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W. T. Block, Jr. Papers |
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1998-2005
5.08 linear feet
Collection Number 191
Prepared by Kathie
Bordelon
CITATION: W. T. Block, Jr. Papers, Collection No. 191, Box number, Folder number, Archives and Special Collections Department, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University.
Archives and Special Collections
Department Biographical Sketch
William Theodore (W.
T.) Block, Jr. was born in Port Neches on July 29, 1920, the
son of W. T. "Will" Block, Sr. and Sarah Jane Sweeney. He
was in the anti-aircraft artillery corps of the U. S. Army
early during WWII, and met his first wife, Maria Elisabeth
Kothe, in Germany shortly after the end of the war. They
settled in Nederland, Texas in 1947, where Block became
assistant postmaster until 1972, when he was transferred to
postmaster at Orange, Texas. He retired from there in 1973
and took over as director of the campus post office at Lamar
University where he remained for the next ten years. He
retired a second time in 1983. (From Deevy, Bill. "Profile of W. T. Block, a Historian." Southeast Texas Business News. March 1996)
Scope and Content Note The collection contains Block's articles on a variety of historical subjects. Container List Box 1 FF 1 Some Notes on the Civil War Jayhawkers of Confederate Louisiana Samuel P. Henry: Father of Cameron Parish Skull Island on Mermentau River Michel Peveto II and the History of Johnson Bayou Some Notes on Early Grand Chenier, Louisiana A History of Channelization of Calcasieu River The Story of the Calcasieu River Light House The Battle of Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana Early River Boats of Southwest Louisiana Henry Kneip at the Battle of Calcasieu Pass Ginger Rogers: Once a Resident of Bessmay Louis Magee: Ex-Confederate Lumberjack Edgar Bergen: "Father of McCarthy and Snerd" Black Panthers: Did Such an Animal Ever Exist? Sabine Pass Confederate Hung Following "Haymarket Riot" The Longhorns of Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Those Newton County Rattlesnakes Stephen Williams: Twice a Soldier B 55 Years Apart John G. Schultz: A Killer Hung in Galveston "Uncle Tom" Seamens: The Raconteur of Peachtree Village Dequincy: Once the Turpentine Capitol of Louisiana Box 1 FF 2 Gov. Jim Hogg and "Miss Ima" Hogg: A Philanthropist Dispatching Mail in the "Olden Days" The Sutton-Taylor Feud of Dewitt County Gen. Sam Houston's Three Battle Horses Julia Ward Howe: A Remarkable Lady Rio Grande Justice: Leander McNelly, Texas Ranger More Civil War Atrocities Jean Harlow: America's First "Blonde Bombshell" The X I T Ranch: Larger Than the State of Connecticut Blockade-Running From Beaumont and Vicinity Ghost of Nicaragua Smith Still Haunts Graveyard Dr. Edward Arrel Pye: Another Medical Hero Browndell, Texas: A Jasper County Ghost Town I Remember "The Lucky Stiffs" Albert Gallatin Van Pradelles: Cotton Merchant of Wallisville, Texas Belzora in Smith County: "Head of Sabine River Navigation" Midcounty Catholics Had All-Day Travel to Attend Church "Schoolboy" Rowe: Exporters' Pitching Sensation Cassandra Van Pradelles: A Victim of Lafitte's Pirates? The Recollections of a Grand Chenier Native A Killer's Trail of Thread: Some Alamo Heroes Fought Twice for Texas "One Rat Hide an Acre" - Cameron Parish in 1928 Demise of Reptilian "Big Tooth" Drew Crowds Cincinnati, Texas: A Trinity Riverport Ghost Town "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias: