Grayson County TXGenWeb
Good Days & Bad Days in Grayson County

Remember the Good Ole Days and Visit
Frontier Village Museum in Loy lake Park
Black Friday- May 15, 1896 ~ Cyclone!
whole book online and indexed.

 Tennessee News
1896
Putnam County

(Dekalb County) [Date 5/7/1896, Vol. IX, No. 29, Page 1]

MONTGOMERY, WIFE AND CHILDREN OF LUKE: A terrific cyclone swept over Sherman Texas and other adjacent territory last Friday, ailing and wounding may people. Luke Montgomery's wife and children, formerly a citizen of Putnam county were all killed. The death roll is appalling and wounded sums up into the hundreds.
Riot at the Courthouse

Newspaper Article about that day


Report from the Texas Rangers to the Texas Governor,
May 13, 1930

Red River Bridge War

Red River Bridge War II

Weather disasters ~ Grayson County since 1950




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