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Photographs From The
Past
Garza
County, TX
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Post, Garza Co., TX - 1920
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Post, Garza Co., TX
Mailed
from Post, TX May 11, 1912
Submitted
by: Temple
DunawayFrom:
Temple S. Fitzgerald, working in Post, TX. He sent this card to his young
daughter, Mildred, in Barbers Hill, Chambers Co., TX: "Hello,
Mildred. We have sure had a sand storm out hear all day long and I sure
wish I was home with you. From your Poppa".
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COWBOYS of GARZA COUNTY, TX |
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GROUPS - ORGANIZATIONS -
LOCATIONS |
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 Photo
of Ed Warren, Editor of Post Dispatch with Dan B. Cockrum, age 16.
Taken January 1928.
Submitted by:
Dan E. Cockrum |
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 Boy
Scout Troop 16 - taken July 30, 1930, after they won the South
Plains Council McMillian Cup for being the Council's Best Troop.
Dan B. Cockrum was abt. 19 then and he was probably Assistant
Scoutmaster. He had written all the names on the back of the
picture. Twenty-five years later his son (Dan E.) was a Scout
and the young man on the far right of the back row was his
Scoutmaster.
Submitted by: Dan E. Cockrum |
Shorty Hamilton's Drug store that was located near the Garza
Theater.
Clerks are Sybil Cockrum and Bertram Henderson. Sybil Cockrum worked there before and for a while after she married in
1938.
Submitted by: Dan E. Cockrum
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PEOPLE & FAMILIES |
Lewis
Franklin BARROW & Mary Ethel ASKINS family
photograph album.
Submitted by:
Donnie G. Helton |
 B.M.
Blacklock Family |
 Richard
Virgil "Virge" Blacklock family |
 Thomas
Jefferson "Tom" Blacklock & Amanda Lou Edwards |
 Vinson
Dooley "Pat" Blacklock Family |
Albert & Dewitt Caylor
Brothers on the steps
of the Caylor home, Post, TX in the mid
1920's |
Charles Franklin Caylor & Mattie Catherine Donham,
c.1900
Submitted by:
Frank Caylor |
Donham Family, c.1937
Mattie Caylor, with mother
Nancy Donham (seated) and brothers, Sam, Mason, Tandy & Dave
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 George
W. Harp & Martha Jane McCaig Harp |
 Clarence
Daniel Hartman |
Henry Allen Pharis
& Mary Jane (Littrel) Hughes -
grandparents of Billie Hopkins.
Link: Photo of the Hughes
Home on their farm near Post, TX
Submitted by: Billie Hopkins |
I.D. (Irl Dotch) Poole
Nickname: "Buddy", taken on Post Ranch,
probably around 1910. Submitted by: Bob
Poole (grandson)
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 Percy
Printz & Bertha Jane Harp
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 Alfred
Thompson Shedd Family |
Cora
Catherine (nee Cook) Carpenter,
b. 12-31-1873; d. 1-24-1958.
She was the wife of Roland Sidney Carpenter.
Both are buried in the Terrace Cemetery,
Post, Garza Co., TX. Submitted by:
Janet Medlock Cook.
Link to
Family Website: http://www.ourfamilyties.us/index.htm |
Neoma Jewell
TAYLOR
was born 16 Feb 1914 in Close City, Garza, Texas,
USA, and died 16 Apr 1918 in Post, Garza, Texas, USA; buried in the
Terrace Cemetery.
Dau./of William Tom Taylor & Nettie Byrom
Source:
Denise Stotts Edwards |
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PLACES & LOCATIONS |
 Verbena,
TX - First Baptist Church
Photo
#1 Photo
#2
photo
by: Erik Whitstone -
Verbena
is a ghost town located FM2008 NE of Post, TX. It is
not in the Handbook of Texas, nor does it appear on a Garza
County map. FM 2008 is an 11 mile county road
connecting two highways (US 380 and FM 651, not two
towns. There is a historical marker for this church
located in the museum in Post, TX.
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 Algerita
Hotel |
 Garza
County Sanitarium...
now it is the Garza County Historical Museum |
 Breaks
Land below the High Plains |
 Garza
County, Texas Courthouse - 1940's |
 Camping
out on the Prairie |
 Cap
Rock with early Post City is the distance |
 Freight
Haulers to Post City |
 Post
City - Main Street |
 Post
(C.W.) home - Post, TX |
 Road
up the Cap Rock |
 Postex Cotton Mill interior |
 Postex Cotton Mill |
 The
First Presbyterian Church built
in Post Texas by Tom B. Cutler.
The history of the church is on
page 278-280 of the book "Wagon
Wheels". He was a
carpenter in the Post area in
the early days and contracted to
build several homes, barns,
businesses, etc., there. In
addition to that Mr. Cutler help
organize the Post Masonic Lodge.
He also served as Constable of
Precinct 1 from 1912 -1916.
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