Chancellor Edwards 1901-1983
Photo above, driver on the wagon is Rufus Garland “Rufe” McClinton, at right of him is Chancellor Edwards in
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Oil strike turns Talco community into wide-open boom town
From East Texas Journal, February 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Talco, Texas – The last oil boom in Texas
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Ripley Townsite Company, Titus County, Texas
By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Ripley Townsite Company had filed its charter in Austin, Texas July 26,
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Polish teen survives Nazi labor camp
From East Texas Journal, April 1996 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher A Polish girl who survived the Holocaust concentration camps,
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Mount Pleasant Oil Mill
Mount Pleasant Oil Mill By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal “The $35,000 necessary to build the Mount Pleasant
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Wells Fargo driver recalled grandmother’s tale of Civil War
From East Texas Journal, February 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher A hundred and thirty-one years back, less a few
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Piggly Wiggly, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
By Sam Ferguson, Production Manager, East Texas Journal Piggly Wiggly – The last Piggly Wiggly in Mt. Pleasant was built
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Manufacturing boomed in rural Cookville community
Above photo, Cookville’s Steve Adkison shoes “Dunny,” for Gary Maples. Industries in the rural Titus County Community of Cookville used
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O. C. Falls Blacksmith Shop
The town’s last blacksmith drove a new Buick, had a summer weekend home on Glass Club Lake and the first
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Rebel Glenn Justiss lived life on his terms
From East Texas Journal, December 1999 By HUDSON OLD, Journal Publisher PROLOGUE “You really voted for him?” Glenn Justiss
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