• Davis,  Family Genealogy Research,  Ferguson

    Renick and Frazier Document October 15, 1872

    Background This is the Renick and Frazier business.  George Renick and James C. Frazier are the owners.  James C. Frazier is Monroe Frazier’s brother.  The original document has all of the blanks you see below.  The information isn’t filled out so this may have been a preliminary document that needed to be filled out. The Document RENICK & FRAZIER Oct. 15, 1872   __________ of R.A. Ferguson and J.R. Davis a note for the balance of the purchase money for a tract of land sold for the heirs of James Wood ___________________ in Paluxy in Erath County said note ________ on the ______ day of 1872 due _____________my with per…

  • Davis,  Family Genealogy Research,  Ferguson,  Frazier

    Isabella Ferguson Letter to George Renick 9 September 1878

    Background I believe that George Renick is the business partner of James C. Frazier.  These men ran Renick and Frazier and seem to do land transactions.  I don’t know if they were real estate agents or surveyors or lawyers who specialized in land transactions.  I am sure if we lay all of their documents out, we could maybe tell.  James C. Frazier is the brother to Monroe Frazier, husband of Jane Wood Frazier (by this time, Patterson), the sister of Isabella Ferguson. In this letter we see that R.A. is “out west” and won’t be home for three months.  The boys, Robert and Jimmie, are most likely Isabella and R.A.’s…