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07/09/2025

Julius Daniel “Kinky” Bohannon and escapees storm prison walls of McAlester Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Click on image to read the full story.

Law men caught up with Julius Daniel “Kinky” Bohannon. Time and again for the next 23 years, until he was pardoned, his name made headlines.

07/02/2025

Long family roots dig into Mt. Vernon history.

Arriving in Texas the same year the republic won independence from Mexico, James Long and his wife, Mary Ann Thomas Long influence the county.

06/27/2025

Memoirs of Robert Raymond (Pat) Gaggers of Mt. Pleasant Born July 12, 1894. My father came from Cason, Texas.

My father came from Cason, Texas. He lived there for several years. My mother and father had six children, four boys and two girls. Four of them died.

06/25/2025

Pal’s Fish Camp on Cypress Creek, served fish, barbcue and passing gangsters. Read about Pal’s Fish Camp customers that at one time or another included Machine Gun Kelly and Bonnie and Clyde.

“So Pretty Boy Floyd came to see Mr. Thornton and stayed until another car drove up so he left and went to Mt. Pleasant and spent the night."

06/20/2025

Eli may not have known Monticello. Read about how W. J, TAYLOR, built a cotton gin in Monticello, Texas in 1915. After its construction, it burned, but was rebuilt and continued operation until the 1940’s.

W. J, TAYLOR, built a cotton gin in Monticello, Texas in 1915. After its construction, it burned, but was rebuilt and continued operation until the 1940’s.

06/18/2025

Cookville Cowboy won world championship. Billy Ray Rosewell, of Cookville, Texas won the 1993 NCHA World Championship with a horse called Show Biz Sandy.

Billy Ray Rosewell, of Cookville, Texas won the 1993 NCHA World Championship with a horse called Show Biz Sandy.

06/13/2025

OSCAR L. TAYLOR 1894-1988. Read the 1979 interview with Oscar Leonodis Taylor and his life in Cookville, Texas.

Special to the journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Oscar Leonodis Taylor in 1979 Editor’s

06/11/2025

Camp County families built East Texas Peach Capital. Read all about the peach orchards of Efurd Orchards, Roger McPeak's Orchards and John E. and Betty Smith's peach orchard.

Camp County, Texas peach capital of East Texas was a family operation run by the Efurd Orchards, Roger McPeak's Orchards and John E. and Betty Smith's peach orchard.

06/06/2025

Every store in Cookville robbed ! Read al about the 1925 robbery by clicking on the photo.

Cookville Texas was visited by a gang of burglars and "k**b knockers" on Saturday night, January 24, 1925.

06/02/2025

Scholarship winners score on poultry giant’s West Side ties. Read all about it by clicking on the photo.

Winners of the Sue Whalyn Payne Memorial Scholarship are: Diya Desai, Yahaira Pina, Tanner Marshall, Amir Martinez and Addison Heeren.

05/28/2025

Talco oil brought jobs. Read all about the Talco oil fields by clicking on the photo.

Lawson Hearron, his wife Nora and their five children had just moved to New London where he found work building roads connected to the Kilgore oil fields.

05/23/2025

Southerland's Gins in Cookville, Texas. Read all about the family's cotton gins by clicking on the photo.

Elihu Southerland, owned one of the first horse-drawn gins in Titus County. It was located 1 1/2 miles South of Cookville.

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