NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, STORIES,
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Of Interest To Houston
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EARLY NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS
Crockett Courier
1908 Lovelady
News
Names: McMurray,
Cochran, Turner,
West, Joplin,
Dent, Rich,
Atkinson,
Stanley, Smith,
Wills, Howell,
Alexander,
Collins, Moore |
CROCKETT OPERA
HOUSE
Advertisement
The Emery Stock
Co.
Beginning Nov.
9, 1908 |
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Crockett Courier Dec. 1911 |
Crockett Courier
Index Dec & Jan
1912 |
Crockett Courier
Jan. 4, 1912 |
Crockett Courier Jan. 11, 1912 |
Crockett Courier
Jan. 18, 1912 |
Crockett Courier
Jan. 25, 1912 |
Crockett Courier - Dec. 1911
& Jan. 1912 |
Crockett Courier
- Dec. 1911 |
Crockett Courier- Jan. 11,
1912 |
Crockett Courier
- Jan. 4, 1912 -
Lovelady, TX
News |
Crockett Courier - Jan. 18,
1912 - Local News |
Crockett Courier
- Jan. 25, 1912
- Local News |
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Advertisements
in the 1945 Crockett
High School Annual |
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N.B. Barbee & Harston Beeson
- Frontier Times Magazine
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Clyde Barrow &
Bonnie Parker
break
Raymond Hamilton out
of Eastham Prison,
Houston Co., TX |
Billie Nichols Bennett -
TXGenWeb Houston Co., TX
article that appeared in the
Houston County Courier
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Billie Nichols
Bennett - TXGenWeb
Houston Co., TX -
article County of
the Year Award -
01-15-2009 |
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Cherokee
Indians - home in
Texas in 1836
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Submitted
by: Jim Yarbrough |
Crockett Courthouse
- Christmas 2007
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David
Crockett's Relative
Visits Crockett -
Grapeland Messenger
- 2007 |
"Restoring Davy's
Spring" by Archie
McDonald - about
Davy Crockett's
Spring, El Camino
Real, Crockett, TX |
"David Crockett
Chapter - Daughters
of the Republic of
Texas" Yearbook -
1967-1968 |
David Crockett's
Last Letter -
January 9, 1836
- Possible Fake
Document |
CROWSON, Major
Joseph -
killed in Eastham
Prison break by Joe
Palmer, engineered
by Bonnie Parker &
Clyde Barrow.THE
DYING DECLARATION OF
MAJOR CROWSON
Submitted
by: Jim Yarbrough |
CHIMNEYS: How to
build a smokeless
chimney from the
Crockett Printer -
12-6-1853 |
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JERRY DAVIS -
Certified Wildlife
Biologist retires
after 38 years of
award winning
dedicated federal
service. |
VERNA DUREN -
celebrates her 101st
birthday Saturday,
March 17, 2007 |
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EXCITING CHASE 1893 -
Ben
Tullis & Jernor Pearce came
through Leon County from
Limestone. |
Eden-Madden Massacre,
October 1838 - Houston Co.,
TX
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EASON, Carl A., Spec. 4 -
Killed in Iraq
Houston County Courier
article: 10/26/2006
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Eason,
Carl A. -
Houston County Courier
article - October 29, 2006 |
Entertainment -
Square Dances - Two-Step,
etc.- Barn Dances
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FRONTIER TIMES Magazine -
June1926
"Old Cowmen Tell of a Big
Steal"
Names mentioned: A.M.
Nichols, Jim Nichols, Thomas
Nichols, J.M. Nichols, S.C.
Butler, Frank Fountain, Buck
Pettus, Edd Lott, John Wood,
John Claire, Pat Burk,
Johnny Linney, Bill Irwin,
J.A. Martin, George Little,
Craig McAda, Frank Oneal,
Sam CalvertSam Calvert, J.M.
Choate, P.B. Butler, Sam O.
Porter, Ed Lott, Will Lott,
John Linney, John Wood, John
Claire, Bud Jordan, Babe
Moye, Dan Brister
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FRONTIER TIMES Magazine -
May 1926
Pg. 1-5
Pg. 6-11
Pg. 12-16
Pg. 17-21
Pg. 22-26
Pg. 27-31
Pg. 32-36
Pg. 37-41
Pg. 42-46
Pg. 47-48
Articles: Early Day Tribes,
Adventures on the Cattle
Trail, Fort Concho in 1870,
Some Recollections of Early
Days, Big Foot Wallace's
Fight, The Old 45
Peacemaker, Old Amy the
Seminole Squaw, Mrs. Rebecca
J. Fisher, The Passing of a
Pioneer, The Lee-Peacock
Feud, "Black Jack" the
Outlaw, A Journey to Ft.
Griffin in 1876, Vindication
of Jean Lafitte, William
Greenwood a Pioneer, A Train
Robbery Prevented, and
Origin of Alamo Inscription.
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GEORGIA CAMP SCHOOL:
across from Georgia Camp
Baptist Church located off
Hwy. 1280, Houston Co., TX.
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JIM GIBBS - Radio
Personality Passes Away
Grapeland, TX - a history
of the
development of the city of
Grapeland. |
Glenwood Cemetery
Association improvements -
1894
I have
heard that the south side of
the cemetery was initially
for burials of blacks and
the north side for the
whites. This article
proves that to not be the
facts. In reality, the
south side was the old part
of the cemetery and
apparently when it was full,
the area on the north side
was used.
