Miss Lilly Riddle of Rock Dale, Texas, arrived [in Oklahoma] this week on a visit to her cousin Miss Ida Harris. Checotah Times, August 14, 1908
"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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Thursday, August 14, 2014
1908 :: Miss Lilly Riddle
Miss Lilly Riddle of Rock Dale, Texas, arrived [in Oklahoma] this week on a visit to her cousin Miss Ida Harris. Checotah Times, August 14, 1908
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