James Perrian Penny, Sr., the eldest child of Hardy Penny and his wife Harriet Hood, was born in Henry Co, Georgia circa 1834. His mother died when Perrian was just six years old, and with four young children at home, his father married Nancy Caldwell later the same year.
If you happen to smell the mouthwatering fragrance of bacon while driving through Cass County, well there just may be a reason for that.
The Cass County Genealogical Society will have a Membership Meeting on Thursday October 12. At our October meeting We will be showing the TxSSGS video by Mark Lowe “Home Guard, Confederate Veterans, and GAR in Texas”. You don’t want to miss this interesting and in-formative program.
Texas has produced many powerful political figures in its long history. In the 1930s, Texas had one of the most influential congressional delegations in the nation, including Sen. Morris Sheppard, the Senate Minority Whip, House Speaker John Nance Garner, and other congressmen such as future House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Wright Patman. Among those figures was Congressman Hatton Sumners of Dallas, a 34-year veteran of Congress and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for fourteen years, helping to shape the direction of the federal judiciary.
TPWD’s annual roadside surveys show modest gains in some regions, spurring cautious optimism for the future
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