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	Greer County, Oklahoma, Genealogy & History
		Greer County was part of a long-standing boundary dispute between the United States and the State of Texas.
		Greer County served as an election precinct for Wheeler County in 1884, voting place was the McNulty and Pope ranch, known as the Y Cross.
		Greer County has for years been by many Texans considered part and parcel of the Lone State - but a well informed member of the commission is authority for the statement that their never was the smallest grounds for this presumption on the part of Texas.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~swokla/greer/greer.html (4400 words)

	Greer County, Oklahoma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greer County is a county located in the state of Oklahoma.
		In the county, the population is spread out with 20.00% under the age of 18, 9.10% from 18 to 24, 28.40% from 25 to 44, 22.40% from 45 to 64, and 20.00% who are 65 years of age or older.
		The median income for a household in the county is $25,793, and the median income for a family is $30,702.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greer_County,_Oklahoma (427 words)

	Greer County, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Texas claimed the land south of the North Fork and the United States claimed the land north of the South Fork (later called the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River).
		The Greer County Homestead Law, passed just afterwards, gave the Texas settlers the 160 acres (647,000 m²) they were living on and the option to purchase an additional 160 acres (647,000 m²) for $1.00 per acre ($247/km²).
		With Oklahoma statehood, old Greer County was divided into Greer, Harmon, Jackson, and part of Beckham counties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greer_County,_Texas (292 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Greer County was for many years the grazing ground of the great buffalo herds and the hunting ground for the Plains Indians, especially the Wichitas, Comanches and Kiowas, who lived on the western prairies and believed this to be their land.
		It was claimed by Texas that the United States had in many ways recognized the claim of Texas to Greer County, and that upon principles of justice and equity, should not question the title of the state to the territory.
		Texas contended that the North Fork of the Red River is the Red River of Natchitoches mentioned in the treaty of 1819.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v012/v012p145.html (5777 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		In July 1886 the settlers of Greer County met at Mobeetie and organized Greer County on the authority of the act of 1860.
		Texas held that the 100th meridian of the Melish map was the boundary intended by the framers of the treaty and that the North Fork was the main Red River and therefore the boundary.
		Greer County thus became a territory of the United States and, in 1906, part of Oklahoma.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/GG/hcg81.html (1203 words)

	Museum of the Western Prairie, Altus OK \| Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Texas established Greer County in February 1860, but the organization of the county was interrupted by the Civil War.
		People refused to pay taxes; the Army moved to evict homesteaders who believed they lived in Texas (having bought their land from Texas), but the United States maintained were on public land; criminals questioned the right of Texas courts to try them.
		When in 1890 the United States sued Texas for possession of Greer County, the precedents for Texas' claim were outdated, ill-defined maps.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /mus-sites/mwp/10_2.htm (453 words)

	pages 498 to 509
		In 1896 he disposed of his large interests there and came to Greer county, Oklahoma, at the first opening of lands in that section of the territory, being the third man to file a claim among the new comers.
		Washburn is a native of Hood county, Texas, born on the 8th of May, 1858, and when thirteen years of age moved with his parents to Tarrant county, where he reached manhood.
		Josiah Washburn was eleven years of age when his father brought the family from Missouri to Texas, and after the death of the head of the household the youth was of untold assistance in the support of the widowed mother and the family.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/1908ok_2_50.htm (8482 words)

	Greer County Mangum, Oklahoma (Counties)
		Greer county is located in southwestern Oklahoma with Mangum serving as the county seat.
		In 1886, after border disputes with Texas, a full slate of officers was installed but it wasn't until 1896 that the county was finally separated from the Lone Star state by order of the United States Supreme Court.
		One of the major attractions of the county is Quartz Mountain State Park which is located on the western shores of Lake Altus-Lugert.
	www.ohwy.com /ok/y/y40055.htm (215 words)

	Museum of the Western Prairie, Altus OK \| Greer County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Greer County, Texas, encompassed the area south and west of the North Fork of the Red River, east of the 100th Meridian, and north of the Red River.
		Texas maintained its northern and eastern boundaries with Indian/Oklahoma Territory followed the North Fork of the Red River.
		While settlers from the Texas period were allowed to stay, the remaining land was opened in accordance with the Homestead Act of 1862.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /mus-sites/mwp/10_1.htm (188 words)

