Rockdale, Tex., May 15. -- W.A. Averitt, a prominent citizen of the Gardner community, five miles south of Rockdale, died at his home. Dallas Morning News, May 16, 1913
"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 . . .
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