Grayson County
Newspaper Clippings
County Superintendent of Public Education J.B. King requests The News to make the following announcement: There will be a meeting of the Grayson county teachers’ institute held at the Franklin public school building in Sherman, commencing Saturday, Oct. 22 at 9 a.m. This is the first meeting of the scholastic year and will be an important one. The year’s work for the teachers will be outlined thereat, as prepared by the committee appointed for that purpose. -- Dallas Morning News, 10-20-1898 |
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A resolution was passed by the Grayson County Press Association at its meeting in the rooms at the local Chamber of Commerce, in which they agreed to join hands with the Sherman and Denison Chamber of Commerce in the matter of organizing the Oklahoma, Texas and Gulf Highway Association, and to work for good roads from the Red River to the motion of a county fair in Grayson County next year. -- Cleburne Morning Review |
Seven County tax assessors were named by Tax Assessor-Collect Collier Yeury. They will start work Jan. 1 and will receive $500 each for the four month’s task. The men are W.E. May, Sherman; Guy Vinnedge, Denison, C.W. Pope, Precinct 1; Clyde Douglas, Precinct 2; John Rice, Precinct 3; J.B. Dickey, Precinct 4, and I. E. Brown, Precinct 5. |
Strayed from Claude Johnson, near Van Alstyne, on Jan. 30, one small black mare mule, about 13 hands high, 3 years old, not shod, had on halter when last seen. The owner will pay $5 for the recovery of his animal. A.E. Hughes, sheriff Grayson county. |
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Sheriff A. E. Hughes of Grayson county came down today to identify the man arrested Saturday for Ab Stevens, who |
Winter prevailed in Denison and this part of Grayson County last night and today. Late this afternoon the mercury was nearing the freezing point and fruit and truck growers are apprehensive of tonight’s weather. About 2 o’clock this morning, a rain and hailstorm, accompanied by considerable wind, broke over Denison and raged for more than an hour. Water fell i n sheets and the hailstones of unusual size brought many sleepers from their beds as the stones rattled against the roofs and upon the window panes. Rain continued to fall until after daylight. Early risers today found drifts of hailstones more than a foot in depth. Fruit-raisers stated today that while many blooms were knocked from the trees by the hail they did not believe that the fruit prospects had been seriously affected should it pass safely through tonight’s cold spell. During last night’s storm nearly an inch of rain fell. Many windows are reported broken and several roofs damaged as the result of last night’s hailstorm. Snow flurries were frequent in Denison throughout the morning and afternoon hours. -- Dallas Morning News |
Grayson County’s failure to provide a jail which would be approved by the Federal inspectors as a safe place for the keeping of Federal prisoners is causing a yearly monetary loss to the county of approximately $1,200 in Federal funds. Payment for the keeping of Federal prisoners in on a quarterly basis, but W.V. Graham, jailer, said Tuesday it would average around $300 a quarter. The largest quarterly payment ever received was $425. The smallest number of Federal prisoners housed in the jail, before all were removed early this month, was three and the maximum twenty-six, the average running around six or seven prisoners. -- Dallas Morning News, 12-19-1934 |
The population of Grayson County announced by the Bureau of Census today is 74,165 a gain of 8,169. Population |
The constitutionality of the jury wheel applying to Grayson and a few of the larger counties of Texas was attached for the first time in a Sherman court this morning in the case of the State of Texas vs. Gus Kenecht, charged with a violation of the local option law. Counsel for the defense, after polling the jury as to who had been drawn from the wheel and who had been summoned as talesman by the Sheriff, attacked the qualifications of those drawn from the wheel because the stipulations of said method and its effects were generally violative of rights guaranteed under the Constitution, the argument being in line with objections raised in Fort Worth-Dallas and other courts to the wheel. A peculiarly interesting feature today was that the rest of the panel was challenged also on the ground that none having been brought in by selection by a large commission or the wheel, they had not been summoned by any legal process. The court over- ruled the challenges for above grounds. -- Dallas Morning News |