Champion of Champions David White and the Confederate Gunboat Alabama The Confederacy's "Gray Ghost" I Thoroughly Hate Sweet Potatoes Box 1 FF3 I Remember Captain Otto Bengston The Early Pure Oil Company's Smiths Bluff Refinery Fostoria, Texas: A Montgomery County Ghost Town The Money Hunters Who Sought Lafitte's Treasures Sabine Pass Partnership Spawned Galveston Empire Three Trinity Steamers Died in Sabine River Small Pox Epidemic Struck Chambers County in 1877 Alfred H. Belo Was Outstanding Texas Journalist Early East Texas and Its Big Saw Logs The "Great Depression" in Port Neches Benjamin Johnson: A Battle of San Jacinto Veteran Life Began at Sixty for Two Pioneers Some Early Ghost Towns of Liberty County Sabine Pass, Texas: "Call Us Alligatorville" Swarthout: A Ghost Town of Trinity River The Texas Centennial and Pan-American Expositions Thomas Deye Owings of Maryland, Kentucky, and Texas: Frontier Iron-Smelterer and Military Hero The "4-C" Sawmill: The Biggest West of the Mississippi Uncle Andrew's Farthing The 1862 Hangings at Gainsville, Texas "The Wreck of the Old 97" Jefferson, Texas and the "Diamond Bessie" Murder Trial Sabine Pass' Pioneer Mother Tells of Hardships The Copperheads: The South's Northern Sympathizers Jules Victor Bouquet: An Acadian Cavalryman Clara Bow: Flapper and "It Girl" Movie Star Jean Lafitte and the African Slave Trade Movie Star Joan Blondell Once Lived in Leesville, LA. The Big Thicket Bear Hunters Club of Kountze: "They Dream of Killing the Bears" Prudence Crandall: "The State Heroine of Connecticut" July 4, 1896: The Date Beaumont Re-entered the Union The Patriotism of Beaumont, Texas: Town Re-entered Union July 4, 1896 Marcella and the Cameron Bootlegger Guy Chadwell and the Bordello Madam The Big Cats of the Big Thicket Are the East Cougars a Threat to Human Life? Two Brothers and a Brother-in-law in East Texas: Moses L. Patton, Robert S. Patton, and Radford Berry Box 1 FF 4 Napoleon Bonaparte Wiess: Steamboat Captain and Confederate Soldier Bob Hope: A Century of Living Casey Jones: A Romantic Locomotive Hero Benjamin Vernon Lilly: "Last of the Mountain Men" Robert Justus Kleberg, Sr.: A San Jacinto Veteran The Doll and the White Rose Immortal Hank Greenberg Was Once a Beaumont Exporter Ancient Iraq Was Once a "Cradle of Civilization" Flight From Ghosts Helps Stomp Some Berry Juice Sybil Ludington: Revered as the "Female Paul Revere" Frances Slanger: Army Nurse Killed in Action The Elings Family: Earliest Hosts of the Orange Hotel Aunt Vic's Patriotism in Sabine Pass Erastus "Deaf" Smith: Texas Scout and San Jacinto Veteran The Confederacy's "Fighting Bishop" Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: Medal of Honor Winner Requiem for a Confederate Gunboat: The CSS Josiah H. Bell Gunboat Josiah Bell's Engine Outlived Her Hull Joseph C. Kiker: An Armored Division Veteran Burton F. Humphreys: Newton Combat Veteran Captain Harper's Company Mustered in Beaumont The Republic of Texas Veterans' Last Encampment Area Militiamen Helped Win Texas Independence Edward I. Kellie: Journalist and 'Mark Twain' of East Texas John Naumczik: 7th Army Infantry Veteran Cameron, LA.: Tevis Called It the Enchanted City Junkerville: A Cameron Parish Ghost Town Wilbur and Orville Wright: Successful Pioneers of Flight Jack Johnson: The First Black Heavyweight Champion For the Love of Those Baby Cockatiels "Waste No Bullets" Mentality Governed Early Army Brass The Early Water Mills of Newton County James and Tabitha Barnes: Patriarchs