The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 49, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 18, 1995 Page: 3 of 34
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For all poultry growers, the
Texas Contract Poultry Growers
Association is having a member-
ship drive. We would like you to
see the accomplishments we have
made and also give us your ideas.
As a strong group, we will get
the senators, representatives and
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Ted Leach............
Laura Negri.........
Sherry Koonce....
Ann Lange...........
Minnie Lee Bush
Anita Shahan......
Debby Griffin......
Tracy Sartor........
Billy Schultz........
Jenny Campbell.
dishonesty. But from what we read,
it could hardly be said that Arabs
have any corner on integrity.
Cutting off a hand to stop steal-
ing misses the heart of the problem
about 24 inches. Dishonesty doesn’t
start in the hand any more than
greed starts in the eye. It’s an inter-
nal disease, and the only cure is a
change of heart.
Today is Father’s Day. Dads, the
best legacy you can give your kids
is integrity. I read a marquis sign
the other day: "The only thing you
can give away and keep is your
word." Speaking the truth and act
ing with integrity are strong foun
dational pillars that give strength
for living.
Solomon, the wisest man that
ever lived, said: "The integrity of
the upright will guide them, but the
perversity of the unfaithful will de
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Over the top
Randy Liedtke of Complete Printing and Publishing in Carthage pre-
sented a check for $432 to Panola County United Way fundraising co-
chair Sharon Ivey this week. The donation put United Way over the
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Holland Quarters Cemetery offers key to past
Barbara Bonner conducted much of the genealogical research for her book at Holland Quarters Cemetery. The historical cemetery will celebrate
its 100-year anniversary in December.
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Book VIII and IX respectively
tell of two brothers and two sib-
lings, named Bryant and Holt and
first cousin slave babies named
Brown and Stevenson who were
brought to Panola County by a
nurser.
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tation owners to help cultivate rich
East Texas farm lands.
Taking up die story from Panola
County’s earliest days, The Legacy,
depicts the lives and customs of
nine families who settled in the
small slave community nestled
between Hwys. 79 and 149.
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to another.
She learned, and ultimately
wrote of past customs such as
jumping, the broom, a ceremony
held in place of traditional wed-
dings.
"Slaves did not marry, but we
had our own way of celebrating a
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Bonner stated, I had discovered
that in some way or another I am
related to all nine families."
Explaining how she first became
interested in her family's geneal-
ogy, Bonner remembered attending
a family reunion in Holland Quar-
ters a few years ago.
"It started out with me just ask-
ing questions about various family
members. Within no time, how
ever, I became engrossed and while
still living in Dallas wrote a small
leaflet with some of the geneal-
ogy." Bonner explained.
Her first work, which was also
named The Legacy, was not
detailed enough and left a lot of
questions unanswered.
"It just did not balance. I did not
have enough details." Bonner
stated
So armed with grit and determi-
nation to unearth a detailed view of
her family tree. Bonner moved
back to Panola County and began
sorting through family Bibles and
other recorded history.
Most information was obtained,
however, from oral accounts of
present day Holland Quarters citi-
zens, who have passed their family
stories down from one generation
BY JERRY BURNAMAN
children who quickly pocketed the
designated items.
Sophisticated alarm systems,
one way mirrors, locking devices,
moving cameras, and electronic
tape signals work hard at monitor
ing and exposing the problem...but
it only grows larger.
One estimate says that one out
of every 52 customers every day
carries away at least one unpaid-for
item The loss is now over $3 bil-
lion annually...and rising.
Shoplifting is merely one thin
slice of humanity's dishonesty. The
list is long: bold face lies and half
truths, cheating on exams, false
insurance reports, income tax
fraud, just to name a few.
How pan we deal with dishon
esty? Some Arab communities
when they catch a thief, they cut
off his hand. You might think that
would be sufficient to curb national
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Arrested Tuesday, June 13,
were:
... Billy Shanon McKissack, 32,
of P.O. Box 216, Beckville, by
Panola County Deputy Sonny Gold
pursuant to warrants for bond for-
feiture and failure to appear for of-
fenses of deadly conduct and
criminal mischief.
