Hays County, Texas Biographies and Southwest Texas History

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Hays County, Texas, located in the south central portion of the state, was formed on 1 March 1848 by the State Legislature out of Travis County and was named for a Tennessean Capta in John Coffee Hays of the Texas Rangers. In 1858 the county of Blanco was taken from Hays County. In 1835, the Mexican government issued a land grant to the first Anglo-American settler in the county to Thomas G. McGhee of Tennessee. This volume is the history of the southwest Texas area and especially the Hays County with a biographical sketch of many of the early settlers of Hays County. Goodspeed Publishing Company (?), 2016, 8.5" x 11", paper, full name index, 91 pp.ISBN: 9780788484131 101E-TX0041 Show more