| I, J. P. Loving, do hereby certify that the above photograph is a true picture of the first
court house built in the present town of Sherman, Texas, and that it was customary for Juries
trying cases in said Court House to retire to the shade of the old Pecan tree then standing
on the public square to consider their verdict.
STATE OF TEXAS.
GRAYSON COUNTY.
...I, W. S. Reeves, Clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that the first
Commissioners Court of said County, convened at the house of Robert Atcheson on the Pilot
Knobbs in said County, on Tuesday, November 3rd., 1846, with the following officers present,
to wit:
James G. Thompson
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| Chief Justice.
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Nicholas Maddox)
Wm. T. Lankford)
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| Gentlemen Commissioners.
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James M. Randolph
M.G. Cotton | -------
------- | Sheriff.
County Clerk. |
...And that the contract for the first Court House for said County was let on the 4th Monday
in January 1847, as appears from the Minutes of said Court in Vol. "A" pages 1 and 6.
...Given under my hand and seal of office, this 14th day of April, 1915.
| W. S. Reeves,...County Clerk
Grayson County, Texas |
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