East Texas History

Special to the journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Oscar Leonodis Taylor in 1979   Editor’s

By Sam Ferguson East Texas Journal Production Manager  Cookville Texas was visited by a gang of burglars and “knob knockers”

From East Texas Journal, March 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Paycheck promise brought sharecrop family to this area TALCO,

The picture of this old Cookville Gin was taken in 1915. It is the J. O. Southerland Gin in Cookville,

  Photo above, driver on the wagon is Rufus Garland “Rufe” McClinton, at right of him is Chancellor Edwards in

From East Texas Journal, February 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Talco, Texas – The last oil boom in Texas

By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Ripley Townsite Company had filed its charter in Austin, Texas July 26,

Mount Pleasant Oil Mill By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal “The $35,000 necessary to build the Mount Pleasant

From East Texas Journal, February 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher A hundred and thirty-one years back, less a few

The town’s last blacksmith drove a new Buick, had a summer weekend home on Glass Club Lake and the first