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Milvid Tex.
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A sort of ghost town since the 1980's, this old lumber mill town had a population
of 350 at it's height. Today there are still families in the area, but the old town is gone, and the Miller-Vidor Sawmill &
it's railroad yard are no more.
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Death Certificates of people either born in or buried in Milvid: RECORDS Some of the information is entered below:
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Born or lived in Milvid, died/buried elsewhere
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Died in or buried in Milvid
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People known to have been
born in Milvid due to statements on Death Certificates
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Carl Galmalda Ashley (White)
b. May 25, 1908, Milvid
b. July 7, 1943, Beaumont
s/o Jesse W. Ashley & Willie Bowen
wife: Stella Ashley
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Tom Williamson (White)
b. abt 1883, Neal, GA
d. Jan 21, 1923, Milvid
s/o Unkn, body returned to Neal, GA
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L. R. Issacks Arthur Lee
Martin
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John Wesley Cleveland (Black)
b. Dec 21, 1911, Milvid
d. Oct 26, 1941, Houston
s/o Jerry Cleveland & Pricilla Thomas
Married
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Zema Emanuel (White)
b. Mar 16, 1886, Livingston
d. Aug 21, 1921, Milvid
(buried Holly Grove Cem)
s/o W.M. Emanuel & Unkn
Married
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H. G. Edgerton Alex Gongara
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Ed Higgens (?)
b. Jan 21, 1912, Milvid
d. July 9, 1935, Trinity
s/o
Mathew Higgens & Mernivia Wilson
Single
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Male Infant Stewart (Black)
b. Mar 25, 1918, Milvid
d. Mar 25, 1918, Milvid
s/o Sash Stewart & Bessie House
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Hugh Gilmer Shannon (White)
b. Oct 19, 1921, Milvid
d Mar 26, 1949, Houston
s/o P. E. Shannon & Gertie Carter
Married
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Mitchell Young (White)
b. May 9, 1918, Milvid
d. May 10, 1918, Milvid
s/o Mitchell Young & Emma Holland
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Hulen D King (White)
b. Feb 15, 1919, Milvid
d. Feb 28, 1968, Houston (buried
in Trinity)
s/o John Franklin King & Angie Lena Foster
Divorced
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Mrs. Dessie Williams (Black)
b 1899, Nacogdoches
d Jan 29, 1927, Pt.
Arthur
d/o Sam Davis & Heneretta Mallory
Husband, Willie B. Williams
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Earl Jefferson (Black)
b Dec 7, 1913, Milvid
d Jan 13, 1937, Houston
s/o
Ellis Jefferson & Pinkie Perkins
Single
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Wilmer Humphry (White)
b June 29, 1916, Trinity
d Aug 17, 1916, Milvid
d/o A.C. Humphry & Faucy Hanks
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Charlie C. Marshall (White)
b. 1884, Newton Co
d. Sept 18, 1923, Beaumont
(Lived in Milvid, buried in Silsbee)
s/o T. O./C. Marshall & M. Vandershire
Married
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Mr. P. May (White)
b. abt 1883, Montgomery Co.
d. Aug 7, 1919, Houston
s/o P. May & Laura Metz
Married
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Alva Nannie (White)
b. Unkn
d. Nov 27, 1916, Milvid (buried in Saron, TX)
d/o Joe Nannie & Bettie Standley
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Frank Salivas (Mexican)
b. Nov 21, 1842, Mexico
d. Aug 23, 1916, Milvid
s/o Ramon Salivas & Fanny Taquale (?)
Widowed
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Noble Victory Graham (White)
b. Jan 18, 1919, Milvid
d. Apr 5, 1972,
Houston (lived in Hull, buried in Liberty Co.)
s/o Van Buren Graham & Maggie May
Never married
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Myrtle Eldorado Graham (White)
b. Dec 1, 1902
d. July 10, 1916, 8 mi north
of Milvid in Polk Co.
d/o W.E. & A.B. Graham
Single
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Clifton Hale
b. July 16, 1909, Milvid
d. Dec 11, 1935, Liberty, Liberty
Co., TX (buried in Village Mills)
s/o Joe Hillery Hale & Olive Mae
Langston
Married Mary
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Lois Musgron (White)
b Oct 2, 1911
d. Nov 25, 1916, Milvid
d/o Foster
Musgron & Ellen Richardson
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Basil Terrance Tomlinson
b. Feb. 13, 1923, Milvid
d. Jul.
