Caudle v. Welden

The pleadings and proof in this case exhibit the following state of facts, to wit: J. S. Welden and wife immigrated to Texas in 1844, and settled and improved a tract of land by building a cabin upon it, and inclosing and cultiva-. ting about seven acres, in Denton county, within the limits of Peters’ colony. The wife died on the land during its occu-. pancv bv the settler, in the latter part of the year 1847, leaving *356one child and the husband surviving. Under the act of the 21st of January, 1850, passed to secure “actual settlers” in that colony, the husband, on the 7th of May, 1850,…