)
Dan Merrell (1846-1933)
Dr. James W. Mires (1843-1920)
Philander Davis Mitchell (1827-1900)
Sherrill Lewis Mitchell (1862-1940)
Thomas Lorenzo Moore (1855-unknown)
John H. Moran (1842-1905(?))
E. P. Murrill (1844-1923)
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John O’ Hearn (1847-1890)
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George Paulding (1821-1897)
Charles E. Peter (1863-1913)
George Franklin Pettigrew (1846-1902)
Gabriel M. Pike (1820-1891)
Mary E. Fletcher Richards Pittman (1870-1960)
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Jabez D. Randall (1846-1914)
William Ray (1848-1934)
David Asher Robertson (1858-1933)
William J. Rodgers, Sr. (1817-1895)
Peter Root (1850-1934)
John Henry Roper (1840-1909) and family
Columbus M. Ross, M. D. (1833-1896)
William Roy (1834-1912)
Frank P. Rutherford (1853-1941)
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John T. Scheets (1908-1985)
John Schissler (1847-1928)
George Shafer (1816-1887)
James Sherrill (1853-1926)
Joel Sherrill (1815-1896)
James Riley Simmons (1848-1907)
Wiley B. Simmons (1830-1906)
Andrew J. Snelson (1849-1908)
Henry Steffens (1865-1945)
William M. Stoy (1829-1895)
Thomas G. Sturgeon (1853-1929)
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Calvin Buchanan Taylor (1859-1931)
Judge William Franklin Trail (1827-1905)
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Chapman Walker Wade (1830-1904)
James Thomas Walls (1877-1968)
David & Susanna “Annie” (Knight) Walton (1813-1861 and 1826-1910, respectively)
Joseph Walton & Drusilla Musick (1847-? (Joseph); not on FindAGrave (Drusilla))
Charles C. Ware (1813-1894)
David H. Watson (1855-1926)
Edward H. Wheeler (1843-1923)
Charles W. White (1856-1942)
Eli W. Wilson (1828-1903)
James H. Wilson (1811-1900)
Len Wilson (1907-1964)
Maj. George D. Woodward (1841-1897)