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Nocona
School Class Photo
"Far
right in the back row is my grandfather, Grover C Weiss, as a school boy."
- JL Weiss Truitt |
History
in a Pecan ShellWilliam
Broaddus and D. C. Jordan started a ranch near present-day Nocona in the 1870s.
When the Gainesville, Henrietta and Western Railroad was building across Montague
County, Jordan offered land for a right-of-way. The town was to be named after
Jordan (Jordanville) but instead it was named after the Comanche
Chief Peta Nocona. A post office was opened under that name in 1887 and bootmaker
Herman Justin moved his operations here.
Nocona's first newspaper was
published two years later and the town received a bank in 1890. The town entered
the 20th Century with a population of 900.
In 1925, the sons of the
late Herman Justin moved their factory to Fort
Worth, but their sister remained - opening a boot company of her own.
The population increased to 2,000 Noconans by 1930, falling during the Great
Depression, but growing steadily thereafter until it reached 3,300 in the 1960s.
Nocona,
Texas Today: |
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Church
of The Brethren 3 miles NW of Nocona
Photo
courtesy Barclay
Gibson, February 2007 |
"My
Great Grandparents, Lorenzo D and Nancy Jane Smith (Castilaw) and their 3 daughters.
From
left to right: Rosa E Smith (Hodges)
Lorenzo Dow Smith (Castilaw was his family
name...he lived under the alias 'Smith'...his family are from Mississippi.
Serentha
Smith (Holt)
Nancy Jane Dean Smith (Choctaw)
On Nancy's lap is my grandmother,
Pearl Lillian Smith (Weiss) who was probably 1 or 2 years old.
The photo was
taken around 1894/5 in Nocona, Texas."
- JL Weiss Truitt, July 29,
2011
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"My
Grandparents, Grover C and Pearl Lillian Smith Weiss. Myself, Janice Lee Weiss
Truitt, and my brother, George W Weiss are sitting on their laps. Taken in the
early 1950's at our ranch house in Bill, Wyoming."
- JL Weiss Truitt,
July 29, 2011
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Addison in
Nocona I was
going through my grandfather's pictures that came from his mother's old trunk.
His mother was Margaret Evaline Painter Ellis. One photograph that caught my attention
was sent to her either in the late 1800's or early 1900's.
At the bottom
was the name "Addison, Fort Sills" Unfortunately, this photograph was not labelled.
Researching further I found that this was photo taken by the famous photographer,
George A. Addison who had a studio in the Nocona area during the time period that
this photo was probably taken.
My greatgrandmother had a brother and
sister who settled in the area around Nocona, Texas. so I'm fairly certain these
are either York or Painter descendants.
The photographer George Anthony
Addison was a well-known photographer in the area around Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory
and took photos displaying the life during this time. - Alfred Ellis, Fort
Payne, Alabama, May 28, 2007 |
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Nocona, Texas Forum:
I
remember my grandmother, Pearl, talking about Cynthia Ann Parker, the wife of
Peta Nocona; and
Enid Justin, who started the Nocona boot company....each Nocona boot customer
had a pattern of his/her foot on file at the Nocona boot company so that custom
made boots could be done without the customer travelling to Nocona...My dad and
grampa had boots made that way for years when I was a kid in Wyoming... - JL
Weiss Truitt, July 31, 2011
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