TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Dr. Thomas Jefferson McFarland (1836-1913)In 1836 a baby boy was born in Alabama to Gazaway Davis and Mary (Poe) McFarland....

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: DAVID LEWIS (1824 – 1886) The story of David Lewis is closely intertwined with the rise, struggles, and ultimate destruction of...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Edward Clegg (1820-1888)Throughout history one thing that is still a constant is the use of water and watercraft to move both...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: ADAM MURDOCK (1829- 1869) Adam Murdock’s life reflects the movement, ambition, conflict, and controversy that shaped...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Charles Albert Husak (1925-2019)There is a lot to be discovered about our past from those that came before us. That is the...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: REV. ROBERT JOPE (1823-1875)A tombstone stands in the Indianola Cemetery with the inscription “In the way of righteousness is...

There are times in life when something new comes along and brings with it a flood of good old memories. It comes to us like a familiar friend, warm...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: J. T. SIKES (1929 – 1983)In 1990 President George H W Bush signed the Americans with Disability Act into law protecting the...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: William Wiley George (1795-1862)When you enter the Port Lavaca Cemetery, the Flag Poles and Historical Markers sit right in...

Edward Fred Knipling was born in Port Lavaca, Texas, on March 20, 1909. He was the ninth of ten children born to German immigrant Henry John...

It is hard to imagine when you visit Indianola today that in the mid-to-late 1800s it was a thriving seaport, second in Texas only to Galveston. It...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: John Mark Dierlam (1853-1938)I don’t know if the interest in history is the same for everyone, but for me it was a gift that my...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: John Ronald Paul (1898-1952) was born in Port Lavaca, Texas on December 29, 1898 —the only son of John Adonoto and Aida...

Our visual record of life in Port Lavaca between 1904 and 1914 survives largely through the lens of former local photographer Percy Prentice Parks....

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Daniel James Cuellar (2006-2025)It is not the dates on a tombstone that matter, they just mark the beginning and the end of a...