East Texas History

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

Above Photo: NUMBER PLEASE-soon you will be able to call anyone in the- greater Titus, Camp, Franklin, Morris counties area.

Charlie Jack Keeps Omaha’s History Alive at the Museum From the East Texas Journal, July 2022 By Hudson Old OMAHA,

Above Photo: David Hoover shows some of his turn-of-the-century mechanical phonographs. They work.   Originally published in The East Texas

Titus County prohibition history: Prohibition Politics in Titus County In the late 1930s, the fight over alcohol in Mount Pleasant

Special to the Journal Synopsis by Donna K. White from an interview with Ben Carr 1979. I had two visits

Above Photo: Robert Mitchell and Roosevelt Fleming are in-laws who have lived together since Robert’s daughter married Rose 66 years

Above Photo: Since buying a tract of Franklin County land with an old farmhouse, David Weatherbie’s research has introduced him