The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 12, 1966 Page: 2 of 10
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Tf iBUWE — Tuft, ?•***, W*dn#»a'*y, October 12, 1966
€«Mity History Found
M The Court House
Tfew# it mo wn**r place than
.% (SsiwWy * rstwntftouist* to find
hfatteg of towns and
eOMttteo, if not too marry floods,
0m and other muttra* <Hsi««tcrs
4tav« struck thu*e courthouses.
fetVic’ki Go ho* it* r<-
im hack to the lute
SSMtPs {*> uwsarty all of the office*
jsttH farther back in the* deed
ttlgi&tdt, any old record
jffisT am be found in a matter
id mpamaU in the San Patricio
Cffijjfe- courthouse. (That is
.wsWwStSb ears be said .itswit
j|mfatr eourtbouses. The records
suft b» intact, but they arc not
oftmi filed as systematically
<bc word* arc in the Sun
j opened and held at the house j
I nf Wm. (tumble in the said Town
j Ua.'IV Iwiii'’, no court) us lie on
j li)c ievt riUi .Monday after (he
f urst Monday in August 11448.
it being the twenty-fifth day of
September A. D 1848.
Present; the Honorable M. P
Morton, prc< idlrr; Judge of the
said Court, C. W. Pete As >n, dis-
trict attorney, Patrick OTXse-
h'.rty, District Clerk. Sheriff
iNume orr.Uted. Ed.) ot sakl
County and attornibs of Said
Court. Whereupon (tie following
proceedings were had. It being
ascertained that no .jury was
.summoned and there not bring '
in the county a sufficient titim- j
her of Citizens qualified to serve I
as Grand Jurors, the minute.- I
having been read and examined j
it ts ordered that the court ad ;
jnum Sine l'i* M. P. Norton, i
Judge 4th Jud District."
Incidentally, the next term of i
court whs held a year later.
In 1851 the first divorce was
inter I'MCft jrl p the table,
camera than in the block.* on
srem
I irffcr-
Kami”
GATHERS 0 A « O UNO t h e
table in this group o f
Korner yoimqttr i • ate getting Sion. LEtJ^uTv^* ovv/o »
Kiddy ready for a morning work scs- youngster* a t Ktdriy
fit:?*- d tint' .i ijti l tin riOiiu i agfi't m CnrpU1 fin ; ti pr ; i
ij;o’it limn in share the uu* nf ■ntui;l audit teiiort md
tt i ,* .tnilv atliriinoiiii. He \c. (nr $850
to have '!: • u e ol tin eat when The heard ajupoiv
he v.-' ;ti town and she hid sppbeation for Idle i
e ol ii wlien l;e would tie This mum v w ill Im i
11 li r a r y rnnterKH i
films, slide, and is-.!
amount mi nested > 1
Min OeWey While w.
as i on *|s eilUtner; tor
Utilities For
Hospital Bist.
Are Discussed
teifereiire by on'' with the
other Imagine a hoi hi aded
1 irisii couple who could no! Iiv*
j .it peace with each other trying
j to live up to the |n:;t phr , o <;f
• that ctinti.!;'!
I The first brawl lei tslend in
i San Patricio County wa-> that
of John Ross Th;‘ brand wa* JR
and the ear intuks wen "a
,uo|>c off the left ear and a
slit in the right." The brand
was received tor record on tin
24th day of Sept. 1847 end w >s
reconlcd in "A" Book, Pag;
14 of tile words of San Patra m
Co. on the 281h day of Sept.
Incidentally, the defendant in
the first divorce suit filed in
the county was the county of-
ficial who recorded tin John
Ross brand
Tim Iasi
gftjtfertfS a jmw ear, who has com | fpjvcri that divorce on the
tlStel a crime; Who has sold j ground* of 'Vxtv-.sivo use of
fifigeity t® the county; and you !abusive language." She re-
W** ft cad it can be found (,,,|vw) ou,)(dy of thi. children
m. 6 courthouse. j and in the property settlement
^ittii records and adoption ; twhich was carried in <l>»tuil
raowds are on file but not open |*=i*C»*«l and worn to by
tfe' This is to pits both fun ties) she received the
Coot the children involved. Cer- > and all the cattle in
1** .test# paper* can also be | hu*bnml > ,inulJ'
Mailed. But the run of the mill;'™'**? f'k,> <* ox,,n; a“?
hamper*** to a county can be!haIf '^m,Rof coni to (he
femd in the courthouse. I «™uwi. Her divorced spouse
, * drew as Ins share of the com-
For instance the oldest record j munity propf.rty i ^SO acres of
tfeJBe «» the district clerk's |and m Nurc,,s Co. and one
<*»- cortcieming district court j y„ko of oxen and a wagon and
i dated Sept. 25, 1848 (And j "twenty dollars iri money.” The
fch h not the first term of nHaj bit of community property
Sstyrict court held In San} disposed uf was. "one hoi..
FitiJieio Co. for the record j which said (irofwity shall belong
«»w*» "The minutes were ex-; to each of aid party." As
awdatBd-” though that was not komplkated 1
Hie record reads as follows: enough, the couple lurther u>.;-
‘*B« it remembered that at a reed the horse was "their re-
form <o# the District Court in and spective property, acconling to
far the County at San Patricio die above decision without in
Hie first registered nur-e to
rcic-ler In r riu tc h .a iook in tile
i.-oui.'ty w.i:. K.ljth ! n • ■.,: i. a
. !': *1111 ■ 11. - ol is Mg' , Sclusii of
,'»u;.iri):. Stic J-I reived in; «.j u -
tifiiatc No IK Hi Mi: ,(| ltd,
■ lilt t!n I Cl 111. It. WHS filed
iii San Patricio (>,i. on June 12.
ifi;y with ii. it. *m. |i
i orpu ('in i'll otd 1. i‘t uni i
AI. 1)., Tail attesting to her
gUcliifications, She was tioin in
Lop in Co., N< Ii. and took her
training in Dallas, TeXas,
School Board
Has Meeting
last Night
Thr fir it rliM'tot* to
hi.** qualifirotions on fiio in
San Pntririo was W. It Bitwk*
man, whoso r<‘cords v.< iv fih-d
t>y f r. i> MrCflum ,funt‘ I. IdOH,
I if invp h”> afo [rif year amt
ti t ordtsi in Ihs homo ,.ti<in ■ • as l ift, T» xa.*.
was Unit <if Ho wa • lx>m in Miliar Co M <
kivtan, a f>.*- Tho parriyraph-: al/ov* aj<* just
■, of Mathis tiny sampling of the thim:
m. Srpt. y,; that ran hr found m a county
. fitli th'>•(<( TIk* < atari rocic ds
•; ’¥r'.v§-.4?® fiicd in the cotmf y cout'thouse
frrika
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Guthrie, Keith. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 12, 1966, newspaper, October 12, 1966; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth750004/m1/2/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Taft Public Library.