of Tyler County The "Muckrakers": Journalists Who Championed Reform Dr. Rosinger Promoted Beaumont Judaism for 50 Years Reminiscences of the Beaumont Sawmills West Virginia Teenager Proved to Be "Teenangel" An Underground Cypress Pipe Line to Port Arthur Graduation Day at Beaumont Academy in 1881 Dr. Edward Arrel Pye: A Texas Medical Hero Rogers Hornsby Was Beaumont's "Own" in 1950 "The 1921 School Review of Jefferson County, Texas" All-Girl Schools Failed in Early Jefferson County Box 1 FF 5 Hannah Staffen Deblance: A Pioneer Midcountain The Hutterites: An Oft Persecuted Religion Sorry, Sarge, You'll Have to Take My Heart My Hero, Father Ivan Ms. Mollie's Mother's Day Early Beaumont Education: Frontier Schools Provided the City's Leaders of the Future Charlsie E. Berly: The Death of a Lovely Lady Our World War I Fleet Lies Submerged in Rivers Wartime Winnie the Welder Traded Apron for Overalls Benjamin Johnson: Sabine Pass' San Jacinto Veteran John Kelley Robertson: Lawyer and County Clerk Capt. Moses L. Patton: First Steamboatman of the Neches One of Early Beaumont's Physician Heroes The Ultimate in Show Business: The Kyle Opera House "One Rat Hide an Acre" - The Orange- Cameron Land Company Barbed Wire: "The Devil's Rope" and Port Arthur McKinney, Williams and Co.: Texas' Pioneer Cotton Merchant Salem, Texas: Newton County's Riverport Ghost Town James Taylor White: Texas' First Cattle King Port Neches KKK Voted Itself Out of Existence Union Lt. F. Crocker: Dick Dowling Cut Off His Stinger May 24-25, 1865: The Defeated Rebels Return to Beaumont Joyce Kilmer: A Tribute to God's Trees Dr. Ashbel Smith: Patriot in War and Texas Education Sally Scull: Texas' Pioneer "Bad Girl" Beaumont's Italian Community Began Before 1880 Orson Welles and "The War of the Worlds" William McFaddin: Jefferson County's Pioneer Rancher Orange County Pioneer Signed Declaration of Independence Nederland Historical Society Seeks New Members The Underground Oil Tanks of Southeast Texas First Midcounty Post Office Opened in 1859 Grigsby Was a Proprietor of Original Beaumont Townsite Thomas Nast: Artist and Political Cartoonist Shaker Religion Doomed Itself Due To Celibate Lifestyle "Bigfoot" Wallace: Early Texas Raconteur "The Awakening" and Klan No. 7, Beaumont Ku Klux Klan New Birmingham, East Texas' 'Iron City' Garrison Ridge: Historical Hotspot of Cameron Parish A Beautiful Cat Slave Ship Henrietta Marie Speaks From Ocean Depths Cut and Shoot, Texas Was Once Waukegan Ghost Town Sven Magnus Swenson: Cattle Entrepreneur From Sweden German U-Boat 166 Is Sunk South of New Orleans Rudy York Played Two Years for Exporters Box 1 FF 6 Bradley Garner's Children Were Texas Heroes Those Tyler County Rattlesnakes The First Nederland Christmas in 1898 Col. W. F. Griffin Had Sabine Pass Fort Named for Him Biography of Elias Thompson Seale Early Sawmill Employees Suffered Frequent Injuries Andrew Allen Veatch: A Colorful Country Editor Wendish Immigrants Lost Their Culture in Texas Hector: My Unforgettable Soldier-Friend Rev. Stephenson Was First Preacher in Beaumont The Alexander Gilmer Lumber Company of Jasper County Antebellum Orange Surpassed Its Neighbors A Love Story in a Blizzard Alexander Gilmer: Industrialist of Orange, Texas A Comanche Warrior's Trail of Thread The Legend of the Olive Ghost Train The Headless Yankee Gunner of Sabine Pass A Big Thicket Ghost Story The Ghosts of Grigsby's Bluff Hardin County's Eerie "Ghost Road" The Ghost of Monkey Island Spooky Legends Lives On He "Bit the Dust" With