ARKANSAS HISTORICAL QUARTERLY; Volume 5, Spring 1946
HISTORICAL SKETCH RELATING TO ESTABLISHMENT
OF STATE LINE BETWEEN ARKANSAS AND TEXAS
AND RELATING TO THE CREATION OF THE OLD AND
NEW MILLER COUNTY ARKANSAS
BY
W. H. ARNOLD, Sr.(1)
Texarkana, Arkansas
General Land Office
State of Texas
Austin
Dec. 9th, 1930
- Texarkana Title & Trust Co.,
- Texarkana, Texas
Gentlemen:
I have yours of the 4th inst., desiring to know when and by what authority the boundary was run between Texas and Arkansas.
I suppose you have reference to the Eastern line of Texas running from the Sabine River north to the Red River. If so, this line was established and marked in the year 1841 by a joint commission conformably to the first article of the convention concluded at Washington on the 25th day of April, 1838. This boundary commission was composed of J. H. Overton, U. S. Commissioner and A. B. Gray, Texas surveyor, as shown my maps of same on file in this office.
- I am unable to find any data in the way of field notes or reports along
the Red river. This line, I would presume, would be the south cut-bank
of Red River as held by the U. S. Supreme Court in the recent case of Oklahoma
vs. Texas.
- Very truly
- J. H. Walker
- Commissioner.
- (COPY of letter received by Mr. W. H. Arnold, Sr. (General Land Office
of Texas), through Texarkana Title and Trust Co.)
- _______________
- 1. William Hendrick Arnold Sr., senior member of the law firm of Arnold and Arnold was born near
- Lisbon, Union County, Arkansas, the son of David Saxon and Temperance Lucinda (Arnold) Arnold. He was educated in subscription or private schools in Union County and Ansley's Academy, Artisan near Prescott, and by individual effort. He was admitted to the bar at Prescott in 1882 and moved to Texarkana in 1883, where he has been in continuous practice. His ancestors were among the early settlers of Virginia, who moved to South Carolina prior to the Revolution.
- On October 13, 1887, Mr. Arnold was married to Miss Jessie Cook, (daughter of Colonel John Cook and
- Cornelia E. Cook) who was born at Lewisville January 27, 1870. His
wife died August 27, 1900, and Mr. Arnold married Miss Kate Lewis in 1903.
Her parents were Peter Hanger Lewis and Mary Clay. There were five children
born of the first marriage and one son to the second marriage.
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