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Milam County Pioneer Oxsheer Recalls Early Milam Life
W. W. Oxsheer, Milam County’s oldest resident, recounts settlement beginnings around 1842. He recalls Nashville and Caldwell, the first court in Nashville, the 1846 creation of Burleson County, and the building of Milam’s first courthouse and early town life around Cameron.
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Milam County
Texas
Cameron
Texans
W. W. Oxsheer
Bledsoe County
Tennessee
Alabama
William B. Wilson
Oxsheer
Old Wheelock
Obertson County
Paradise
Little River
Wheelock
Danie Monroe
Josiah Turnham
Shapley P. Ross
Giles 0. Sullivan
John
William Thompson
Peter Mercer
Orr
Bell County
Taylor
W. H. Walker
Walker
Caldwell
Old Nashville
Sul’ Ross
Nashville
John T. Mills
Burleson County
Israel Standifer
Daniel Monroe
A. W. Sullivan
Benjamin Bryant
John Hobson
Temple of Justice
Jacob Cross
Wiley Jones
C. M. Hubby
Davis’ Livery Stable
George E. Burney
John Blair
Isaac Standifer
John McLenna
F. T. Duffan
R. E. B. Taylor
Port Sullivan
Methodist Church
W. C. Lewis
Pleasant M. Yell
Josiah W. Whipple