His Boots On: John H. Selman Bootlegging Brothers' Joy Short-lived Two Early Nederlanders Detoured via Africa John Chapman: The Legendary Johnny Appleseed An Area Lynch Mob of 1933 Corn Flakes and Cow's Milk During the Bulge Battle "The Port Arthur Picnic Grounds" Old-time Editors Libeled Each Other Yellow Fever and the Howard Associations The Battle of Adobe Walls Last Voyage of the Stingray Recalled Civil War-Era Submarine Being Restored My 'Longest Mile' Confessions of a 78th Signal Company Dogface Prince Polecat: General Camille Armand Jules De Polignac Dequincy: Proud City of the 1920s Sweeney's Were Among First Settlers of Grand Chenier Capt. Daniel Goos: An Early Lake Charles Sawmiller BOX 2 FF 1 Prolific Author Closes Book on History, MidCounty Chronicle, February 4, 1998 Nederlander Remembers 'Lucky Stiffs', Port Arthur News, March 17, 1998 Houseboaters Once Traveled Area Waterways, Beaumont Enterprise, August 17, 1998 No Man is an Island Unless Hunted Skunk Launches Scent, Beaumont Enterprise, August 26, 1998 Johnson Bayou was Prosperous in 1894, The Cameron Parish Pilot, August 27, 1998 'Law West of Neches' Skips His High Noon, Beaumont Enterprise, September 5, 1998 Big Rattlers Raised Cane, Not Charlie, Beaumont Enterprise, September 12, 1998 Great-grandpa Wasn't Popular in the South, Beaumont Enterprise, September 28, 1998 Hurricanes Leave Deadly Area Legacy, Beaumont Enterprise, October 2, 1998 Depression Was Depressing, Except Brother's Paddling, Beaumont Enterprise, October 7, 1998 Headless Yankee Haunts Sabine Pass, MidCounty Chronicle, October 28, 1998 Pranks Rule 'Olden Days' Celebrations of Halloween, Beaumont Enterprise, October 31, 1998 Bootlegging Brothers' Joy Short-lived, Beaumont Enterprise, November 14, 1998 Marine-friendly 'Oil Pond' Once Lurked Near Sabine Pass, Beaumont Enterprise, November 21, 1998 Dad's Wisdom Sure Paid Off for My Future, Beaumont Enterprise, November 28, 1998 Flight From Ghosts Helps Stomp Some Berry Juice, Beaumont Enterprise, December 5, 1998 Legend of Shellbank, The Cameron Parish Pilot, December 10, 1998 Entertainment in Beaumont Has News Roots, Beaumont Enterprise, December 12, 1998 Sorry, Sarge, You'll Have to Take My Heart, Beaumont Enterprise, December 19, 1998 Celebrations of Christmas in Beaumont Change Little, Beaumont Enterprise, December 23, 1998 Bringing Joy to the Needy in Depression Was Fulfilling, Beaumont Enterprise, December 26, 1998 Demise of Reptilian 'Big Tooth' Drew Crowds, Beaumont Enterprise, January 2, 1999 Spindle Top Once Isolated Plague Victims, Beaumont Enterprise, January 9, 1999 Prank Led to Empty Sleeve, Beaumont Enterprise, January 10, 1999 Runaway Slave Achieved Fame in Early Texas, Beaumont Enterprise, January 18, 1999 Memorials: Willie Mae Block Winberg, Beaumont Enterprise, January 19, 1999 Foxy Advice on Gambling Serves Well, Beaumont Enterprise, January 23, 1999 Real Cold War Occurred Here During 1890s, Beaumont Enterprise, January 30, 1999 Strange Case About Corpse Still Unsolved, Beaumont Enterprise, February 6, 1999 Dairy Farm's End Stopped Wonder Bra for Milk Cows, Beaumont Enterprise, February 13, 1999 Emancipated Men Gave City So Very Much in Early Years, Beaumont Enterprise, February 20, 1999 Confederate Flag Remains Symbol of Hate to Many Today, Beaumont Enterprise, February 27, 1999 Whale Gave Port Arthur's Economy Boom in Early 1900s, Beaumont Enterprise, March 6, 1999 Beaumont Had Two Pioneers Who Aged Well, Beaumont Enterprise, March 13, 1999 1866 Trip Through Parish