German POWs Perform Plays At Camp Bowie
While our friends Henry Spalding and A.L. Humphrey along with so many other Americans were struggling to find rats to eat in Japanese POW camps overseas, the German POWs on American soil were producing...
View ArticleErnest Gies, German POW Held At Camp Bowie
As you know, Missy Jones started me on the hunt for information about German POWs held in our area during World War II. This week we bring you articles about POWs who hoed peanuts in Texas, an...
View ArticleGerman POW Held At Camp Bowie, Brownwood Texas
For years I have been haunted by the horror stories told by our friends and Comanche County residents, A.L. Humphrey* and Henry Spalding. I often told their stories to my students, Mr. Spalding even...
View ArticleWhen German POWs Came To Comanche County
The following information on German POWs held in America was given to me by Missy Jones. I have a feeling that there are many young people who have no idea that America was once home to these POWs....
View ArticleYou Won’t Steal OUR Horses Again!!
I hate the thought of anything to do with a mob or mob mentality, and our part of Texas has seen a lot of it throughout history. From my corner of the couch and with my laptop literally in my… This...
View ArticleWirtz, Davila Heading To Howard Payne Gridiron
Don’t you just love it when local kids “do good” for themselves? I think we all do, and I’m not sure we don’t all pat ourselves on the back a little bit when we see successes come their way. After …...
View ArticleMrs. Henry Buck, Brownwood, Texas, Injured 1908
From a January 23, 1908, issue of the Brownwood Daily Bulletin. If you know Brownwood, Texas, then you probably know Melwood Avenue, an older street in an older part of town. In 1908, the mode of...
View ArticleWilliam Mark McGee (b.) 1885 Recruited Co. For WWI In Brown County
William Mark McGee was born at Byrds in Brown County, Texas in 1885 to John F. and Mary Ellen Anderson McGee. Mark grew up to be a practicing attorney in Brownwood, and then something called WWI came...
View ArticleThey’ve Struck Oil In Brownwood, Texas
Well, Granddad was wrong and so was T.R. Havins, two of my best sources for days gone by in Texas. Both my grandfather and the once upon a time professor at Howard Payne (College back then) told me...
View ArticlePaul V. Harrell (b.) 1881 Recruited WWI Troops In Brown County
Paul Vernon Harrell was born April 2, 1881, in Hunt County, Texas to John E. and Anna Olive Chapman Harrell. By 1900, he was in Brown County, Texas. He died in 1956 and is buried in Cross Plains. In...
View ArticleMob Violence In Brown, Comanche, Erath, Hamilton Counties
Hangings On The Texas Frontier By the early 1870s, some settlers had been living on the Texas frontier for almost twenty years, and they were tired. They had seen drought and famine; they had buried...
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Fence Cutters Threaten To Destroy Brownwood
According to the Austin Statesman, December 10, 1883, “was an awful day in Brownwood. About 3 o’clock in the morning it was announced that over 200 fence-cutters were in arms, and had determined to...
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