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Highlighting the Founders – Jacob Nutt, Father to the Fatherless
It was in the winter of 1854 that Jacob Nutt burst into his brother Jesse’s office with the report – Down on the waterfront, Neosho was burning. The two brothers joined others trying desperately to save the women and children caught in the path of the blaze – set by pre-Civil War rioting factions in…
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Jesse F. & Elizabeth Nutt: A Timeless Tale of Love and Devotion
Today I am hightlighting the founders. Even in the Victorian era, when arranged marriages were not all that uncommon, it appears that most of the founding couples of our Granbury community had the happy circumstance of marrying for love. Several local couples’ stories also tell of self-sacrifice and courage that speak across the centuries of…
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Add-Ran: The Hood County College That Became TCU
Sometimes “History” really does have something to teach us. And sometimes that “something” is not what we expect. Such was the case a while back, when a group of local history folk gathered to hear more about an erstwhile local educational institution known as Add-Ran College. Called together by leadership from a local history society,…
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Highlighting the Founders – Amon Bond A Man of Character
Amon Bond was born in July of 1798 in or near Baltimore, Maryland. His parents, Henry and Elizabeth Bond were both Quakers, and Amon apparently lived by those tenets for his entire life, although there is no record of Amon having actively participated in his faith as a member of a Quaker Meeting in either…
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A Granbury Graveyard Mystery : Is Jesse James Buried Here?
In 1951 a man died in Granbury who was known to some folks secretly as Jesse James. Publicly, through the years, the man had apparently used various aliases here and elsewhere. Like John St. Helen before him, this man whose life, whoever he may have been, was forever changed by his choices during the Civil…
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