	Willow, Greer County, Oklahoma, formerly Greer County, Texas.
		Willow, Greer County, Oklahoma, formerly Greer County, Texas.
		"Ghost counties" were counties that were approved by the State legislature but for one reason or another were never organized.
		Greer County, Texas was approved by the Texas Legislature in 1860 - 47 years before Oklahoma statehood.
	texasescapes.com /TexasPanhandleTowns/WillowOklahoma/WillowOklahoma.htm (1178 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		"Old Greer County Pioneers" was chosen as the name of the organization of the early settlers of Greer County, Texas, when they met in their first reunion at Hollis, July 26, 1933.
		To be eligible for membership one must have been a resident of the strip of territory known as Greer County, Texas before 1896, the date of the Supreme Court decision that settled the boundary dispute between Texas and the United States and which declared this strip to be a part of Oklahoma Territory.
		Invitations for 1934 meeting places were given by Mangum, county seat of the present Greer County, and capital of Old Greer and by Altus.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v011/v011p0889.html (286 words)

	Greer County, Texas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The dispute went to the (The highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation) Supreme Court—no lower court having jurisdiction.
		The Greer County Homestead Law, passed just afterwards, gave the Texas settlers the 160 acres (647,000 m²) they were living on and the option to purchase an additional 160 acres (647,000 m²) for $1.00 per acre ($247/km²).
		With Oklahoma statehood, old Greer County was divided into (Click link for more info and facts about Greer) Greer, (Click link for more info and facts about Harmon) Harmon, (A town in south central Michigan) Jackson, and part of (Click link for more info and facts about Beckham) Beckham counties.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gr/Greer_County,_Texas.htm (282 words)

	U S v. TEXAS, 162 U.S. 1 (1896)
		The state of Texas cedes to the United States all her claim to territory exterior to the limits and boundaries which she agrees to establish by the first article of this agreement.
		This view rests upon the official acts of the general government and of Texas, and requires that the present controversy shall be determined upon the basis that the line, which by the treaty was to follow 'the course of the Rio Roxo westward,' extends to the true 100th meridian, thence by a line due north.
		By the act creating Lipscomb county, its boundary immediately south of the parallel of 36 30' north latitude begins 'at a monument on the intersection of the 100th meridian and the thirty-six and a half degrees of latitude.' That monument is the one established by the United States after the settlement of 1850.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?friend=nytimes&court=us&vol=162&invol=1 (9231 words)

	Land Run Information
		Greer County, Texas, organized by ranchers in 1886, included all of the current Greer, Jackson, and Harmon Counties and that part of Beckham County south of the North Fork River.
		The Supreme Court declared in United States vs. Texas, 162 U.S. 1 (1896) Greer County to be a part of Oklahoma Territory.
		Prior settlers of Greer County were permitted to file on the quarter sections they lived on and an adjoining quarter sections where they already had improvements.
	www.poncacity.com /history/land_run.htm (1940 words)

	J. D. Evans
		He was born in Titus county, Texas, January 4, 1850, son of Henry and Lennie (Smith) Evans, natives respectively of Kentucky and Missouri, who came to Texas in early life and were married here.
		In 1850 he moved from Kentucky to Texas and settled in Titus county, on lands which he bought and improved, and where he became a prominent and influential citizen, and passed the rest of his life and died.
		She was a daughter of A. Smith, one of the early settlers of Texas, who at one time owned a portion of the land on which Dallas now stands, which he sold for a trifle and afterward moved to Titus county.
	www.genealogymagazine.com /jdevans.html (859 words)

	BallAut6A - aqwg200 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gladys Lenna WEATHERSBEE [Parents] was born 7 Jan 1911 in, Greer County, Oklahoma.
		Darcenia Isabella CAMBRIDGE was born 11 Mar 1834 in Of Franklin County, Indiana.
		Helen CAMBRIDGE was born 23 Feb 1835 in Of Franklin County, Indiana.
	www.c-zone.net /autrey/aqwg200.htm (389 words)

	Opening Of The West - Oklahoma Indian Territory
		Lincoln and Pottawatomie Counties (formerly counties "A" and "B") date their beginning from the Land Run of September 22, 1891, which opened to public settlement three Indian reservations adjoining the former Unassigned Lands on the east.
		Two new counties were carved from the area and were designated "A" and "B" with county seat townsites selected by government officials in the exact geographical center of each.
		At the Constitutional Convention 1907, the area was divided among Beckham County, Jackson County, and Greer County.
	www.jcs-group.com /oldwest/courage/unassigned.html (1947 words)

	Greer County, Texas/Oklahoma Territory 1890-1903
		Residence of Suspect, and where suspect can be found, Navajoe, Texas.
		Returnable to J. Court Prect 1, Greer County, TX Unknown, Mangum, Texas 04/18/1890
		GREER COUNTY DEATHS 1912-1918 - - - GREER COUNTY INQUEST 1890-1903
	www.rootsweb.com /~okgcghs/archive/greerinq.html (1146 words)

