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INKS
  1. Article from The Llano Buzz & County Journal, 21 June 2006, "1870s Western filmed on Inks Ranch".  The ranch is owned by Roy and Petey Inks.
  2. Burnet Bulletin, 30 June 1938, photo and caption about Roy B. Inks

JAY FAMILY    
 1.  Newspaper article, Marble Falls paper, 26 Aug 1976, Page 3-C, Georgia and Frank Jay celebrates 67 years of marriage.
2.  hand-drawen map.
JACKSON FAMILY  1999 query requesting information about John Jackson and Margarette "Maggie" Ann Elizabeth Neal in Burnet c.1883. Reply from Burnet County Library staff with some results of death date of Maggie, who died at age 38 on Feb 4, 1907.    
JENKINS, BRACE
  1. Family group sheet for Ralph Jenkins, wagonmaker, born 22 Aug 1815 and J. Verona Brace, b. 1816 in CT or Ohio. Their children were George W., James F., David T., Ralph Jr. Jane, and Joseph F.
  2. 1988 correspondence requesting information about ancestors, the Hawleys and Jenkins of the Lyman Wight Colony. Reply from Burnet County Genealogical Society with little results found for the query.
JENNINGS, ET AL
(1) Ancestor chart for Jennings Bland Pope, whose ancestors include Popes and Jennings from Burnet County.

(2) Short history of the Jennings family, which was submitted to Darrel Debo for inclusion in Burnet County History. (several copies of this working draft)

(3) 1976 correspondence from Jennings Bland Pope giving family information.

(4) Family group charts for Charles Warren Jennings and Martha Agnes Thompson, Fleming P. Jennings and Caroline Jewell; John (Jackie) Jennings and Sarah "Sally" C. Harris; John Jennings and Mary Grubbs.

(5) Family history of Jennings family, dated 1978, which supplements Chapter III of "Some Jennings Ancestors, Their Descendants, and Allied Families", by Jennings Bland Pope, 1977.

(6) 1 page of Confederate Widows Pension application for Malinda Jennings, wife of Flem P. Jennings; affidavid signed by R. Lewis, saying he served with and knew Flem P. Jennings.
JENNINGS, JOHN AND JACKIE  (1) working draft of short history of the Jennings family, which was submitted to Darrel Debo for inclusion in Burnet County History.

(2) 1976 correspondence from Jennings Bland Pope giving family information.
 
JEWELL, ET AL


  1981 correspondence from Dr. J. Bland Pope, Austin, to librarian at Indiana State Library, to which is attached a handwritten family chart beginning with Thomas Grizell Jewell, born in England, and ending with generation 10, Jennings Bland Pope, born in 1914 in Burnet County.
JOHNSON, ADAM R.
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 (1) 1918 issue of "The Probable Error", published for the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor
(2) "Types of Successful Men of Texas" by L.E. Daniell, on the life and accomplishments of General Adam Rankin Johnson. Seven single spaced typewritten pages.
(3) Copy of the Marble Falls Messenger Rededication Issue, undated, with articles about Adam Johnson and other Burnet County pioneers. Four newspaper pages.
(4) Copy of the Highlander, 25 June 1959, with article about Johnson by Mary Johnson Posey, daughter of General Adam R. Johnson, founder of Marble Falls. Picture of Main Street in 1800s with wagons piled high with cotton bales.
(5) Handwritten story, 5 pages, entitled "Blind Builder" by Mary Johnson Posey.
(6) 26 January 1967 and 3 Feb 1966 issues of Marble Falls Messenger
(7) Clipping from 19 May 1949 Marble Falls Messenger about Graduation exercises for Marble Falls High School
(8) many more newspaper clippings pertaining to Johnson, plus numerous typed and handwritten notes.
(9) photo of Adam Johnson home
(10) Two copies of Frontier Times, Summer 1959, Vol 33, No. 3, which contains article entitled "Blind Builder", by Mary Johnson Posey. Pictures of Johnson and early photograph of Marble Falls.
(11) copy of Frontier Times, November 1940, Vol 18, No. 2. Cover has picture of Mrs. Josephine Johnson. Article on page 62, entitled "Heroines of the Hills" by T.U. Taylor, Austin, Texas has sketches of pioneer women from Burnet County: Mary (Scott) Holland, Mrs. Dorbandt, Mrs. Emma Gross Schnabel, Mrs. Josephine Johnson, O.M. Roberts, Mormon women, and wives and families of Colonel Norton Moses.
(12) handwritten and typed pages from reminisces of Earl Moore, who was Johnson's assistant.
(13) The Highlander, 30 Mar 1972, "Hill Country History: General Johnson in Llano County"
(14) Photo of Rocky Rest, Johnson's first home in Burnet.
(15) Obit from Burnet Bulletin, 20 Oct 1922.
(16) Photo, undated, of Adam R. Johnson in later years standing in front of rose arbor.  Black & White.
(17) Photo, undated, of Adam R. Johnson in Confederate Uniform.
(18) Burnet Bulletin, 14 and 21 Jan 1904, "Events in Colonel Johnson's Career in Western Kentucky"; Frank Amplias Owen's account of Johnson's activity in Kentucky.  5 pages.
(19) Copy of Darrell Debo's entry on Johnson in the Burnet County Family History book"

JOHNSON, Adam R.
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 Indian depredation claim files
 JOHNSON, JESSE    
  1. Biography of Jesse Johnson, 3rd son of John Johnson, b. 1795; came to  Texas in 1846.  Gives names and birthdates of children.
  2. Info on Sarah Hampton, related to Melissa Elizabeth Johnson
 JOHNSON, ENOCH S.  Family tree of Enoch Johnson who was born in 1814 in North Carolina. Ten pages submitted by Sharon Johnson, 1981. Surnames included are White, Moore, Fisk, Bingham, McGuire, Chapman, Cummings, Haigler, Kennerly.
 JORDAN, CREED  Two small photographs, one of a woman early1900s, labeled on back "a Miss Taylor"; the second of a man, undated, labeled "Creed Jordan - that married Colista Taylor in 3 or 4 years Colista Taylor married Charlie West."
 JOY, GEORGE  (1) Correspondence asking for information and some replies, including information on the Nathaniel Wheeler Tobey Family and the George Joy Family.

(2) Letter (transcribed) dated 4 April 1854 from George and Martha Joy of Burnet to Jubow Joy.
 JOYCE, ET AL  Correspondence from Ernest Langford and replies from Mary Joyce Black about the Joyce family. John Henry Joyce was born 13 Jan 1858 at Fayetteville, Ark. Married Cornelia Ann tucker 17 Dec 1882. He died 28 June 1928; Mrs. Joyce died 31 Jan 1930. Children were Leslie Roswell (Jack), Kate, Olie Jane, Mary, Louis, Hannah Orlue, China Velma, and berry Milton.