Memoir installments reveal lifelong romances and campus pranks
The Comanche County newspaper runs the third and final installment of G. C. Sloan’s memoirs. Sloan recalls early romance with Miss Mattie Robinson, college days, dating exploits, pranks, and a Hallowe’en disguise episode, with vivid anecdotes from Briar Grove to the Co d e Manche area.
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G. C. Sloan
Sloan
Comanche
Greenwood
Wise County
Mattie Robinson
A. Cc
Briar Grove
Long career and family tales from a Comanche pastor
The narrative recalls early church life in Comanche and Dallas, ministerial mentors, deaconships, and shifts between Presbyterian and Methodist memberships. It notes marriages into the Tenn ey and Lindsey families, dates of union, and the deaths of Gertrude and Cordie Grainger, with Greenwood Texas Cemetery interments. Visitors from Shreveport, Mineral Wells, and Wheeler came to see hospitalized Mrs. Cox.
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Greenwood
Methodist Church
First Presbyterian Church
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Buck Grainger
Shreveport
Clarence Wells, Jr
Nancy
Mineral Wells
Blanche Grainger
Wheeler
W. W. Cox
Former Resident W A Matthews Dies in Haskell
Rev. W. A. Matthews, 82, once lived in Comanche, died this week in Haskell. Final rites were conducted in Haskell on April 14.
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Comanche
Haskell
Beene Visit Described From Stephe Area
Readable text notes a visit by TP Mr and y to Mr and JY Beene inStephe. The Beenes are described as tired after the journey, with references to Enville and Pex A.
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JY Beene
Stephe
Beenes
Enville
Pex
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