1856-1857 TAX ROLL, ERATH COUNTY TX
[Excerpted as authorized. Homer Stephen, Fragments of History: Erath County 
(Stephenville: the author, 1966), pp. 11-15.]  

Transcribed by James Pylant
Submitted by Annette Burns and Janice Curtis

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The following information is made from a photostatic copy of a Tax Roll
of Erath County in the year of 1856, the year the County was organized: 

	Thomas R. CORMACK, Assessor and Collector.

A. J. GILBREATH: one Negro at $800; eight horses at $675; Sundries $140. 
Total value, $165; Poll tax 50 cents; State tax $2.93.

Chesley TURNBOW: 500 acres valued at $500; grantee, S. BLUTH; 
Total Value $500. State tax 75 cents.

W. H. GILBREATH: 5 Negroes at $1500; 7 horses at $525; Sundries $140;
total value $2125; Poll tax 50 cents; S tate tax $3.69.

R. E. CAUDLE: 5 oxen $375; Total value $175; Poll tax 50 cents;
State tax 75 cents.

C. B. CAUDLE: Sundries $175; Total value $375; poll tax $1.06. 

F. H. TURNBOW: one horse at $20; Sundries $50; Total value, $70;
Poll tax 50 cents; State tax 60 cents.

Total County value: 500 acres at $500; 6 Negroes at $2300; 
16 horses at $1220; Sundries $840; Total $4,860; Poll tax $2.50; 
State tax $9.73.

Recapitulation Assessments in Erath Co. for Year 1857: 14,907 acres,
value of $21,680 at 15 cents per $100 valuations; tax $32.52.
229 town lots value $7,180 at 15 cents per $100 valuation; tax $10.77.
46 Negroes, value $25,100 at 15 cents per $100 valuation; tax $37.65.
407 horses, value $20,120 at 15 cents per $100 valuation; tax $40.26.
7 money lenders, value $2100 at 25 cents per $100 valuation; tax $4,20.
1 store mds. value $3930 at 15 cents per $100 valuation; tax: $5.90.
Miscellaneous value $12,120 at 15 cents per $100 valuations; tax $18.18.
Total valuation $119,070. Total AdValorem taxes $179.66. Poll taxes $44.50.
Total AdValorem and Poll Taxes $224.16.

Amount of supplements for year 1856: $9.73.

Recapitulation of Assessments from other Counties (non residents) for 1857:
20,145 acres of land value $22,680 at 15 cents per $100 valuation; Tax $34.02.
14 town lots, value $140 at 15 cents per $100 valuation; tax 21 cents.
Total valuation $22,820; total tax $34.23.
No railroad taxes due.
Average value of land per acre in the County for 1857 $1.45 per acre.
	
The following information concerning the 1857 Tax Roll came from 
the Comptroller of Public Accounts:


George ALLEN
John ALSUP
Thomas ARENDELL
John BAINES
William BLYTHE
A. T. BROWN
James CAPS
Henry CARR
Timonthy CARMACK
John CARMACK
Thomas K. CARMACK
Thomas CRABTREE
C. B. CANDLE [CAUDLE]
C. E. CANDLE [CAUDLE]
JOSEPH CLEGG
W. M. DAVIS
J. J. DAVIS
Larkin DAY
Thomas DICKERSON
J. T. DOOLEY
J. B. DUPUY
William DUNN
Robert DUVALL
Susannah EDWARDS
J. EDWARDS
C. EDENS
Magum FARRIS
Clemuel FARRIS
A. J. GILBREATH
Eli GILLIAN
W. J. GILLESPIE
J. W. GILLESPIE
W. H. GILBREATH
William GORDON
J. P. HARRIS
G. L. GRIMES
Thomas R. GRIMES
Nicholas HARRICK
Lewis HENNING
Thos. P. HOLOMS
J. R. HICKS
J. D. HOLLIS
H. B. HOLLIS
Benjamin JANUARY
William JEFFREYS
W. J. F. FOWDER
John LOLLER
Mose LOCKRIDGE
John MALONEY
W. W. McNEILL
James McNEILL
William MEFFORD
Gideon MILLS
John W. MIDDLETON
N. MITCHELL
James McCARTHY
W. E. MATHERAL
James McKEY
Catherine MOONEY
Clawson NEEDHAM
M. T. NEEDHAM
J. A. NEWBY
T. NEWBY
Newman OSBORN
C. PEENY
John PENRY
J. R. PICKARD
Meredy PRICE
W. E. PRICE
Thomas PILGRIM
W. G. W. POWELL
S. H. ROBERTS
Chandler ROBERTS
J. H. ROSE
L. NIX
D. L. FIELD
F. F. FIELDS
William ROBINSON
W. T. RICHARDSON
James SIMPSON
Samuel SIPP
John SAVAGE
Joseph SALMON
John SALMON
A. J. SAWYER
William SATTERLITE
Ray SPARKS
Edward SMITH
John SMITH
J. M. STEPHEN
A. J. STEPHEN
Wm. F. STEPHEN
Louis TANNERY
David THORNTON
Chesley TURNBOW
F. H. TURNBOW
B. D. TIMS
J. A. WALLER
Jacob WALKERS
Robt. L. WEST
J. M. WILEY
N. J. GILBREATH
Chesley TURNBOW 
W. J. GILBREATH
R. E. CAUDLE
C. B. CAUDLE
F. H. TURNBOW
J. B. DUPUY
Susanna EDWARDS
Louis HENNING
J. M. STEPHEN
W. F. STEPHEN