Thursday, June 26, 2008

Speer Football Team, Mount Pleasant, TX 1913-1914


Speer Football Team, Mount Pleasant, TX 1913-1914

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The names of the players and the coach are unknown. Perhaps you might recognize one of them.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Texas Train Wrecks, Fires, Explosions and other disasters

Texas Disasters added to the database at http://www.gendisasters.com
Events That Touched Our Ancestors Lives:

Dumas, TX Oil Tank Farm Explosion, July 1956
Weatherford, TX Fire, Jul 1909
Dallas, TX Simmons Bedding Plant Fire, May 1943
Burkburnett, TX Drowned While Bathing in Tank, Jun 1925
Dallas, TX Three Hurt in Auto Wreck, Jun 1925
Fort Worth, TX Broadway Baptist Church Ceiling Falls During Wedding, Oct 1912
Brownwood, TX McDermott House Restaurant Fire, Jul 1909
San Antonio, TX Ice Plant Explosion, May 1985
Bandera, TX Flooding Ravages Texas Hill Country, Aug 1978
Fort Worth, TX Southern Hotel Blaze, Jan 1909
Wichita Falls, TX Tornado Devastates Texas, Apr 1979
Ballinger, TX house fire, Jun 1925
Fort Worth, TX Auto - Bicycle Wreck, Nov 1912
Ambia, TX Area Tornado, Apr 1902
Brownwood, TX East Broadway Street Fire, May 1909
Bangs, TX Fire, Apr 1909
Blossom, TX oil lamp fire, Jul 1909
Brownwood, TX hotel fire Sept. 1909
Galveston, TX fishing sloop wrecked in hurricane, Jul 1909
Dallas, TX Commerce Street Fire, Nov 1912
Brownwood, TX Cook Stove Fire, Feb 1909
San Antonio, TX Alamo Oil and Refining Co Plant Fire, Nov 1912
Brownwood, TX Electric Light Plant Fire, Apr 1909
Terrell, TX Wind Storm, May 1896
Crockett, TX Spidle Variety Store Fire, Apr 1949
Port Arthur, TX Barge Collides With Bridge, Sep 1970
Knox City, TX Fire, Nov 1912
Calvert, TX Storm, Feb 1894
Ennis, TX Train Accident, Oct 1912
Sherman, TX tornado May 1896

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas 1926 Football Team Photo


Junior High School, Fort Worth, Texas 1926 Football Team

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Team Roster: Homer Bass, Bob Erisman, James Sullivan, Tom Carpenter, Winston Bransford, Charles Beard, George Ankele, Maurice Meyerson, Clyde Miller, Robert Jordan, Ernest Brown, Lawrence May, Wilson Carpenter, Otis Stell. Coach Meyers

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