Grayson County TXGenWeb
 




"The County Clerk's office maintains Official Public Land Records from 1846 to the Present.
The records include deeds, land patent records, mortgages, judgments and tax liens."
For Obtaining actual certified copies of Records, Go to Grayson County Clerks page

Other Records in the County Clerks Office help with Land Records, Live Stock Brand Books,
Wills and Probates & Property Leins



Search Grayson County Current Deed Database
1860 to present


Older Land Records are filed in Fannin County (Grayson was part of Fannin County before 1846)
Very old records are in the Texas State Archives.



Family Search Catalog
You can go to any FamilySearch Center Or Affiliate Library and view these for free.
Deed Records, 1846-1886 & the Index 1846-1900
There are thousands of FamilySearch Centers, they are free and you can view the data there.
The nearest ones' locally to Grayson County are Gainesville, Paris and McKinney.

FamilySearch
Texas Land & Property
Guide

Check the Grayson County Website
 Land & Deed Index
1835-1888 Index (FamilySearch)
TXGLO Land Grant Database
What about Homesteads?
Quick answer

Land Patents, Grants and Warrants
Genealogy Trails History Group
Search Grayson Surveys
 TXGenWeb Archives

List of Grayson County's
Original Land Grants

Ancestry has a Texas Land Title Database
You must have a subscription but FamilySearch Centers and some public libraries have it available online. Or Watch for advertisements for a free trial period. Use it for the specified time and cancel. Keep a running list of things you want to search.
Women 'Homesteaders'

Online Book in FamilySearch
Charles Quillen Survey (Collinsville area)

1859
Grayson County
Plat map


1871 Grayson County Plat Map

Portal to Texas History: Grayson Co. Sanborn Fire Maps
Insurance companies referred to and issued policies based on the Sandborn Fire maps.
They cover the business sections of towns and cities. You can learn a lot from these maps.
Grayson County Plat Map
1853
Grayson County
Soil Survey maps
can help with land details
.

Online Book- An abstract of the original titles of record in the General Land Office


Texas Settlers Land Grant
Distance & Area Measurements


Texas Co Tax Rolls
1837-1910

See Census and Tax lists for addresses and figuring out locations.





See the Grayson County Maps Page



(Contains a lot of the old names on the county plats. It covers 1908 and back.)
You can actually see where individual country houses in the countryside were.
 Country churches are also showing on the map and schools, but not all cemeteries. 
Of course things were missed but it a great source.
The names on the plats cover a lot of years.

Excellent to add a bit of detail to your family history.
Use the - & + to enlarge or make smaller.
Sign in to FamilySearch to be able to view the images. 

First Page


  Page showing the whole county in Precincts'
Look at it to Find what plat map you need to view

I have listed the plat sections below.


 

If you don't know check the Basic Plat index
Then choose the plat you need below.


 

Links of the Precinct Plats
They are in the FamilySearch.org website. You will need to make a sign-in, which is free.
They are the best images, easy to navigate and read.
Ambrose (Town)
Batsell's Park- Precinct No. 7
Basin Springs Precinct No 23
Bells (Town)   & South Bells Precinct No 42   North Bells'  Precinct No 43
Blackbridge- Precinct No. 8 Sadler (Town)
Cannon (Town)
Cashion- Precinct No. 14
Cedar Mills Precinct No 18 & Cedar Mills (Town)
Cherry Mound Precinct No 44
College Park - Precinct No. 6
Collinsville Precinct No 28   &  Collinsville (Town)
Delaware Precinct No 21
Denison - Beginning of North Denison (no Precinct number) Northeast Denison Precinct 10  & Northwest Denison Precinct 11 & Southwest Denison Precinct 12 (cont. next page) Start of 13  & Southeast Denison precinct 13.  &  Denison 13 continued
Denison -Cotton Mill Precinct No. 51    &  Hyde Park Plat (adjoining)  &  Devoignes- Precinct No. 47
Denison Improvement Company , no number. & Continued
 & Continued

Dorchester (Town)
Dripping Springs  Precinct No 46 
Elmont (Town)  & Elmont Precinct No 33  
Ellsworth Precinct No 49
Ethel Precinct No 29   &  Ethel (Town)
Fairview - Precinct No. 9  
Farmington Precinct No 32 & Farmington (Town)
Gordonville Precinct 19  &   Gordonville (Town)
Gunter Precinct No 31   &  Gunter (Town)
Hagerman (Town)
Howe Precinct Precinct No 35  & Howe (Town)
Hydepark Precinct No.48
Ida Precinct No 41 & Ida (Town)
Jamison Precinct No 36
Kentuckytown (Town- Listed also as Ann Eliza Plat) Kentuckytown Precinct No 39
Locust Precinct No 17
Luella (Town)
Macomb (Town) 
Pilot Grove (Town)  & Pilot Grove Precinct No 37
Plainview  Precinct No 50
Pottsboro Town  &  Pottsboro Precinct No 16   &   South end of Pottsboro  
Preston Plat Precinct No 15 & Preston (Town)
Rockcreek Precinct No 20
Sadler Precinct No 24
Sandusky Precinct No 22  & Sanduskly (town)
City of Sherman is torn out of this book. They contained Precincts 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and no 53. They appeared on pages 7 to 22 of the book.  The same section is missing on a copy I scanned, so far I haven't had access to one with that section intact. However in the in-town sections they do not put every single owner of various plots only larger parcels with in the town. You need deeds for town properties.
Shiloh Precinct No 45  Part of Shiloh adjoining Denison on the south.
Southmayd Precinct No 27  &   Southmayd (Town)
Tioga Precinct No 30   & Tioga (Town) & showing the area far south part of town
Tom Bean (Town)
Van Alsytne Precinct No 34  &  Van Alstyne (Town)
Warner Precinct No 52
Whitemound (Town)   &  Whitemound Precinct No 40  
North Whitesboro (Town)  &  South Whitesboro Precinct No 26  &   Northwest Whitesboro Precinct 25
Whitewright Precinct No 38  & Whitewright (Town)

