MOVING IN TWO COVERED WAGONS by Jesse Suttles In the winter of 1914, my Grand Dad, Joseph Monroe Suttles, moved his family from Russellville, Arkansas, in Pope County, to Dallas, Texas. Originally, he had planned to move to Rockwall, Texas, located about thirty five miles north of Dallas, where he had rented a farm, but […]
A Galveston Daily News reporter in 1900 said the story of the Sept. 8, 1900, hurricane could never truly be written. For many, no words could ever be spoken again about the deadly hurricane that reshaped the Gulf Coast forever. Galveston was a famous, booming resort town as far back as 1874 when a newspaper […]
I enjoyed every day of it. I miss living like that by Jesse Suttles This took place when I was about 16 years old. I am 76 now. When I was a young teenager. My little brother Doyle, my self and two or three friends would go fishing on Sulfur River in North East Texas. […]
Oldest Man in the United States died in Waco, Texas on September 1, 1909 (Transcribed from Florence Times, Lauderdale County, Alabama September 10, 1909) Waco, Tex., September 1, Isaac Brock died here today aged 121. He was not only the oldest man in the United States but virtually as old as the United States itself. […]
In the 1930s, Texas had plans to celebrate its 100th anniversary of independence from Mexico. The city of Dallas was chosen and on June 6, 1936, the exposition opened to huge crowds seeking to escape the hard-knock life of Depression-era Dallas. Crowds fill the plaza in front of the Federal Building during the Texas Centennial […]
A surprise hurricane in July, 1943 that hit Texas was considered at the time the worst since the 1915 Galveston hurricane. The tropical storm developed over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on July 25 and strengthened while it tracked westward. The Old Southern Hotel 1943 Texas City Library.org Information and reports about the hurricane were […]
