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Gay commented on Sherry Hightower's group 'Texas History Hunters'
Sherry, my cousin born 1917 in Milvid was Cecil Eugene Frazier. The family didn't live there long, his mother died 1918 in Harris Co.
Gay commented on Sherry Hightower's group 'Texas History Hunters'
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Enjoyed your info & photos on Milvid. A cousin was born there in 1917.
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Janet Paulos Khashab left a comment for Gay
I haven't seen the map of Faustino's grant but I did find Ramon's in Nacogdoches on the TexasTides website. I took it and placed it over a google map of the modern area and the boundaries were very easy to see even today. I was in…
Gay left a comment for Janet Paulos Khashab
Janet, I have a map from SFA library of the land grants in Hardin Co. I see your Faustino Chavano grant. His land is farther down the map from Gregoria Garcia's. His was located between Hull & Daisetta....on Pine Island Bayou
Gay left a comment for Janet Paulos Khashab
A book on lost land grants would be an interesting read. I've never heard of one tho.
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Sounds like the oil companies took over where the land speculators left off with the land owners getting the worst of the deal. The Nacogdoches airport sits on the Chavana land now. Wonder if anyone has written about the fate of Spanish land grants…
Gay replied to Kate Steere's discussion 'Magnolia Cemetery, Jefferson County' in the group Texas Cemeteries
Kate,
My Grandmother is buried at Magnolia. I wrote them to find where her grave was located. They sent a map & was easy to find. This was several years ago that I was there, but a well maintained cemetery. Here's a link for photos of some…
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The land grant was from a 3-4th uncle, Gregoria Garcia. From the papers I have, it looks like it sold it shortly after getting the grant. It was in Hardin Co. I have other papers over the years where he sold parts of it. Several family members lived…
Janet Paulos Khashab left a comment for Gay
Have you traced what happened to the Garcia land grant? I'd be interested in comparing the fate of the Garcia's land grant with that of the Chavanas.
The Chavana family had three Spanish land grants: one in Nacogdoches (the father Ramon);…
Gay left a comment for Janet Paulos Khashab
Janet, UDC is "United Daughters of the Confederacy". I've done research from the Blake Collection at SFA. Including a copy of our Spanish land grant documents. Simon Garcia, born in Nac Co. married in LA & raised his family there.…
Janet Paulos Khashab left a comment for Gay
Gay,
What is UDS? I documented my Spanish-French ancestor (Chavana) who came to Nacogdoches in 1789 from Mexico and married a girl from the Sanchez family who were natives of Adaes and original settlers with Ybaro in Nacogdoches. I got my First…
Gay commented on Sherry Hightower's group 'Texas History Hunters'
Hello, I'm a Proud to be 6th generation Texan. I can't find documentation on my earliest ancestor for the DRT...joined the UDC instead. My earliest ancestor was born in Nacogdoches Co. in 1768. Family lived in Liberty & Hardin…
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Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 6:58pm on August 5, 2009,
Janet Paulos Khashab said…
- I haven't seen the map of Faustino's grant but I did find Ramon's in Nacogdoches on the TexasTides website. I took it and placed it over a google map of the modern area and the boundaries were very easy to see even today. I was in Lufkin for the Angelina Conference a few weeks ago and took the opportunity to go out to Ramon's land and take pictures for a far cousin. From the road there seems to be nothing but trees and a very narrow road going through them but inside there were houses and even a church with a cemetery! The history of the area is absolutely fascinating but doesn't seem very well known.
- At 3:15pm on August 5, 2009,
Janet Paulos Khashab said…
- Sounds like the oil companies took over where the land speculators left off with the land owners getting the worst of the deal. The Nacogdoches airport sits on the Chavana land now. Wonder if anyone has written about the fate of Spanish land grants in East Texas? I know the heirs of Spanish land grants on Padre Island just lost a lawsuit in the Texas supreme court but then no one wanted that stretch of sand until fairly recently.
- At 12:11pm on August 4, 2009,
Janet Paulos Khashab said…
- Have you traced what happened to the Garcia land grant? I'd be interested in comparing the fate of the Garcia's land grant with that of the Chavanas.
The Chavana family had three Spanish land grants: one in Nacogdoches (the father Ramon); one in Angelina county (son Antonio) and one in Hardin county (son Faustino). Part of the father's grant and both the sons grants were sold to land speculators soon after the Texas Revolution. More than half of the remaining land for the father was sold soon after his death about 1842. The last of Ramon's sons (Fermin) was involved in a boundary dispute involving this land in the late 1850s; he was found near Eagle Pass in the 1860 census but was back in Nacogdoches in the 1880 census. Then the Chavana surname disappeared from Texas and Louisiana until far relations started to cross over the Rio Grande at the beginning of the 20th century.
Have you found the line back from Simon Garcia and how did you find he was born in Nacogdoches in 1768? I have been unable to trace the family of Ramon Chavana's wife, Juan Jose Sanchez and Barbara Cordova, because most of the records for Adaes have been lost.
Janet K
- At 7:34pm on August 3, 2009,
Janet Paulos Khashab said…
- Gay,
What is UDS? I documented my Spanish-French ancestor (Chavana) who came to Nacogdoches in 1789 from Mexico and married a girl from the Sanchez family who were natives of Adaes and original settlers with Ybaro in Nacogdoches. I got my First Families of Texas Certificate from the Texas State Genealogical Society (see their website www.rootsweb.com/~txsgs/) but didn't think it was a good idea to join DRT since some of this family's members were put on trial for treason for joining the Cordova Rebellion against the Texas Republic. When I documented my line I used the 3 volume work Residents of Texas and the corresponding Spanish originals of the Nacogdoches censuses from the microfilms of the Bexar archives plus a Nacogdoches county court record.
I found the Blake Collection at S. F. Austin University's East Texas Research Center very helpful because they have a card index listing of all surnames in the collection. For those who are not familar with the Blake Collection or ETRC go to the website libweb.sfasu.edu/proser/etrc/
I've not come across the surnames of Garcia, etc. in my research so far but I'll keep a look out. The families I am interested in East Texas are Chavana, Sepulveda, Gonzalez and Sanchez (with various spellings). In researching Spanish-French lines it is important to remember that many people changed their names to more anglo versions after the Texas Revolution. I have a friend whose surname Rivers was from Del Rio or Los Rios. (Her husband calls us "closet Mexicans".)
Janet K
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