Advertisements & Photographs list below.
The photographs of houses and people are mixed

They are noted with what plat community they were in.
 (After you find a biographical or portrait, shift to see the plat list above and then
you can find them on the individual plat).

There are damaged pages of this book in the FamilySearch website.
If you can't find a good image in the FamilySearch, check the images I made for i
t Here.

24 Pages of Short Biographies
(No photos)



Index of advertisements and Photographs.
They are a great touch to your Genealogy
You need to sign in to FamilySearch.org to have the pages open.
The photos named "Damaged" Can be found here, TXGenWeb list.

Hamp P Abney   & 2

A W Acheson

I T Akers


J A Akers

J M Akers & Home

W F Akers

O H Akin

D H Alexander

James Alexander

Allen Brothers Nursery

D A Allen

R P Allen & Wife

M F Allison

W J Allison

T B Allmon

E Allred


C D Anderson

C A Andrews


C D Ansley


Hugh L Archer

R S Armstrong

J M Ashleigh & Home

J L Aston

K L Atterberry

D P Austin

Gus Baer

O L Bailey   & 2

W E Baird

H J Barnes

J N Barnes

R S A Barnett

Allie Barrett

C W Batsell

Chas Batsell

F A Batsell

J H Baxter

Homer Beach

W H Bean

A L Beaty

C E Bell

G H Bell

Matt Bennett

J W Bilderback

C W Biller

P J Billmeier


J M Binkley

J A Birdsong

Nat Birge

G R Blackwell

F M Blakely

J C Boggs

W B Boggs

Thomas Bloomer

A W Bond

G W Bond

N A Bostic

G I Bourland

Mrs G I Bourland

W S Bowden

M F Brackney

D C H Bradford

J L Bradley

Matt Bradley

F J Bray

Levi Brashear

Frank Brekel

W R Brents

W M Briley

W P Briley

J L Broad

R J Brocks

H J Brooks

W J Brooks

D C Brown

Geo. P Brown

W T Brown

C B Bryant   & Home

J A Burch

D E Burks

W J Burks

J W Burris

J H Burton

Anderson Bush


W N Butridge

W M Burnham

W T Caddell

C M Cadwallader

J H Caldwell

H L Campbell

J R Campbell

J P Carothers

Carpenter & Beldon

T E Carter

O T Cartwright

J N Case

Geo W Carver

A P Chamberlain

W B Chiles

W H Chisholm  & Home

A M Clark

E L Clark

J R Clark

B E Clarke

D G Clarke

A R Clayton

J I Clements

J R Cleveland

Joseph L Cobb

T U Cole

Mrs W M Collins

W M Collins

Commercial National Bank

Continental Bank & Trust-photos

Mrs J  P Cook

J P Cook

J J Copeland

M C Cordell

T J Cordell

S B Cowell

L S Cox

S B Cowell

N E Craig

J F Cramer

C E Craycroft

A Y Creager

Chas. Crenshaw

Mrs Ollie Crowse

P H Crowse

William Crook

T R Crookshank

R M Crowell and Wife

R E Dennard

Denison Lumber Co

Denison Marble Works

Hiram Dennis Jr

Hiram Dennis Sr

T C Denton

Karl H Dignowity (2 photos)

G A Dickerman

D M Dickey

A E Dickson

J D Dilden & Son

F L Dodge

J H Dodson




Galloway & Vowell

C L Galloway

Home of C L -Galloway

E S Garrett

W M Gardenshire

R V Garvin

P J Gaskill


J P Geren

R A Gibbs

J H Gibson

J A Ginnings

Thomas E Goff

G O Goding

B N Godwin

E L Godwin

D C Gold

W B Golden

E Y Goode & Home

J B Goode

J K Goodnight

J T Gordon

J P Grady

W R Graham

W S Grant

N C Graves

W L Gravette


Grayson Oil & Cotton Company

C P Gregory

C F Gribble

D W Grounds

C W Grossman

Jesse Gunter

A S Guyton

Basil S Hackleman


G B Hackleman

F D Hagan

J D Haizlip  & 2nd

J D Hall

H O Hannah

Conrad Hardenburg

Thomas Hardwick (damaged)

