Reconnaissance flight put pilot over Normandy
From East Texas Journal, June 1994 edition CHERBOURG, France – A month before D-Day, Tom Connor’s plane ripped through
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Indian fights, outlaws and lynching are Cason, Texas frontier legacy
From East Texas Journal, April 1996 By HUDSON OLD Journal Publisher Conventional wisdom is that the first child born in
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Julius Daniel “Kinky” Bohannon and escapees storm prison walls of McAlester Oklahoma State Penitentiary
July 2, on a hot afternoon in 1934 the newspapers said the cops were hot on heels of the robbers
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Long family roots dig into Mt. Vernon history
From East Texas Journal, June 1994 By Jean Pamplin MT. VERNON, TEXAS – 1875, a battle waged in newly
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Memoirs of Robert Raymond (Pat) Gaggers of Mt. Pleasant
Robert Raymond (Pat) Gaggers From East Texas Journal / Lynch Harper Files I was born where the North Jefferson church
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Pal’s Fish Camp on Cypress Creek, served fish, barbcue and passing gangsters
The Pittsburg Gazette reported that 42-year-old P.D. Thornton “is said to have an even chance for recovery” after one man
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Eli may not have known Monticello
WILL J, TAYLOR, who built the cotton gin in Monticello in 1915, stands to the right of the doorway in
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Cookville Cowboy won 1993 NCHA World Championship
From East Texas Journal, June 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Cookville, Texas – Billy Ray Rosewell hollered for his
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OSCAR L. TAYLOR 1894-1988
Special to the journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Oscar Leonodis Taylor in 1979 Editor’s
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Camp County families built East Texas Peach Capital
Above photos, means the same now as 31 years ago, there’s work from daylight to dark at Efurd Orchards, where
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