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The Coleman
County Pioneer Assocation
(Dates shown in blue are the
the publication dates of the newspaper.)
Henry Vollintine, Santa Anna; settled near the town of Trickham in 1881; born August 1847 in Vavaca County, Texas B. R. Risinger, Santa Anna; born February 1852 in Fayette County, Texas. W. H. Berryman, Talpa Route 1; came to Coleman County 1882 from Cass County, Nebraska; born May 12865 in Mills County, Texas. Mrs. W. H. Berryman, formerly Miss Annie McClure, born 1879 in Georgia; came to Coleman County with parents in 1882. Mrs D. C. Snodgrass, Coleman-Glen Cove Route; born October 1, 1851 in Johnson County, East Tennessee; has lived in Coleman County thirty-two years. Mrs. G. B. McGregor, Coleman; born 1861 in Drew County, Arkansas; moved to Coleman County in 1884. Miss Myrtle McGregor, Coleman, born in Lamar County, Texas; moved to Coleman with parents in 1884. Curley Hatcher, Myrtle Point, Oregon; born September 25, 1847 in Morgan County, Missouri; moved to Coleman County in 1871; was several years in Texas Ranger service and drove the stakes when the town of Coleman was laid out. (January
18, 1924.)
Eugene Love, Coleman, born in Coleman County June 19, 1885. T. W. Martin, Coleman, born Columbia, Tennessee, June 19, 1872; to Texas 1879 and to Coleman County in 1886 from Burnett County. T. H. Gillespie, Coleman, here 1887 from Mississippi, born 1860 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. Mrs. T. H. Gillespie, came here 1888; born in 1865 in Alabama. W. W. Head, Coleman, came here in January 1881, from Fannin County; born 1859 in Lawrenceville, Alabama. (February
15, 1924.)
T. F. Robb, Coleman, born December 24,
1874 in Houston, Texas; came to Coleman County from
Rusk County in 1879 with his uncle, A. C. Coursey.
Mrs. E. J. Wolfrum, Glen Cove, came here 1879 from Robertson County, Texas; born in Robertson County in 1861. Her husband died here in 1919. Mrs. Walter Brooke Ransbarger, Santa Anna, (living temporarily at Mesa, Arizona); born 1886 in Coleman County. (March 7,
1924.)
G. F. Givens of Talpa was in Coleman
Monday on business and enrolled his name on the
Coleman County Pioneers' Association. Mr. Givens
was born in Parker County, Texas, in September 2,1858;
he came from Milam County to Coleman County in 1879,
which, as he remembers was one of the dry years.
His father, J. M. Givens, died here in 1899 and his
mother died in 1912. The Givens family settled
in the vicinity of old Atoka in 1879 when neighbors
were few and far between.
(March 14,
1924.)
John C. Brown, Burkett; born in
Robertson County, Texas; came to Coleman County in
1876 and has lived here continuously since that time.
W. E. Fisher, Goldsboro, born 1851 in Virginia, raised in Missouri, came to Ellis County, Texas in 1873 and to Coleman County in 1883. He did not reach Coleman County in time to fight the Indians back, but he married here in 1878, and has helped exterminate the prairie dogs. Mrs. W. E. Fisher, born 1856 in South Carolina, came to Ellis County, Texas in 1859, and to Coleman County with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Roberts in 1876, married to W. E. Fisher here in 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts died in this county and their remains rest in Glen Cove Cemetery. (March 28, 1924.) Lucien S. White, Coleman, born here
April 6, 1889.
T. T. Perry, Santa Anna, born 1853 in Cannon County, Tennessee; moved to Coleman County in 1890. Mrs. T. T. Perry, born 1869 in San Antonio, Texas. R. N. Story, Santa Anna Route 2, born in Leon County, Texas in 1855; came to Coleman County in 1874, worked as a cowboy for Kin Elkins. Perry Estes of Coleman was also a range-rider for the same cow outfit. In August 1876 Mr. Story worked with Dick Bowen, the surveyor, in laying out the town of Coleman and in the fall of the same year with Henry Lorance, he hauled the fist load of lumber to Coleman from Riley Cross' sawmill on the Jim Ned in Brown County. He remembers that corn was killed by heavy frost in Jim Ned bottoms on the 19th of June 1877. Mr. Story married a Missouri girl, Miss Minerva Holman, in Brown County in 1878, and she is still keeping him company. Mrs. R. N. Story (formerly Minerva Holman), born in Missouri; married to R. N. Story in Brown County in 1878. (April 18, 1924.) J. W. Tabor Sr. of Valera was a visitor to Coleman Wednesday and enrolled his name and the name of Mrs. Tabor on the roster. Mr. Tabor was born 1843 in Grimes County, Texas. He was in Coleman County first in 1879 and later in 1905. In September 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate service, joining the 2nd Texas Infantry. On account of his size (weighting only 85 pounds) he was transferred to the artillery service and became a lead driver in Bibson's Battery. He served till the end of the war. (April 25, 1924.)
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