Proof Of Occupancy, Freestone Co. Tx
Submitted by Brown V. Brooke   irbrooke@comanchetx.com
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File 4610
Robertson 3' Class
I. R. Brooke
(Ignatius Roger)
Proof of Occupancy
Filed Feby 26, 1896
Smith/ Clerk

THE STATE OF TEXAS      }
COUNTY OF FREESTONE}   Before me, the undersigned authority, in and for the
county aforesaid, this day came and personally appeared Mrs. Sophia Trahin,
a daughter of I. R. Brooke, now deceased who was a resident citizen of said
county, a bona fide settler upon 160 acres of vacant public land, situated
in said county, and surveyed for I. R. Brooke on the 19th day of April 1857
by B.P. Harrnet Surveyor of said county; that said I. R. Brooke occupied and
improved the same as a homestead for the period of three consecutive years,
beginning on the 14th day of Febry 1857; that he was then married and that
applicant being a daughter and one of the heirs of said I.R. Brooke benefit
of actual occupants of the public lands then existing.

And also at the same time came and personally appeared J.B. Harrison and Law
P. Walker, two credible resident citizens of said county, to me well known
who being duly sworn, deposed and say that I. R. Brooke the person above
named in this affidavit actually settled upon and cultivated as a homestead
the land surveyed for him on 19th day of April 1857, by the surveyor
aforesaid, for the period of three years, and they, nor either of them, have
any interest in the said land.

                                                              S/ Sophia
Trahin
                                                              S/ J. B.
Harrison
                                                              S/ L. P.
Walker

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME, and I hereby certify that J.B. Harrison
and Law Walker are credible and trustworth citizens of said county.

                                         IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the         impress of my official seal,
this the 18th day of Febry 1896

                                       R.L. Smith, JP. and ExOff. Not. Pub.
Freestone County, Texas