East Texas History

Above Photo: Sheriff Bill Edwards, served as Titus County, Texas sheriff from 1871 to 1882, and hanged James C. “Sam”

From The East Texas Journal, March 2017 By Hudson Old, Publisher Consider the odds of a stone age ax winding

Above Photo: A teacher, Pat Tomberlain insists that history matters, not as nostalgia, but as instruction. From The East Texas

PITTSBURG – Don’t hold your breath waiting for the arrival of the mob. There’s a narrow niche of Bull Durham

With construction of their new downtown location completed in 1893, Holman and Hall opened selling hardware, furniture, wagons and buggies,

Above Photo: Do Drop Inn advertisement from December 24, 1941, MP Daily Times. From The East Texas Journal, July 2026

Above Photo: A German immigrant gambled and lost his Star Bakery (at left) betting on the firstcommercial attempt to mine

Above Photo: Joni Haldeman provided research documenting Lead Belly Ledbetter’s work as a sharecropper on the lamb, living under an

Texas State Representative Tom Ramsay, above, has been ordered off a church roof by a woman once married to Governor

Above Photo: Left to right, James, Pauline, Lloyd, Berniece Randi Anderson, About 1926. Photo from The Story of Corporal James