Cajun immigrant adds Atchafalaya holiday tradition to home at Nelta, Texas
From The East Texas Journal, December 2013 EditiBy Hudson Old, Publisher NELTA,TEXAS –Back on the Atchafalaya, Louisiana, the Gremillion family
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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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Price of salt in Titus County saw ten-fold increase when drought dried up the river
From The East Texas Journal, October 2013 By Hudson Old, Journal Publisher PORT JEFFERSON, TEXAS – One summer in the
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Ralph Sanders bull ride from Brownsville, Texas to the Brooklyn Bridge
From East Texas Journal, February 2025 By Hudson Old, Journal Publisher Editor’s Note: This story began with Harold Sanders 2012
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Battlefield surgeon the unsung heroes of Anzio
Physician’s diary recalls sense of despair with Allied armies penned five months on WWII Italian beach. By HUDSON OLD Journal
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