This might interest someone--not related.
>------The Messenger
Paradise, Wise County, Texas
May 7, 1880
Gainesville, April 30
The third legal hanging in Cooke County was witnessed today by the largest
concourse of people every assembled in Gainesville. The first execution was
that of WILLIAM PITTMAN in 1860, the second was that of OSCAR CLARK during
the reconstruction times of 1871, and the third time that of LUCIEN M.
NOFTSINGER, who expiated today, the dastardly murder of WILLIS CLINE.
December 10
I am looking for information on Cora FINKS and Jessie SKINNER--they supposedly married and had one child--Leon SKINNER.
Cora FINKS was the daughter of Abner Berry FINKS and Eliza COOPER.
She was born in 1875 , Cooke County, Texas.
There is a Jessie SKINNER and a MRS SKINNER buried at Fairview Cemetery, Cooke County, Texas--they died in 1892 & 1893 but they are not my Jessie and Cora.
In the 1920 & 1930 censuses there is a Leon SKINNER living with Lula Effie FINKS and her husband Wesle
My name is Pati Stone and I am currently looking for identification of
some old photos we have gathered through our years of research. They
are for the Townsend, Riggs, Gavinson, Echols, Miller, Richardson, Moss,
Brogan and Brown families as well as others from Fannin, Grayson and
Cooke County, Texas. We have started a web site for these photos, at
www.freewebs.com/patistone. If anyone recognizes anyone in the photos
please contact me at wpstone@ brightok.net. We would be glad to share
what we ha
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Looking for descendants of Thomas Barlow and Mary Ann Jones children are William henry; Thomas; Harry; Edith; Samuel; May or Mary; All born 1875-1888 at Stockport. Any info gladly received June L
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