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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

1857 Map of Trinity County Texas


I just found this wonderful map of Trinity County, made in 1857!
You can zoom in to see the individual properties.

Trinity County Texas 1857

On the far right on side one, along Hackberry Creek, just west of Wamack's Ferry on the Neches River, you see the plantations of :

Ab Wamack (Abraham James Womack and Rebecca Franklin)
parcel 1- on Hackberry Creek  (next to W. Youngblood and Wamack's Ferry)
parcel 2- on Sandy Creek (says J. Wamack )(next to HY Wamack , MP Mead, Faiglie)

On the 1860 map below, the above parcels are clearly marked A.J. Womack

1860 land map Trinity County- A.J. Womack parcels

Jon Chapman ( and Frances Franklin)
W McClendon (William McClendon and Jemima Franklin)
D. Wamack (David Womack and Jane Franklin)


Wamack, McClendon and Chapman

Southeast of Sumpter- the county seat at the time (now a ghost town about 5 miles east of Groveton) you can find what looks like H.N. Kenly

Others:

On the top of the map, west of Cedar Creek near Piney Creek

PP Ainsworth
RR Taylor (and Jane "Jennie" Ainsworth -my gg grandparents) parents of Nancy Francis Taylor who married James Cornelius Womack (my g grandparents)

Ainsworth and Taylor 1857

Along Alabama Creek-
J.W. Young (John died enroute to Texas- his wife Almyra Minerva Campbell -sister of AB Womack's wife Lucy Campbell- settled the land in Trinity.
T.C. Crier (Thomas Cryer and Ailsy Franklin - Henry Franklin's sister)
and just north of this HY Womack (Henry Young Womack, brother of David Womack)

JW Young (AM Campbell) and Henry Young Wamack


Source:
Baumgarthen, John E. Trinity CountymapJuly 8, 1857; (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth89023/:accessed June 5, 2017), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas General Land Office.





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