"Rockdale, my hometown, is Texas' heart and significant part of its soul," George Sessions Perry wrote in his book, Texas: A World Unto Itself. Perry wrote with lifelong affection about his hometown, first as a novelist and later as a magazine journalist. He describes the pioneers of Rockdale as typical of restless Southerners who hitched their wagons and moved to Texas after the Civil War. . . . Clay Coppedge . . .
Thursday, February 2, 2012
1908 :: Boy Injured While Hunting
Rockdale, Tex., Feb. 1. -- Walton Douthit, 10 years old, a son of B.L. Douthit, a jeweler of this city, was accidentally shot in both legs this afternoon while hunting in company with his Uncle Clifford Douthit of Fort Worth. The wounds are serious, but not necessarily fatal. Dallas Morning News, February 2, 1908. his findagrave memorial page
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