DeWitt County Texas Genealogy and History - presented by Genealogy Trails


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DeWitt County Texas

The development of DeWitt's colony brought the first white settlement to the county. In April 1825 empresario Green DeWitt was authorized by the Mexican government to settle 400 families between the Guadalupe and Lavaca rivers.

In 1846 Judge James McCulloch Baker was appointed by Governor James Pinckney Henderson to establish the temporary county government. In 1846-47 the county seat was Daniel Boone Friar's store at the junction of the La Bahía Road and the Gonzales-Victoria road. A courthouse was constructed at Cameron, but in the next four years the county had four new seats of government, each change being the result of an election, a recount of votes, an appeal, or a Supreme Court decision. On November 28, 1850, the county court met at Clinton near Chisholm's Ferry, and Clinton remained the center of county government until Cuero became county seat in 1876.

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DEWITT COUNTY COURTHOUSE

CITIES, TOWNS, AND POPULATED PLACES

* Cuero (county seat) * Nordheim * Yoakum * Yorktown * Arneckeville * Concrete * Hochheim * Lindenau * Meyersville * Pearl City * Petersville * Thomaston * Westhoff * Clinton (Ghost Town) *

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Website Updates: Mar 2025: Marriage News: HARLAW, RATZEIN, TATUM, CARHART, ROMANS, O'BRIEN; Death News: McGOWN, BECK, ECKHARDT, WILLIAMS, MALLORY, KUEMMET, WAINE, ALLEN, KLEC, ZIBIKOWSKI, LENZ, WARCZENIK, PIERCE, THEUM, FREY, GRIFFIN, WESTMORELAND, MANN, SPRINGER, MILLER, KOCH, GALLAGHER, SCHULTZ, GRUEHN Nov 2024: Death News: EAVES; Visiting News: MOORE, TARRANT, STORY, JAMES, SIMPSON, HUTH, GLAISER, WEATHERLY, MCDONALD, JONES, BENNETT, WALLER, GEORGE, HARGIS, SKAGGS, WARD Jul 2024: Marriage News: YOUNG, WELLIAUSEN, BACA, JULEFKA, ECHKHARDT, WURZBACH; Anniversary News: DEBORAH; Ads: HENSLEY; Death News: LEE, STUBBEMAN, BURTT, CARPENTER, FARNSWORTH; Birth News: TAYLOR, AFFLEBACH; Calamity News: BUELLER, ROSS, YOUNGKIN; Sick List News: HILL, MILLER, LAY; School News: 1904 Teachers from Yaokum Summer Normal School Apr 2024: Death News: EDGAR, HILLER; Marriage News: BRACHER, HARDT, SCHMIDT, FROBESE Mar 2024: Birth News: BOYD; Death News: KARNEY, EGG, DEBOSE, PATTON, GATES; Marriage News: LEISSNER, SMITH, CASH, WOODWORTH, WARD, MITCHELL, SCOTT, GRAFTON, SIMON, OPPENHEIMER, BRIGHTWELL, WOODWARD, DAVIS, WHITLEY, KUNETKA, MOCZYGEMBA, JONES, CHADDOCK, SHULTS, FRIAR, NICHOLS, KOEHLER Nov 2023: Marriage News: MCALISTER, STOKES; Military: Confederate Pension Applicants; Ads: REMSCHEL, HUCK, WIIMBISH, KOENIG, VAN HOOGENHUYZE, HARRIS, REUSS, DAVIDSON, PLEASANTS, SCHLEICHER, BLAKE, BURNS, GRAHAM, HAMM, ILGNER Aug 2023: Biographies: ALEXANDER, KEY Jul 2023: Death News: MOONEY, BATES, RUESS, BENNETT; School News: 1909 Yoakum teachers; Visiting News: LYONS, DODD, BROWN, FITCH, BECK, DICKEY, CURLEE, SCHWAB, ROSS, YOUNGKIN; STAEERBER, GOHMUT, BLOODWORTH, THORNHILL, BURNS, LACY, CORRAN, PROCTOR, WHITE Apr 2023: Ads: Gulf Hotel, BROWN, TRENCK, Cuero Brewery, DODD, FAUPEL, Cuero Instittue, WILLIAMSON, MUTI, Muti Hotel, STRATTONS, BLAKE, WHITE, WILSON, ROTZEIN, BUCHEL, GOHMERT, Eclipse Livery, BAKER, WOODWORTH, GREENE, NITSCHE, RAUCH, BERTRAM, MARSH, LEHMANN, WALKER, WEBER, Bismarck, MEISSNER; Crime News: DUNING

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