Owing to the slow progress of cleaning counties of the cattle tick by e lections, the leading cattle raisers of Grayson county have petitioned the legislature to change or amend the present tick eradication law to give Texas state-wide tick eradication. Sentiment with regard to tick eradication is changing. Texas is nearer shaking off the tick tax on livestock than ever before. -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram, - 01-18-1917 |
| Speaking about investment dollar activity in Texas, a concern with a capital stock of $250,000 will “dress up” one of Grayson county’s pleasure and health reports. Which is to say that the proposed program of progress includes every thing a modern health and pleasure resort can offer the public in the way of buildings, parks, amusement features and the sort. With interstate highways inviting tourist travel by automobile, and these same highways inviting tourist travel by automobile, and these same highways inviting Texas to See-Texas-First, it is good business progress and policy to develop and modernize and advertise and popularize the health and pleasure resorts of Texas. -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 04-14-1918 |
| The movement of certain shrewd Eastern capitalists to boom Denison, Texas, would indicate that they are strong in the belief that the tide of emigration is to flow in that direction. Denison is the county seat of Grayson county, the fifth county west from the Arkansas line and bordering on the Indian Territory. The place has abundant advantages, of soil, railroad communications, etc., the only drawback being the political and social conditions of that portion of county. But there is a change that these may be improved, and most people will hope that such may be the case. -- St. Albans Daily Messenger, 05-04-1889 |
| A ten-year-old lad from Denison romped away with the bulk of first prizes at the Grayson county corn show. He prepared his land with a deep see bed, planted in March, and plowed the crop seven times. His harvest was thirty-eight bushels per acre and sold at $1.50 per bushel. In addition to the lad’s record of first he pulled down the special prize of $50. A liberal sprinkling of that sort of youngsters in every county in Texas would cause their want’s-the-use seniors to get up and hustle. The future glory of Texas is tolerably safe. -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10-10-1909 |
| Last Saturday the esteemed Denison Herald broke the tape at the beginning of its twenty-second mile in the newspaper Marathon and is cheerfully on its way to another prosperous year for Texas, Grayson county and Denison. The Herald builds while it boosts. -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram, -07-27-1910 |
| All the candidates for governor of Texas who have announced have been mingling with Grayson county people at Sherman this week. And each of them would have been happier if t’other sweet charmer had been away. -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 08-11-1905 |
| We take from an Extra of the Sherman Courier an interesting letter from Mr. R.S. Stevens, the general manager of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, in which he intimates that, if the people of Grayson county subsidize the line to the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that the road will be built through that county. -- Galveston News, 02-09-1872 |
| H.K. Needham sold an 80-acre university land claim yesterday, to Mr. Samuel Nichols, of Missouri, who will move his family here as soon as possible. Mr. Nichols has made a complete tour of the State, and thinks that Grayson is the banner county of Texas. -- Denison Daily News, 04-19-1878 |
