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Colonel Merriam then gave up the hope of saving his family in the carriage, and tried to spring into it, intending to swim out with them; but the icy torrent instantly swept him away. Being an expert swimmer, he succeeded in reaching the bank 200 yards below, nud ran back to renew the attempt to savo his deur ones, when he received the awful tidings that the moment he was borne away by the stream the carriage, with all its precious freight, turned over and went roll- ing down the flood, his wife saying as she disappeared, "My darling husband, good- by!" The little rill of a few hours before, which a child might step across, had become a raging river nearly a mile in width, from thirty to forty feet deep and covered with masses of driftwood. The bereaved husband procured a horse from one of the cavalry and
rode far down the river, but could see noth- ing distinctly in the darkness, while nothing conld be heard but the wild roar of the waters.
Thins passed the long, wretched night. Before day the momentary flood had passed by, and the stream had shrunk within its accustomed limits. The search began. The drowned soldiers and servant, four in num- ber, were soon found, and the body of the wife was taken from the water three-fourths of a mile below. The body of the child was not found until three days afterward, fonr miles down the stream and a long distance from the channel. The carriage was drifted by the current about a mile, and lodged in a thicket.
The storm had been frightful, beyond de- scription. The beaver ponds at the head of the Concho were so filled with hail that the fish were killed, and were washed out and de- posited on the surface of the surrounding country in loads. Three days after the storm,. when the searching party left the Concho, the hail lay in drifts to the depth of six feet.
Ileavy indeed was the heart of the husband and father when he commenced his melan- eholy march to the post of the Concho, fifty- three miles distant!
PUBLIC LANDS.
Under this head are included all the lands owned by the State or held in trust for any of its public institutions.
There are about 5,000,000 acres of unap- propriated public domain belonging to the State. This may be acquired by the pro- visions of the law relating to homestead do. nations.
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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
HOW TO ACQUIRE HOMESTEAD DONATIONS, ETC.
Every head of a family without a home- stead shall be entitled to receive a donation from the State of 160 acres of vacant unap- propriated public land, and every single man of the age of eighteen years or upward shall be entitled to receive from the State eighty acres of vacant and unappropriated public land. The applicant must apply to the sur- veyor of the district or county in which the land is situated, in writing, designating the land he claims, stating that he claims the same for himself in good faith, ete,; that he is without any homestead of his own; that he has actually settled on the land, etc., and that he believes the same to be vacant and nnappropriated public domain. The survey to be made within twelve months after date of application. When the terms of the law have been complied with, and proof of such faet, together with the proof of three years' continuous occupancy, is filed with the com- missioner of the general land oflice, patent will issne to the claimant or his assignee. (Title LXXIX, Ch. 9, Revised Statutes.)
By virtue of an aet passed March 29, 1887, and amended April 5, 1889, "To provide for the sale of such npproprinted public lands, situated in organized counties, as contain not more than 640 acres," it is provided that any person desiring to purchase any of such ap- propriated lands situated in any of the or- ganized counties of the State as contain not more than 640 acres, appropriated by nn act . to provide for the sale of a portion of the nn- appropriated public land, etc., approved July 14, 1879, may do so by causing the same to be surveyed by the surveyor of the county in which the land is situated. The person de- siring to purchase shall make application in
writing, describing the land by reference to surrounding surveys. The land must be snr- veyed within three months from date of ap- plication, and within sixty days after said survey the surveyor shall certify, record and map the same in his office, and within said sixty days return the same to the genera! land office, together with the application. Within ninety days after the return to and filing in the general land office the applicant must pay into the State treasury the purchase money at the rate of $2 per acre; patent to be issued by the commissioner of the general land office when the treasurer's receipt is filed in his office. Failure to make the payment within ninety days forfeits the right to pur- chase, and the applicant cannot afterward purchase under the act. (Chapter 80, Acts of Twentieth Legislature, pp. 61 and 62.)
COMMON SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY AND ASYLUM LANDS.
