About 20 years ago, Joan Mickler went to the Waller County Courthouse and copied the indices of all of the land buying and selling that involved Thomas Ginn Wallingford.  In total, that is only 5 sheets - but each line references to a volume and page number to find the full details of the instruments (mostly deeds) involved.  The references to locations on these index files, for instance, are only to a survey.  Some of these, such as the John Reese survey, is qualified as being 1/3 league - not quite 1500 acres.  The land being bought/sold can be generally located within that survey, but not with any sort of precision.

I have transcribed the lines from these indices into a spreadsheet.  It isn't as automatic as that - often there is data missing, or multiple lines to reference what is clearly a single transaction.  But it does get it somewhat into order.  I've added some notes, but there are also small annotations that I have omitted.

I entered and numbered the lines into the spreadsheet in the order that I found them in the 5 pages of indices.  That should make it easy enough to refer back to the records - but most of the time, I work with it sorted on the 'investment' date - making it roughly chronological (with some of the deeds not being settled for several years, I choose to go by the 'start' date).

But the limitations:
* these relate only to Waller County
* only after 1873 (Waller Co established 28 April 1873)
* both Grimes and Austin county records would need to be found to add to this analysis.
* only T.G. was searched, and it would be interesting to see how the land was dealt with after his death.

In these early years, T.G. lived in what was described as the Hempstead precinct of Austin County (1860 census).  He is shown owning 532 acres, having a value of $1536 ($3 an acre).  The area where T.G. was living - around Courtney - is in Grimes Co now, but earlier was Austin Co.

The very first entry raises a good question.  ID 33.  Almost all the transactions relate to 'deeds' - a common way of buying and selling land.  But this first transaction involving T.G. in Waller County records that the instrument was a 'judgement', against T.G. and in favour of the estate of W.O.G. Wilson.  That would be an interesting story - but not part of this!

So I can't document T.G.'s land ownership in the years before 1873.  That still needs to be done...

But as early as 5 November 1873, T.G. bought the first of the land that would become his primary property - just south of where Fields Store Cemetery is now (ID 22).  Remember that his wife  Evaline died 15 January 1870, leaving T.G. with 5 children to raise.  And then the youngest of those, baby Evaline, died 9 September 1873.  Two months after the death of this child, T.G. purchased 27.9 acres in the John Reese Survey - the first of the block of land where he would live most of his later life, what would become his homestead block.

He added another 71.25 acres, bringing it to nearly 100 acres, in 1883 (ID 31).  And later in the next year, 1884, was when T.G. returned to Kentucky, bringing Annie back as his wife.  

The 100 acres was reduced by 49 acres when he sold some of his land in 1897 (IDs 48, 49, 50, 51).  Almost immediately, however, he added another 72 acres to his block through another purchase (ID 3).  That made the main block of land about 122 acres for the last years of T.G.'s life.  T.G. did leave a will, leaving what land and items he had to the three children of Annie.  The will explains that the older children, those of Evelyn, had already received an inheritance through Evelyn's father.

About 9 years after T.G.'s death John Pinckney Wallingford bought the main homestead area from his brother, sister and mother (who would have inherited shares from the estate).  The above assumptions about the 'main homestead' are derived from this deed.  It would appear that it was the intention of Annie, along with Alvin and Minnie, that J.P. would buy out their share's in the family land - or at least that main block of it.

Only two years later, John had to use the economic stability of his father-in-law to borrow money from Louis Hegar (Alfred Hegar's first cousin, reputed to be one of the more successful in the Hegar family).  

I don't know what happened to any other bits of land that T.G. still had when he died.  He was still buying land (IDs 2 and 1) in the John Reese 1/3 league section up to 1907, two years before his death.

But it would involve going back to the actual deed books in the Waller County Courthouse.  The lines (IDs) I've identified