OSCAR L. TAYLOR 1894-1988
June 13, 2025
Camp County families built East Texas Peach Capital
June 11, 2025
Every store in Cookville robbed !
June 6, 2025
Scholarship winners score on poultry giant’s West Side ties
June 2, 2025
Talco oil brought jobs
May 28, 2025
Southerland’s Gins in Cookville, Texas
May 23, 2025
Pittsburg shop with California flair
May 21, 2025
Chancellor Edwards 1901-1983
May 16, 2025
Oil strike turns Talco community into wide-open boom town
May 14, 2025
Ripley Townsite Company, Titus County, Texas
May 9, 2025
Polish teen survives Nazi labor camp
May 7, 2025
Mount Pleasant Oil Mill
May 2, 2025
One-time Wells Fargo driver Spearman recalled grandmother’s tale of Civil War Georgia
April 30, 2025
Piggly Wiggly, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
April 25, 2025
Bootstrap manufacturing boomed in rural Titus County community
April 23, 2025
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Special to the journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Oscar Leonodis Taylor in 1979 Editor's...
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Above photos, means the same now as 31 years ago, there's work from daylight to dark at Efurd Orchards, where...
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By Sam Ferguson East Texas Journal Production Manager Cookville Texas was visited by a gang of burglars and "knob knockers"...
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Above Photo, winners of the Sue Whalyn Payne Memorial Scholarship are: Diya Desai, Yahaira Pina, Tanner Marshall, Amir Martinez and...
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From East Texas Journal, March 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Paycheck promise brought sharecrop family to this area TALCO,...
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The picture of this old Cookville Gin was taken in 1915. It is the J. O. Southerland Gin in Cookville,...
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From East Texas Journal, March 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Pittsburg, Texas -- There was a picture, like a...
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Photo above, driver on the wagon is Rufus Garland "Rufe" McClinton, at right of him is Chancellor Edwards in...
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From East Texas Journal, February 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Talco, Texas - The last oil boom in Texas...
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By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Ripley Townsite Company had filed its charter in Austin, Texas July 26,...
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From East Texas Journal, April 1996 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher A Polish girl who survived the Holocaust concentration camps,...
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Mount Pleasant Oil Mill By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal "The $35,000 necessary to build the Mount Pleasant...
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From East Texas Journal, February 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher A hundred and thirty-one years back, less a few...
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By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Piggly Wiggly – The last Piggly Wiggly in Mt. Pleasant was built...
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Above photo, Cookville's Steve Adkison shoes "Dunny," for Gary Maples. Industries in the rural Titus County Community of Cookville used...
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