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Fannin County TXGenWeb Miller County Arkansas In Fannin County!

MILLER COUNTY, ARKANSAS. was created by

an act of the Territorial Legislature of Arkansas on

April 1, 1820,included the Texas counties of Bowie, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar, Red River, Morris, and Titus Named for James Miller, territorial governor of Arkansas. The Handbook of

Texas states that it was taken "out of Hempstead County, where Stephen F. Austin had held court in 1820. The original county seat was in the John Hall house in the Gilliland settlement. In 1831 a fiveman commission located The county seat at the Jonesborough plantation near what is now Clarksville, Texas. In 1836 Texas became a republic and Arkansas became a state.

Most of the residents of the county considered themselves Texans; Travis G. Wright, Richard Ellis,
and Bailey Inglish were significant figures in the Republic of Texas. For a time the territory was represented in both the Arkansas Legislature
and the Texas Congress."

Red River County, Texas was Organized in 1837

The State of Arkansas made it a misdemeanor

in 1838 for a citizen in the county to hold an office

in the Republic of Texas

Fannin County Texas was established in 1838.
All other attemps for Arkansas to claim the area
now in Texas failed. Texas became part of the United States in 1845 The boundaries between Arkansas
and Texas was settled at that time.

A good book to read on the subject is "Six
Months from Tennessee" by Skipper Steely