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Cooper Review - Page 2 Thursday, December 6, 2007
All Things Historical
On The River
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By Archie R McDonald
WithET
WALTER PAYE LANE
Years ago Max S. Lale of Marshall
presented a biographical sketch of Walter
Paye Lane in his presidential address to the
Texas State Historical Association. It is easy
to see why Max enjoyed learning about
this previous resident of Harrison County.
Lane was born in Cork County, Ireland, on
February 18, 1817, and came to America with
his family in 1821.
While still in his teens Lane came to Texas
to take part in the Texas Revolution. He served
in a cavalry company commanded by Henry
Karnes and although wounded in a skirmish
on the day before, his gallantry in the Battle
of San Jacinto earned Lane an appointment as
second lieutenant. Lane also took part in raids
on the Mexican coast even after the Republic
of Texas was established.
Lane settled in San Augustine County in
1838 and remained in East Texas until 1843,
when he joined Captain John Coffee Hays’
company of Texas Rangers in San Antonio.
Lane served in the Rangers through the
annexation of Texas and in the subsequent war
between Mexico and the United States in the
First Regiment of Texas Mounted Riflemen.
After the war with Mexico, Lane joined
his brother, George Lane, in Marshall. He
opened a mercantile business and lived
in Marshall until the Civil War began,
although he sometimes left to search for
gold in Arizona or some such adventure.
Lane became a lieutenant colonel in the
Third Texas Cavalry when the war began. He
remained in the Western Theatre throughout
the war and participated in all of the principal
actions of the area, including the early battles
of Wilson’s Creek in Missouri, Pea Ridge
in Arkansas, and Corinth in Mississippi.
When his initial one-year enlistment ended,
Lane raised another regiment in Texas
known as the First Texas Partisan Rangers.
He commanded this unit at Mansfield,
Louisiana, in April 1864, and performed a
distinguished role in ending Union General
Nathaniel P. Banks’ Red River Campaign,
an unsuccessful attempt to invade Texas.
Lane sustained a severe wound in the battle
but returned to duty after he recovered and
received a promotion to brigadier general
in March 1865, just months before General
Edmund Kirby Smith surrendered the
Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department in
New Orleans.
Lane came home to Marshall when the
Civil War ended and operated his mercantile
establishment. Lane was among the
Redeemers who restored Democratic Party
rule to Harrison County and served for a
time as a deputy United States marshal. He
died on January 28, 1892, and was buried
in Harrison County, as is, now, Max Lale.
They were two men who contributed their
very lives to Marshall and Harrison County.
The East Texas Historical Association
provides this column as a public service. Archie
P. McDonald is director of the Association
and author of more than 20 books on Texas.
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
Cooper High School
students Casey Clark, Brett
Stowers, and Matt Ingram,
had the unique opportunity
of meeting with Governor
George Bush, Jr. in Austin.
The meeting took place on
Tuesday, November 23rd, in
the Governor’s Press Room.
The interview was the result of
their request to the Governor
as part of a video production
project for Rose Ingram’s
media technology course.
The final video is a gift to
Senator Bill Ratliff which
demonstrates the capability
of high school students to
use media and technology in
public schools.
Elroy and Lisa Theye, of
Roxton, are proud to announce
the birth of their daughter,
Destiny Elizabeth Theye, born
Friday, October 31, 1997 at
3:36 a.m.
Twenty Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Larry
Ward, of Greenville, announce
the engagement of their
daughter, Kelly Javon Ward,
to Barry Shane Carrington,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted
Carrington, of Cooper.
Thirty Years Ago
Diane (Wintermute)
Stegall, an ETSU senior, was
named Home Economist of
the Year during the recent
Texas Home Economics
Student Section convention
at Kingsville. She was one
of five coeds from Texas
universities to win the honor.
The 1977-78 Cooper High
Bulldogettes include: Darlene
Bacy, LeAnn Proctor, Lynda
Choate, Tonya Reynolds,
Janet Wigley, Venita Roberts,
Leslie Morris, Penny White,
Kelly Manes, Lisa Davis,
Debbie Earley, and Carolyn
Biggers. The coach for the
team is Pat Moses.
Forty Years Ago
A nursing home in Cooper
wifi finally become a reality
early in 1968, climaxing
two years of planning and
negotiations by Dalton H.
Bookout of Boston, Texas,
and the Cooper Development
Company.
The Delta Economic
and Civic Association held
a Turkey Shoot Saturday,
November 18, at the Booker
T. Washington gymnasium
in Cooper. Winners from the
large number of contestants
included Chris Bailey, James
Talley, Richard Smith,
Kenneth Gillean, Danny
James, Roy Newsom, Richard
Goolsby, Jerry Holcomb, E.J.
Cates, Bud Skinner, Ronald
Gillean and Bobby Irvin.
Fifty Years Ago
Friday, November 22,
was proclaimed as “Cooper
Bulldog Day” by George A.
Bolger, Mayor of Cooper, and
L.C. Burrow, County Judge.
Sixty Years Ago
Cooper and Delta County
citizens breathed a little
easier Wednesday when Lone
Star Gas Company officials
announced that regular gas
service had been restored for
the first time since Sunday.
A leak in their main line to
Cooper, developing Saturday
between Royce City and
Caddo Mills, had caused the
company to suspend service
to schools and industrial users
in fifteen Northeast Texas
towns.
Seventy Years Ago
County Commissioners
Hiram Clark, Eugene Routt
and R.H. Wallace; Mayor J.H.