The act of April 1, 1887, and the act amendatory thereof of April 8, 1889, pro- vide for the sale of all lands heretofore or hereafter surveyed and set apart for the bene- fit of the public free schools, the university, and the several asylums, amounting in all to about 30,000,000 acres.
All lands under this head must be classi- fied by the commissioner of the general land oflice into agricultural, pasture, and timber lands, and valued according to classification before being placed on the market. When classified and valued the land commissioner is required to notify the county clerks of the counties where the lands are situated of the valne of each section of land offered for sale in their respective counties and counties at- tached for judicial purposes, which notifica- tion said clerk must keep on record for pub- lic inspection.
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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
Lands classified as agricultural are sold to actual settlers only, in quantities of not less than eighty, and in multiples thereof not more than 640 acres, provided that where there is a fraction of less than eighty acres of any section left such fraction may be sold. Where two quarter sections are purchased they must constitute a given half of some section. Lands classified as purely pasture lands, and without permanent water thereon, may be sold in quantities not to exceed fonr sections to the same person. Parts of two sections cannot be purchased without taking the whole of one section. No sales are made to a corporation, foreign or domestic, and all sales to a settler are made on express condi- tion that any sale, transfer, or conveyance of such land to a corporation, either immediate or remote, shall ipso facto terminate the title of the purchaser and forfeit the land to the State. No watered portion of any section shall be sold unless there is permanent water on or bordering on the part of the section re- maining unsold.
The minimum price of lands sold under this act is $2 per acre. Lands having per- manent water thereon or bordering thereon are sold at not less than $3 per acre. Tim- bered lands are sold at not less than $5 per acre. By timbered lands is meant lands chietly valuable for the timbor thereon. The timber on sneh lands may also be sold at the discretion of the commissioner of the general land office, for $5 per acre, cash, except where land is sparsely timbered, then for not less than $2 per acre, the purchaser to have five years from the date of purchase to remove the timber therefrom, after which, if not re- inoved, it reverts to the State without judi- cial ascertainment.
Agricultural and pasture lands are sold on forty years' time, at 5 per cent. per annum
interest. One-fortieth of the aggregate pur- chase money must be paid in advance, and an obligation, duly executed, binding the pur- chaser to pay to the State treasurer, on the first day of August each year thereafter, until the whole is paid, one-fortieth of the pur- chase money and the interest on the whole of the unpaid purchase money. Within one year next after the expiration of three years' residence on the land the purchaser must make proof by his own affidavit, corroborated by the affidavits of three disinterested and credible citizens of the county, certified to by some officer of the court, that he has resided on the land three years. Upon receipt of the fortieth payment by the treasurer, and the affidavit and obligation required to be filed with the application for the land, the sale is held effective.
All purchasers have the option of paying in full after they have resided on their land three consecutive years, proof of which must be furnished the commissioner of the general land office. Purchasers may sell their lands any time after three years, the vendee or sub- sequent vendees to become subject to all the conditions of sale to the original purchaser.
If the interest dne on the first day of An- gust of any year is unpaid the purchaser shall have until the first day of January thereafter to pay said interest, and for said default shall pay 50 per cent, penalty on said interest past due. Failure to pay said past due interest and penalty on or before the said first day of January any year works a forfeit- ure of the land without the necessity of re- entry or judicial ascertainment, except where the purchaser dies, in which event his heirs have one year after the first day of August next after such death in which to make payment.
Timbered lands are sold for cash.
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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
All applications for the purchase of land must be forwarded to the commissioner of the general land office at Austin, accompanied by an affidavit stating in effect that the appli- cant desires the land for a home, and has in good faith settled thereon; that he is not acting in collusion with others for the pur- pose of buying the land for any other person or corporation, and that no other person or corporation is interested in the purchase save himself.
The commissioner of the land office may, at his discretion, lease any of the publie lands not in demand for actual settlement, for a period of not over five years, at 4 cents per acre per annum in advance.
