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Judge Hartsfield and Dr. HollabaughGive Program, Co. Historical GroupDr. J. B. Hollabaugh. president of the Ellis County Historical Survey Committee, presided atlast night’s meeting of the groupin Waxahachie.Judge Milton Hartsfield, speaker for the occasion, talked on plans for the organization for1964 and then discussed the early court records of Ellis County. These were recorded 1 ^ ^ ^ OUllt \ was organizedand were reported to be ‘ mostinteresting.Mrs. Fred A. Newton showed a history of Ellis County, property of R. W llesser, written in 1881 by S. M Carleton who was editor of the Ennis Saturday Review which was established in 1873.Dr. Hollabaugh read a paperhorses. The former Miss Winnie Mae Murphy married Asa Bynum and they later moved to the Oak Branch Community, near Waxahachie. They are both buried it the Oak Branch Cemeterv. Asa Bynum helped organize the Oak Branch Church and he and his wife were favorably known in the Oak Branch Community Dr. Hallabaugh reported for Houston McClain of Palmer and Mrs. C. W. Kent of Waxahaehifthat information has gone miothe State Historical headquarters pertaining to Parsons' Brigade so that a marker may beobtained for this spot He alsoreported for Miss Mabel On/ zard that her committee is working on a Medallion for the old jail there and also for the smal’!, Th KG lnlt; a l)ii Syi bvlasfuisent to him from Bloek Co.. Ala., Wyatt store on East Main which by a member of the Historical was used in earlier days as aSurvey Committee there. It toldthe story of the former MissCourt House. He appointed a program committee for the year:Winnie Mac Murphy and her sis-; Mrs. L. C, Curlirt Waxahachfrter who captured three Union i Miss Virginia Dull Kerns, andsoldiers during the Civil War who came to their home in Block County and ordered them to fix them some mint juleps. They did. each time adding toothache medicine to the drinks and after a few the men went to sleep. The women took their guns. When they awoke the two sistersMrs. W. A. Spaulding .If Wax ahachic. Mrs. Jack Anderson ofMidlothian read the minutes and icorrespondencej Fa ! w i! 1)1 i tlit.j M aj tleij ThSll|at l HAIS 1forTinf vo ii *: nic ei rtoIMrs Jan Halve was welcomed toninarched the three Union soldiersis a new member and Mi s Hank Davis of Waxahachie as a gut -t of Mrs. CurlinAttending from Ennis wenilavjinto the Confederate Camp. Foi itns they were given two ridingDr. Holla ha ugh.Mrs. Halve and Hubert C RogerMrMiNewton iiid MrsBRI davIbir! \RI i I 1
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Ennis Daily News
Ennis, Texas, US
Wed, Jan 29, 1964
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