Harrison House Bibliography

Jean M. Heide © 2001

 

Affidavit of Michael Decker, before John D. Cratlin, County Judge, County of Lee, State of Illinois, September 17, 1873.

A.Joachim McGraw, John W. Clark, Jr., and Elizabeth A. Robbins, A Texas Legacy The Old San Antonio Road and the Camino Reales, A Tricentennial History, 1691 – 1991, Texas Department of Transportation, Austin, Texas, Second Printing January 1998

“A Letter From Chicago, 1911,” A History of Rockingham County Virginia, John W. Wayland, Ph.D., Ruebush-Elins Company, Dayton, Virginia, 1912, p. 167; and, The Virginia Germans, Klaus Wust, The University Press of Virginia 1969, p. 114.

Apportionment, or Distribution of the School Fund December 16th, 1857, by the Court, and the Record of the Tabular Statements, Filed, and acted upon by the Court, Bexar County (from records maintained at the San Antonio Genealogical Society on Isom Road, San Antonio, Texas).

Archeological Investigations at the Proposed Olympia Hills Golf Course, Universal City, Bexar County, Texas – Texas Antiquities Permit #1939, Principal Investigator:  Eric A. Schroeder, RPA; PPA Report No. 246/255 June 2002

Bexar County Deed Record, Book A-2, p. 3.

Bexar County Deed Book G-1, p. 422, October 5, 1848.

Bexar County Deed Record Books J-2, p. 363 and K-1, p. 462.

Brownson Malsch, Indianola The Mother of Western Texas, State House Press, Austin, Texas 1988, pp.20 – 21.

Cecilia Steinfeldt, San Antonio Was: Seen Through a Magic Lantern Views from the Slide Collections of Albert Steves, Sr., San Antonio Museum Association 1978, p. 121

Dorman H. Winfrey and James M. Day, The Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, 1825-1916, Volume II, Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas 1995, pp. 230-231.

Draft Report - Archaeological Testing at the Selma Post Office and Stage Stop, Northeastern Bexar County, Texas. Manuscript on file at the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio (August 2000).

Dr. Ferdinand Roemer, Roemer’s Texas 1845 - 1847, Translated by Oswald Mueller, Standard Printing Company, San Antonio, Texas, p. 82 - 83.

1850 Bexar County Census Records, Texas Handbook Online, The Bexar Abstract Company, Cert. 10, Patent 278, Vol. 1, 1 League & 1 Labor, Survey 68, Abstract 2309

John S. Harrison Family Records as Provided by Joseph McCright Hill.

Maps from TxDot District 15 Bexar County – Plan of Proposed State Highway No. 2 Federal Aid Project, Bexar County, Austin Road From Country Club Road to County Line (1920+) FAP 31 Job 15-A; U. S. Highway 81, Project: NRH 31 (Part 2) From the Guadalupe County Line at Selma to 1 1/2 miles northeast of Fratt, Grading & Structures 1932; and, Final Plans of Proposed State Highway Improvement Guadalupe and Bexar Counties, IH- 35 (U. S. 81) Interstate from 0.4 Mi. North of Bexar County Line to a Point 0.6 Mi. South of Selma, Project FI 73(6) & FI 31 (14) 1953.

Muster Rolls from the Texas State Archives 1835-1836; Pages 87, 98, 182, 186, 206, Index No. 2

National Archives Registers of Appointments of Postmasters, Bexar County, Texas, Selma Post Office.

National Archives, Registers of Star Route Contracts.

Obituary of Elizabeth Harrison, Porter County Vidette, February 3,1870, Valpariaso, Indiana.

Oscar Haas, History of New Braunfels and Comal County, Texas 1844 – 1946, Burke Publishing Company, San Antonio, Texas 1968, p. 90.

Plat of the Toribio Herrera Survey No. 68 and recorded in Vol. 11, Pages 432 and 433 of the Bexar County Deed Records

Power of Attorney executed by Elizabeth Harrison, December 27, 1856, Porter County, Indiana included in Land Certificates and Patents issued by Republic of Texas for Erasmus D. Harrison, Land Certificate Number 786 (1/28/1839) Patent No. V3 597 (2/6/1875) Survey Date 5/12/1872; San Patricio County; Abstract No. 270 for “having been killed with Fannin.”

“Diamond in the Rough”, Northeast Herald, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, front page and pp. 12-13.

San Antonio Light, Saturday, August 12, 1967 , “Around the Plaza”, p. 4.

Seidel Photo Collection, Sopienburg Museum, New Braunfels, Texas.

Thomas Roziene Abstract, 1869.

Robert H. Thonhoff, San Antonio Stage Lines 1847 – 1881, monograph for Southwestern Studies, p. 1.

San Antonio Ledger, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 5, 1851.

Settlers by the Long Grey Trail, J. Houston Harrison, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1975, 1984, p. 365.

U. S. Congress Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States; First Session of the Thirty-First Congress, December 3, 1849; Second Session of the Thirty-First Congress, December 2, 1850; First Session of the Thirty-Second Congress, December 1, 1851; Begun and Held at the City of Washington.

Sidney R. Weisiger, "Vignettes of Old Victoria," The Victoria Advocate, Sunday, May 17, 1970; handwritten notes of Sidney R. Weisiger, Sidney R. Weisiger Collection, Victoria Regional History Center, University of Houston-Victoria Library, Victoria, Texas

The Handbook of Texas Online, The Texas State Historical Association, 1996.
Travis County Deed Record Book 5, p. 270, March 22, 1851.

Viktor Bracht, Texas in 1848, Translated from the German by Charles Frank Schmidt, German-Texas Heritage Society, Manchaca, Texas Reprinted in 1991, p 127.

Website http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/alarconex.htm

San Antonio Express-News, Thursday, August 11, 2016, Section A, p. 1.  

 

Submitted by Jean M. Heide

Member of the San Antonio Conservation Society Farm & Ranch Committee