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1. sourced

   A third-class headright for 320 acres in Smith County, Abstract 1058. It was patented on 25 July 1855 to E. H. Barber, as assignee: Anderson earned the certificate and sold it before it issued.

   Texas General Land Office land grant 44970, opened 2026-09-08: "Original Grantee: Waldrip, Anderson M · Patentee: Barber, E H · Patent Date: 25 Jul 1855 · Patent Number: 1001 · Patent Volume: 9 · Acres: 320" · https://www.glo.texas.gov/archives-heritage/search-our-collections/land-grant-search/land-grant/44970

2. sourced

   When McCulloch County was organised in 1876 the site was part of Waldrip's Ranch, and a post office opened as Waldrip in 1879. The Handbook names no individual, so which Waldrip the place is named for is an inference from the census and land records, not something the entry says.

   Handbook of Texas Online, "Waldrip, TX", opened 2026-09-08: "The site was part of Waldrip's Ranch when the county was organized in 1876. A post office opened in 1879." Anderson appears as storekeeper and postmaster in the Texas post office directory printed in Freie Presse fur Texas, 18 September 1885. · https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/waldrip-tx

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   The sheep suit was D. N. Lee against Yandell, Gray and Waldrip on a promissory note. An attachment was levied on Waldrip's flock, he pleaded in reconvention, and the jury found for the defendants and gave him damages. The appeal reversed and remanded.

   Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 4 November 1887, page 3, reporting the Commission of Appeals; also Portal to Texas History. Reported at 69 Tex. 34. The two transcriptions differ on the damages figure, one reading $750 and the other $570, so the amount is not asserted here. · https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86064205/1887-11-04/ed-1/?sp=3

4. unverified

   The tree gives a burial about 12 March 1897 at Robert Lee. No stone is attested: the complete 1990 survey of that cemetery lists no Waldrip and no Graham at all.

   Coke County Cemeteries Epitaphs and Dates, Copeland and Smith, 1990, read A to Y on 2026-09-08; Find a Grave 42913868 carries a portrait, not a gravestone. The death on 10 March 1897 at his daughter Kate's is corroborated; the inscription this page used to quote is not.

5. unverified

   The seated man is Anderson Marion Waldrip.

   family caption, MyHeritage export, file possibly-anderson-waldrip_2094481718; nothing written on the print; the family's photographs, supplied 2026-09-08 (private); restoration parameters and source checksums held with them

6. inferred

   The clothing and the man's age argue against it. Anderson was sixty in 1887. The sitter reads as thirty; the suit and hat read 1890s. A likelier reading is George Thomas, born 1858, with his son John Franklin, born 1882, at about twelve: around 1894.

   from the print itself against the tree's dates; the project's note on the photographs. Writing on the back of the original, or the studio imprint on the mount, would settle it.

7. sourced

   Restored without a model: contrast stretch, denoise, dust inpaint of a few hundred pixels, sharpen. Nothing was invented.

   the family's photographs, supplied 2026-09-08 (private); restoration parameters and source checksums held with them, "generative": false, method "percentile stretch, CLAHE, non-local-means denoise, dust inpaint, unsharp mask, lanczos x2"; opened 2026-09-08

8. sourced

   1840 census, Tishomingo County: Rebecca Waldrip heads the household, with Anderson among the boys of ten to fifteen. The Merchant families are neighbours on the same page, ten years before Anderson turns up living with James B. Merchant in Texas.

   1840 U.S. Census, Tishomingo Co., MS, page 229 line 11, NARA M704 roll 219, image opened 2026-09-08. The project had cited page 228, which holds the Dilworth households. · https://archive.org/details/populationsc18400219unit

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   1850 census, Smith County: "Anderson M. Waldrup 23 M Farmer Tennessee", in the household of James B. Merchant. His brother Andrew B. Waldrup, 28, is farming two doors away.

   1850 U.S. Census, Smith Co., TX, page 42B, dwelling and family 8, image opened 2026-09-08. The project had cited page 42A, family 188 and the occupation laborer; family 188 is John Welch, and the record says Farmer. · https://archive.org/details/populationschedu0915unix

10. unverified

    "A. M. Waldrip, age 53, Farmer, b. TN, parents b. SC; George T., age 21, son, married, Cattle Raiser, b. TX; Mary E., daughter-in-law, age 17; Julian, grandson, age 8/12."

    1880 U.S. Census, McCulloch Co., TX, Precinct 4, ED 107, p. 558D, family 28, NARA T9 roll 1317; not opened

11. unverified

    Nolan County District Court, case 0090, 1885: 1,200 sheep, D. N. Lee against A. M. Waldrip.

    Nolan County District Court Civil Case Files, case 0090, p. 418; not opened

12. sourced

    A. M. and Mary Ann Waldrip settled near Fresnal, Otero County, and after his death she completed the homestead in her own name.

    BLM General Land Office patent, Las Cruces, 20 November 1899, Homestead Certificate 1348: "the claim of Mary A. Waldrip has been established and duly consummated... containing one hundred and sixty acres... William McKinley, By the President" · https://glorecords.blm.gov/