Applications to lease shall be made in writing to the commissioner of the land office, and shall specify and describe the land de- sired. If satisfied that it is not detrimental to the public interest, the commissioner may execute under his hand and seal, and deliver to the lessee, a lease for the time agreed upon of any land applied for.
Grazing lands are not subject to sale during the term of the lease. Lands classified as agricultural shall be leased subject to rale, the lessee to give immediate possession when such lands are sold, and allowed a pro rata credit upon his next year's rent, or the money refunded to him by the treasurer, as he may eleet ; provided, that no such sale shall be effected of a section where the lessee has placed improvements of the value of $100 thereon; and provided further, that no actual settler purchasing land within a leasehold shall be permitted to turn loose therein more than one head of cattle or horses for every ten acres of land purchased by him and eu- closed, or in lieu thereof four head of sheep or goats. Each violation of this proviso sub- jeets the violator to a fine of $1 for each head
of stock so turned loose, and each thirty days' violation constitutes a separate offense.
Failure to pay the annual rent due for any year within sixty days after the same shall have become due, subjects the lessee to for- feitnre at the discretion of the land commis- sioner. The State retains a lien upon all improvements on leased lands to secure pay- ment of rents. Leaseholds are exempt from taxation.
It is unlawful for any person to fence, use, occupy or appropriate, by herding, line-riding or other means, any portion of the public lands; and the attorney-general is anthorized to bring suit for the recovery of such land and damages for its use and occupation, and such suits may be brought in the district court of Travis county.
Fences on grazing lands must not be con- structed for more than three miles lineal measure, running in the same general direc- tion, without a gateway in the same.
Patents to lands are issued by the com- missioner of the general land office when the receipt of the State treasurer (to whom all payments are made) for all payments due on the land is presented at the land office and the patent fees thereon paid.
Patent fees are as follows:
320 acres of land or less $5.00
Over 320 acres and up to 610 acres 6.00
Over 640 and up to 1,280 acres 10 00
Over 1,280 acres and up to one-third of a league. 12.50 Over one-third of a league and up to one league and labor 15.00
One league and labor. 20.00
Each set of field notes filed for less than one league and labor. 1.00
Each set of field notes filed for more than one
league and labor 2.00
The number of acres of school lands located in each county is given in connection with the statistics of the counties, and represents
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the amount of unsold public school land in the county July 4, 1888.
Four leagnes of school land have been set apart for each county in the State, to be used for educational purposes. Said lands are in the control of the commissioners' courts of the several counties, to whom purchasers should apply. Many counties have already leased or sold their lands.
Any person desiring to purchase or lease public lands can procure blank applications enitable for each class of land for sale or lease by applying to the commissioner of the general land office at Austin.
Divisions of land in this State are made according to Spanish land measurement, by varas, labors and leagues, and distances are given in linear varas.
1 vara .3313 inches.
1 acre. 5,640 square varas-4,840 sq. y'ds.
1 labor 1,000,000 square varas-177 acres.
15 league .8,333,333 square varas-1,476 acres.
1 league .25,000,000 sq. varas-4,428 acres.
1 league and labor. 20,000,000 sq. varas-4,605 acres.
NUMBER OF FARMS IN THE STATE.
In procuring information on this subject munch depends upon the standpoint from which inquiry is directed. One farm may
cover half of a county, and yet be tenanted by hundreds of people, each having to him- self' a separate, distinct area of cultivation. A farm may also be a body of land enclosed and separated from other land. Therefore, there may be many farms owned by the same person and each adjoining the other. An- other difficulty in ascertaining the number of farms in the State is in determining how small a tract of land may constitute a farm. In the census of 1880 all bodies of fonr acres and over were regarded as farms, which is misleading, for on this basis half the market gardens would be called farms. What are generally known in a community as "farms" are reported under that head in this office. There are 142,437 farms in the State.
