Gregg Co. Tx Petition to create Precinct 6 Submitted by Sharon PierceCo-CC Gregg County TXGenWeb ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ PETITION TO CREATE JUSTICE PRECINCT 6 (KILGORE) GREGG COUNTY Petition submitted to Gregg County Commissioners' Court, 14 November 1876 "We would respectfully submit, that, we are now very inconveniently situated. Kilgore is a RR station, and the only trading point in Gregg County south of the river, yet the Magistrate resides at least eight miles from us; and parties in this end of the precinct, (said precinct being about 20 miles long), having business in the Justice's Court are compelled to go from four to ten miles to attend to it. The present arrangement is liable to work hardships in this; that parties disposed to avoid the payment of their debts, or fleeing from justice, will come to the station to dispose of their property, or go aboard a train and make their escape before an officer can be reached, and the papers necessary for their detention procured. We would also ask that John T Kilgore be appointed magistrate, and J T Lantrip constable of the new precinct." C J Angell James Wood J W Stone C G Hudson P A Pegues T J Joyner H F Thurmond Jno G Randle Maurice Lines G H Lanier J M Bussey A B Hudson I Alexander R H Tutt W D Thompson J T Lantrip W Skipper W Fambrough W B Smith G C Buffum R E Yantis Joe Davenport J P Stone P O Erwin G A Erwin W H Leach A R Hamilton John G Harnage S G Dean W Bussey W C Nicholson Dan Lines J C Nielson J M Dickson D H Chapman W R Story J V Kilgore R W Wynn J A Chandler J A Thompson henry Walker Sidney Thurmond George Jacobs J W Binyon John B McNeely Reuben Goforth W H H Barnett C B Kilgore W C Dudley The petition was granted. Formed from part of Precints 4 and 5. John T Kilgore was appointed Justice of the Peace for Precinct 6 and the Commissioners' Court ordered Justice Court on fourth Monday at Kilgore. James T Lantrip appointed constable Source: Gregg County Commissioners' Court Minutes, Book A, pp 81-83