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By Ivory Freeman Carson
1954 North Texas State College Master's Thesis

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Volunteer Jo Ella Snider-Parker (SPJPVine@aol.com) purchased a copy of this thesis from Texas A&M's Cushing Library & beautifully re-typed this work.  Mrs. Carson's niece, Janis Hunt, has been contacted to obtain the needed copyright permission.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

Barker, Eugene C., Editor, The Austin Papers, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1924.
 Barker, Eugene C., Life of  Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1763-1836, Nashville, Cokesbury Press, 1925.
Castaneda, Carlos E., Our Catholic Heritage in Texas, Vol. II, Austin, Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1936.
 De Shields, James T., Cynthia Ann Parker, San Antonio, Naylor Company, 1934.
 Eby, Frederick, The Development of Education in Texas, Macmillan Company, 1925.
 Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, 2 Vols., Austin Gammel Book Company, 1898.
The Handbook of  Texas, 2 Vols., Austin, The State Historical Association, 1952.
 Hatcher, Mattie Austin, Letters of an Early American Traveler, Mary Austin Holly, Dallas, Southwest Press, 1933.
The Texas Almanac for 1857, Galveston, Richardson and Company, 1856.
The Texas Almanac for 1871, Galveston, Richardson and Company, 1871.
The Texas Almanac for 1936, Dallas, A. H. Belo Corporation, 1936.
The Texas Almanac for 1939-40, Dallas, A. H. Belo Corporation, 1939.
 Vernon’s Texas Statutes, Centennial Edition, 1936, Kansas City, Mo., Vernon Law Book Company, 1936. 

Articles

Rogers, Marjorie, “The Town of Calvert,” Frontier Times Magazine, (October, 1931), 581-584.
“Texas Towns of Historic Interest That Have Been Abandoned or Remain Small Towns Today,” The Texas Almanac for  1936, Dallas, A. H. Belo Corporation 1936.
 Waller, J. L., “The Overland Movement of Cotton, 1865-1886,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXXV (1931-32). 137-145.
 Wood, W. D., “Sketch of the Early Settlement of Leon County, Its organization and Some Early Settlers,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, IV (1900-1901), 203-217. 

Newspapers

Bode, Winston, “111 Candles on Cake for Colonel Williams!” The Houston Press, November 11, 1953.
 “Col Walter Williams is Now 111,” The Franklin Texan, November 19, 1953.
Foster, May, “Picturesque and Aristocratic Old Sterling Once Was Dream Spot of Settlers,” Dallas Morning News, August 16, 1935.
McLendon, J. P. “Pioneer Citizen Writes of Early Robertson County History,” Hearne Democrat, October 2, 1936.
“Origin of Names of Robertson County,” Hearne Democrat, April 9, 1936.
 Rogers, Marjorie, “Early Texas Surveyors Victims of Massacre in 1838,” Groesbeck Journal, December 23, 1926.
“70 Years Behind Hearne’s Baptist Church,” Hearne Democrat, February 17, 1939.
 Turner, Thomas, “Early Health Resort lives Only in Memory,” Dallas Morning News, February 17, 1948. 

Constitutions of Texas

Republic, 1836, in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, 10 vols., Austin, Gammel Book Company, I (1898), 1069-1085.
 State, 1845, in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, 10 vols., Austin, Gammel Book Company, II, (1898), 1277-1302.
 State, 1866, in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, 10 vols., Austin, Gammel Book Company, V (1898), 340-393.
 State, 1869, in Gammel, H. P. N., Laws of Texas, 10 vols. Austin, Gammel Book Company, VII (1898), 340-393.
 State, 1875, with amendments to date, Vernon’s  Annotated Constitution of the State of Texas, 2 parts, Kansas City Mo., 1927. 

Public Documents

Inventory of the County Archives of Texas, Robertson County (Franklin), No. 198, Robertson County, Texas.
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1909. 

County Records 

Commissioners Court Minutes, 14 vols., (PC, DI, C, 2,3, A-I).
 Official Bond Record, 6 vols., (I, two unlabeled, C, E)
 Probate Minutes, 36 vols., (A, C-M, C, Q-P, V, W, I, J, K, 1-14). 

Unpublished Material 

Wilkerson, Warren A., “History of the Town of Hearne,” Paper read before the meeting of the Junior Historian Club, Hearne High School, Hearne, Texas, December 2, 1953. 

Personal Interviews 

Horlock, J. W., 308 Brenken Street, Hearne, Texas.
Rohde, Mrs. Emmett, 305 Barton Street, Hearne, Texas.
Wilkerson, Warren A., 808 Magnolia Street, Hearne, Texas.
 Wood, Fred L., 405 Brenken Street, Hearne, Texas.