Jane Anne Rogers Pattie was born January 15, 1935 in Fort Worth, Texas and died June 8, 2021. She was a writer for over sixty years. In her career, Jane has written over 3,000 articles for more than three dozen different magazines. She has also written several books.
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Walter Prescott Webb
Walter Prescott Webb was born April 3, 1888 to Casner P. Webb (1862 – 1940) and Mary Elizabeth Kyle Webb (1855 – 1949) in Panola County, Texas. His father Casner’s occupation was listed as a school teacher in the 1900 census and as a farmer in the 1910 census. Most likely, Casner supported his family by teaching and farming. The family moved a number of times to tenant farms while Casner also served in local schools as a teacher. Walter Prescott Webb was one of three siblings of Casner and Mary Elizabeth Webb to reach maturity and was the middle child between two sisters. He attended high school in Ranger and earned an undergraduate degree at University of Texas in Austin. He later earned a master’s degree there and was awarded a doctorate from University of Chicago for his literary work.
Continue reading Walter Prescott WebbWillie Newbury Lewis
Willie Newbury Lewis was an author who became known for her work pertaining to the early days of Anglo settlement in North Texas and the Panhandle. Her biographical information has been recounted in numerous newspaper articles, which are the main sources for this brief sketch.
Continue reading Willie Newbury LewisWilliam Sidney Porter (O. Henry)
William Sidney (sometimes also spelled Sydney) Porter was an American author. He was the son of physician Algernon Sidney and Mary Jane Swaim Porter and was born in North Carolina in 1862. His mother Mary Jane died in 1865 when he was three years old and Porter was raised by his paternal grandmother. He was by all accounts highly intelligent, though he had little formal education. Porter had attended school through the age of fifteen and became a licensed pharmacist, working in his uncle’s pharmacy.
Liz Carpenter
Mary Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter was born in Salado, Bell County, Texas on September 1, 1920 to Thomas Shelton and Mary Elizabeth Robertson Sutherland. Her father was a state highway inspector and her mother was a homemaker. Liz was the middle child of five children. According to traditional genealogical sources, her mother, Mary Elizabeth Robertson was the daughter of Maclin Robertson who was in turn the son of Sterling Clack and Sarah Maclin Robertson. Sterling Clack Robertson was born in 1785 in Tennessee and came to Texas as empresario of his own colony, settling in what would become Bell County near the current town of Salado. Robertson was also a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. On Liz’s father’s side, her Texas roots went back just as far. Her father was Thomas Shelton Sutherland III. His father was Thomas Shelton Sutherland II and his father was George Sutherland, born in Alabama and by profession a cowboy and rancher, who is noted as having served in the Texas Army and fought in the Battle of San Jacinto.
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