Map of Marion County Showing the Probate Areas

And Their Derivation


A.     Area in Municipality of Nacogdoches                              from      01/031/1831       to      11/11/1835     [1]

        Area in Municipality and County of Red River                 from      11/11/1835           to      12/17/1840     [2]

        Area in Bowie County                                                        from      12/17/1840           to       01/28/1841     [3]

        Area in Paschal County [Judicial]                                     from      01/28/1841           to                  1842      [4]

        Area in Bowie County                                                        from                  1842          to       04/25/1846    [5]

        Area in Cass County                                                          from      04/25/1846           to       02/08/1860    [6]

        Area in Marion County                                                       from      02/08/1860           to                    date     [7]

B.    Area in Municipality and County of Nacogdoches         from      01/31/1831           to       01/25/1839     [1]

        Area in Harrison County                                                     from      01/25/1839         to        01/30/1841    [8]

        Area in Panola County [Judicial]                                       from      01/30/1841         to                    1842    [9]

        Area in Harrison County                                                     from                 1842          to        12/08/1863    [5]

        Area in Marion County                                                        from      12/08/1863         to                   date    [10]

C.    Area in Municipality and County of Nacogdoches         from      01/31/1831           to       01/25/1839    [1]

        Area in Harrison County                                                     from      01/25/1839         to        01/30/1841    [8]

        Area in Panola County [Judicial]                                       from      01/30/1841         to                    1842    [9]

        Area in Harrison County                                                     from                 1842          to        12/08/1863    [5]

        Area in Marion County                                                        from      12/08/1863         to                   date    [11]


1.     H. P. N. Gammel: Laws of Texas [10 Volumes, Austin, Texas;  The Gammel Book Company, 1898; cited hereafter as Gammel, Laws]. I. 281

2.     Ibid., 532.

3.     Ibid., II 561.

4.     Ibid., 520.

5.     Acts attempting to create "judicial" counties were held unconstitutional. Stockton v. Montgomery. [Jan. t34m 1842], James Wilmer Dallum [compiler], Opinions of the Supreme Court of Texas from 1840 to 1844 Inclusive [St. Louis, Mo., the Gilbert Book Company; 1882], 473. Therefore, the area remained in the original county, See Gammel; Laws, 925, for the act of 1844 legalizing the public records of the judicial county of Panola and making them part of the records of Harrison County.

6.     Gammel, Laws, II, 1441.

7.     Ibid., IV, 1419.

8.     Ibid., II, 159

9.     Ibid., 617.

10.   Ibid., V, 719

11.   Ibid., VIII, 180


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