Crescent Hill Church of Christ
1976 Directory

Terry County Citizens Who Gave Their All

Gomez Postal Employees (1916 through 1921)

Terry County Cemetery Records

Terry County Poll Tax Receipt Book #2 --- 1903

Early Terry County Land Transactions (Due to the size of the original file and it's loading time, the information has been divided into 4 parts.)

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2. Part II
3. Part III
4. Part IV

Tokio School Tax Rolls 1920 - 1928

Tokio School Tax Rolls 1930 - 1940

Brownfield School Tax Records 1924 Thru 1930

1927 Tax Roll Of Brownfield Independent School District

1928 Tax Roll Of Brownfield Independent School District

1931 Tax Roll Of Brownfield Independent School District

1932 Tax Roll Of Brownfield Independent School District

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TERRY COUNTY

Terry County is located on the southern High Plains of West Texas forty miles southwest of Lubbock. It has an area of 899 square miles and has an elevation of 3,100 to 3,600 feet. It is bounded by Hockley County, TX. on the north - Gaines and Dawson Counties, TX. on the south - Lynn County, TX. on the east - and Yoakum County, TX on the west .

The county was named for Col. Benjamin Franklin Terry, who commanded the Eighth Texas Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers) in the Civil War. The County was actually formed in 1875 from land in the Bexar and Young territories, but it wasn't organized until 1904, with Brownfield as its seat of government.

The land in Terry County includes lands granted by Mexico to Stephen J. Wilson in 1826 and John Charles Beales in 1832. Settlement was prevented on the grant lands of West Texas by the Texas Revolution.

The land was originally hunting grounds for Comanches and other Indians who hunted the great herds of buffalo in the area. However the buffalo hunters depleted the buffalo herds and the Indians had been removed by the army during 1870s.

Birth, marriage, death, land and probate records were first recorded in 1904. Court records were first recorded in 1905. The courthouse for Terry County is located in Brownfield, Texas.

The mailing address is:
Terry County Courthouse
Brownfield, Texas 79316

PHYSICAL FEATURES
West Texas County on South Plains broken up by draws and playas with sandy to sandy loam and loam soils

AGRICULTURE
Terry County has155,000 acres under irrigation. Cotton is the major crop and Terry County is one of the state leaders in cotton production. The county had twenty-one gins in 1971 to process 103,514 running bales produced during that season. Sorghum, peanuts, and chili peppers are also raised. Cattle and hogs are

VITAL STATISTICS
The population in 1990 was 13,532 with 77.2% White, 3.4% Black, 39.3% Hispanic, American Indian 0.3%, Asian 0.2% and Other 18.9%.

In 1995 there were 189 births, 119 deaths, 123 marriages and 67 divorces.

THINGS OF INTEREST
The Terry County Museum, a Harvest Festival in October and a Bean and Brisket cook-off in April.

CITIES AND TOWNS
Brownfield - The county seat (pop. 9,357), Meadow (pop. 623), Wellman (pop. 259), Tokio (pop. 60).

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GOMEZ POSTAL EMPLOYEES

Record of Registered Mail in Transit handled at Gomez, Terry County, Texas by clerks or rural carriers.

October 3, 1916 through September 3, 1921

Abbott, C. W.
Abbott, G. C.
Blalle ?, Pete
Cadenhead --
Cates, Jno.
Cates, D. T.
Cox, --
Ernest, Will
Finn, Will
Geisler, O. F.
Hague, C. M.
Hudson, Jno.
Johnson, T. I.
Jones, --
Joplin, Joe
Lindsey, --
Looney, Murphy
Marcy, --
McGinty --
Sanders, Albert
Sanders, W. H.
Webber, Sanford
Wilson, J. W.

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