Sarah Hutson’s Dad, Greenlee B Selman, in Cherokee & Leon Counties --12 for ’26: Final Report for January
Sarah H. Selman Hutson’s father, Greenlee B. Selman, died in Leon County, Texas, on 15 July 1888 and is buried in Concord Cemetery in Concord, Leon County, Texas. [1] No death records for this time period exist and I have not yet found a newspaper available online from Leon County for 1888. Previously, he lived in Cherokee County, Texas, where many deeds were recorded by him and his wife, Amanda D. Oldham Selman. This report will put the various transactions with deeds, probate, and court records into chronological order, so it can be determined when he might have moved to Leon County. Cherokee County I first found a deed showing Green B. Selman selling land on 22 November 1853 to Robert N. Lewis. It is 110 acres, located south of the old San Antonia Road and in the bounds of the old William Barr and Davenport or John Durst Grant, at the most eastern portion of tract no. 8. The deed noted it had previously sold Green B. Selman by the executrix of the John Durst estate. Andrew B. O...