Kennard Scott, of Seiling, Okla., spent the past week in Rockdale with home folks. He shipped out the John Scott photograph paraphernalie Monday, which takes from Rockdale one of the oldest businesses of which the town could boast. Rockdale Reporter and Messenger, April 17, 1913
Funeral services for Mrs. M.E. Walker, former resident of Checotah, who died at the home of her daughter in Rockdale, Texas, April 26, were conducted at the Powers chapel with Rev. Martin Davis, Jr., officiating. Burial was in Greenlawn cemetery. Survivors include: one daughter, Mrs. Josie Stowe, formerly Mrs. Henry Largent of Rockdale, Texas and a son, Vernon Walker of Seminole. McIntosh County Democrat, May 4, 1939
John Scott, the "old reliable photographer," he of early days in Regal Rockdale, but who left here three years ago, was mixing with his friends about town this week. He has been up in Oklahoma, and more recently at Palestine. He is now visiting his daughter, Mrs. A.V. Lewis, south of town. Rockdale Reporter and Messenger, April 20, 1916
Coweta (AP) -- Dr. Howe King Riddle, 71, Coweta physician and former mayor, died Wednesday of a heart attack in his native Rockdale, Tex., while on a business trip. He also was a former member of Coweta's council and Board of Education. Miami Daily News-Record, Miami, Oklahoma, April 14, 1961
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
Dallas Morning News. April 29, 1936. Tornadic winds slashed through Southeast Texas Tuesday killing four persons and injuring at least a dozen others during a driving rainstorm which soaked most of the State. Freakish twisters took the lives of two Negroes on the Simms ranch, six miles northwest of Rockdale, and two others in Eastern Wharton County. . . . The body of a negro woman named Sullivan [sic] was found in the splintered ruins of her home on the Simms ranch. In a near-by field was sprawled the battered body of her son. . . .
New York Times. April 29, 1936. Rains Valued at Millions Help the Prospects for Crops. Dallas, Texas, April 28. -- Tornadic winds slashed through Southwest Texas today, killing four persons and injuring at least twelve as much-needed rains soaked most of the State, the "dust-bowl" area of Oklahoma and Southern Louisiana. As farmers and stockmen valued the rain at millions of dollars, twisters hit Eastern Wharton County and a ranch six miles northwest of Rockdale, Texas, killing four Negroes. Considerable damage was done in the affected areas. . . .