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Historic Hays Spring Dry
Following Seismic Survey |
HCHC is presented Civil War
Ledger by Chester Roy Julian
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HAROLD DURST HAIL - Letter
to his Mother - Mabel
(Durst) Hail - Written
July 7, 1916 from the U.S.
Naval Academy, Annapolis,
MD. -
It gives a young man's
perspective of live at the
Naval Academy during that
time. He also talks
about what, and who he
misses from his home town.
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Hail-McPherson Wedding
Gr-Gr-Granddaughter of Mable
(Durst) Hail; Gr-Granddaughter
of Ewen Hail; Granddaughter
of Mrs. Jacqueline (Hail)
Pate; daughter of Mr. & Mrs.
Ewen Hail
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MOLLY HAZLETT - born Houston
Co., TX - CROWNED MISS
TEXAS-2007 -
Daughter of Joel and Sherri
(Harrison) Hazlett; Junior
at Sam Houston State
University ; majoring in
mass Communications -
crowned Miss Texas
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KEN HICKS Sings To Audience
of 7,000 -
A
native of Crockett and a
graduate of Crockett public
schools, Kenn Hicks sang to
more than 7,000 fans in
Rome's famed Villa Celi
Montana, held within the
shadows of Rome's ancient
Coliseum.
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JOHN ROBERT HINSON -
He was
a prison guard in 1932 at
the Eastham Prison when he
was attacked and killed by
convicts attempting to
escape.
Submitted by: Pat
Hinson
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HOUSTON COUNTY -
Recollections of "Old
time dere not be forgotten"
by Bob
Mattox - Houston
County Courier 1-6-08
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Ice House - Crockett, Texas
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Jasper Jennings recounts his
working at the ice house,
daily operations, etc.
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JESSE JAMES -
Submitted by: Sandy Arnold
Carr
Article # 1
Article # 2
Affidavit of Mary M. James
Was
Eastex Visitor Jesse James?
Articles about the the man
believed to be the legendary
Jesse James and his visit
with relatives in Houston
Co., TX.
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Mission San Francisco de los
Tejas Replica - Ronald North
of Groveton, TX -
Submitted by: Jim
Yarbrough
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JAMES
WILSON "Jim" NICHOLS
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wrote about the formation of
the State of Texas and the
Mexican War
James Wilson Nichols's
account of Captain James
Callahan
This account contains
a short biography of the
life of Capt. Callahan's
move to Texas in 1836, his
last service in the Texas
Rangers as well as the
incident with the
Blassengame family that
resulted in Capt. Callahan's
death.
William Rowland Nichols
family -
Article in the Ingram,
TX Newspaper - Nichols line
of Billie Nichols Bennett &
Sue Nichols Hawhee
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James Wilson Nichols -
Some of his accounts of
moving to Texas published in
Texas Monthly - 1891
We become acquainted with
the Day Family--Both families move to Texas-- Settle near San Augustine--A
fish story--My acquaintance with Judge John E. Quitman--Move further west--A
visit to the Alamo--Obtain valuable historical information from Mrs.
Dickinson, the negro Jim Bowie, and Pepea Hondonga--Find Crockett's gun and
"outfit"--How they were lost--"Marrying by bond"--Indian raids--Captain
Clements' company of minute men--Some "old settlers"--A false alarm--Going
to mill in the old days--The adventures of Asa Sowell and myself-- Fighting
fire and wolves--A half-roasted team--Cut off by high water-- A happy time
returning home--A wicked steer.
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Plane crashed 1937 in
Houston County. Guy W.
Edgerton of NC, a cadet in
US Army killed. |
Price Index of Commodities
Refecting Prices In Texas,
1861-1864 |
PEPPER TREE 160 Years
old in 2008 |
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"SANTA CLAUS IN OVERALLS" by
Mark Taylor |
LENA SMITH - 101st Birthday
3-25-2007 -
Lena
Smith celebrated her 101st
birthday March 25th at
Houston County Nursing Home.
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SNOW in Latexo, TX
4-7-2007

SNOW in Latexo, TX -
03-07-2008 |
B.J. Speer -
(Leaving Holly,
Houston Co., TX to
move to Nevel's
Prairie, Houston
Co., TX - February
1890) |
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Restoring TOWN
BRANCH CREEK -
Arched Bridge
Discovered:
Photos & Article:
By Suzanne Steed |
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John Yates and Charley
Frazier -
About
John Yates, oldest son of
Matthew Yeates and Barbary
Bell, and Charley Frazier on
their ride home from
Crockett.
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STRANGE STORIES OF
UNEXPLAINABLE ENCOUNTERS
TEXAS GHOST
STORIES
The Legend of the Courthouse Clock -
Gonzales Co., TX
The Granbury Opera House - Granbury,
TX
Old City Cemetery - Galveston, TX
Ghost Handprints
Austin Ghost Tours
East Texas Ghost Stories
America's Best Hauntings
1980, Crockett, TX
Children playing in the
weeds see a black hairy
creature.
mid 1980's, Kennard, TX
Woman almost hits bipedal
creature with vehicle.
2005, Crockett, TX
Several encounters on remote
Trinity River property.
1930's, along the Trinity
river about 120 miles from
Houston, TX
Nine foot tall brown/black
creature seen carrying a
calf.
UFO Sighting - 1897 - Frank
Nichols of Josserand,
Trinity Co., TX
Mr. Frank Nichols, a
prominent farmer living
about two miles east of
here, and a man of
unquestioned veracity, was
awakened night before last
near the hour of twelve by a
whirring noise similar to
that made by machinery.
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