Historic Walker County

66 Naomi Lede, Samuel W. Houston and His Contemporaries: A
Comprehensive History of the Origin, Growth, and Development of
the Black Educational Movement in Huntsville and Walker County
(Houston: Pha Green Printing, 1981); Jeffrey L. Littlejohn,
“Samuel Walker Houston and the African American Training
School at Galilee,” http://www.studythepast.com/democracy
/samuel_walker_houston_home.htm; Prather and Monday,
From Slave to Statesman; Naomi W. Lede, Pathfinders: A History
of the Pioneering Efforts of African Americans Huntsville, Walker
County, Texas (Virginia Beach: Walsworth Publishing, 2004).
67 “Sam Houston, Texan,” Bluffton Chronicle, October 27,
1909, 2; William Jennings Bryan, “General Sam Houston,”
The Commoner, May 5, 1911, 2-4.
68 “M’Adoo Appeals to Texans for Support,” Dallas Morning
News, June 6, 1917, 5.
69 Charles L. Dwyer and Viva M. McComb, “Thomason, John
William Jr.,” HTO.
70 James Patton, “Looking Back to Armistice Day – 1918,”
Huntsville Item, November 11, 2009, 3; Logan Wilson, “A
Sociological Study of Huntsville, Texas” (Master’s Thesis,
Sam Houston State University, 1927), 38-41, 80; “Whites
Kill Six Negroes. Mother and Five Sons Dead After Battle
with Posse,” New York Times, June 2, 1918; “Heathen,
Hellish, Hunnish Huntsville’s Horrors: Colored Americans
in Walker County Victims of Wholesale Depredations,” The
Houston Informer, June 7, 1919, 1; Keith J. Volanto, “Leaving
the Land: Tenant and Sharecropper Displacement in Texas
during the New Deal,” Social Science History 20 (1996), 535.
71 “Road Work Promised to Begin Soon,” Huntsville Item,
February 9, 1928; Wilson, 74.
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72 “Tax Bankruptcy,” Huntsville Item, September 8, 1932; “Tax
Payers of Walker County Hold Meeting,” Huntsville Item,
February 18, 1932; Texas Almanac, 1939-1940 (Dallas: A.
H. Belo, 1939), 184; “Reduced Acreage of Cotton
Advocated by Bankers,” Huntsville Item, February 20, 1930;
“The Paramount Issue,” Huntsville Item, July 7, 1932.
73 “Co-operative Effort A Way to Community Betterment,”
Huntsville Item, April 17, 1930; “Business Picking Up in
Huntsville,” Huntsville Item, December 4, 1930; “83-yearold
man remembers,” Huntsville Item, March 25, 1988;
Huntsville: The Mount Vernon of Texas (1938), Thomason
Room, Newton Gresham Library, Sam Houston State
University; “Oliphint Motor to be Host to Friends with
Reception,” Huntsville Item, April 24, 1930.
74 “Boettcher Lumber Co. Active Here in Saw Mill,” Huntsville
Item, April 24, 1930; “Andrew Martinez Remembers
Boettcher’s Mill, 1930-1945,” Walker County Stories,
Thomason Room, Newton Gresham Library, Sam Houston
State University.
75 “Political Landslide,” Huntsville Item, November 17, 1932.
76 Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide 1936 (Dallas:
Dallas News, 1936), 252.
77 Matt Pederson, “Friends of Huntsville State Park
Remember the 200 African-Americans Who Built a Local
Landmark,” Huntsville Item, February 24, 2006.
78 Harry McCormick, “Robert A. Josey’s Beautiful Gift to Boy
Scouts,” Houston Press, June 18, 1934, B1.
79 Mallory B. Randle, “Work Projects Administration,” HTO;
Ronnie C. Tyler and Lawrence R. Murphy, editors, Slave
Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States,
From Interviews with Former Slaves: Texas Narratives 4 (St.
Clair Shores, Mich: Scholarly Press, 1976), 144.
80 Lee Simmons, Assignment Huntsville: Memoirs of a Texas
Prison Official (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1957).
81 Ibid; Sylvia Whitman, “Texas Prison Rodeo,” HTO.
82 Cashion, Sam Houston State University, 72.
83 Glen M. Woodall, “Thousands in Huntsville Monday to Pay
Homage to Memory of General Sam Houston,” Huntsville
Item, March 5, 1936, 5.
84 Cheryl Spencer, “First Lady Visits Huntsville,” Musings from
Sam Houston’s Stomping Grounds.
85 Jack W. Humphries, “The Old Town of Huntsville: The
Perspectives of Estill and Thomason,” East Texas Historical
Journal 23 (1985): 40.
86 Cashion, Sam Houston State University, 77.
87 “New Waverly Marine Prisoner of the Japanese,” Huntsville
Item, July 29, 1943.
88 Gerald Etheredge, telephone interview by Sharla Miles,
October 17, 2011.
89 Cheryl Spencer, “Major Eula Fails Borneman (1908-1986),”
Musings from Sam Houston’s Stomping Grounds; “Lt. Eula
Fails, Nurse, Included Among the Missing,” Huntsville Item,
July 29, 1943.
90 Ralph Wooster, “East Texas in World War II,” East Texas
Historical Journal 45 (2007): 41.
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91 “Births,” Huntsville Item, January 9, 1947. Texas Almanac,
2010, http://www.texasalmanac.com/.
92 “Polio Two Cases,” Huntsville Item, September 6, 1945;
“Dedication of Hospital Wing Sunday Attracts 450,”
Huntsville Item, January 27, 1965.
93 Jesse L. Buffington, Economic Impact Study, Hunstville Texas,
Bulletin No. 38, (College Station: Texas A&M University,
1967); “Bond Election,” Huntsville Item, January 26, 1956;
Editorial, Huntsville Item, May 8, 1956; Cheryl Spencer,
interview by C. A. Carroll, September 15, 2011.
94 Sarah Bartee, New Waverly Remembered, in Walker County
Stories, Thomason Room, Newton Gresham Library, Sam
Houston State University.
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