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From: Charley Burgess <>
Subject: Re: What Counties in East Texas?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 21:20:24 -0600


I was reared in Nacogdoches and Angelina Counties, but have lived in Houston
(Harris Co.) and Montgomery County. Our local news and weather refers to
Houston as southeast Texas.

Pat

eperson wrote:

> AND, CENTER is the county seat of Shelby County! My hometown!!
> Annette
>
> ----------
> > 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
> > `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> > 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
> >
> ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> ``
> > `````````````````````````````
> > From: (eperson)
> >
> > Shelby County and Sabine County
> > ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> > From: (P Cox)
> >
> > We always considered generally all counites east of the Trinity River
> from the
> > Gulf of Mexico to the Red River
> > `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> > From: (rstanley)
> >
> > I am in Shelby Co.
> > ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> > 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
> >
> ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
>
> > 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
> > ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> > 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.
> >
> ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
> ``
> > `````````
> > 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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