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If you have family history, stories, photos, books, marriages, births &
death records. Newspaper clippings such as obits, birth, wedding,
military, wills or other data about Martin County. Send the files to me
and I will upload it. Your help is greatly appreciated!
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include your surnames and I will add them.
Counties Surrounding
Martin County
HISTORY
Martin County was formed on August 21, 1876, from Bexar County and named for
Wylie Martin, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred
colonists. Martin County was attached to Mitchell County for administrative
purposes for five months and then attached to Howard County until 1884, when
the county was reduced to its present size and organized with Mariensfield
(now Stanton) as the county seat. The first white settlement in what is now
Martin County was Grelton (later known as Mariensfield), which was
established in 1881 by John Konz and his family under the sponsorship of the
Texas and Pacific Railway.--
Handbook of Texas Online --
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