Category Archives: Historical tidbits

Santa’s Visit 100 Years Ago

Posted on December 19, 2020 by admin

“Christmas season is approaching and already the Yuletide spirit is in the air,” so wrote the Greenville Evening Banner of Friday, December 3, 1920. Local merchants placed their first offerings on display. Early indications are that an excellent offering of … Continue reading →

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Survivors from WWII to 9/11 find help in Halifax

Posted on December 13, 2020 by admin

Normally I write about Texas, or at least the South. This time I want to share about a trip I took a few years ago to Canada. It is so pretty, so cool in the summer, and so peaceful. At … Continue reading →

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Pearl Harbor, Day of Infamy

Posted on December 5, 2020 by admin

On the morning December 7, 1941, Americans heard on the radio, at church or from someone they knew, the news of the debilitating attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base on the island of Oahu in Hawaii Territory. U. S. ships … Continue reading →

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Early Deaths No Comparison with Coronavirus

Posted on November 28, 2020 by admin

Around the middle of March this year, Americans and other residents of our planet Earth were told to “shutter down.” Something known as the Coronavirus or more commonly called COVID-19 had invaded. Soon the disease became a pandemic. The only … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving in Texas

Posted on November 21, 2020 by admin

Did you know that Texas is the only state that often celebrated Thanksgiving twice in the same year and on separate days? You know how ornery Texans can be, and for many years if Thanksgiving fell on the fourth and … Continue reading →

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Horsehead Crossing

Posted on November 14, 2020 by admin

My favorite attorney in early Greenville, Alfred Thomas Howell, wrote to his brother in March 1854. Alfred had recently met a couple of speculators taking herds of cattle from different points in the East Texas to California and were trying … Continue reading →

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Greenville Ghost Stories

Posted on October 25, 2020 by admin

Watch out, the goblins are coming. This time of year don’t we all love a good ghost story? Back in the far history of Greenville, when most of the activity occurred in what is now Downtown Greenville, a group of … Continue reading →

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President Mayo’s Tombstone

Posted on October 12, 2020 by admin

(Complements of the late Otis C. Spencer, author of Cow Hill “Bits & Pieces”, An Irreverent History of Commerce and Its People, Volume One. Professor Mayo, the man who made the college great, died in 1917, hours before the realization … Continue reading →

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Two Presbyterian Churches Merge into One

Posted on October 12, 2020 by admin

Shortly after Greenville became a community in 1846, new residents began to build churches. The first was a Baptist Church followed by a Methodist Church. The third church built in town was organized as a Cumberland Presbyterian Church, circa 1863. … Continue reading →

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Why did Dr. Schoonover Come to Greenville?

Posted on September 27, 2020 by admin

One would be surprised to meet Dr. Schoonover on the streets of Greenville, much less to turn to him for medical problems. He was a Yankee, raised in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and Captain of the Eleventh Indians Cavalry. And in … Continue reading →

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