While searching Cass County, Tx, I found this transcription of the formation of early Red River County very interesting. Nothing new, but a little different flavor. I did find in Cass County the other 2992 acres my GGG GF received with his Class 1 Grant. It is listed as R.F. Gideon instead of Giddens. Nothing new in that either. I cut off the rest of the Cass County part. Jim Giddens Paris/Reno, Tx This information was taken from the 1975 Cass County Genealogical Society, Vol. II #2, pg. 3-6. HOW CASS COUNTY CAME TO BE In the early nineteenth century the Red River valley was the only entry into Texas from the north. In 1836, the valley south of the Red River was given the most natural, logical name: RED RIVER COUNTY. Many settlers in this area were old timers long before Stephen F. Austin brought his first colonists into Texas. A second generation was already growing up along the Red when the county was formed. This new county was as big as many states and even larger than some countries. It covered so much of northeast Texas that today some thirty counties exist which were once a part of the original Red River County. The first Red River courthouse (1828) was located in the second story of a general store in Old Jonesboro which was 16 miles northwest of Clarksville. Jonesboro was a port on the Red River. It was called the Courthouse of Miller County, Arkansas, because at the time it was thought that this area was in Arkansas. In 1837 the courthouse was moved to LaGrange - six miles away. Then eight months later it was moved into a new log structure in the public square at Clarksville. Lawsuits over boundary disputes, debts, slaves and supply shipments were endless. The courthouse at Clarksville was a hubbub of activity. It became a mecca for young, adventurous lawyers. The nearest judicial district was 200 miles away at Nacogdoches. Clarksville was incorporated on 29 December 1837, by an act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas. On an 1841 map Clarksville was the only town marked at all in northeast Texas. Its population in 1844 was 600. In 1840 Bowie County was created and consisted of what is now Bowie and Cass Co. plus a portion of present Marion County. In 1846 Cass County was created and it consisted of what is now Cass and that part of Marion which lies north of the middle of Big Cypress Bayou and the middle of Caddo Lake. The specific boundaries outlined in the 25 April 1846 act creating Cass County were: beginning at the middle of the Big Cypress at the mouth of Boggy Creak (about nine miles south of Daingerfield), five miles east to the line dividing Bowie and Red River Counties, due north to the Sulphur Fork of the Red River, down the middle of Sulphur River to the old United States line, due south to the middle of Lake Soda (Caddo Lake), up the middle of the Lake where the Cypress falls into the lake (one and one-half miles west of Jefferson), up the Big Cypress to the mouth of Boggy Creek and the place of beginning. In 1860 Marion County was formed from the southern portion of Cass County and a small area from the northern part of Harrison County. Cass County was named in honor of United States Senator Lewis Cass from Michigan who advacated