THE TRIPLE MURDER A Relative of the Suicide Interviewed by The News Reporter Sherman, Tex., July 7 – George Smith entered upon his last night on earth with all the calm exterior that he has evinced since the very beginning. He has talked but little of himself. He has selected a dark blue suit. The trap will be sprung at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. Gradually the mist is being cleared away and the cause of the terrible tragedy and suicide in the western part of the county on Monday last is apparent. As has been announced, a telegram was sent by Sheriff McAfee to Mr. Weaver of Gilmer, Upshur county, the father of Mrs. Pierce, informing him of the terrible affair. W. F. Robinson of Gilmer, Upshur county, answered the telegram in person. He was seen by a News reporter today and in substance made the following statement: I am a son-in-law of Mrs. Pierce. I married her oldest daughter. My mission to Grayson county is to take the children down to Upshur county, where they will find homes with myself and their grandfather. I will of course remain in Pottsboro for a few days to close up the affairs of Mr. Pierce, which I find to be in pretty fair shape. Do you know any of the causes leading up to the affair? Inquired the reporter. Of course I do not know anything of the disagreement at home if there were any. I notice the letters he left seem to cast a shadow over Mrs. Pierce. I am satisfied that she was guiltless of anything wrong as intimated. I was raised in Guineette county, Ga., with Pierce, and have known him for many years. When he was quite a young man, in an accident of some kind, an injury was inflicted on his head which necessitated placing a silver plate. At times he was clear off, especially was he so when had been drinking. Has he been addicted to intoxicants ever since you knew him? No, up to the time he was grown he did not drink but after he had come back from his first visit to Texas he drank a great deal. Do you know how much of the history of Mrs. Pierce? Well, not fully. She, like myself and Pierce, was a native of Georgia. Neither Pierce nor myself ever saw her there to my knowledge. She came to east Texas with her parents when quite a child. Pierce did not meet her until he came to Texas to live. She is about 35 years of age and has been married three times. Her first husband was George Graves, who is the father of my wife and the oldest boy, Joe who ran away from near Pottsboro and came to my house. Shortly after the death of Graves she married Robert Logan and the four children now at Pottsboro are by the second marriage. She was married to Pierce about four or five years ago near Marshall. They lived near Rockwall and then came up in north Texas. None of Mrs. Pierce’s relatives were ever informed if there were any family troubles, and they all seemed to be getting along in peace, unless perhaps it was that the children during a visit to their grandparents about two years ago complained that Pierce made them work too hard. This was the cause Joe gave for running away. I did not know Morgan Pack. The burial of the three victims took place in a quiet churchyard, near where the tragedy took place. One large, wide grave was dug and the coffins containing the bodies of Pierce and Pack were laid side by side. It was contemplated to bury all three victims in the same grave, but to this the children objected and a separate grave was dug for her. Wooden slabs erected state “the graves are those of Morgan E. Pack and Lucy Susan Pierce. There is nothing to tell the stranger that M. M. Pierce, too, there awaits the resurrection morn. (Dallas Morning News, July 8, 1892, page 1, transcribed by Peggy Thompson) |
| PAID THE PENALTY Sherman, Texas, July 9 – George Smith was hung here yesterday afternoon for the murder of Marshal Isbel, of Bells, Texas, in January 1891. (Duluth News – Tribune, July 10, 1892, page 1, transcribed by Peggy Thompson) |
Grayson County vital statistics reports show 34 deaths and 89 births during September. --Grayson County Vital Statistics Date: 1908-10-04; Paper: Dallas Morning News |
| The Grayson County Summer Normal having been given official recognition yesterday by State Superintendent Lafevre, it is announced today that the session will be held at Austin College in this city, and that the members of the faculty are as follows: J.E. Blair, superintendent of Denison city school, conductor; P.W. Horn, superintendent of Sherman city schools; J.A. McLaughlin and D.F. Eagleton of Austin College, Miss Lillie Martin of Dallas city schools. Primary and manual training as well as the matter of State teachers and permanent certificates will be features. The session will open on June 25. -- Grayson County Normal Date: 1903-05-19; Paper: Dallas Morning News |