5, 2010, Saratoga, Hardin Co., TX (Buried in Batson, Guedry Cem)
S/o J.R. Tomlinson and Mattie Biddle
Married Ruth___
Founder & President of Basil Oilfield Services of
Saratoga
Founder & President of Hardin County Game Preserve Assoc.
Member (of 65 yrs) of Masonic Lodge #914
of Saratoga
Sat on the Board of Directors of Peoples State Bank and
First City Bank of Kountze
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Travis Rye (White)
b. Sept 15, 1897,
d. Nov 12, 1924, Conroe
s/o W.
Rye & Unkn
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Emma Sykes (Black)
b. abt 1868, Calvert
d. Jun 22, 1927, Silsbee
Parents names unkn, widowed
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Francis Shials (White)
b. abt 1893
d. Dec 3, 1911, Milvid
Male Parents
names unkn
Single
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Addie Grant (Black)
b. abt 1904
d. Aug 28, 1908, Milvid
Male
- parents names unkn
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Samuel Gonzales
b abt 1904
d Aug 27, 1908
Parents names unkn
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D.D. Bolden (Black)
b. unkn
d. Sept 8, 1911
Parents unkn
Mrs. Meyers (White)
d. Sept 30, 1911
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Hattie McAdams (White)
b. abt 1895
d. Oct 6, 1911
Perditta Watson (White)
b abt 1908
d Jul 5, 1910, Harleton, TX Residence
Milvid
Parthinia May (Black)
d. Aug 6, 1908
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Nugent Ruris (Mexican)
b. abt 1878
d. July 17, 1908
Irvin J. Johnson (White)
b. abt 1884
d. Sept 15, 1911
b. abt 1882, Native of Austria d. May 22, 1910 (see headstone & story below)
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Below is an old newspaper account of an incident on the train from Silsbee,
Hardin Co. to Milvid, Liberty Co. No dates.
Enter content here
| John H & son Norvell Thomas, Milvid, Liberty Co. |
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| ca 1912 |
The 1913 post card below was submitted by Jack Langston, written
by his grandfather and sent to his grandmother before they married on March 9, 1918, Kountze, Hardin Co., TX
| 1913 Post card from Milvid, TX |
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| Sent to Nettie Wilkinson in Village Mills, from Pat Langston, her future husband. |
| Back of Milvid, TX post card, 1913 |
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The following letter was written by Grover Jenkins from Milvid
to Jesse Wilkinson, 1912. Since the letter was in the personal papers of Nettie Wilkinson Langston, we believe it to be Jesse
James Wilkinson, s/o of David James Wilkinson and Mary Ellen Rogers. This letter was contributed by Nettie's grandson,
Jack Langston of Village Mills
| Grover Jenkins, article abt his death in France |
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| Miller Vidor Saw Mill money |
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| submitted by Wayne Verdine |
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| Where things were in Milvid in the old days |
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| Mill pond, located today on the Brunson family far |
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| CO RD 2134 |
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Below are images taken Dec 19, 2009 of Milvid. The old town-site is gone, the
lumber mill has been replaced with a catfish farm, the train depot is gone and the most regrettable is the Milvid Cemetery
is lost. While the cemetery area is still there, fenced off, the headstones are long gone and only depressions in the ground
remain. Further in the woods are remants of the train roundhouse where
the engine would be turned around so it could head back out the way it came. We also found several broken grinding stones
in the local of the roundhouse, and what use to be the mill pond to float logs and keep them wet. I want to thank my cousin Jack for going on this hunt with me and Rusty for being our personal tour-guide. The following photos were taken by me and may not be copied or used in any manner, personal or commercially,
public or private, unless I have given permission. Besides, the original jpgs are better than these scaled down versions so
just ask.
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| The train depot once sat on this empty lot |
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| The old town-site was in the pasture |
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| The Milvid Cemetery is just inside those woods |
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| Looking thru the fence to where the cemetery was |
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| This county road was once a railroad track |
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| Looking towards Milvid from Hwy 787 |
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| A closer view of CO RD 2145 |
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| Train roundhouse foundations, in the Milvid woods |
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| Pieces Of Old Grinding Stones |
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The following photos were submitted by Murry Hammond of the Texas Transportation Archive. He photographed these from the original 1910 Peach River issue of the American Lumberman and are part of his
personal collection. Please do not use these photos without his permission.
"Story passed down by my
husband's grandmother was that Jacob fell out of a tree and as he was dying, he asked to be buried where he died. His grave
is all by itself. It is very near where the old Milvid store use to be located." -- Carla Clifton MILVID TEXAS
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