In 1889 the number of tenant farmers in the State was 87,991; in 1890 the number was decreased 512 in one year. This decrease indicates the rapidity with which the State is being settled by farmers from other States, as most immigrants rent land the first year of their residence in the State.
In 1889 the number of farm laborers was 58,918, and in 1890 57,321. By farm laborers is meant those who worked for wages on the farm. The average wages per month paid each laborer was $13.38.
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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
THE COUNTIES.
The following table States the names of the connties of the State, for whom named, from what taken, when created, when organized, area in square miles, county seats, and population in 1890.
Counties.
Named for-
Counties Created from.
When Created.
When Organized.
Area in
County Seat.
in 1890. Population
Anderson
Kennelh L. Anderson
Houston.
Mar. 24, 1846 July 13. 1816
1,088 Palestine.
20,921
Andrews.
Richard Andrews
Bexar
Ang. 21, 1 56 linorganized
1,560 Unorganized 878,Homer
6,204
Arnusas.
Aransas River ..
Refagio
Sept. 18, 1871 - 181 405 Rockport. Jun. 22, 1858'July 27, 1880 900 Archer .. 9 %) Claude
2,090
Armstrong
Pioneers of that name
Bexor
Ang. 23, 1876 Mar. 8, 1390
Atascosa
Vascora River
Bexar
Jnu. 25, 18'd Aug. 4, 1856
Austin.
Stephen F. Austin
Original
Mar. 17, 1:30 - 18$7
Bandera
Bundera Pass ...
Bexar and Uvalde
lau,
26. 1956 Mur. 10, 3836
1,001 Bander. 923 Bastrop
.0,59%
Bailey
- Bailey ...
Bexar
Ang.
21, 1876 Uborg mized
Baylor
lleury W. Baylor
Fannin
Feb.
1, 1999 Apr. $3. 1:73
938 Unorganized .. 9: 0 Seymour 88 Beeville
2.57) 3,710
Bell .
Govervor P. 11. Bell
Milam.
dan.
22, 1850 Ang. 1, 1850
1,029/ Belton
33. 89
Bexnr.
Duke of Bexar.
Original
Mar.
17, 1-36
12, 188
4,635
Borden
Call Borlen.
Bexar.
Aug.
21, 1870 Mar. 17, 1871
90 1 Durhum
Borgne.
Borque River
Mel ennan
Feb.
4, 1851 Ang. 7, 1851
Bowie
James Bowie.
Red River.
Dec.
17, 184
1811
20,273
Bruzorla ..
Municipality of Bruzorla
Original
Mai.
17, 1836 1837
1,479 Brazoria. 519 Bryqu ..
11,474
Brazos.
Brazos River . .
Washington and Robertson. Presidio
Jun.
30, 1811 |Feb. 6, 1843
16,603
Briscoe ...
Andr w Briscoe.
Bexar. ..
Ang.
Brown.
fleury S Br www ..
Truvis and Comunche
Ang.
Buchel
Col. Bachel of Con, army.
Presidio ..
Burleson
General Edward Burleson
3: 712
Barnet ... ..
President David G. Burnet ..
10,645
Caldwell
Matthew Caldwell.
Calhonn.
Jobn @ Colhonu
Victoria
Apr.
4, 3816 July 13, 1816
('allahnu.
James M. Gallahun
Feb.
1, 1858 July
8, 1877 7,1818
13,080
Cump.
1. 1 .. Camp. .
Upshur
Apr.
0, 1871 June 20, 1874
Carson. CUNH ...
Lewis Care
lexar
Apr.
25, 1816 July 13, 1810
Castro.
Henry ('nstro) ..
Bexur .
Ang.
21, 1876 Dec. 23, 1891
Chumbers.
Thomas J. Chumbers.
Feb.
14, 1:58 Ang.
2, 1858
2,241
Cherokee
Cherokee tribe of Indians
Nadogdoches ...
Apr.
Childress
George C. Childrese.
Faunin
Apr.
Cooke
Dec.
