The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, July 1929 - April, 1930 Page: 273
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History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843
Kentuckytown. Pioneer cabins were found along Timber and
Honey Grove Creeks, and on North Sulphur; and likewise, in
present-day Grayson County on Choctaw, Iron Ore and Big Min-
eral. No settlements existed on the prairies. The colonizing
thrust was obviously riparian in its character, following the streams
in quest of wood and water.
II. POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF FANNIN COUNTY
Separation of the section of Red River County west of Bois
D'Arc Creek and its organization into a new county followed close
upon the heels of the development of the area.
The election for the second House of Representatives for the
Republic of Texas took place on the second Monday in September,
1837. Red River County selected three members to the House:
Edward H. Tarrant, who afterward resigned and was succeeded by
Peyton S. Wyatt; Collin McKinney (re-elected); and Dr. Daniel
Rowlett, who assumed the seat held by Mansell W. Matthews in the
First Congress. On the twenty-sixth of September, President
Houston called a special session of Congress.1
Rowlett, in a sense, was the representative of the settlers west
of Bois D'Arc Creek, while his colleagues were from the older
settled region about Clarksville. The rapid increase in the popu-
lation of the area between Bois D'Arc and the Cross Timbers by
the autumn of 1837 was such that it justified the division of the
widely extended Red River County into two sections. Rowlett,
therefore, on October 25, two days after his arrival at the capital,
presented a petition from sundry citizens of that county praying
for the creation of a new county west of Bois D'Arc Creek. This
request was referred to the Committee on County Boundaries.2
Two days later Rowlett's motion to withdraw the petition from
this standing committee and to assign it to a select committee of
three was adopted. Tarrant, McKinney and Rowlett were ap-
pointed to serve on this special committee.3 On the twenty-eighth
of October these gentlemen reported on the petition in the form
of a bill which was read for the first time.4
1Brown, History of Texas, II, 131-132.
2Journal of the Second Congress of the Republic of Texas, 63.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, July 1929 - April, 1930, periodical, 1930; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101090/m1/299/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.