"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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Friday, January 17, 2014
1901 :: Death of Prof. Grant
Rockdale Locals. From the Messenger Jan. 17. . . . Prof. Grant, who was recently a teacher of the school in the Chapel neighborhood, but who made his home in Rockdale, died here yesterday morning of consumption. The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Texas), January 24, 1901
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