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aartita Jennings
Yclionnan County, Texas.
District 8.
no. ‘',ords 129
File No. E40
i'age No. 1
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r. "Scigar-)yer, Professional Bldg., Wecto, Texas.
r. iyer's family wan livine in What is now ,:ill County
in 1836. They were engaged in raising cattle, and a brand woe
issued to 14. Dyerta grandfather, Judge J. ayer, in 1836, rith
which to brand his cattle, the brand was called "Circle Jv.
This brand is an exhibition in the Livestock Building of
the Texas Centennial at Dallas, it being one hundred years ago
since it was first put on record, he thinks at 7ew Orleans.
;4.. 3yer says there is 8 tree on a place owned by his
grttndfather in Bosqui County which had one of these branding irons
hung on a limb of the tree years ago, nrd the tree has grown
'around the iron, embedding it in the trunk of t e tree.