This county is in need of a coordinator. If you can spare a couple of hours a month, please contact Carla Clifton to adopt this or another orphan county in TXGenWeb.

 

Deaf Smith
County, Texas

This site is a genealogy and local history website and has been an integral part of The TXGenWeb Project and The USGenWeb Project since 1996.
We are saddened to report the death of our County Coordinator, Rob Yoder. Rob had volunteered with us for 25 years and will be greatly missed.

What's New on this Website?

Who you are researching in Deaf Smith County?

Do you want to let others know who you are researching in Deaf Smith County?  Let us who you are researching in this county and tell us a little bit about them.  Please provide dates and places, like where they came from and where they migrated to.  Send an email to the address shown in red two paragraphs below.  As soon as I get start getting responses, I will create a new webpage

County Coordinator

Welcome. My name is Rob Yoder and in April of 2014 I became the County Coordinator for the Deaf Smith County website in the TXGenWeb Project. This website appears to have been without a permanent coordinator for about a year and has been in the hands of babysitters in the interim. I have been with The TXGenWeb Project since 1998, connected with Tarrant and Ellis Counties. I want to let everyone know that I have no research interest in Deaf Smith County and I live 390 miles away in Fort Worth, Texas. I am sorry, but for those reasons, I will not be of much help with your research.
My first objective was to make some repairs to the website and chase down the broken links. Well, I believe that I have now accomplished that. All of the pages, other than those written in Spanish, have been set to the same style as the home page and each link has been checked. The Spanish pages will be too difficult for me to work on. I do not speak Spanish so I will not be able to maintain that portion of the site unless I get some help from some of you.
Now is the time for me to begin soliciting materials to place online and grow further through contributions from researchers and visitors to this website. Please share your stories of Deaf Smith County, biographies, photos, short stories, ancestry charts, and what ever else that might be of interest to others. Please let me know if you have something to contribute.
If you would like to help out with the website, just a little bit or a whole lot, please speak up. I would like to appoint one or more Assistant County Coordinators. If someone more qualified comes along that would like to take charge, I will be more than happy to step aside. I believe that the website should be managed by someone who has roots here or currently lives in or near the county.

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Surrounding Counties
While researching your ancestors in Deaf Smith County, keep in mind that some of them may have crossed the county line by a few feet. I suggest that you visit the following TXGenWeb and NMGenWeb county websites to continue your search. Good Luck!

Oldham Co., TX — Potter Co., TX — Randall Co., TX

Parmer Co., TX — Castro Co., TX

To visit any other county in the TXGenWeb Project, go to the County Selection List or choose the Clickable County Map.
BIOGRAPHIES
LAND

Jim Cook

Erastus "Deaf" Smith

Interview with John Riding

Notable People from Deaf Smith Co.

 

Bureau of Land Management
— (external link)

Land Listings
— (in the USGenWeb Archives)

 
CEMETERY & GRAVESTONE INFO
MILITARY
 

Cemeteries of Deaf Smith Co.

Cemetery Laws of Texas

Cemetery & Gravestone Information

  • History & Preservation

  • Locate A Gravesite

  • Tombstone Emblems

  • Tombstone Epitaphs

Cemetery Tools

  • How to clean headstones

  • How to make your own headstone

 

On the Military web page:

  • Confederate Pension Applications

  • Register of the Confederate Dead

  • Alexander's Regiment

  • Draft Registration, 1917-1918

  • World War II, Missing and Dead

  • Korean War Fatal Casualties

  • Vietnam War Fatal Casualties

 
CENSUS
NEWSPAPERS
 

On the Census web page:

  • Census Statistics

  • The Census Taker

  • How many ancestors do you have?

  • U. S. Census Bureau Quick Links

  • The USGenWeb Census Project

  • 1940 Census (Deaf Smith County)

 

  

The Hereford Brand online

Newspaper Abstracts

Newspaper Gleanings
GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES
OBITUARIES

Geo-Features

Landmarks

 

  

Obits

Obit of Oliver C. Thomas

Death Certificate of Leonard Foster

 
HISTORY
PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS & FUN

Cities and Towns

Ghost Towns

History of Deaf Smith Co.

  • County History

    — History of the Deaf Smith County Courthouse

  • Erastus "Deaf" Smith

    — Biography of Deaf Smith
    — Revolutionary hero who fought for Texas’s independence
    — Anthony Quinn in Los Amigos (1972) as "Deaf" Smith
    — Where is Erastus "Deaf" Smith buried?
    — The story of Deaf Smith
    — Erastus "Deaf" Smith - Little History
    — Biography of Erastus "Deaf" Smith
    — History of Deaf Smith
    — Deaf Heroes: Erastus "Deaf" Smith
    — The life of Erastus "Deaf" Smith - The Deaf Rebel of the Texas Revolution

 

  

Photographs

American Memories

Maps

http://usgwarchives.net/maps/texas/

Texas Fast Facts

Texas Cooking Online

Garry's Texas Cooking
RESOURCES
VITAL RECORDS
 

Bibliography

Addresses You Will Need

Links of Interest

Lookups

Ancestry's Message Board for Deaf Smith
— Post and Read Queries

Postmasters and Post Offices

Texas State Library

  

Vital Records Notice
— Ordering Vital Records

Births: A - C

Births: D - L

Births: M - Y

Births 1926-1934: USGenWeb Archives

Marriages

Deaths

Social Security Death Index
— Now on the paid subscriber side
— of Ancestry.com

 

 

VOLUNTEER: There are always volunteer opportunities in becoming a County Coordinator in the TXGenWeb Project. If you are interested in adopting a county, please check out the Orphan Counties list and then contact Carla Clifton. If this is too much to bite off at one time, then contact any existing County Coordinator and ask how you can help them.  They may need someone to transcribe records, photograph cemeteries, or do Look-Ups out of books you own or have access to. The time you devote is up to you.

SURFING: We can always use another hand at Surfing TXGenWeb county websites. This is a program where volunteers surf a set of counties once a month to help select a website worthy of being named County of the Month.  Contact Laura Gregory Roberts, the Committee Chairperson, if you might be interested. You do not have to be a county coordinator to volunteer as a Surfer. Best of all... This only requires about 2 to 4 hours per month of your time.  The County of the Month is judged based on this Basic Criteria.

Speaking of the County of the Month, if you think that Deaf Smith County TXGenWeb should be considered for this award, please put in a good word for us on the County of the Month Nomination Form. Thank you.

County of the Month, TXGenWeb
(awarded to Rob posthumously)

Shirley Cullum (1946-2019)

In memory of Shirley Cullum (1946-2019), State Coordinator of the TXGenWeb Project from 2006 through 2019.

Rob Yoder, TXGenWeb
In memory of Rob Yoder (1953-2023), coordinator for Deaf Smith County for almost 10 years.

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This page was last modified on 2 Jan 2023.