Mount Pilgram Missionary: On Caney, before recorded history

By Vera Rugeley King  & Mary Belle Ingram      The story of the Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church membership began prior to the earliest recorded history – on the bank of Caney Creek, during a journey through slavery.

‘Kit’ Williams well known for his plantation, practice

   EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. C.H. Williams was born and lived on a lower Caney Creek plantation that was near the site of the former community of Gainesmore/At Last.    The following is taken from his obituary in the Matagorda County News & Midcoast Farmer, March 28, 1916.    Dr. C.H.

Gainesmore/At Last last stop on Hawkinsville train

   Gainesmore, also known as At Last, was on Farm Road 457 seventeen miles south of Bay City in eastern Matagorda County.

CJ Wildman worked to develop early Palacios

   EDITOR’S NOTE: C.J. Wildman arrived in Palacios in 1904 as the then-townsite’s resident manager. He was revered in his time and in his passing at the age of 38.     The following is the obituary that ran in the Palacios Beacon in 1917. The obituary tells much about Wildman’s contributions.

Braman: Matagorda mayor, county judge, popular author

   Don Braman - a Matagorda County Judge and Matagorda mayor - the oldest child of Andrew and Nancy (Hawes) Braman, was born in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, on September 21, 1814.     He attended the common schools of Providence, Rhode Island.

"‘School House’ in the middle of the prairie" By Margaret Hill Lawson and McElrath Linn

   During the year 1912, Common School District No. 12 was established between the Tres Palacios River and Cash’s Creek.     The two-room schoolhouse was first situated in the Dunbar community by the river and near the church and store.     It was called “The School House.”      A.L.

Dunbar once neighborhood settlement on Tres Palacios" By Colleen Claybourn

   Dunbar was a neighborhood settlement on the west side of Tres Palacios Creek in the Alexander Tims Survey,     Abstract 396, about one mile north of the FM 521 bridge to Collegeport.

Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge serves critical purpose

   Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge is on East Matagorda Bay just south of Lake Austin and 21 miles south of Bay City in southern Matagorda County.

Bouldin successful in medicine, business, farming

   William Walter Bouldin, of Bay City, was not only one of the highly skilled physicians and surgeons of Matagorda County, but he also owned and operated a drug store, and owned considerable farm land which he inherited and which he developed after taking charge of the land.