Described by Texas Paper, The Cameron Parish Pilot, March 18, 1999 Hurricanes Decimated Nederland 'City Tree', Beaumont Enterprise, March 20, 1999 Wild Family Made News Back in 1880s, Beaumont Enterprise, March 27, 1999 Priest Made Texas History in Late 1800s, Beaumont Enterprise, April 3, 1999 Texan Couldn't Give Answers to Anguished Nisei, Beaumont Enterprise, April 10, 1999 Bayou Named After Wealthy Cattle Baron in East Texas, Beaumont Enterprise, April 17, 1999 Tram Roads Paved Way in Old Days of Logging, Beaumont Enterprise, April 24, 1999 Box 2 FF 2 Area's Greatest Archeological Site Was Ruined, Beaumont Enterprise, May 1, 1999 Pre-boom Spindletop Gave Hints of Its Riches, Beaumont Enterprise, May 8, 1999 Treasure Tale Keyed Digging in East Texas Piney Woods, Beaumont Enterprise, May 15, 1999 Pirate Lafitte, Bowie Dealt in Slave Trade via SE Texas, Beaumont Enterprise, May 22, 1999 Rice Farming Started Slow, But Boomed in SE Texas, Beaumont Enterprise, May 29, 1999 Forest Reclaims Once-Thriving Sawmill Town of Early 1900s, Beaumont Enterprise, June 12, 1999 Mud, Cow Led to Sale of Refinery Acreage, Beaumont Enterprise, June 19, 1999 Lucas Gusher Fever Affected so Many Folks, Far and Wide, Beaumont Enterprise, June 26, 1999 Change Came to Port Neches via Relocation of Post Office, Beaumont Enterprise, July 3, 1999 Big Cat Stories in East Texas Are Numerous But Lack Proof, Beaumont Enterprise, July 10, 1999 Strong Spell Swam River Ferrying Lead Steer of Herd, Beaumont Enterprise, July 17, 1999 Sweeney's Were Among First Settlers of Grand Chenier, The Cameron Parish Pilot, July 22, 1999 U. S., Republic of Texas Once Nearly Clashed Because of Fees, Beaumont Enterprise, July 24, 1999 Fate Intervened in Confederate Hero's Search for Black Gold, Beaumont Enterprise, July 31, 1999 Remember 'Radford Berry', The Cameron Parish Pilot, August 5, 1999 Yellow Fever Plagued Area During 1860s, Beaumont Enterprise, August 7, 1999 Schools in Beaumont Trace to Pre-Civil War, Beaumont Enterprise, August 8, 1999 Area Resident Rallied Behind Union Cause, Beaumont Enterprise, August 14, 1999 Sawmill Town Bessmay Gave Its Life to Fire, Beaumont Enterprise, August 21, 1999 Pioneer Music in Beaumont Contained Lots of Brass Horns, Beaumont Enterprise, August 28, 1999 Blockade Runs at Sabine Pass Commonplace in Civil War, Beaumont Enterprise, September 4, 1999 Ten Bucks for Suggestion Doesn't Exactly ZIP Along, Beaumont Enterprise, September 5, 1999 My Dad and I Once Got Struck in Suckersville, Beaumont Enterprise, September 11, 1999 Temple Made Mark On Lumber Industry, Beaumont Enterprise, September 15, 1999 Lafitte's Men Captured Our Imagination for Many Years, Beaumont Enterprise, September 18, 1999 Former Slave's Death in 1889 Attracted Rare News Coverage, Beaumont Enterprise, September 25, 1999 Shooting Death of Lumberman Still a Mystery, Beaumont Enterprise, October 2, 1999 Two Area Cities in Late 1800s Fought Major Fires Together, Beaumont Enterprise, October 9, 1999 Why Don't We Commemorate Brave Masses of Immigrants? Beaumont Enterprise, October 16, 1999 Frederick G. Schmidt Was Early Johnson B. Settler, The Cameron Parish Pilot, October 21, 1999 Second Dutch Colony Thrived in Area Before Hit by a Disaster, Beaumont Enterprise, October 23, 1999 Area Civil War Period Marked by Hard Times, Beaumont Enterprise, October 30, 1999 Area's History of Bootlegging Soared During Prohibition, Beaumont Enterprise, November 6, 1999 A Soldier's Story, Beaumont Enterprise, November 7, 1999 There's