MINUTES OF COMMISSIONER’S COURT
VOLUME I, 1857 - 1877
Feb 22, 1860 - Pay the bill from the coroner for an inquest into death of Stephen Boggs.
July 1860 – Pay expenses for
building gallows and coffin, removing body from gallows, for burial of William Pittman.
July 1860 - Bill presented
for post mortum examination of H.H.
Ryburn.
Aug 19, 1861 - Inquest upon body of E.
Harris.
Jul 17, 1866 - Inquest upon body of James C.
Dobkins.
Jan 6, 1868 - Inquest upon body of William
Cloud.
Jan 30, 1871 - Burial expenses for _________
McGilvrey.
Jan 31, 1871 - Burial expenses for Lafayette
Slack.
May 29, 1871 - Inquest upon body of W.T.
Leach.
May 30, 1871 - Pay for erecting gallows for execution of Oscar Clark.
Nov 28, 1871 - Pay for coffin for pauper, Mexican
John.
Nov 28, 1871 - Pay for coffin for Charity
Berry.
Sep 30, 1873 - Bill for burial clothes for a pauper, William Slack.
Nov 25, 1873 - Pay for coffin for ______
Williams, a prisoner.
Dec 30, 1873 - Pay for coffin for George
Dodson, a pauper.
Dec 30, 1873 - Pay for coffin and burial for _______
Hill.
Mar 31, 1874 - Pay for coffin for Mrs.
Skinner.
Mar 31, 1874 - Burial clothes for Benjamin
Read.
Sep 28, 1874 - Inquest upon body of Robert
Isbell
Mar 1875 - Inquest upon body
of J. Lee.
May 3, 1875 - Burial Expenses for Kate
Owens.
Jun 1875 - Inquest upon body
of Joseph _________. A colored man.
Sep 29, 1875 - Inquest upon body of Floyd
Smith.
Dec 2, 1875 - Pay for coffin for pauper _______Reed.
Mar 28, 1876 - Burial expenses for Lindy
Ritchey.
Apr 11, 1876 - Burial expenses for Bill Dike,
found dead.
Jul 29, 1876 - Burial expenses for _____
Craig, hung at Marysville, Pauper burial.
Sep 6, 1876 - Burial expenses for J.F. Peaks.
Nov 15, 1876 - Burial expenses for Peter
Simmons.
Dec 12, 1876 - Coffin expense for Mrs.
Bettie James.
Feb 28, 1877 - Inquest upon body of David
Wellington, drowned in Elm Creek.
Feb 28, 1877 - Burial expenses for Mrs.
Simmons’ child.
Mar 13, 1877 - Inquest upon body of Jarret
Howard.