CALHOUN CO. TX
Formed 1846 from Victoria, Matagorda, Jackson
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1850 Calhoun Co. TX Census
      No Duncan indexed

1860 Calhoun Co. TX Census
Old Town of San Indianola?
Pg.231, #286-242, J.H. DUNCAN (m) 32 GA genl. trader? $0-$200
                  L.A. NOBLE (m) 39 KY stage driver $2000-$400
                  James LIVINGSTON 39 PA blacksmith $3000-$400
                  (MAD: James H. Duncan, 1850 Bexar Co. TX census)

1870 Calhoun Co. TX Census
"Indianola (Old)"
Pg.378, #19-19, ROBINSON, Wm. B. 48 SCT laborer $0-$100, parents of foreign birth
                  Mary V. (f) 40 IL stock raiser $100-$2300, father of foreign birth
                  Mary L. 8 TX at school, father of foreign birth
                  Virginia L. 5, James L. 4 TX, father of foreign birth
                  DUNKIN, Jas. H. 42 GA stock trader $500-$0
 

REFERENCES FROM OTHER LOCALITIES

Matagorda Co. TX Probate Minutes v.A-C 1837-1858 (FHL film 1,011,113; SLC 6/2009)
      C-69: Petition of Wm. L. Sartwell of Matagorda Co. TX, that 3 May 1846, Mrs. Julia Duncan, a resident of said county and wife of John Duncan of said county, died intestate; she left large possessions consisting of undivided half of community of acquests and gains acquired during their residence in said county, petition for administration, signed Jas. Denison, atty for petitioner. Letters issued Nov. 24, 1851. Appraisers appointed. C-74: Inventory filed 29 Dec. 1851. C-78: Petition of John Duncan of same county, the estate of Julia Duncan, decd, former wife of this petitioner, is indebted to this petitioner in the sum of $24,705.00; the money was part of a sum belonging to this petitioner individually and expended in the purchase of community property during the lifetime of said Julia Duncan his wife now deceased; the property in the inventory was her share of community property. C-80: Accounting $60,000 furnished by petitioner expended to purchase money property in Texas after removal to Texas in 1837 ... 1/2 crop of rice in 1846 ... and debts in 1846. Land in ... Brazoria, Wharton, Calhoun, Bastrop, Burlison Co. and Matagorda Co.
 

OTHER RECORDS

"Indianola, The Mother of Western TX" by Brownson Malsch, 1977, and revised edition 1988 (from Lucille Mehrkam 3/1984; FHL book 976.4121 H2m)
      This book contains several references about James H. Duncan or J.H. Duncan from 1856 to 1864.
 

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