a Story on Lone Grave Near Texas 347, Beaumont Enterprise, November 13, 1999 Stagecoach Travel Once Big in Area, Beaumont Enterprise, November 20, 1999 Rainbow Bridge 1938 Opening Brought an End to Area Ferries, Beaumont Enterprise, November 27, 1999 Frontier Justice Lasted in Orange Until 1892, Beaumont Enterprise, November 28, 1999 Turpentiners Worked Hard for Product, Beaumont Enterprise, December 4, 1999 Veteran Recalls 'Longest Mile' Across Famous Rhine Bridge, Beaumont Enterprise, December 8, 1999 Several Early Area Townsites Died From Lack of Selling Lots, Beaumont Enterprise, December 11, 1999 Rich Muskrat Trapper Sure Had Priorities in Right Order, Beaumont Enterprise, December 18, 1999 Woodworking Industries Key 1880s Growth for Beaumont, Beaumont Enterprise, January 1, 2000 Oil Industry in East Texas Traces Roots Back to 1860s, Beaumont Enterprise, January 8, 2000 Box 2 FF 3 Few Believed in Higgins' Spindle Top Aspirations, Beaumont Enterprise, January 10, 2000 Grave Gives Big Secret Up During Move by Merchant, Beaumont Enterprise, January 15, 2000 State Border Relocated East During Survey, Beaumont Enterprise, January 22, 2000 Sawmill Town Aldridge Had Sad History, Beaumont Enterprise, January 29, 2000 Water Mills Benefited Life for East Texas Pioneer Folks, Beaumont Enterprise, February 5, 2000 Medieval Times Weapon Served Silent Purpose in World War II, Beaumont Enterprise, February 9, 2000 Mill Manager Paid Big Price by Dismissing 'Untouchable', Beaumont Enterprise, February 10, 2000 River Baptizin' of Bootlegger Sent Message on Judgment, Beaumont Enterprise, February 16, 2000 Two Residents of Region Once Shared Union in Pirate Life, Beaumont Enterprise, February 19, 2000 Cameron Could Have Been R.R. Terminus, The Cameron Parish Pilot, February 24, 2000 Area Logging Thrived From Years of Using River Transport, Beaumont Enterprise, February 26, 2000 World War II Souvenir Hunt Provides Some Key Information, Beaumont Enterprise, March 1, 2000 Logging Towns in East Texas Thrived Before Turning Ghost, Beaumont Enterprise, March 4, 2000 Some Stories About Pioneer Medicine Men Have Been Lost, Beaumont Enterprise, March 11, 2000 Eye of the Tiger in Sour Lake Had Cataract on Demon Rum, Beaumont Enterprise, March 18, 2000 Cow Peaceful Reminder During Ravages of War, Beaumont Enterprise, March 19, 2000 Memory Stirs World War II North Atlantic Transport Saga, Beaumont Enterprise, March 22, 2000 Unionization Problems Hit Many Sawmills in Early 1900s, Beaumont Enterprise, March 25, 2000 Hard Times Turn Tables on Taunting, Beaumont Enterprise, March 29, 2000 Sawmill Ties Linked Area's Ghost Towns, Beaumont Enterprise, April 1, 2000 Steamer Bell Kept Chugging After Demise, Beaumont Enterprise, April 8, 2000 Lumber Town Colmesneil True Survivor, Beaumont Enterprise, April 15, 2000 Executions in Beaumont More Than Being Just Crime Stoppers, Beaumont Enterprise, April 19, 2000 Indians Led the Way in Storm Survival, Beaumont Enterprise, April 22, 2000 Our Area Once Was Big On Figs When Rice Went South in 1920s, Beaumont Enterprise, April 29, 2000 Jayhawkers Were Problem During Civil War, The Cameron Parish Pilot, May 4, 2000 Pioneer Area Radio Listeners Tuned KFDM as Their Choice, Beaumont Enterprise, May 6, 2000 Blimps Served Great Defense Role During World War II, Beaumont Enterprise, May 10, 2000 Asphalt Plant Had Long Reign in Port Neches, Beaumont Enterprise, May 13, 2000 Wrong Trade of Scrap Iron Costly to U.S., Beaumont Enterprise, May 17, 2000 Netherlands Visitor