3 Matching Results

Search Results

[Historic Marker Application: Chambersea]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for Chambersea (the home of Thomas Jefferson Chambes), in Anahuc, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.

Date: 1968

Creator: Texas Historical Commission

Location: 29.770825 -94.684747

Partner: Texas Historical Commission

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Bessie Jane Kilgore Busch, October 2, 1979

Transcript of an interview with Bessie Jane Kilgore Busch, a resident of Cedar Bayou, Texas circa 1900-1925. Busch details her childhood and early life in Cedar Bayou as well as the oil boom and early days of Baytown, Texas.

Date: 2018

Creator: Busch, Bessie Jane Kilgore & Swofford, Sarah

Partner: Lee College

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Louise Fowler Himes, February 4, 1986

Transcript of an interview with Louise Fowler Himes, who moved to Cedar Bayou in 1919 as a teacher. Mrs. Himes discusses life when she first moved such as her teaching and going to movies and games with other townspeople. Among other topics, Himes answers questions and describes her experiences with influenza, malaria, the Ku Klux Klan, and the hurricanes of 1900 and 1908.