Julius Daniel “Kinky” Bohannon and escapees storm prison walls of McAlester Oklahoma State Penitentiary
July 9, 2025
Long family roots dig into Mt. Vernon history
July 2, 2025
Memoirs of Robert Raymond (Pat) Gaggers of Mt. Pleasant
June 27, 2025
Pal’s Fish Camp on Cypress Creek, served fish, barbcue and passing gangsters
June 25, 2025
Eli may not have known Monticello
June 20, 2025
Cookville Cowboy won 1993 NCHA World Championship
June 18, 2025
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 oilfields brought jobs
May 28, 2025
Southerland’s Gins in Cookville, Texas
May 23, 2025
The Big Indian, 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
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July 2, on a hot afternoon in 1934 the newspapers said the cops were hot on heels of the robbers...
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From East Texas Journal, June 1994 By Jean Pamplin MT. VERNON, TEXAS - 1875, a battle waged in newly...
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Robert Raymond (Pat) Gaggers From East Texas Journal / Lynch Harper Files I was born where the North Jefferson church...
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The Pittsburg Gazette reported that 42-year-old P.D. Thornton “is said to have an even chance for recovery” after one man...
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WILL J, TAYLOR, who built the cotton gin in Monticello in 1915, stands to the right of the doorway in...
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From East Texas Journal, June 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Cookville, Texas - Billy Ray Rosewell hollered for his...
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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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