It was to be covered with slate and with wood floors and doors. The building was to be fifty feet by forty feet and was to have five rooms below and two above, besides the District Courtroom. “The minutes of the Commissioners' Court from Thursday, Novemreflect an order that a new two-story brick courthouse be built. People brought in old deeds and documents and those records show the original record's filing date as well as the date it was recreated.”
“Many county records had to be recreated. Gibson, who would later design and build the Courthouse itself”, Mrs. “The new County Clerk's Office was erected on the site of the current women's restroom on the square in Center by J.J.E. The second action taken by the Commissioners' Court that day was a vote approving the erection of a new fire-proof County Clerk's Office,” Watson explained. The oldest surviving minutes from the Shelby County Commissioners' Court are from Jand they open with the offer of a $1000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for starting the fire that destroyed the old courthouse. “Fire destroyed the old Shelby County Courthouse, along with the records, on June 1, 1882. “We all basically know the story of how the county records were stolen from Shelbyville and taken to Center, so I'll just begin a bit later,” Mrs. Speaking at the July monthly meeting of the Timpson Area Genealogical and Heritage Society on Wednesday, long-time educator and civic leader Fannie Watson revealed to the audience (including two former students) how this is so. JWe sometimes fail to realize that things which are familiar to us may be unique to others.even other Texans! This is true of the Shelby County Courthouse.
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