East Texas History

From East Texas Journal, June 1994 By Jean Pamplin   MT. VERNON, TEXAS – 1875, a battle waged in newly

Robert Raymond (Pat) Gaggers From East Texas Journal / Lynch Harper Files I was born where the North Jefferson church

The Pittsburg Gazette reported that 42-year-old P.D. Thornton “is said to have an even chance for recovery” after one man

WILL J, TAYLOR, who built the cotton gin in Monticello in 1915, stands to the right of the doorway in

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