| Grayson County Reunion. List of Speaks on Program for Old Settlers’ Meeting. The management of the Old Settler’s Association of Grayson County announces addresses for the coming reunion as follows: Wednesday, Aug. 9, Mayor A.A. Fielder, Hon. J.D. Woods, Congressman C.B. Randell, Hon. A.C. Cruce of Ardmore, I.T. Thursday, Aug. 10, Judge M.D. Brooks of Dallas, Hon. Tom Campbell of Palestine. Friday, Aug. 11, Hon. George T. Jester of Corsicana, Hon. O.B. Colquitt of Austin, Hon. S.B. Cooper of Beaumont, Congressman Jack Beall of Waxahachie. Saturday, Aug. 12, Hon. C. K. Bell of Fort Worth, Hon. J.B. Wells of Brownsville. -- Grayson County Reunion Date: 1905-07-27; Paper: Dallas Morning News |
| Stolen, from Sherman on the 29th, one dark bay horse, 4 years old, no brands, 14 ½ hands high, knot on the back made by a saddle, several marks on the back where he was bitten by another horse. Hadon a red leather saddle made by H.S. Kimball, red leather bridle and red saddle blanket. Will pay $25 for the horse and thief. R.L. McAfee, sheriff Grayson County. -- Sheriffs' Department Date: 1892-11-02; Paper: Dallas Morning News |
| Look out for a man about 5 feet 10 inches high, heavy set, weighs 180 pounds, heavy red mustache, red-faced, little hair on nose, scar on one cheek, wanted for theft of buggy and team; have got buggy and team; $25 reward by E.F. Ford and Dick Dickson for his arrest and delivery in any jail in state. R.L. McAfee, sheriff of Grayson County.-- Sheriffs' Department Date: 1891-01-07; Paper: Dallas Morning News |
| One sorrel mare, 15 ½ hands, no brand, collar marks, heavy set and fat, left eye weak, small star in forehead, righthind foot white. A liberal reward for any information leading to recovery by J.T. Pickett, Jamison, Tex., and if stolen I will give $10 for thief delivered to me in any jail in the state. R.L. McAfee, sheriff Grayson County. -- Sheriffs' Department Date: 1891-01-07; Paper: Dallas Morning News |
Held for Contempt, Sherman, Tex., Aug. 20.--District Judge Bliss held that O. Robertson was in contempt of court for not having paid to his wife, Emma D. Robertson, the alimony ordered by the court pending the calling of the divorce proceedings between them for trial on the third Monday in September. The order to the Sheriff was to hold him until he paid the plaintiff, his wife, the sum of $25.-- Date: August 21, 1897; Paper: Fort Worth Register |
Hunter Dies of Wound, Sherman, Texas, June 9.--Malcolm Hunter of Sherman, who was shot by a hotel man named Hoffman at Muskogee, Okla., last night, died a few hours afterward. His father, J. P. Hunter, and brother Morris Hunter, left at once for Muskogee. -- Date: June 9, 1910, Paper: Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
| Sherman Woman Burned by Gas, Sherman, April 23.--Mrs. V. B. Zachary of East Sherman was perhaps fatally burned Saturday afternoon when she started to light a gas oven where a child had turned on the gas. She was burned about the face, head and body. Date: April 24, 1921, Paper: Fort Worth Star-Telegraph |
| Remarkable Accident. A Farmer Severely Wounded by a Winchester Ball Fired a Mile Away. Pilot Grove, Tex., Feb. 6.--A very painful accident occurred to Mr. George Marshall at his home about two miles north of this place Wednesday morning. He was plowing in the field when a stray ball from the winchester of a sportsman, about one mile distance struck him in the back part of the thigh and passing almost through, lodged just under the femoral artery, inflicting a very painful, if not dangerous wound. Date: February 10 1889. Paper: Dallas Morning News Another Account: Whitewright, Tex., Feb. 9.--Yesterday Rome Roberts shot at a hawk on his yard fence with a winchester rifle. The bullet missed the hawk and penetrated the left thigh of George MARSHALL, who was at work in his field one mile distant. Mr. Roberts came to town and carried out a physician to extricate the ball. Mr. Marshall's wound is quite painful, but not serious. |
