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The following items were published during the 1893 publication of the Henrietta Independent newspaper published in Henriettta, Clay Co., Texas. The items emphasize visitors or settlers from Missouri to Texas.
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1893 Henrietta Independent news items in Clay Co., Texas.
C. G. Ingram, an old friend of M. G. Winning and Thomas Harness, arrived in the city Tuesday night form Saline County, Missouri. Mr. Ingram is greatly astonished to find vegetation yet growing in Texas, for when he left Missouri, the weather was extremely cold
Mrs. Mary A. Winning of Saline County, Missouri, sister-in-law of M. G. Winning, arrived in the city Tuesday and will likely spend the winter.
I.V. Davis and Thomas Utley of Miami, Missouri arrived in the city Wednesday night on a prospecting tour. They are friends of M.G. Winning.
M. T. Bradshaw, John McDaniel of Saline County, Missouri and M. J. Coney of Kansas City are in the city prospecting. They will remain some time and, during their stay, build a house on the Leonard farm near Doss.
G. P. Herman of Marshall, Missouri is in the city and will probably locate.
Charles Thiefeater (?printing) of Saline County, Missouri, an old friend of Thomas Harness, is in the city this week on a prospecting tour.
S. R. Parsons of Hickory Co., Missouri left for home Monday after spending the winter in Texas.
Flave Ingram, lineman for the electric light company, who recently came from Missouri, left Tuesday morning to return to his home state.
Mrs. Mary A. Winning, who spent the fall and winter in Austin and Henrietta with her brother-in-law and other relatives, left for her home in Missouri Tuesday morning.
J. H. McNave of Missouri who bought land south of town arrived in the city yesterday and will make Henrietta his home in the future. Mr. McNave is an architect and contractor.
W. J. Williams returned Tuesday from a visit to Missouri, Kansas and the Indian Territory. He says Southwest Missouri is wet, western Kansas dry and no corn up north of Cow Creek, I. T.
May 19, 1893
Rev. Mr. Epps, a Baptist minister of Jack County, was buried at Post Oak last Monday. Mr. Epps was quite an old man, being 75 years, 3 months and 18 days old age. He was ordained to the ministry in Butler county, Missouri 1849 and was actively in preaching the gospel form that time until prostrated by his last illness. He lived in Texas 30 years.
C. B. Wood of Wood &Thompson left Tuesday for Missouri to attend to some business affairs there.
William Noel of Jackson County, Missouri, a cousin of Mrs. T. J. Belcher, is in the city.
J. J. B. McCullar and family of Hale County were guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Winning Tuesday night. They were on their way to Bowie and Denton.
Thomas D. Helm returned last night from a visit in his old home Saline County, Missouri.
On last Saturday evening, Dr. Butterworth received a telegram that Mr. M. Collins, father of Mrs. W. B. Worsham of this city, had died in Marshall, Missouri and would be in Henrietta on the 8:05 M. K. & T train Saturday night. Mr. Collins was a very old gentleman and being in poor health a long time, his death was not unexpected. The funeral took place 10:00 Monday morning at Mr. Worsham’s residence; the services were conducted by Rev. George Pierson.
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