Olive, Hardin County, Texas
By W. T. Block

1. Tenth Manuscript Census Returns of the United States, 1880, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, Schedule I, residences 40-54, 195; Co-partnership Indenture, Aug. 31, 1886, volume N, Page 9, Hardin County, Texas Deed Records; "Useful Life Came to End: Obituary of John Abraham Sternenberg," Houston Daily Post, May 3, 1914; "Built Big Sawmill in Beaumont in 1875," Beaumont Enterprise, May 5, 1914; Biography of v. A. Petty, Sr., furnished by his son, Olive Scott Petty of San Antonio; Obituary of Sid C. Olive, Waco Daily Times Herald, August 6, 1906.
   
2. Volume R, Page 138, Jefferson County, Texas Deed Records.
3. Galveston Weekly News, December 13, 1877; Daily News, December 13, 1877; Biography of S. C. Olive, Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1893), p. 619; W. T. Block, "From Cotton Bales to Black Gold: A History of the Pioneer Wiess Families of Southeastern Texas," Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, VIII (November, 1972), p. 55; Obituaries of Mark Wiess, Beaumont Enterprise and Journal, July 2, 1910.
4. Galveston Weekly News, January 14, 1878; Daily News, January 8, 1878.
5. Galveston Weekly News, September 23, 1878; Daily News, September 20, 1878.
6. Galveston Daily News, September 15, 1878.
7. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, Jefferson County, Texas, Schedule v, Products of Industry, Microfilm Reel No. 48, Texas State Archives, and recorded by the author in Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, IX (November, 1973), p. 56.
8. Book of Log Brands, p. 5, 1879, Jefferson County, Texas Archives.
9. "What the Tribune Man Saw in The Mill City," Orange Tribune, March 5, 1881, and reprinted in Beaumont Enterprise, March 12, 1881.
10. Beaumont Enterprise. May 7, 1881, Advertisement of Olive and Sternenberg
11. Ibid., January 15, 1881.
12. 12Volume K, p. 30, Hardin County, Texas Deed Records.
13. Beaumont Enterprise, March 12, 1881; Galveston Daily News, March 10, 1881.
14. Beaumont Enterprise, October 1, 1881.
    
15. Ibid., "In the Pineries," October 22, 1881.
16. "Documents of the Early Sawmilling Epoch," Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, IX (November 1973), pp. 57-58.
17. "Texas Lumber," Galveston Daily News, July 27, 1889.
18. Volume N, pp. 470, 472, 480, 507, August 17 to November 25, 1887, Hardin County, Texas Deed Records.-
19. Galveston Daily News, July 27, 1889.
20. Volume N, p. 529, Hardin County Deed Records.
21. Ibid., Volume O, p. 555.
22. Ibid., p. 562.
23. "Texas Lumber," Galveston Daily News, July 27, 1889.
24. "Forging to The Front," Galveston Daily News, August 21, 1890.
25. Galveston Daily News, March 29 and October 9, 1890.
26. Ibid., September 17, 24, 1891; see also W. T. Block (ed), Emerald of the Neches: The Chronicles of Beaumont, Texas . From Reconstruction to Spindletop (Nederland: 1980), pp. 463,481.
27. Doings at Olive," Beaumont Enterprise, September 17, 1898.
28. Volumes V, p. 586; X, pp. 28, 303; Y, pp. 45, 87; Volume I, P. 149; and 2, P. 63, Hardin County Deed Records.
29. Twelfth Manuscript Census Returns of the United States, 1900, Town of Olive, Hardin County, Texas, Schedule I, Population, residences 110-112.
30. Galveston Daily News, May 2, 1904.
31. "The Town of Olive," Galveston Daily News, July 10, 1904.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. "Week in Lumber Circles," Beaumont Journal, November 13, 1904.
35. Galveston Daily News, April 20, 1908; Beaumont Enterprise, October 6, 20; November 20, 24; and December 8, 22, 1907; May 5, 31; October 18, 25, and December 30, 1908.
36. G. A. Sternenberg Dead," Beaumont Enterprise, April 20, 1908; "Death of G. A. Sternenberg," Galveston Daily News, April 20, 1908.
37. Volumes 51, p. 137, and 54, p. 268, Hardin County Deed Records.
38. Volumes 50, p. 427; 52, p. 349, and 54, pp. 269, 378; also deed record, Creighton-McShane Oil to Olive-Sternenberg Lumber Co., Vol. 52, p. 346, Hardin County Deed Records.
39. Thirteenth Manuscript Census Returns of the United States, 1910, Olive, Hardin County, Texas, Schedule I, Population, Precinct No. 1, residences 155-274.
40. Ibid., residence 263.
41. Ibid., residences 161-263.
42. Ibid., residences 254, 267.
43. Beaumont Enterprise, November 20, 1907.
44. Ibid., March 6, 1910.
45. Ibid., March 20, 1910.
46. "Lumber Products in Greater Beaumont Country," Beaumont Journal, May 28, 1911.
47. Beaumont Enterprise, March 3, 1912.
48. "Useful Life Came to End," Obituary of J. A. Sternenberg, Houston Daily Post, May 3, 1914; "Funeral of S. C. Olive Took Place Yesterday," Waco Daily Times Herald, August 6, 1906.
49. Beaumont Enterprise, May 5, 1908.
50. Photocopy, "List of Saw Mill Machinery, Extra Parts, Supplies, Pipe, Machine and Blacksmith Tools Offered For Sale, Olive-Sternenberg Lumber Company, Olive, Texas, July 15, 1912," in the Scott Petty Company Archives, San Antonio, Texas.
51. Volumes 60, p. 130; 69, p. 565; and 71, p. 600, Hardin County Deed Records.
52. Ibid., Vol. 69, p. 192.
53. Ibid., Vols. 67, p. 364, and 69, p. 565.
54. Ibid., Vol. 74, p. 197.
55. Ibid., Vols. 78, p. 254 and 85, p. 57; also, biographical information furnished by the Scott Petty Company archives of San Antonio.

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