TERRIBLE RESULTS OF A STORM – 73 people dead and probably many more Sherman Texas was struck by a cyclone about 4:30 o’clock Friday afternoon, leaving death, destruction and suffering in its path. It is estimated that seventy-five people were killed and 159 wounded. About seventy houses in the city are totally destroyed. Every member of some families were killed, and it is miraculous how members of other families escaped. A dead child was found in the top of a tree about two miles from the city. An old lady was found half a mile from the house in which she was at the time of the cyclone. Every vacant building in the city has been converted into a morgue or hospital, and every physician from all the neighboring cities are here attending to the wounded. Following is a list of the dead so far as known: WHITE: R. L. BURNS, wife and two children Mrs. OTTO SPAULDING and two children JAMES NICHOLSON, wife and three children L. H. MONTGOMERY, wife and two children JOHN AMES, wife and two children Rev. Mr. SHEARER Eight members of the PEARCE and RICHARDSON families at the WAKEFIELD farm Child of Mrs. CRAIGHEAD Mrs. BURNS and two children Mrs. JAMES DAVIS Mrs. JOHN FIELDS
COLORED LUCINDA LAKE CHARLES COX ELIZA COX ROSINA LAKE SLOANE BALLINGER KATIE BALLINGER WILLIAM NICKERSON’S four children WRIGHT CLARKE and three members of his family Mrs. ATHENS
Eighteen unidentified dead are at the city hall. Seriously injured – Professor and Mrs. KOHLER, six children of J. B. IRWIN and EDWARD TRURO
AT OTHER POINTS Justin – J. W. EVANS was killed, seventeen wounded - some of them fatally, and twelve houses destroyed. Gribble Springs – four killed and more than twenty injured, some of whom will die. The village was about destroyed.
From The Hamilton Appeal - Marion County, AL - May 22, 1896 Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney |
ECHOS OF THE GREAT TORNADO - Additions to the long list of cyclone victims are being made hourly as the news from the remote districts arrive. Mrs. J. J. JOHNSON, wife of a farmer, and JOHN TILDEN, a farm hand, were killed at Nemo. At the same place a little girl named DAVIS was blown against a barbed wire fence and almost cut in two. Her mother and another child were killed in the wreck of their house. Although there are appalling evidences about Sherman of the storm's fury' something like order is being restored. These are sixty patients still in the hospitals and as many more in private houses. Up to noon Wednesday sixty-one bodies had been buried at Sherman. From The Hamilton Appeal - Marion County AL - May 29, 1896 Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney |
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The Daily Morning Astorian
(Astoria, OR)
Friday, September 12, 1890
Missing Heirs Found
A Ten-Million-Dollar Estate to be Divided at Last
Located After Three Years
Prominent Washington and Virginia Families to Get Valuable
Cotton Lands
Washington, Sept., 11 – Newspaper readers will recall the
publication three years ago of the statement that Thomas Bear died in
Texas, leaving an estate worth $10,000,000, the only heirs being
distant relatives, thought to be living in Washington and vicinity.
After three years of diligent searching the heirs have been found in
Washington and Virginia, and half of the estate of 800,000 acres of
the finest cotton lands in the counties Grayson, Fannin and the
vicinity, in eastern Texas, will be divided among twenty-one prominent
Washingtonians.
The other half is to go to the Virginia branch of the family.
[Transcribed and submitted by Jim Dezotell]
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The Evening News Maria Texas August 7, 1899 Child Dead-Mother Injured. Denison, Tex., Aug. 5-Thursday evening while the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Willard of 831 West Texas street was playing with a toy stove, her clothing caught fire and she was so severely burned she died this morning. The mother who was very ill with typhoid fever, made a heroic effort to save the child's life, was severely burned herself and is in a very critical condition today. [Submitted by Shauna Williams] |
| Hamilton News Press (Marion County AL), Dec 5, 1895 The Shearer family in East Sherman Texas are the victims of a mysterious disease. Miss Jennie, aged 15, her brother George, 21 years old, Maud, a child of 7, all died within a few hours. And Clark, 26 years old is not expected to live. McSwain Shearer, another brother, aged 18, is also very sick. The family moved to Sherman from South Carolina about a year ago. --Submitted by Veneta McKinney |