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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
McAnelly, for ninety-three cents. Adding seven acres from his
own bounty grant, McAnelly, on October 7, 1856, deeded the
resulting one hundred acres to the chief justice and commission-
ers of San Saba County and their successors, for $1.00, thus of-
ficially opening up the new town of San Saba. The first federal
post office was established at San Saba, May 5, 1857, with Wiley
T. Murray as postmaster. The census in 1860 lists the two post
offices of the county as San Saba and the Cherokee Creek
Settlement.
The Methodist Church, through the Reverend Wesley Smith,
chose a location on Simpson's Creek, in 1854. Returning with his
family, in 1855, Smith performed the first marriage recorded
in the county, Cyrus Ford to Martha Ann Gregg, September
4, 1856. William B. Wear, Christian preacher and one of the
signers of the petition, was in the county as early as 1855. On
May 21, 1860, the court donated property for church sites at
the town of San Saba, assigning to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, block No. 52, the Christian Church, block No. 44, the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, block No. 53, and the Mis-
sionary Baptist Church, block No. 42.
On December 2,,1857, Captain John Conner organized the first
military company at San Saba, composed of thirty mounted
men. He was replaced the following spring by Captain Salmon
Ford, stationed 'at Camp Brown until April 22, 1858. On May
20, 1858, Lieutenant John Williams of Cherokee Creek Settle-
ment was authorized to raise a second company at San Saba,
consisting of twenty men volunteering from San Saba and
Llano counties.
The Texas Almanac for 1857 lists the county's resources as
corn and wheat growing. The Texas Sentinel in that year adds
pearling in the San Saba River, reporting that a Major Peters,
engaged in that industry, had in his employ twenty men and an
appraiser. Pecans even then were a valuable crop. The county's
first agricultural census, taken three years later, boasts cattle,
milk cows, oxen, horses, sheep, swine, several mules, three bales
of ginned cotton, Indian corn, wheat, sweet potatoes, wool,
honey, molasses, butter, and cheese. On March 11, 1875, with
the chartering of the Fleming San Saba Irrigation Company, a
system of first class canals, beginning opposite the mouth of
Brady's Creek, on the south side of the San Saba River and
extending east to the town of San Saba, opened up an era of
farm irrigation in the county. In 1945, were added peaches,100
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