One of the first settlements in Henderson County Texas was called Buffalo. You will find it mentioned in the Handbook of Texas http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/HH/hch13.html This may have been in the time period you are looking . Wayne Stafford White settlers moved first into the area along the Trinity River and then into those previously occupied by the Indians. Some of the first settlers were Jane Irvine, who had a Mexican land grant of a league and a labor, and Henry Jeffreys, who owned the league of land where the first community, Buffalo, developed. The town was at a ferry crossing on the Trinity River in the northwestern part of the county, near the site of present-day Seven Points. John H. Reaganqv surveyed the town lots and began his law practice there. The first commissioners were William Ware, David Carlisle, Alfred Moore, Thacker Vivion, Sr., and James Hooker. The Texas legislature established Henderson County on April 27, 1846, and named it in honor of James Pinckney Henderson,qv first governor of the state of Texas. The county was formed from parts of Nacogdoches and Houston counties. Its court was first held in the home of William Ware, and later, William Love. Henderson County was organized on August 4, 1846, and comprised 3,500 square miles at the time. Buffalo was the county seat until March 1848. Bennett H. Martin presided over the first district court in Buffalo in 1847. Centerville, six miles west of the site of present Eustace, near the center of the county, was to be the permanent county seat. James Harper Starrqv donated 100 acres of land in the John P. Brown survey for the town, and on September 11, 1848, Chief Justice B. Graham held court there. But Centerville did not remain the county seat. On April 2, 1849, the archives and county government were returned to Buffalo, for reasons not exactly clear, and Centerville ceased to exist. ----- Original Message ----- From: <JohnnyeCarlson@aol.com> To: <TXANDERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:10 AM Subject: [[TXANDERS]] Re: [[TXANDERS]] RE: [[TXANDERS]] SANDERS, Charles 1852 Henderson county, TX > Hey there, > > Buffalo kept me in suspence untill I spent some time searching Navarro, > Freestone, Anderson, & Leon Counties for KILLOUGH, FRANKLIN, EDWARDS, PARSONS, > COBURN, JONES, SANDERS, BOHANNAN at the land office in Austin.SANDERS & JONES > are not kin, but there is some kind of conection. > > I am not sure if Buffalo was desolved or moved to Leon County. I started > researching 1986 and moved too fast. Somewhere in this mountain of papers, > documents, only God knows what else there is a date and explation of what took > place. > > I haven't researched very much the past ten years and looking through and > trying to get my papers in order, I have learned that I wasn't as smart as I > thought I was. Also some of my brick walls weren't as tall as I thought they > were. > > I pray now that God grants me the time and presence of mind to put most of > this together in hopes that one of the grand children will work on it some > > Thanks for reminding me that it is time for me to go back to the court house > in Centerville. I think it was 1988 when I was there last. Good luck > researching. Johnnye > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >