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Endnotes for Towns of Montgomery County Texas

Excerpts from “A History of Montgomery County, Texas” Chapter V, Cities, Towns, and Communities,
by William Harley Gandy”:

 

1          W. W. Shepperd, Map of the Town of Montgomery, January 1, 1838,       Addison Collection.

2          Extract from the minutes of the Commissioners Court, March 1, 1838, Addison Collection.

3           Montgomery County Courthouse Records, Deeds, Book E, p 184.

4          W. N Martin, “A History of Montgomery, (Unpublished Master’s thesis, Sam Houston State Teachers College, Huntsville, Texas, 1950), p 19

5          Ibid, p. 20

6        Diary, Dr. James H. Price, Sam Houston Memorial Museum, p. 1.

7          Ibid, p. 20.

8          Martin, op. cit., p 23.

9         Ibid, p. 26.

10       Ibid, p. 25.

11       Ibid, p. 27.

12       Ibid, p. 43.

13       Ibid, p. 42

14       Montgomery Patriot, July 2, 1845, Sam Houston Memorial Museum

15       Loc. cit.

16       Martin, op. cit., p. 68.

17       Ibid, p. 66.

18       H. P. N. Gammel, The Laws of Texas 1822-1897 (Austin: The Gammerl Book Company 1898), Vol. III, p 379.

19       Ibid, Vol. III, p. 361.

20       Deeds, Book A, p.26.

21       Personal interview of author with Hart Addison, Conroe, Texas, April 10, 1952.

22       Martin, op. cit., p 39.

23       Ibid, p 73.

24       Letter to Nat Hart Davis to Betty Davis, December 16, 1845, in Addison Collection.

25       Martin, op, cit., p 69.

26       Texas Almanac for 1857 (Galveston: Richardson and Company, 1856), p. 77.

27       H. C. Medford, “Diary, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume XXXIV (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1930) p. 138.

28       Martin, op., cit., pp. 51-52.

29       Texas Almanac 1949-1950 (Dallas: A. H. Belo Corporation, 1949), p. 568.

30       Martin, op. cit., p. 84.

31       Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register (Houston), April 8, 1846.

32       Letter to Nat Hart Davis to Betty Davis, December 16, 1854, in Addison Collection.

33       Ibid., July 10, 1855.

34       Martin, op. cit., p. 7.

35       T. C. Richardson, East Texas : Its History and Its Makers (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1940) Vol. III, .p 1126.

36       Texas Almanac 1857, op. cit., p. 77.

37       Gammel, op. cit., Vol. V, p. 82,

38       Martin, op. cit., p. 7

39       Personal interview of author with Lula Dukes, Willis, Texas, May 12, 1952.

40       Conroe Courier, April 8, 1932.

41       Anna Davis Weisinger, "History of Montgomery County," Historicade Program, October 25, 1949, p. 15.

42       Montgomery County Commissioners Court Minutes, Book A., p. 56.

43       The Willis Observer; April 20, 1875.

44       Loc. cit.

45       Personal interview of author with Hulon N. Anderson, Conroe, Texas, July 22, 1951.

46       Loc. cit.

47       Commissioners Minutes, op. cit. Book B, p. 235.

48       Richardson, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 1128.

49       The Willis Index, October 20, 1893.

50       Conroe Courier, June 30, 1933.

51       Personal interview of author with Ilanon Moon, Willis, Texas, June 10, 1952.

52       Personal interview of author with Hulon N. Anderson, Conroe, Texas, July 22, 1951.

53       Conroe Courier, July 28, 1922.

54       Conroe Courier, June 30, 1933.

55       Martin, op. cit., p. 16.

56       Conroe Courier, July '7 4. 1912.

57       Ibid. , April 8, 1932.

58       Weisinger, cp. cit., p. 16.

59       Ibid., p. 17

60       Commissioners Minutes, op. cit. , Book B, p. 473

61         Note of Nat Hart Davis, May 17, 1889, in Addison Collection.

62       Commissioners Minutes, op. cit., Book B, p. 480.

63       Ibid., p. 503

64       Scrapbook, Newspaper clipping, in Addison Collection.

65       Commissioners Minutes, op. cit., Book B, p. 503.

66       Conroe Courier, April 8, 1932.

67       Ibid, December 9, 1898.

68       Richardson, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 1128.

69       Conroe Courier, October 22, 1897.

70       Commissioners Minutes, Book 1902-1907, p. 384.

71       Ibid., p. 349.