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The Kilgore surname

The Kilgore name in Orange County Indexed: 15 historical records, 1 person in the chronology and 3 headings in books and archives.

In the records
1755 to 1770 most named in the 1760s
  • Tax lists 1755
  • Deeds 1761–1770
In the chronology
1946 1 person in 1 entry
In books and archives
1 family heading and 2 people, born 1867 to 1908
Places in its deeds and wills
N Hico Creek (4), Reedy Fork Creek (1), Kilgores Branch (1)
Often named with
Bankson 2
People with a page here
B. W. (Benjamin Wesley) Kilgore, Bernard Kilgore
Search beyond these records

Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.

In the chronology 1 person

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

In books and archives 3 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

In the historical records 15 records

8 deeds, 6 court minutes and 1 tax list entries, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Search the name in every collection

1750s

1760s

1770s

Undated

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