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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 2013
Page
5
Monika McCoy, 42, daughter of Houston McCoy who killed Charles Whitman, has joined the Austin Police Department. The Whitman shooting in 1966 left 16 dead and 32 wounded.
Volunteers from Delta Kappa Gamma Society International gathered at a Baytown school library to sort and sticker storybooks donated for a holiday program. GCCISD trustee Jenice Coffey and members Pat Thomas and Karen Stephens helped as $2,500 in books were prepared for distribution to first graders, with future donations urged to fund next year’s project.
A marker associated with Ashbel Smith will be picked up and repaired in Houston, then installed this month on a grassy island inside Evergreen Point Golf Course entrance. The course sits on the historic 1000 acre Evergreen Plantation bought by Smith in 1848, with the Hazelwood family later developing the course in memory of Betty Hazelwood. A granite stone honoring Smith, produced in 1936 by the San Jacinto Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, will flank the marker after relocation from Business Highway 146 in 2005. Williams notes optimism that both markers will be safer and more visible to visitors. Williams also traces Smith’s deathbed care to Nicholas Schilling, a Baytown doctor, whom he wrote about in Early Texas Physicians (1999).
Harris County Historical Commission notes 27 markers in Baytown Highlands and Cedar Bayou region. Baytown Historical Preservation Association placed six markers including Ashbel Smith M D Evergreen Point Golf Course and Bayland Park sites. Full listing at historicalcommission.hetx.net Marker Inventory includes Crosby Channelview Deer Park La Porte.
The Texas Centennial era spurred a statewide marker program, adding 1,100 markers and monuments with 49 in Harris County, including the San Jacinto Monument. The process costs research, time, and up to 1700 for larger markers, with applicants handling research and fees. Beverly provides contact details for Harris County inquiries.
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