Boxar
Aug.
Coke .
Richard Coke ...
l'om Green
Feb.
1, 1858 Oct. 0, 1861
6,080
Collhul ...
Collin Mckinney
Panulu
Apr.
B, 3816 July 1:1, 1816
Collingsworth ..
Undge Jumes Collingswerth .. Panidin
Ang.
21, 1876 Sept. 80, 1590 17, 1836, - - 1837
Comunl.
Bexar, Travis, and Gonzales.
Mar. 24, 1946 Inly 13, 1816]
Comanche
Comanche tribe of Indinns ..
Jan.
25. 1856 Mar. 17, 18: 6
Concho
Concho River ..
Bexar
Cooke
William G. Cooke
Fannin
Feh. 1, 1858 Mur. 11, 1879| Mar. 20, 1818, Mar. 10, 3849 4, 1831 Mur. 4, 1834
933 Gainesville .... 900|Galesville . ..
16,777
C'intle ..
G. W. Collie ..
1,125 Unorganized
('rockett
David Crockett ...
Bexnr .
Bexur
Dallum
Jumes W. Dullum
Bexar
Robertson and Nacogdoches Bexar
Feb.
1, 1858 Unorganized
900; Unorganized .
Deaf Smith
Erastus Smith ..
Bexnr .
Aug. 21, 1876 Dec. 1, 1890
1,410 La Plata
9,110
Dentou
From ite locution and chupe .. John B. Denton
Fonnin
Apr.
24, 1846 July 18, 1816
Dickens
J. Dickens
Bexar .
Ang. 21, 1876 Mar.
14,1891
900 Espuela .
293
Dimmit
Philip Dimmit
Bexar, Webb, Uvalde, Mav- Feb. 1, 1858 Nov. erick.
2,1880 1,290 Carrizo Springs
1,041
Douley Judge Stockton P. Donley ... Bexur
Ang. 21, 1876 Mar. 22, 1892
900|Clarendon. .. 1,018
1,051 24,602
Coryell
James Coryell
McLennan and Bell. Fannin
Feb.
Ang. 21, 1856 Umorganiz .d
('rane.
William Carey Crane.
I'mn Green
Feh. 26, 1887 Unorganized Jan .. 2!, 18:5|July 14, 1:91 Aug. Mur. 21, 1876 Sept. 11, 1886 Ang. 21, 1856 Sept. 9, 1891 30, 1810 July 18, 1836
1,468 Texline .. 900 Dallas 67,003
Delta ..
Hopkins and Lamar
July
29, 1870 ()ct. 11, 1846 .Inly
266 Cooper
21,274
DeWitt
Green De Witt
Gonzales, Victoria, and Go- Mar. liudi.
806 Unorganized .. 8,832 Ozona 9) Estacado.
194
Crosby
Stephen Crosby.
417 112
Dallas
G. M. Dallas
Original
Mar.
$3, 1816 duly 13, 1816 11, 1576 Apr. 11, 1887 24, 1857 Nov. 23, 1873 21, 3876 Inorganized
FOR Childress .. 1.122 Henrietta ... 825 Unorganized .. Robert Lee .
1,175
( lay ... ..
Henry Cluy
7,406
Cochran. ..
Mar. 13, 15-9 Apr. 23. 1889
2,037
R. M. Coleman.
Travin nud Brown
. 1,243 Coleumn . .
MM| Me Kinney. 900| Aberdeen .. 960' Columbus . 957 119,470
Colorado.
Mundielpulity of Colorado Comal River ..
Bosque, Travis and Bexar. Novers
Feb.
12, 1848 Ang.
1,005 Barnet 453 Lockburt 964 Indianola .. 900 Baird .
15,751 815 5,422
Cameron
Ervin Cameron.
S. P. Curson.
Bexar
Ang.
21, 1856 June 28, 1884
3,308 Brownsville 201 Pittsburg .. 900 Panhandle 951 Lluden .. 300, Dimmit. 851|Wallisville 1,008 Rnek
240 22,667
Brewster ..... ..
