Monroe Brown and Rebecca Skeen Sawyer family papers, 1817-1977, 1881-1973.

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Monroe Brown and Rebecca Skeen Sawyer family papers, 1817-1977, 1881-1973.

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Includes correspondence, legal and financial material, literary productions, scrapbook material, genealogical charts, and photographs pertaining to the family history of Monroe Brown and Rebecca Skeen Sawyer, and their early settlement in Terry County, Texas. Collection bulks (1881-1973) with photographs, financial material, and scrapbook material which document primarily the Sawyer family while in Terry County, Texas.

722 leaves

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7117776

Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic Library

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Texas ranger, rancher. Born in 1861 in Williamson County, Texas, Sawyer served as a Texas Ranger (1881-1882). In 1884, he married Rebecca Skeen who was born in 1868 in Williamson County, Texas. Ranched in Runnels County, Texas, until 1902, when they moved to a 21,000 acre ranch in Terry County, Texas, near present-day Brownfield, Texas. They had 13 children: Laura, Barbie, Nettie, Allie, Arthur, Ida, Ora, Uyless, Ima, Oscar, Ticia, Larue, and Christova. Mr. Sawyer died in 1941, and Mrs. Sawyer d...

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