True Nederland Ambassador, Beaumont Enterprise, May 20, 2000 Union Officer Immortalized by WWII Ship, Beaumont Enterprise, May 24, 2000 Buna Once Had College Giving True 'Pointers', Beaumont Enterprise, May 27, 2000 Ingenious Plan in Hard Times Produced Food for Area Folks, Beaumont Enterprise, May 31, 2000 Beaumont Was Once Rice Bowl, Beaumont Enterprise, June 3, 2000 Strip of Sand Plays Big Part in Area History, Beaumont Enterprise, June 10, 2000 'Tree Army' Reforested Lands in 1930s, Beaumont Enterprise, June 11, 2000 Sawmill in Sabine Pass Changed Owners Often, Beaumont Enterprise, June 17, 2000 Nation Owes World War II Veterans Action on Memorial, Beaumont Enterprise, June 21, 2000 Circuit-riding Preachers Once Risked Life, Limb to Huge Gators, Beaumont Enterprise, June 24, 2000 Boys, Old Men Were German Army Near End of World War II, Beaumont Enterprise, June 28, 2000 Block Recalls Visit to Cameron 71 Years Ago, The Cameron Parish Pilot, June 29, 2000 Mail by Horse in Beaumont Started Before Pony Express, Beaumont Enterprise, July 1, 2000 In Late 1800s, July Fourth Faced Enmities Left Over From Civil War, Beaumont Enterprise, July 2, 2000 Gold Hoard Supposedly Undiscovered, Beaumont Enterprise, July 8, 2000 Wartime Stay With Enemy Is Memorable, Beaumont Enterprise, July 12, 2000 Johnson Bayou's Comings and Goings Years Ago, The Cameron Parish Pilot, July 13, 2000 Local Patriot's Unlucky Draw of Black Bean Costs His Life, Beaumont Enterprise, July 15, 2000 History of Beaumont Closely Tied to the Sea, Beaumont Enterprise, July 19, 2000 Buried Treasure Still Can Fire Imagination, The Cameron Parish Pilot, July 20, 2000 Box 2 FF 4 History of Escape Artist Eludes Us, Beaumont Enterprise, July 22, 2000 World War II Cut Sawmills in Beaumont, Beaumont Enterprise, July 26, 2000 Cotton Never Ruled As King in Our Region, Beaumont Enterprise, July 29, 2000 Merchant's Innovation Beat Depression Hunger, Beaumont Enterprise, August 2, 2000 Beaumont's 'Rapid' Transit Once At a Trot, Beaumont Enterprise, August 5, 2000 Civil War Still Divisive Issue Among Texans, Beaumont Enterprise, August 9, 2000 'Leather Britches' Story is Retold, The Cameron Parish Pilot, August 10, 2000 Great Warship Drew Crowds in 1932 Visit, Beaumont Enterprise, August 12, 2000 Newton County, Beaumont Enterprise, August 13, 2000 Military Life in Training Spurs Vivid Memories, Beaumont Enterprise, August 16, 2000 Ned Harvey Trial Is Recalled, The Cameron Parish Pilot, August 17, 2000 Marsh Ridge Has Prominent Role in History, Beaumont Enterprise, August 19, 2000 Dutch Heroes Truly Resisted Nazi Tyranny, Beaumont Enterprise, August 23, 2000 Secret on the Mermentau, The Cameron Parish Pilot, August 24, 2000 Sabine River Steamboats Often Found Watery Grave, Beaumont Enterprise, August 26, 2000 Old Mill Site Was Vital Part of Community, Beaumont Enterprise, September 2, 2000 Harmon Family Dominated Lost Art of Saddle-making, Beaumont Enterprise, September 3, 2000 Other Gulf War Claimed Many From SE Texas, Beaumont Enterprise, September 6, 2000 Monkey Island Has Its Own Ghost Tale, The Cameron Parish Pilot, September 7, 2000 Spindletop's Past Gives Up Some Ghosts, Beaumont Enterprise, September 9, 2000 Disappearing Sulphur Ship Still Haunts, Beaumont Enterprise, September 13, 2000 Pioneer Quest for Gold Leads to Daughter's Different Mine, Beaumont Enterprise, September 16, 2000 Nederland Submariner's Recollections Still Stirring, Beaumont Enterprise, September 20, 2000 The Johnson Bayou Alligator Boom Recalled by