Jacob Hargesheimer

B S Harper

J B Harris


J M Harris

S H Harris

C A Harrison

J P Harrison

S N Harshbarger

V L Harshbarger

G W Harvey

J W Hassell

H Hatten

R F Hayes

C J Haydon

Haynes & Sporer

Head, Dillard, Smith & Head

H O Head

W P Head

N S Heard

W F Heath

W H Heflin

J E Hendricks Jr

J E Hendricks Sr

W C Hensley

Rudolph Herndorf

William Hewell

J M Higdon & Home

A F Hightower

J H Hilburn

W  R Hoard

A A Hodges & Home

J J Hogan

W J Hogan

M B Holcomb

Michael Holliday

Hollingsworth Carpet Co

Joe P Hopson

R P Hopson

W R Hopson

W B Hollingsworth

J E Howard

J T Howell

Mrs J N Howell

S S Huckaby

E H Hudson

J W Hughes

G O Hunter

E C Hunter

J P Hutson

F M Hoyle

Mrs F M Hoyle


G L Inglish

J M Isbell

J B Irvine

L C H Isom









E P Jackson

George Jackson

James Jackson

U G  Jackson

W Jackson

J K Jamison

T J Jenkins

A R Jeter

R H Jewell

S Jobe (damaged)

Abner F Jones

B L Jones

F M Jones

G C Jones

H J Johnson

J W Johnson

O F Johnson

P H Jouvenaut

W G Kelley

M L Kelly

R H Kelsoe

J W Kennedy Sr

J E Kern

G W Kersey

J S Kerr


Mrs M J Kiersey


H L Kimrey

James King


T W King

William King Home

William K King

Kingston

C D Kingston

J E Klinglesmith

R L Klinglesmith

J P  Knudsen

James  S Kone

Herman Krebs

Pauline Krebs

Martin Kupper

A S Lackey

H A Lackey

J T Lancaster

J A Ladd

J W Ladd

R B Lane

J A Large

T J Legate

John Lahr  (damaged)

J H Lessly

Home of William Leslie

D J Liles

J C Linnstaedt (damaged)

C E D Love

Love & Hicks

I Lindsay

R M Lively

J G Lockhart


B R Long

W C Looney

W B Loving

William B Loving

W H Lucas

E E Luscombe

C A Lynch







J H Raines

John Ramsey

Choice B Randell (& next page)

Randell & Randell

Tom Randolph

D M Ray  & 2nd  & Home

T E Reardon

Francis Reast

J C Reasor

J H Reddick

W S Reeves

Robert Reisenberg

Reynolds -Parker Co

L J Reynolds

Thad Rhodes

J J Rich

R L Rich

G H Richardson

J M Riddle

Lillie A Riggs

W L Riggs

J R Rivers

S M Roach

C N Roberts

G T Robinson

Tom Rodgers

W H Rogers

S F Rolen and Wife

W D Roper

R W Rotton

W S Rudasill

J C Russell

W J Russell

W J S Russell

W S Russell


J A Rutherford

H J Rylant

J J Sadler

S M Sandlin

G W Sappenfield

F N Saunders

E W Scarborough

W J Scarborough

G H Scmidt

S A Schott

G W Scott

W M Scott

C A Seeley

John Sharp

J B Shaw & 2nd page.

H L Sheehey

Richard Shegog

R G Shelton

Robert H Shelton

Sherman Electric Co

Sherman Gas Light & Fuel Co

Sherman Ice Company

Sherman Transfer & Livery Co

Sherman Undertaking Co.

C C Shero

J A Shires

G S Shoemake

F C Short

J A Siebert


Lee Simmons & Home, Barn

F W Simpson

S D Simpson (damaged)

S M Skinner

M O Small's Gin

Cecil A Smith

G F Smith


R E Smith

T S Smith

Andrew A Snedal

Mrs Anna I Snedal

Haakon Snedal


U D Sneed

Snells Photo Studio

Thos W Snell

W H Snell

W Z Spearman

Chas F Spencer (damaged)

F C L Sperry

W R Stalcup

L R Stark

J R Staton

N G Stephens(damaged)

J M Sterling Jr

J D Stewart

J C Stinson
 
Strange Jewelry Company

J W Stewart Jr

H G Stinnett

W N Stone  & Home

C L Stowe

John F Stowe

State National Bank of Denison

Lee Simmons Home & Barn

J S Sturdy

J A Sugg

John T Suggs

W W Sullenger

J A Swafford (damaged)

E L Tamplen

S P Tate

J H Taylor

M B Taylor Jr

T R Taylor

W H Taylor

A P Templeton

E W Terrell

H L Terry (damaged)

Home of H L Terry




I have omitted the portion of the book that has US Maps
and Just include the Portions relevant to Grayson County.





Tax Records:

Grayson County
Appraisal District
205 N Travis
Sherman, TX 75090
903-893-9673

Search for property Records (Modern owners)
But the addresses and descriptions often give clues to the plat maps of old.


Susan Hawkins
Email-Grayson County CC

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