11. P. Brewster ..
Feb.
2, 1887 Feb. 26, 1887 21, 1876, Unorganized 27, 1-58 Mar. 2, 1857 15, 1857, Unorganized 24, 1816 July 13, 1816
2.278 Murphyville. 900 Unorganized 9 '0 Brownwood. 2,013 Unorganized 651 Culdweli. ..
11,816
Mnr.
Mnr.
Travis. Williamson, and Bell Gonzales .
Feb. Mar.
5, 1872 Ang. 7, 1851
6, 1843| Ang. 7, 1848
6,419 17,786 3,578
Bastrop.
Baron de Bastrop.
Original
Mar.
17, 1836 Apr. 8, 18.7
Bee ..
Bernard E. Bee, Sr.
San Patricio, Goliad, & Dec.
8, 1897 Inly 25, 18:8
1:37 1,375 -an Antonlo. 713 Blanco.
50,145
Bbinco.
Illanco River.
Bariet, Hays, Gillespie, and Feb. 12, 188 Apr. Comal.
Angelina
Angelina River.
Nacogdoches .
Apr. 22, 1816 July 18, 3×16
1,824
Archer.
Branch T. Archer.
Clay,
1 .: 21 Pleasanton. 711 Bellville .. ..
Refugio.
1,011 Meridian 915 l'exurkana
... 14,120
Miluin and Washington
Liberty und Jeff. rson
22,915
Coryell nud Bosque
678; New Branule 8| 6,411 939 Comanche. 16,194 956 Paint Rock ..
Dawson
Niebolas Dawson ..
6, 1870 13, 1810 909 Denton 918 Onero. 14,296
Square Miles.
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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
Countles.
Named for-
Conuties Created from.
When Crented.
When Organized.
Area in
Square Miles.
Population
in 1890.
Duval
The Duval family.
Live Oak, Nneces und Starr. Feb.
1, 1858 Nov. 7, 18761
1,759 San Diego. ... Og Enetland
7,583
Enstland.
W. M. Eastland ..
Coryell, Bosque, and Travis. Tom Green,
Fch.
26, 15'7 .Jun.
6, 1: 91
Edwards
Inyden Edwards.
Bexar ..
Feb.
1, 1558 Apr.
10, 18 3 2,316g Leaky
1,955
El Paso.
Taken from The Pues.
Bexar. .
Jan.
3, 1650 May
7,1871
969 Waxahachie. 8,16 . El Paso .. ..
15,7 8
Enelus]
Spanish name-Oak Grove .. George B. Erath
Coryell and Borqi
Jan.
27, 1856 Ang. 4, 1856
Falls
Falls on Brazos River.
Mitam aud Limestone. .. Red River ..
Dee.
14, 1837 Jan. - , 18.8
Fayette.
General La Fayette.
Color ido and Bastrop.
Dec.
14, 183: Jnm.
-, 184
963 La Grange. 31,413
Fisher
S Rhodes Fisher.
B .. xur ...
Ang.
#1, 1876 Apr. 27, 1886
9u.) Roby. 3,008
Floyd
D. Floyd.
Bexar . ..
Ang. 21, 1826 Mny
28, 1590
1, 147 Ploydada.
L'oard
Robt [ .. Fourd ..
Hardeman, King, Cottle, Kuox Presidio
Mur.
3, 1891 Apr. 27. 1591
750' Crowell.
Fort Bend.
A fort on the Brazos River.
Austin.
Jec.
29, 1>37 Jan
Frankllu
B. C. Fraoklin
Titus ..
Mar.
8, 1575. Apr. 30, 1875
Freestone ...
Kind of Stone.
Limestone
Sept,
6, 1850 July 6, 1851
Frio ...
Frlo River
Bexar. Atuscorn, und l'valde.
1,080 Peurenil. 3,172
Galvoslon.
Count de Gnlvez.