W.T. Block, The Cameron Parish Pilot, September 21, 2000 Brit Slave Ship Once Anchored at Sabine Pass, Beaumont Enterprise, September 23, 2000 Ever-smaller Veteran Ranks Join to Recall Fallen Buddies, Beaumont Enterprise, September 27, 2000 Neches River Has Dominant Historic Impact, Beaumont Enterprise, September 30, 2000 'Bobbing Shop' Addition Didn't Split Family Hair, Beaumont Enterprise, October 4, 2000 Lovell's Lake Has Its Origins in Rice Farming, Beaumont Enterprise, October 7, 2000 Ghost of Rebel Soldier Searches Marsh for Foot, MidCounty Chronicle, October 9, 2000 Ship Sinking News Shroud Hurt Families, Beaumont Enterprise, October 11, 2000 Forget Davy, Uncle Bud Ruled Bears, Beaumont Enterprise, October 14, 2000 Headless Yankee Haunts Sabine Pass, MidCounty Chronicle, October 15, 2000 World War II Had Significant Tragedies at Sea, Beaumont Enterprise, October 18, 2000 Old Weiss Register Has Rich History, Beaumont Enterprise, October 21, 2000 Dead Robbers Haunt Old East Texas House, MidCounty Chronicle, October 22, 2000 Legends And: Take a Ride on the Olive Ghost Train, Silsbee Bee, October 25, 2000 Numerous Ghost Ships Were More Than Legend, Beaumont Enterprise, October 25, 2000 Kountze Was Once Ready for 'Teddy', Beaumont Enterprise, October 28, 2000 Government Mum About Ship Sinking, Beaumont Enterprise, November 1, 2000 Lighthouse Was Scene of Civil War Battle, Cameron Parish Pilot, November 2, 2000 Port Arthur Mayor Made Historical Find, Beaumont Enterprise, November 4, 2000 Many Ships Leave Legacy That Mystify, Beaumont Enterprise, November 8, 2000 Pioneer Area Radio Listeners Tuned KFDM as Their Choice, Exxon Mobil Express News, November 8, 2000 Sailing Man Found Home in Nederland, Beaumont Enterprise, November 11, 2000 Bootlegging Was Once Big Industry Here, Beaumont Enterprise, November 15, 2000 Legend of the Headless Yankee Cannoneer, Cameron Parish Pilot, November 16, 2000 Old Rail Line Has Storied Area History, Beaumont Enterprise, November 18, 2000 Big Thicket Gent Lived Up to Nickname, Beaumont Enterprise, November 22, 2000 Box 3 FF 1 Port Neches Man Example of True Hero, Beaumont Enterprise, November 25, 2000 Women Owe Debt to Work Emancipators, Beaumont Enterprise, November 29, 2000 Do You Remember Toots Lute, Cameron Parish's Clay Artist? Cameron Parish Pilot, November 30, 2000 Two Teachers Share History in Encounter, Beaumont Enterprise, December 2, 2000 Pearl Harbor Veteran Saw Destroyer Duty, Beaumont Enterprise, December 7, 2000 Batson Once Had Heyday Off Oil Boom, Beaumont Enterprise, December 9, 2000 Beaumont Firefighting History Long, Beaumont Enterprise, December 13, 2000 Some Still Recall Days of Streetcars, Beaumont Enterprise, December 16, 2000 Powerful Local Radio Had Appeal, Beaumont Enterprise, December 20, 2000 Sulphur Mines Were Big Operation in '20s, Cameron Parish Pilot, December 21, 2000 Log Treasure Once Existed in Our Region, Beaumont Enterprise, December 23, 2000 Nathan Department Store Was 'Heaven on Earth', Beaumont Enterprise, December 24, 2000 Veteran Had No Time at All for Sightseeing, Beaumont Enterprise, December 27, 2000 Canal Didn't Hinder Area's Cattle Barons, Beaumont Enterprise, December 30, 2000 Port Neches Grad Couldn't Wait to Serve, Beaumont Enterprise, January 3, 2001 Spindletop's Dreamer Felt Critic's Barbs, Beaumont Enterprise, January 6, 2001 Getting on Top of Spindle Mystery, Beaumont Enterprise, January 7, 2001 Not Everyone Was Happy, Beaumont Enterprise, January 7, 2001 Oil Genius Didn't Share Others' |