Casner Family of Texas

Bounty land Grants

Isaac Casner

Isaac Casner's land grant in the Austin's Little Colony area is now a housing development coincidentally called "Austin's Colony "

Below is a photo of Rueben Hornsby's cabin, which is designated as a historic landmark, it is located in a near by park. Mr. Hornsby was next door neighbor and friend to Isaac Casner.

Martin Casner

Martin Casner land grant (Third class headright, file No. 247.Survey No. 431) consisting of 640 acres and situated on the East Prong of Walnut Creek, a tributary of Sandy Creek, in northern Blanco County-, was surveyed by L. H. Luckett, Deputy Surveyor, Travis Land District, with chain carriers, Pinkney Swisher and James Rasby, on November 12, 1853.

photo: Walnut Creek Blanco co TX

1998 Nancy Cunningham

WALNUT CREEK (Blanco County). Walnut Creek rises six miles west of the Round Mountain community in northern Blanco County (at 30°25' N, 98°27' W). The creek follows a northeasterly course through Hill Country terrain for fourteen miles to its mouth on Sandy Creek, 4½ miles below the State Highway 71 bridge over Sandy Creek in southeastern Llano County (at 30°34' N, 98°26' W). Walnut Creek flows through loamy soils and rock outcroppings past grasslands and stands of live oak, mesquite, and Ashe juniper.

This is probably the location of Martin Casner's headright.

Casner Gap Blanoc Co., TX as designated by :

Texas Cattle Brand Register for Martin Casner

 Martin Casner's Cattle Brand register March 15, 1850Cattle brands still play an important role in identifying an animal's owner in Texas cattle ranching. Most of the early brands of Texans, were made of initials and could be read with ease. Richard H. Chisholm owned perhaps the first recorded brand, registered in Gonzales County in 1832.Beginning in 1848, Texas provided for recording brands with the county clerk, with the stipulation that an unrecorded brand did not constitute legal evidence of ownership.