	Benzene 4
		When Texas was an administrative unit of Mexico, the southern border was not the Rio Grande at all but the Nueces River (as is illustrated on an 1835 map reprinted in Meinig's 2nd volume).
		When Texas settlers expanded into this area, they naturally chose the northernmost fork of the river as the boundary, establishing Greer County in the region between the northern fork, the main fork, and the 100th meridian.
		Greer County was dissolved, and the land later became part of Oklahoma.
	radio.weblogs.com /0134204 (10653 words)

	City Drug Bed & Breakfast Hotel - Wheeler, Texas - BBOnline.com / Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wheeler County, organized in 1879, is the first organized county in the Texas Panhandle and has jurisdiction over 26 other counties including Greer County, Texas, now Greer County, Oklahoma.
		The first County seat was Mobeetie, Texas, which "sprang up" under the protection of Fort Elliot, established in 1875, at the end of the Red River Indian Wars of 1874.
		Wheeler County was in the center of the Indian Wars and many of the battle sites are within 25 miles of Wheeler.
	www.bbonline.com /tx/citydrug (455 words)

	Rosebud,Falls County, Texas, Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Texas was opened to Anglo-American colonization in 1822 when the government of Spain granted Moses Austin permission to bring in three hundred families from the United States.
		Dorothy Hughes, 87, of Rosebud was born in Falls County near Travis, Texas, and moved to Bryan from Rosebud in 1950 and returned to Rosebud in 1983.
		In the 1900 Texas census Julia McBride is shown as being an inmate in the State Lunatic Asylum located at Austin, Texas.
	www.forttumbleweed.com /rosebud.html (1991 words)

	Greer County Records on Microfilm - Texas State Library
		Your request should include the specific reel numbers for the microfilm you wish to use, as well as the name of the county and lending institution.
		Finally, in March 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Greer County was a territory of the United States and not within the jurisdiction of the State of Texas.
		In 1906 the county became part of the State of Oklahoma.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /arc/local/greer.html (163 words)

	LASR - Leisure And Sport Review - Travel, Tourism and Recreation on the Internet
		Harmon County, OK Harmon County evolved from the tract of land earlier referred to as "Old Greer County, Texas" From 1874 to 1890, Texas drovers herded millions of longhorn cattle up the Great Western Trail to the cow town of Dodge City, Kansas.
		In 1896, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Greer County did not belong to Texas as claimed, but was part of Oklahoma Territory.
		Known as the "Gateway to Great Plains Country" and the "Irrigation Center of the Southwest," Hollis the county seat of Harmon County is noted for its excellent hunting and fishing, plentiful pastures and rich, flat farmland in southwestern Oklahoma.
	www.lasr.net /pages/county.php?County_ID=OK0207&VA=Y (332 words)

	Thomas Lacy Greer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In DeKalb County, Georgia, on September 2, 1826, Thomas Lacy Greer was born — the third child of Nathaniel and Nancy Greer.
		A distant Greer cousin, she was born October 17, 1837, in the town of Dresden, Tennessee.
		Soon the Civil War was under way and before it ended, all of the Texas Greer men had joined the fight except for Tom who possibly was excused due to the Mexican bullet in his chest.
	www.wideopenwest.com /~GreersWest/bios/bio_tlg.htm (1305 words)

	Mineral Wells Index, Mineral Wells, TX - Greer County had courtroom surprise
		When county residents observed the centennial of the decision Hart was narrator for a pageant in which the current district judge played Judge Brown.
		Greer County is triangular, with the Texas Panhandle its west border and the two forks of the Red River its north and south borders.
		Judge Brown was district judge of Greer County from 1907 until 1914 when he was elected to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
	www.mineralwellsindex.com /statenews/cnhinsall_story_233100049.html (583 words)

	Texas — Infoplease.com
		Texas: History, Geography, Population, and State Facts - Information on Texas — economy, government, culture, state map and flag, major cities, points of interest, famous residents, state motto, symbols, nicknames, and other trivia.
		University of North Texas - North Texas, University of North Texas, University of, at Denton, Tex.; coeducational; est.
		The construction of Anglo-American identity in the Republic of Texas, as reflected in the Telegraph and Texas Register.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0848309.html (241 words)

	Greer County, Texas Post Office Information Page
		Texas held that the 100th meridian of the Melish map was the boundary intended by the framers of the treaty and that the North Fork was the main Red River and therefore the boundary.
		Then Greer County was part of Indian Territory, then Oklahoma.
		Noted also are whether recent offices have had at least one precancel type, as listed in the Precancel Stamp Society's Town and Type Catalog of the United States and Territories, Sixth edition, Summer 1998, and from Fosters' personal knowledge.
	tx4.us /cy/greer.htm (1115 words)

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