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From: "Alison Stevens" <>
Subject: [TXCOOKE] 1880 agricultural census & land deed question
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:49:26 -0600
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Frank Porter and family are on the 1880 Cooke County, Texas agricultural
census, with Frank Porter clearly listed as owning his land. This surprised
me, because I've never found any land deed in Cooke County that refers to
Frank Porter, Benjamin Franklin Porter, or B. F. Porter, and had always
assumed Frank was sharecropping. Does anyone have any suggestions where I
should go from here? Maybe to tax lists? Or where? Frank Porter and
family were over the Red River into Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, IT by
the middle 1880s. Frank remained near Orr and Ringling for the rest of his
life.


(This is the same Frank Porter who shows up on the LDS 1880 regular
transcription as Frank Carter-- all hail the transcriber, the census taker's
handwriting was not really clear on the regular census.)

Alison Stevens

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