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From: "eperson" <>
Subject: Re: Answers to: Re: What Counties in East Texas?
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 16:39:34 -0600


AND, CENTER is the county seat of Shelby County! My hometown!!
Annette

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> From:
> To:
> Subject: Answers to: Re: What Counties in East Texas?
> Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 2:50 PM
>
> Hi, All:
>
> For all of y'all who were interested in the answer(s) to my question
about
> what counties were considered "East Texas", I am sending the "List" sort
of a
> summary of the responses which I received. I think these answers seem to
> cover it pretty well. Again, many thanks --
>
> Lana in Texas
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> From: (Jackie Pace)
>
> Lana,
> If there were awards to give out, you should get one for the best
question of
> the week. I am looking forward to the answer to this one!
> Jackie Pace of Pasadena, TX
> http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/a/c/Jackie-A-PACE/index.html
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> From: (eperson)
>
> Shelby County and Sabine County
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> From: (P Cox)
>
> We always considered generally all counites east of the Trinity River
from the
> Gulf of Mexico to the Red River
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> From: (rstanley)
>
> I am in Shelby Co.
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> From:
>
> Others would include Shelby, Sabine, Cherokee, Houston, Panola, Gregg,
> Upshur, and Morris -- and there are more, but I can't think right now.
> BTW: The county, and its seat, are San Augustine. St. Augustine is the
> grass that grows there.
>
> Clifton Palmer McLendon, of Shelby County Texas
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> From: ()
>
> Hi,
> Some of the counties are Polk, Liberty, Grimes, Houston, Tyler,
Jefferson,
> Freestone, Trinity, Leon, Montgomery, Shelby, Rusk. These are a few
> off the top of my head.
> Cynthia
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> From: (Joe W Peterson)
>
> Lana
> You have a good question, it appears to me that from messages sent that
> any thing east of Ft Worth and down as far south as the coast is
> submitted. Say any thing east of Hwy 45. Once you get west of hwy. I45
you
> get into the hill country they call it. The Texhoma board seems to be
more
> North East and Ok. I'll cc this to the net and see what others think.
>
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> From: (Hubert Cook)
>
> Hi,
>
> Good point and I don't know if there is an answer. To me East Texas was
> always
> Angelina, Nacogdoches and San Augustine Counties. If you were to ask my
> relatives they would say the same. Areas such as Trinity County were
called
> the Big Thicket. I never considered Rusk as it was West of Angelina.
But
> living in
> Houston since 1957 I have come to think of East Texas as South of Hwy 20,
East
> of Interstate 45 and North of Hwy 10. That encompasses a lot of Counties
for
> East Texas. Perhaps the list owner will shed some light on this subject.
I
> would like
> to know also.
>
> Later,
>
> Hubert Cook

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