... Larry Charles Allison, 38, of
604 Vine St., Carthage, by
Carthage Police Assistant Chief
Jim Vanover and Officer Mack
Cranford pursuant to a warrant for
robbery.
Arrested Wednesday, June 14,
was:
... LaRonda Levette Lilly, 19, of
P.O. Box 711, Carthage. by Panola
County community supervision of-
ficer Mitch Norton on the charge of
violation of probation.
Arrested Thursday, June 15,
were:
... Freda Waits Ware. 41, of P.O.
Box 181, Elysian Fields, by Panola
County Sgt. David Jeter on the
charge of public intoxication. Ware
paid fines and was released.
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Marketing managers arrange
merchandise in departments to get
your attention, so you will browse
and buy.
But some
people just
take. I read
these signs
top, completing the fund drive for the year and allowing the organiza-
i tion to fund 100 percent all the programs it supports.
_____________The Panola (atthman_____________
Published each Wednesday and Sunday by The Panola
Watchman and entered as Second Class Matter at the Post
Office in Carthage, Texas, USPS Publication No. 419720.
POSTMASTER. send address changes 3579 to The Panola
Watchman, P. O. Box 518, Carthage, Texas 75633.
By SHERRY KOONCE
After tracing her ancestor’s ge-
nealogy for the past three years,
Barbara Bonner has become con-
vinced her family's history is like a
spider web with each piece con-
nected and no apparent end.
In fact, so interwoven are each
New Haby Sister
Four-year-old Taylor Nicole
Sharpe announces the birth of
her baby sister, Kelsey Anne
Sharpe, born on May 5, 1995
at Bossier Medical Center in
Bossier City, La., at 1:05 p.m.
Kelsey weighed 6 lbs., 10 oz.,
and was 18 1/, inches long.
Proud parents are Patrick
and Lee Anne Sharpe of
Carthage. Grandparents are
Nancy Taylor Ritch of
Carthage, Ronnie Taylor of
Beaumont, Bill and Joyce
Rogers and the late Andrew
C. Sharpe, all of Carthage.
Great-grandparents are Doug
and Florence Reeh and Rex
and Dee Taylor, all of
Carthage.
... Stephen Mitchell Holt, 33, of
Marshall by Sgts. Jeter and Dale
Reed and Deputies Sonny Gold and
Joyce Williams on the charge of
public intoxication. Holt paid the
fines and was released.
... Charles Edward Hunt, 47, of
P.O. Box 108, Carthage, by
Carthage Police Sgt. Faulkner on
the charge of theft Hunt was re-
leased on bond.
... Grady Lee Haden. 45, of P.O.
Box 107, Carthage, by Sgt. Jeter on
the charge of public intoxication.
Haden was released on bond.
... Martin Velasques Gonzalez,
20, of Henderson by Panola County
Deputies Keith Edgmon and Darrin
Baisden on the charge of public
intoxication.
... Antonio Garcia, 37, of Hen-
derson by Deputies Baisden and
Edgmon on the charge of public
intoxication.
... Jose Edwardo Ayala, 26, of*
Henderson by Deputies Edgmon
and Baisden on the charge of pub-
lic intoxication.
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union between two people," Bonner
recounted.
Other customs of the time are
also written of including the use of
a cooling board (flat piece of
w(xxl) during burial procedures.
Similarly, a section of the book
is dedicated to the history of Hol-
land Quarters Cemetery (spelled
cemetary) and the first schools of
the area.
Copies of some historical deed
records have been included as well
as maps of states and territories the
early settlers came from.
Also, a brief description of each
family's descendents as well as
those who have obtained fame is
included in the book.
The Legacy is currently being
printed and will be available to the
public soon. Copies may be ob-
tained by calling the Panola County
Historical and Genealogical Soci-
ety or the Chamber of Commerce.
