Coach Parker shaped community, Congressman says
Above photo, World War II interrupted the coaching career Sam Parker resumed in 1946 when he came home to
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East Texas History
Speeding whiskey runner loses 100 mph high speed chase in Northeast Texas
Above photo, if you can figure out why an outlaw bent on slipping through Texas with an illegal load of
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Judge brushed with bootleggers and Dixie Mafia in East Texas
From The Eat Texas Journal By Hudson Old, Publisher They worked the same arena. They knew the same players, on
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Hughes Springs, Texas native Dr. Marion ‘Pepper’ Jenkins
Above photo, Dr. Marion ‘Pepper’ Jenkins and nurses administering a crystalloid solution at Parkland Memorial Hospital of Dallas around 1960.
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Local railway’s lasting legacy lives on
Above photo, at over 100 years old, Engine 316 is still in active service on the Texas State Railroad line.
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Mt. Pleasant, Texas CCC Camp built at Edwards Park donated by the Sheriff Colonel Bill Edwards who brought an end to outlaw era after Civil War
Frome The East Texas Journal, November 2013 By Hudson old, Journal Publisher The only lawman to hang outlaws in Titus
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Hero Thomas Witt’s death marked passage of a family
Above Photo, a Cookville native, Thomas Witt was an Army Air Force Major flying missions from a base in
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Mrs. Johnnie Henderson’s place offers summer sanctuary
Frome East Texas Journal, July 2008 By Hudson Old, Journal Publisher Pittsburg, Texas – Mrs. Johnnie Henderson’s skipping the “empty
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Last home of World’s tallest man (Henry Clay Thouston) to be restored
From East Texas Journal, October 1994 By PAT HAMILTON, Journal Correspondent In his circus appearances. Colonel Henry Clay Thouston billed
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Lament for a Lady: The Obituary or Caddo Lake and Other Fairey Tales
From East Texas Journal, October 2013 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher CADDO LAKE — Jack Canson’s tale is strange even
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