Community Notes From Sherman and Nearby Towns
Local residents are listed visiting relatives and traveling, with multiple trips to Dallas Waxahachie Lubbock and Austin. Notable mentions include Wade Coggins at St Vincent's Hospital Sherman reunions at Lake Texoma and a G B Pruett family reunion with 93 attendees.
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Wade Coggins
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Sherman
G. B. Pruett
Lake Texoma
Tom Brown
Wayne Gault
T. C. James and Son
Whitewright
Slow Watch Saved Countless Lives in Railroad History
An engineer's watch running three minutes slow caused a 1892 train wreck that killed eleven but led to railroads adopting strict time checks. The subsequent investigation showed the disaster would have been avoided with an accurate watch, spurring safeguards used to prevent future incidents.
Sherman mill foreman drowns testing Texoma boat
Fred Stinnett, 44, a Sherman cotton mill foreman and amateur boat builder, drowned at Lake Texoma after a test run. His boat sharply turned tossing him overboard near Grandpappy Point harbor as his son Bobby and a visitor watched. His body was recovered hours later.
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Stinnett
Hart district votes down tax for new textbooks
Hart Michigan voters rejected a proposed tax increase 396 to 49 to buy school textbooks. Opponents argued the existing books were adequate as the district faced a narrow, persistent debate.
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Hart, Mich
Hart
Citation in Texas suit seeks property titled as 112.1 acres
Court citation commands Willis Roberts and others to appear in Grayson County Texas for a partition suit filed by E F Kiney and Essie B Kiney to recover title and possession of 112.1 acres described from J Murphy Survey. The case No 58895 notes the property traced through multiple prior deeds and chain to Claude Nelson and G B Bromlow with detailed boundary metes and bounds. Deadline is 42 days from issuance, Monday September 17 1951, before Judge of the Grayson County District Court in Sherman.
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State of
Texas
Willis Roberts
John Murphy
Samuel A. Roberts
Lou Coleman
J. E. Bromlow
J. B. Bromlow
Valera Bromlow
G. B. Bromlow
Mary Bromlow
B. B. Sieger
Mattie Bromlow Sieger
N. G. Gardner
Maurice Smith
Grace Smith
Claude Nelson
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
E. F. Kiney
Essie B. Kiney
Grayson
J. Murphy Survey
J. B. Sieger
J. H. Gardner
T. N. Newland
J. F. Hatfield
Varas
J. Murphy
S. V. Earnest
Iva Davidson
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Elizabeth Waggoner
Dallas
George Riley
Whitesboro
J. M. Simmons
Lois Dean Taylor
J. W. Hight
Ridgeway
Mrs
Geo. M. Hight
Mrs. Hoyt Skipworth
Charles
Tom Bean
Horace Vincent
Charlie Ayres
Bob Veazey
van Alstyne
R. L. Sears
Billie Lyons of
Cooper
Earl Lyons
Lonnie Darwin
Mrs. Houston Darwin
Kilgore
Austin
Houston
William Harrelson
Lynda
Waxahachie
Carl Allen
Leon Ball
Royce Lay
Ruth Cox
Bonham
Charles Ray Galyon
Randolph Field
San Antonio
John Smith
Lucio Orozco
Odessa
C. L. Garner
N. B. Nicholson
Farmersville
W. T. Nicholson
Buster Smith
Wills Point
Clemmer Coggins
DeKalb
Wayne Coggins
J. C. Coggins
John McAlester
Westminster
Mary Evelyn Scimshire
Albuquerque
N. M
Horace L. McAlester
Barbara
el Paso
Homer Gentry
C. M. Howard
Charles Howard
Denison
Charles Essary
Son of
Joe Johnson
Jackie Nossaman
Jack Nossaman
Guy Stepp
O. H. Layman
Celina
John Reeves
David
Ozark Mountains
Kugga Hansard
Irene Cartin
Plainview
Hayden Hamilton
Greenville
Winnie and
Sallye Hamilton
Sammy Maxwell
Ronny Maxwell
Lorenzo and Lubbock
J. T. Martin
Kevin
Camdenn
Ark
J. H. Hopper
Ronny
L. L. Wendell
Lee
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
West Texas
Henry Rogers
Edgar Grimes
Ted Hammons
Durant, Okla
M. L. Thornhill
Hoyt Skipworth
Mary Vincent
Jimmy Skipworth
Captain Kidd
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Old Settlers Reunion
Old Settlers Park
Harry Harp
S. Willow St
Bill Hames
Fred Stinnett
Texoma
Frank Sieger
Beatrice Sieger
Janie Bromlow Newland
Kate Bromlow Newland
C. L. Goldston
Mary Etta Bromlow Goldston
Mary Etta Bromlow Gold
Brushy Creek
Montgomery Motor
Montgomery Motor Co
Dick Montgomery
Mgr. & Co
Dodge-Plymouth
W. Main
Reddy
Roddy Kilowatt
Community Public Service Company
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