Slave Records Found in Fannin County Courthouse
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X
This page was last updated: March 1, 2013
SLAVE OWNERS MENTIONED IN THIS DOCMENT:
HENRY P. POPE
JAMES G. MCDADE
WILLIAM MCDADE
WILLIAM BURTON
LYDIA A. ALDREDGE
SLAVES NAMED IN THIS DOCUMENT:
Bob abt 30 yrs
Sandy abt 22
Dave
abt 17
Katy
14 yrs
Laura
23 yrs
& her five children
(Mary, Betsy, Liza, Ben & Lish)
BONHAM COURTHOUSE; FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS
BOOK L
DEED OF TRUST DATED NOVEMBER 1859; PAGES 629
BONHAM COURTHOUSE; FANNIN COUNTY, TEXAS
BOOK L
DEED OF TRUST DATED NOVEMBER 1859; PAGES 630