You can download the latest Houston genealogy and review it for updates and/or corrections. After you have looked it over, you can email Marla with any changes you feel are needed.

The original idea for the book came in 1982 from Aunt Audrey. My first exposure to the book was while sitting in the kitchen of the old place. I do not remember exactly who was there, but I remember Aunt Audrey, Aunt Myrtle (my Mother), Uncle Elbert, Eddie, My wife Betty, and myself. (If someone remembers who else was there, let me know and I will add them.) We all listened as they talked about what all they would like to see in the book. Their plan was for each child of Grandma and Grand dad Houston to write their memories of growing up at the old place. As I was a wealthy dive shop owner who had a copying machine, My mother turned to me and said " Sher can you make 9 copies of every ones writing so we will have a complete copy for each one". I said "no, I will make 10 copies so I will have one for myself". Eddie instantly said " make 11, I want one too". And then it began..... The first edition was finished in 1987. It contained about 250 pages and we printed 167 copies. In 1989 we printed a small second edition of about 65 copies(This completely wore out my copying machine.). Needless to say all of these copies were gone at once. In 1996 Marla retyped the text of the book into our new computers. I have converted this into a PDF format so now you can download the text version (no pictures). Once you have it downloaded, you may view or print any or all of The Book. I hope you enjoy the book as much as we enjoyed our part in making it happen.