McKinney and Rube Wells,
F.P Salmon, Ed Smith, and
Tom B. Good attended the
opening of the Talco Asphalt
and Refining Co. Thursday.
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TEXAS-OU WEEKEND
My theory of the Texas-OU weekend
being the busiest time of the year continues
to hold water as this one in October was jam
packed. (Just now getting around to telling
about it due to the New York trip story taking
several weeks.) Thursday was hay cutting day
then to Turner Pipe in Paris to catch some pesky
coons. Friday, rake the hay then carry cooking/
camping stuff to the cabin to get ready for our
annual camp out and squirrel hunt. Place four
pounds of casserole style red beans in the pot.
Add ham hocks, salt pork, and onions. Slow
cook. Stir a lot to make thick juice. To Sulphur
Springs at 7:00 pm and speak at the Sulphur
Springs High School Class of 1943 reunion.
That’s the Roger Arnold and Knob Chapman
bunch. Then back to the campfire and gatherin’
at the cabin.
Saturday morning was unusually
warm and almost unfit for squirrel hunting.
Mosquitoes were terrible. Still, there’s
something magical about October mornings
before sunup under the big trees in river
bends. Yellow shafted flickers, one of our
kinds of woodpeckers, pecked and called
nearby. Ground littered with small limbs cut
off by twig girdler beetles. Across the river a
large pileated woodpecker made its slow and
loud pecking, only to give its hen cackle call
as it flew to find a better tree.
Squirrels fed on pecans high above
and out at the end of the limbs. Slipping
close enough was challenging as post oak
acorns crunched beneath my feet. Also would
have to fan the mosquitoes away every few
seconds. Cars barely audible four miles west
on highway 19. A tiny gray squirrel moved
tree to tree across the tops. Number 6 shot is
my favorite but hard to find. Most stores only
stock smaller pellets as they cater mainly to
dove hunters. The small pellets only sprinkled
the squirrel in the tall trees and it moved on.
McGuyer Branch is the gateway to
downtown Charleston. This little branch
meanders south into the flat river bottom
where it spreads out and disappears. The water
flows southeast in many tiny ditches until it all
meets again in a big ditch just west of Bluff
Bank. There, the water that was in McGuyer
Branch now is in Akard Slough near where
I was hunting today. Years ago a wooden
fish trap was in the mouth of Akard Slough.
Boards were nailed up vertically. One inch
cracks between them. A guillotine type sliding
door was tied up until there was a big rain.
South Sulphur would “back up” in the slough.
Fish would swim up in there and feed. After
a day or so the gate would be lowered and
when the water went down, there would be a
community fish fry.
But back to squirrel hunting. Take a
slow step or two then lean against a tree. Wait
a while and go again. A fox squirrel appeared
nearby on a leaning bois d’arc limb. Unaware
of me. As he scratched a flea behind his ear I
eased up my twenty gauge and his flea worries
were over.
While field dressing it I thought back to
the time Hopper Cooper asked Doc Watson to
teach him to squirrel hunt. Doc loaned Hopper
a .22 rifle and carried him to a favorite place
near Bonners Point. Showed him where to sit
quietly and went about a hundred yards away
to another spot. Soon after Doc sat down,
he heard Hopper shoot. Every few minutes
there would be more shots. Doc was pleased
that Hopper was having so much action and
figured he had a sack full of squirrels. After
an hour Doc went to see all the squirrels but
found none. Hopper had got bored and started
shooting at cardinals. To be continued.
Today, December 6, look below bright
Venus at dawn for the crescent Moon. Earliest
sunsets of the year normally occur on December
7. Mark your calendar for the Geminid meteor
shower on the night of December 13. There
wifi be no moonlight to interfere.
Semi-worthless and unverified
information: The dot over the letter “i” is
called a tittle. The “spot” on 7 UP comes from
its inventor, an albino with red eyes. Warren
Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are reported to
be brother and sister. Chocolate affects a dog’s
heart and nervous system to the point that a
few ounces wifi kill a small dog. Donald Duck
comics were banned in Finland because he
doesn’t wear pants.
A woman asked her husband if he
wanted some supper and he asked her what his
choices were. She answered, “Yes or no.”
You know you’re getting old when you
bend over to tie your shoe and wonder what
else you could do while you’re down there. -
- George Burns. People in hell, where do they
tell people to go? —Red Skelton. The other day
I bought a wastebasket and carried it home in
a paper bag. When I got home I put the paper
bag in the wastebasket. -Lily Tomlin.
Did you hear about Olympic gold
medalist Picabo Street’s large donation to a
Denver hospital? They are going to use the
money to build Picabo ICU.
A man walked into a doctor’s office
with a banana in his left ear, a cucumber in his
right ear, and a carrot up his nose. The doctor
told him, “You’re not eating right.”
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My mother, Edna Bishop,
wifi be 90 on January 5, 2008.
She has short term memory
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and her Cooper Review. She
reads every word each week. It
takes her home to Ben Franklin.
She is the daughter of the late
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She lived in Ben Franklin
until 1952. She, her husband,
Laurence Bishop and five
children moved to McKinney.
She now lives in Leonard.
She has 11 grandchildren, 16
great grandchildren and four
great-great grandchildren.
She graduated high school
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Thank you,
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Palmer, Roger. Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 2007, newspaper, December 6, 2007; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth805125/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Delta County Public Library.