"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 . . .
Saturday, January 18, 2014
1877 :: William will not know his own cows
Wm. Plasters, who killed a man [i.e., Willis Parker] last spring in Milam county, has been tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to 6 years in the penitentiary. He was a rich cattleman. William will not know his own cows when he comes out. Daily Brenham Banner, January 18, 1877
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