Talk Of Texas Footnote To His Tory Finding of Socialist Settlement
A best selling novel inspired a little known Socialist settlement in Texas. The community began in France in the 1840s when young lawyer Etiene Cabet, who pursued social change, wrote a novel called Voyage to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
France
Etiene Cabet
Icaria
Cabet
Fort Worth
Denton County
Justin
Carl Brecheen
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Faulkner
National Council On Family Relations
Power For Today
Brecheen
Smitty
Obituaries for Two Brownfield Area Residents Pass
Obituaries record the 10 a.m. Thursday service for 20 month old Jack Connett of Brownfield with burial at East Lawn Cemetery Tucs on. The child died at 7:40 a.m. Tuesday in Lubbock General Hospital after a sudden illness. Also noted are services for 82 year old Mrs E C Mamie Harlan of Seagraves with burial in Brownfield Cemetery. She died at 7:40 p.m. Tuesday in Brownfield Regional Medical Center after a long illness. Survivors are listed for both families along with birthplaces and marriages. The rest of the text discusses Tocqueville era Icaria and the French settlement in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Connett
Dennis Connett
Brownfield
Brownfield Funeral Home Memorial Chapel
Bill Penland
Calvary Baptist Church
East Lawn Cemetery
Tucson
Ariz
Brownfield Funeral Home
Lubbock General Hospital
Kirk
Lary Fulford
Paul DeVoss
el Paso
Lawrence Fulford
Lois Cox
Spur
Seagraves
Church of God
Sam Britten
Royce Barker
Seagraves Assembly of God Church
Brownfield Cemetery
Harlan
Brownfield Regional Medical Center
Williamson County
Cliff C. Harlan
Goree
Terry County
Free Holiness Church
L.S
Pete
J.W
Carl Lynn
Bob
Seminole
Ellis Wayne
Arlington
Iris Tankersley
North Plain
Ore
Catherine Barton
Voyage to Icaria and Texas Tales in One Page
An 1890s style digest features the Icaria colony collapse with Cabet’s exodus to Navoo and later death, notes 12 fighting incidents around San Antonio, highlights Layland Memorial Museum in Cleburne with a rich artifact collection, recounts Thomas Jefferson Chambers’s unsolved murder, and mentions John Hillerman’s Texan roots in Denison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Layland
Cleburne
W.J. Layland
Kit Carson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Talk of
Jake Connett
Mamie Harlan
E.C. (Mamie) Harlan
Navoo
Ill
St. Louis
San Antonio
Thomas Jefferson Chambers
Mexico
Chambersea
Anahuac
John Hillerman
Higgins
Magnum, P.I
Denison
Grayson County
Lubbock Highway
Marriage Nunnery
Featuring
Paul Faulkner
Institute of Marriage and Family Studies
Rye
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
Christian Association For Psychological Studies
American Psychological Association
Gladys
Brownfield Church OF Christ
Lubbock Road
Saucer
United States
Creamer
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