History

Hurricane’s Toll Mounts
Several Known Dead as 70 to 80 Mile Wind Hits Matagorda Bay Section
No Known Lives Reported Lost Here, Fear Felt For Some; Few Buildings Escape Wind Damage
Much Damage is Suffered 
At Camp Hulen
Many Buildings At B. Y. P. U. Grounds Demolished; 
Repairing Starts
   Battered for hours by hurricane winds and surging waves, the Texas coast, from Freeport to Corpus Christi, Thursday was counting its dead and injured and adding up a huge property damage.
   The storm moved inland Wednesday, after lashing the coast for several hours, the worst of its fury being spent on the Matagorda Bay section.
   At least eight persons were known to be dead and nine were missing. The dead included five at East Morales [Jackson County], in a tornado which ripped thru the section during the storm; one at Texas City and two at Freeport.

Steve William Parsutt
February 14, 1918- August 24, 2018

Rosie Mae Blair Dannelley
 
March 26, 1942- Sunday, September 2, 2018

Matagorda County TXGenWeb

William Prissick.
   Passages in the Life of an Eccentric Texas Legislator.
   The Family Pedigree of Hon. William Prissick-Oddities of Odd Englishman
Scraps of Early History 
   in the Settlement of Texas.
   (Written for The Galveston Weekly News 
   Jan. 12, 1882
By D.E.E. Braman, of Matagorda.)
 
      EDITOR’S NOTE: D.E.E. Braman came to Texas in 1836 to fight in the Texas Revolution (see adjoining story) and became one of the state’s early great writers and chronicler of the Times - William Prissick was an important topic to him.
   This is the second installment of the William Prissick chronicles that tell a good bit about Matagorda County life in early and mid 1800s.

Matagorda County TXGenWeb

William Prissick.
   Passages in the Life of an Eccentric Texas Legislator.
   The Family Pedigree of Hon. William Prissick-Oddities of Odd Englishman
Scraps of Early History 
in the Settlement of Texas.
   (Written for The Galveston Weekly News 
Jan. 12, 1882
by D.E.E. Braman, of Matagorda.)
 
   EDITOR’S NOTE: D.E.E. Braman came to Texas in 1836 to fight in the Texas Revolution and became one of the state’s early great writers and chronicler of the Times - William Prissick was an important topic to him.
   This is the second installment of the William Prissick chronicles that tell a good bit about Matagorda County life in early and mid 1800s.

From Texas Handbook of History

EDITOR’S NOTE: D.E.E. Braman came to Texas in 1836 to fight in the Texas Revolution and became one of the state’s early great writers and chronicler of the Times - William Prissick was an important topic to him.
   We’ll be running Braman’s biography of Prissick over the next three or four editions.
    On the unpicturesque eastern shore of Tres Palacios bay, where the wire grass flats and the gradually ascending land toward the bay each commingle, and where mosquitoes and other insect and animal pests of low degree abound in summer and winter alike, stands a small, windowless ranch-house, that was once used by Allen and Poole for their herders, when they shipped cattle from Palacios. 

From Carol Sue Gibbs
Matagorda County TXGenWeb

From Carol Sue Gibbs
Matagorda County TXGenWeb