Blanco County History Page

    This page is intended to be used for recording the many biogrphies, stories, legends, and histories of families and events that occured in the Blanco County area through about 1900. If you have any stories you would like included here please contact me via email. If your story is any length at all, you may attach a file to your email, in either Word 97 or earlier format (.doc), Plain text (.txt) or Wordperfect (.wpd), and I ask that you put BLANCO HISTORY in the subject line of your email message. I will do little if any editing to your document, only what may be neccessary to format it to the Web Page. Please include any copyright notices you want attached if the story is yours or your family's recollections. It is recommended that such notice be included if there is a possibility that you might want to publish the story for profit in the future. Copyright secures YOUR rights to the story as recalled, told, or written by YOU.
    If the story is a reprint from another published source, please include ALL PUBLISHER INFORMATION as reprint permission may need to be granted before the story is posted. If you have reprint permission, please include that information as well.
    This is not a publishing forum, however, I do plan to collect and record as many histories and stories as I can to preserve Blanco County History.

Unless otherwise noted, these historical accounts are contained on the Blanco County website with the names of their contributors credited there with the account.

The Joseph L. BIRD - Round Mountain	Woodson & Calvin BLASSINGAME and the "Callahan/Blassingame Incident" (1856)
Calvin BLASSINGAME's Letter to his friends in Stringtown and Hays County (1856)	Mary BLASSINGAME's Letter to the Editor of The State Gazette on May 8, 1856, published
Deer Creek Indian Fight (August 15, 1872, near Round Mountain)
Petition to Gov. A. J. HAMILTON on the subject of Indian depredations (Aug 5, 1865)	History of Blanco County & Its Formation (from *Texas Handbook On-Line*)

Samuel Ealy JOHNSON, Sr.- Biography. From the Heritage of Blanco County, Texas	Andrew Jackson "A.J" KERCHEVILLE-Biogrphy: Veteran of 3 wars, son-in-law of Jesse McCrocklin, early Sheriff of Blanco County, who settled in Blanco County on the McCrocklin ranch in 1856
James Polk JOHNSON -Biography. From *Heritage of Blanco County, Texas*
The LACKEY Murders and Lynching (August 24, 1885). From the *Heritage of Blanco County, Texas* and *History of Blanco County*	Jim NICHOLS vs A "Secesh, Ring Click, Paper Collar, Kid Glove Gang of Cyoties" by Ira Kennedy (off site)
Capt. Cicero Rufus PERRY and the Capt. Perry Texas Ranger Museum - Johnson City website that shows photo of the Perry cabin which now houses the Museum and a link to the story of his survival from an Indian attack.	Dr. James ODIORNE - Biography
	Capt. Rufus Perry - Biography. From *The Heritage of Blanco County, Texas*
	John Marion WATSON - Biography