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Rockdale ~ My Hometown: January 2015
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Rockdale, my hometown, is Texas' heart and significant part of its soul," George Sessions Perry wrote in his book, Texas: A World Unto Itself. Perry wrote with lifelong affection about his hometown, first as a novelist and later as a magazine journalist. He describes the pioneers of Rockdale as typical of restless Southerners who hitched their wagons and moved to Texas after the Civil War. . . . Clay Coppedge . . . Thursday, January 29, 2015. 1886 : Lynching in Rockdale. If at all . . . Links to this post.
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American Hauntings: January 2014
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Ghosts, Gangsters, Murder and Mayhem in American History. Friday, January 31, 2014. THE MULATTO AX MURDERS 1911-1912. San Antonio, Texas, 1912. Meanwhile, the murderers were continuing. On February 19, 1912, a mixed-race woman and her three children were murdered in their beds in Beaumont, Texas. Seven weeks later, on March 27, another mulatto mother, her four children and a male overnight guest were slain at Glidden, Texas. Southern Pacific Railroad Station in San Antonio, 1912. And with that, the 15-mo...