Brazoria and Liberty Bexar
MIny
673 Galveston 31,416
Galnes .. Garza.
The famlly of Garzas,
Bexar
Ang. 21, 1876 Unarganlaed
Gillespie
Chptuin R. A. Glilesple.
llexnr and Travls.
Feb. 23, 1818 Juno 5, 1818
Glasucock
George W. Glasscock, St Muufelpallty of Gollad
Original
Gonzalos
Raphnel Gonzales ....
Original ..
1,077 Gonzales.
18,008
Grsy.
Peter W. Gray .. Peter W. Grayson
Fumin
Upshur and Rusk.
Clay
Feb. 8, 1869 Jnly 10, 1886
Grimes ...
Jesse Grimes
Montgomery.
Apr. 6, 1816-July 13, 1846
Guadalupe
Guadalupe River.
Gonzales and Bexar.
Mar.
30, 1816 July 13, 1816
Ilale.
Llentenant J. C. Hale ..
Bexar .
Aug.
21, 1876 1888
998 Plainview
llall .
Warren D C Hall.
Bexar
Ang. 21, 1876 June 23, 1890
9.0 Memphis. 977 Hamilton.
9,272
Ilansford Ilsrdeman.
John M. Hansford
Bexar
Ang. 21, 1876 Mar. 11,1889
910 Ilansford.
133 3,902
llardin
William llardin
Liberty and Jefferson
Jan. 22, 1855 Ang. 2, 1858
827 llardin
3,956
Ilnrrls
John R Harris
Original . Shelby.
Jan. 28, 1839 Jime 18, 1842
lInrtley
Q. C. and R K. Hartley. .
Bexar
Ang. 21, 1836 Feb. 9, 1891
1,470 llartley. 252
llaskell
Charle Haskell .
Fannin and Milam
Feb. 1, 1858 Jan. 13, 1855
1,663
llnys.
Captain Jack Ilsys.
Travis.
Mur. 1, 1818, Ang.
7,1818
Hemphill
Judge John Hemphill
Bexar . ..
Ang. 21. 1876 July
5, 1887
llenderson
Governor J. P. Henderson. Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Apr. 27, 1816 July
13, 1846
Ilidalgo.
George W. Hill ..
Navarro.
Feb. 7, 1853 Muy 14, 1813
Ilockley.
Adj. Gen. G. W. Ilockley
Bexar
Aug. 21, 1876|Unorganized
Ilood.
General John B. Hood ...
Johnson.
Nov. 2, 1866 Dre. 25, 1866
llowsrd
Volney E. Ilaward
Sam Ilonston.
Nacogdoches. .
1836 - --
1837
1,177 Crockett ... 19,354
Ilunt
Memucan Hunt
Nacogdoches and Fn In
869 Greenville 81,835
Hutchinson.
Anderson Hutchinson
Bexar
Aug. 21, 1:56 Uuorganized
Irlou ...
----- Irlou ..
Tom Groon
Mar. 6. 1859. Apr. 16, 1889
Junck
W. H. and P. O. Jack
Cooke
Aug. 27, 1556 July
7, 1877
Jackson ..
Andrew Jneksou .
Original
1836
18:37
Jasper
Sergeant Jasper
Original
18 :: 6
1837
975 Jasper.
5,586
Jeff Davis.
Jefferson Davis
Presidlo.
Mar. 15, 1887 May 24, 1887 1836 1837
Johnson
M. T. Johnson
Navarro and MeLennan Feb.
4, 1851 Aug. 7, 1854
Jones ..
Dr. Ancon Jones.
Bexar and Bosque.
Feb. 1, 1>58 June 13, 1881
Karnes.
Illenry Karnes
Feb. 4, 1:51 Feb. 27, 185,1
735 Il-lena. . 832 Kunfinan
3,612 41,742 3,801
Kent ..
R. Kent
Bexar
Ang. 21, 1816 Unorganized
900 Unorganized .
Kerr
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