Houston County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This county is available for adoption. We're looking for folks who share our desire to put data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested joining our group as County Host for this website, or any of our websites, view our Volunteer Information page and Email Kim. A desire to transcribe data and know-how to make a basic webpage is required. In the meantime, we'd be very happy to accept any data you'd care to contribute and would like to see displayed on this site. We're looking for "raw data" - the birth/death/marriage records, obituaries, cemetery headstone readings, biographies, county histories, census data, pensions and other military data. In short, we'd like to display all the items you used to put together your family tree (rather than the tree itself). Email your transcribed data to us and we'll take care of putting it online. Houston County was founded in 1871. It was named in honor of Sam Houston who was a member of Congress from Tennessee 1823-1827 and Governor in 1827-1829. After he moved to Texas, he became the leader in the struggle for independence. He commanded the victorious army in the Battle of San Jacinto. He became the first President of the Republic of Texas, later U. S. senator from Texas and then the Governor of Texas. ONLINE DATA (COMING SOON!) Birth Records Biographies Cemeteries Census Church Histories Death Records Land Records Local History Marriage Records Military Records Photo Gallery Wills Surrounding Counties Benton -- Dickson -- Humphreys -- Montgomery -- Stewart © Genealogy Trails 2007 Contributors retain all copyrights