"I have enjoyed writing this
book. It has been such a learning
experience for me - it is all stored
in my brain now.
"Now I know what took place to
get here, what took place to stay
here and what my people endured,"
Bonner conclude.
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Hernandez. Amy Zulko, Heather
Vaughan, Cecil Graves, Lisa
Bounds and Kristin Booth.
Trumpet Lindsey Edge, Kim
Shuttlesworth. Kayte Posey, Keitha
Vaughan, Lee Jones and Bridget
Abernathy.
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bill and baigaming acts passed.
We need you its members, there
is always strength in numbers.
Come join us lor fish and all the
trimmings. Free! Tuesday, June 20,
1995 at 7:30 p.m. in Garrison at the
Lions Club Hall
II directions are needed, contact
Pat Tompkins at 693-82 16.
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of the lives surrounding Bonner’s The book is arranged in nine
rich heritage that what began as a sub-books, with each family's
few curious questions has since legacy recounted beginning with
mushroomed into a full Hedged the oldest to the youngest.
book containing detailed accounts "It is interesting to note that be-
of life in the tiny slave community cause it was a slave community, the
of Holland Quarters. early families did not use their own
"I simply became engrossed. It names. but rather took the last
was one of those things that when I name of their master.' Bonner
started digging in it, I just couldn't stated.
put it down," Bonner recounted Book I begins with the story of
So much so, she said, that the Toby Holland, who came to Panola
endeavor would eventually bring County with Master Holland from
her full circle, back home to Panola Virginia in the late 1 700‘s w hile the
County after moving away with her Tony Hom family, written of in
family when she was only four Book II, arrived here straight from
years old. Africa. Another Virginia man
Her book, appropriately titled Travis Johns, is discussed in Book
The Legacy, has been a labor of HI.
love for the novice author and one Book IV is writen about Mary
that she hopes will inspire family Bankham. a Cherokee Indian from
devotion to all who read its 514 (he District of Columbia followed
pages. by the Book V’s stoiy of Mary
Steeped in history. Bonner's tale Rowelctt and her DESCEN-
begins in the late 1700‘s when DANTS, who also hailed from Vu
Texas was still under the Spanish ginia.
rule and much of the land remained Book VI describes the life of
uninhabited. Sarali Cranford while Book VII is
Named for Major Holland even dedicated to an older slave named
before Carthage was a city, the Dicce and her daughter Both were
quarters were simply that, living brought here from Alabama with a
accommodations for the many Costa Rican man named Ned
slaves who settled here with plan- Brown.
Recently, some 30 Carthage Ju-
nior High Band students attended
the annual SFA Summer Band
Camp held in Nacogdoches from
June 4-9.
While at the camp, each student
participated in band rehearsals,
master classes, sectional work and
rhythm classes. Night time activi-
ties included swimming, dances,
movies, basketball, game room and
a few special recitals. Those at-
tending were:
Flutes - Amanda Welch, Rena
Smith and Morgan Lawless.
Clarinet - Carly McPherson.
Jodi Henderson, Kim Myers, Nikki
Hummachi, Stephanie Hughes and
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WE ALL WIN WHEN
SHOPLIFTING STOPS
In one large city the manager ol
a department store said: "We are
getting ripped off Children, moth
ers, businessmen, blue collar work
ers... professionals. ..you name it!
Some shelves are stripped bare by
dosing time."
This week I read about a
woman, apparently pregnant, who
walked out of a grocery store. Sus-
picious, the assistant manager
stopped her. She latei gave birth"
to a pound of butter, a chuck roast,
a bottle of pancake syrup, two
tubes of toothpaste, han tome, and
several bars of candy
One California homemaker was
observed tapping various articles as
she made her way through a su
permarket, followed by her two
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Leach, Ted. The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 49, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 18, 1995, newspaper, June 18, 1995; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1541579/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sammy Brown Library.