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Map of Menard County, Texas.

Description: Map shows land tracts with patents, landowners and tract numbers; towns, military forts, roads, and the San Saba River; circle near center of map measures just over twelve cm. in diameter and encompasses Menardville and Old San Saba Fort. Scale [1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7521

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Commissioners' Court to accept additional money to pay the salary of a county home demonstration agent for Menard County.
Date: December 9, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3035

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of Articles 1970-302 and 1961 Vernon's Revised Civil Statutes, with respect to the terms of the County Court of Menard County.
Date: February 21, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Transcript: Memoir of Cornelia Garner]

Description: Transcript of handwritten notes written by Cornelia Garner describing what she remembers of moving to Texas as a child, living on a farm in Navarro County, managing a ranch and making cloth during the Civil War, and various other details that she remembered. There are notes and annotations added to the end for clarification.
Date: 2019
Creator: Treadwell, Cornelia Evelyn Garner
Partner: UNT Libraries

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Wheeler Emerson Mosty, October 14, 2009

Description: Interview with Wheeler Emerson Mosty, a World War II veteran and retired post office worker from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Mosty talks about his education, growing up in the Kerrville area, his service in WWII, local people and places, the flood of 1932, and his work at the Post Office. The interview transcript includes picture of Mr. Mosty and his family, on pages 26-30.
Date: October 14, 2009
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Leonard, Julie Mosty & Mosty, Wheeler Emerson
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, December 16, 2010

Description: Interview with Courtney Sieker Wiggins Lutz, the descendant of a ranching family in Kimble County, from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Lutz discusses her ranching family, meeting her husband, Warren Wiggins, who was later killed in the Philippines during World War II, meeting her second husband who had been in Wiggins's company in the Philippines, and the Dodge dealership her second husband ran.
Date: March 23, 1918
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Heffington, Susan Wiggins & Lutz, Courtney Sieker Wiggins
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Oral History Interview with Joe Marcus "J.M." Auld, Jr., February 26, 2001

Description: Interview with Joe Marcus "J.M." Auld, Jr., a Texan rancher from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Auld identifies his family members (including Kerr County pioneers who immigrated from Scotland), describes the difficulties of ranch life, and mentions local cultural phenomena. The interview includes stories of "Indians," eradicating the screwworm fly from Kerr County, and life during the Great Depression. He also discusses the role of game hunting to today's ranchers.
Date: February 16, 2001
Creator: Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Bethel, Ann & Auld, Joe Marcus, Jr.
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Regional Water Plan: Region F, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Description: Water plan for Region F describing water supply locations and suppliers, the general state of the water supply in the area, forecasts for future usage numbers, management and conservation plans for both suppliers and users in each county, impacts of implementation of the water plan, and the plan making process.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Requirement Sheet Regarding the Purchase of an Oil and Gas Lease From Fritz and L. E. Wilhelm to Floyd C. Dodson]

Description: Document stating that Jack Sayles has examined the abstracts for a property owned by Fritz Wilhelm and L. E. Wilhelm in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas, and listing the documents still required to move ahead with the purchase of an oil and gas lease from Fritz Wilhelm and L. E. Wilhelm to Floyd C. Dodson by the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company.
Date: August 8, 1940
Creator: Sayles, Jack
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from John Sayles to Mr. Hawk, August 28, 1940]

Description: Letter from John Sayles to Mr. Hawk in the Title Division of the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company discussing an oil and gas lease for land owned by Fritz Wilhelm and his wife in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas. The letter discusses a boundary agreement between Wilhelm and Robert Wilson.
Date: August 28, 1940
Creator: Sayles, John
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Notes Discussing Land in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas]

Description: Notes which have "I.T.I.O.Co." (Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company) written at the top and dated August 7, 1940. Just below, the names "Floyd C. Dodson" and "Fritz Wilhelm" are written and these notes are likely in relation to an oil and gas lease from Wilhelm to Dodson. The notes discuss a tract of land in Menard and Concho Counties, Texas, listing its ownership history and the documents which pertain to it.
Date: August 7, 1940
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Temporary Title Opinion Regarding the Purchase of an Oil and Gas Lease From Floyd C. Dodson to Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company]

Description: Document listing the details of documents relating to the property owned by Fritz and L. E. Wilhelm in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas and the details of the oil and gas lease from the Wilhelms to the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company.
Date: August 30, 1940
Creator: Sayles, John
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Affidavit of B. A. Duffy]

Description: Affidavit of B. A. Duffy swearing that he commenced drilling an oil and gas well on land in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas on September 1, 1939 and it began producing oil in commercial quantities only after that date. This document is unsigned.
Date: August 1940
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Temporary Title Opinion Regarding the Sale of an Oil and Gas Lease From Floyd C. Dodson to Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company]

Description: Document listing the details of documents relating to the property owned by Fritz and L. E. Wilhelm in Concho and Menard Counties, Texas and the details of the oil and gas lease from the Wilhelms to the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company.
Date: August 30, 1940
Creator: Sayles, John
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[News Script: Mission designated first historic site]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Menard's old Spanish Fort, Mission San Saba, becoming the state's first historic site; the designation was made by the State Parks Board.
Date: July 9, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Trucker]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Colorado trucker, Jarrett James Bradford, arrested by Fort Worth detectives for taking out a string of fraudulent loans from truck stop workers.
Date: December 28, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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