TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Captain Frank Bauer (1868-1954)The name Bauer is one that is well known in Calhoun County, and for good reason. Through vigorous...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (August 5, 2025): Frederick (Fred) Senator Montier was born 171 years ago TODAY, August 5, 1854, in Lavaca, Texas (today Port...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (July 29, 2025): Johann Henry Schmitt, IV, was born in Büdesheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany in 1829. When Johann...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (July 22, 2025): Juliet Constance Ewing Fretwell (1820-1878) In 1824 Don Martin DeLeon established a colony in Texas. The DeLeon...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (July 15, 2025): Miss Grace Bierman was born on March 7, 1895, in Chocolate (later called Sweetwater) in Calhoun County, Texas -...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (July 8, 2025): James Preston Fulkerson (1802-1852) Bat Masterson, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, and Wyatt Earp are...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (July 1, 2025): William Patrick (W.P.) Regan, Sr. was born in Indianola on November 2, 1873. He was the 4th child and 2nd son of...

“The discovery of an amazing story” (Part 2/2):On July 1, 1851, Thomas Mann Randolph Bankhead, a man of influence and wealth died in Port Lavaca,...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (June 17, 2025): Thomas Mann Randolph Bankhead (1811-1851) Part 1 of 2I have always liked to visit cemeteries. They are places of...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (June 10, 2025): Perry Landon Haskin (1897-1972) was born in Wise County on Dec 29, 1897 to Elmer James and Mary Susan “Molly”...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (June 3, 2025): Howard Gallemore Hartzong, Sr. (1901-1968): “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (May 27, 2025): Pehr A. Swenson was born on September 10, 1856 in Järnarp parish, district of Kristianstad, Sweden. He married...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (May 20, 2025): Arthur Bradley Barr (1906-1999)The sounds of wind, waves, and gulls calling other gulls in the skies above the...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (May 13, 2025): William Fontaine Hollamon, Jr. was born on March 9, 1869, in Jasper, Texas, the 3rd child and first son of...

TOMBSTONE TUESDAY (May 6, 2025): When it comes to building a community, few treasures are greater than finding a family as devoted and impactful as...