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     Endnotes for Towns of Montgomery County Texas  | 
  
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    Excerpts from “A History of 
    Montgomery County, Texas” Chapter V, Cities, Towns, and Communities,  | 
  
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     1 W. W. Shepperd, Map of the Town of Montgomery, January 1, 1838, Addison Collection.  | 
  
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     2 Extract from the minutes of the Commissioners Court, March 1, 1838, Addison Collection.  | 
  
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     3 Montgomery County Courthouse Records, Deeds, Book E, p 184.  | 
  
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     4 W. N Martin, “A History of Montgomery,” (Unpublished Master’s thesis, Sam Houston State Teachers College, Huntsville, Texas, 1950), p 19  | 
  
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     5 Ibid, p. 20  | 
  
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     6 Diary, Dr. James H. Price, Sam Houston Memorial Museum, p. 1.  | 
  
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     7 Ibid, p. 20.  | 
  
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     8 Martin, op. cit., p 23.  | 
  
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     9 Ibid, p. 26.  | 
  
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     10 Ibid, p. 25.  | 
  
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     11 Ibid, p. 27.  | 
  
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     12 Ibid, p. 43.  | 
  
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     13 Ibid, p. 42  | 
  
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     14 Montgomery Patriot, July 2, 1845, Sam Houston Memorial Museum  | 
  
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     15 Loc. cit.  | 
  
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     16 Martin, op. cit., p. 68.  | 
  
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     17 Ibid, p. 66.  | 
  
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     18 H. P. N. Gammel, The Laws of Texas 1822-1897 (Austin: The Gammerl Book Company 1898), Vol. III, p 379.  | 
  
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     19 Ibid, Vol. III, p. 361.  | 
  
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     20 Deeds, Book A, p.26.  | 
  
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     21 Personal interview of author with Hart Addison, Conroe, Texas, April 10, 1952.  | 
  
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     22 Martin, op. cit., p 39.  | 
  
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     23 Ibid, p 73.  | 
  
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     24 Letter to Nat Hart Davis to Betty Davis, December 16, 1845, in Addison Collection.  | 
  
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     25 Martin, op, cit., p 69.  | 
  
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     26 Texas Almanac for 1857 (Galveston: Richardson and Company, 1856), p. 77.  | 
  
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     27 H. C. Medford, “Diary, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume XXXIV (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1930) p. 138.  | 
  
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     28 Martin, op., cit., pp. 51-52.  | 
  
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     29 Texas Almanac 1949-1950 (Dallas: A. H. Belo Corporation, 1949), p. 568.  | 
  
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     30 Martin, op. cit., p. 84.  | 
  
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     31 Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register (Houston), April 8, 1846.  | 
  
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     32 Letter to Nat Hart Davis to Betty Davis, December 16, 1854, in Addison Collection.  | 
  
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     33 Ibid., July 10, 1855.  | 
  
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     34 Martin, op. cit., p. 7.  | 
  
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     35 T. C. Richardson, East Texas : Its History and Its Makers (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1940) Vol. III, .p 1126.  | 
  
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     36 Texas Almanac 1857, op. cit., p. 77.  | 
  
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     37 Gammel, op. cit., Vol. V, p. 82,  | 
  
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     38 Martin, op. cit., p. 7  | 
  
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     39 Personal interview of author with Lula Dukes, Willis, Texas, May 12, 1952.  | 
  
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     40 Conroe Courier, April 8, 1932.  | 
  
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     41 Anna Davis Weisinger, "History of Montgomery County," Historicade Program, October 25, 1949, p. 15.  | 
  
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     42 Montgomery County Commissioners Court Minutes, Book A., p. 56.  | 
  
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     43 The Willis Observer; April 20, 1875.  | 
  
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     44 Loc. cit.  | 
  
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     45 Personal interview of author with Hulon N. Anderson, Conroe, Texas, July 22, 1951.  | 
  
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     46 Loc. cit.  | 
  
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     47 Commissioners Minutes, op. cit. Book B, p. 235.  | 
  
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     48 Richardson, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 1128.  | 
  
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     49 The Willis Index, October 20, 1893.  | 
  
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     50 Conroe Courier, June 30, 1933.  | 
  
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     51 Personal interview of author with Ilanon Moon, Willis, Texas, June 10, 1952.  | 
  
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     52 Personal interview of author with Hulon N. Anderson, Conroe, Texas, July 22, 1951.  | 
  
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     53 Conroe Courier, July 28, 1922.  | 
  
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     54 Conroe Courier, June 30, 1933.  | 
  
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     55 Martin, op. cit., p. 16.  | 
  
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     56 Conroe Courier, July '7 4. 1912.  | 
  
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     57 Ibid. , April 8, 1932.  | 
  
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     58 Weisinger, cp. cit., p. 16.  | 
  
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     59 Ibid., p. 17  | 
  
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     60 Commissioners Minutes, op. cit. , Book B, p. 473  | 
  
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     61 Note of Nat Hart Davis, May 17, 1889, in Addison Collection.  | 
  
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     62 Commissioners Minutes, op. cit., Book B, p. 480.  | 
  
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     63 Ibid., p. 503  | 
  
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     64 Scrapbook, Newspaper clipping, in Addison Collection.  | 
  
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     65 Commissioners Minutes, op. cit., Book B, p. 503.  | 
  
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     66 Conroe Courier, April 8, 1932.  | 
  
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     67 Ibid, December 9, 1898.  | 
  
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     68 Richardson, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 1128.  | 
  
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     69 Conroe Courier, October 22, 1897.  | 
  
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     70 Commissioners Minutes, Book 1902-1907, p. 384.  | 
  
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     71 Ibid., p. 349.  | 
  
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