Cherokee County GaArchives History - Letters .....Bell, Oscar R. Writes From Texas (born Cherokee Co., Ga.) August 9, 1936 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candance (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 February 7, 2007, 12:13 am “The Cleburne News” Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, AUGUST 20, 1936 LETTER FROM OSCAR R. BELL FROM TEXAS Mercedes, Texas, Aug. 9, 1936 Mrs. Ida McCoy and S.I. Denson Heflin, Alabama Dear Friends, I say friends because I used to be a friend of the late Seburn Denson when he was a just a young man. I was partly raised at Bell Mills. Seburn's father lived near Arbacoochee. I taught school at the Mills, four mils north, some 65 years ago. When I read in The Cleburne News about the protracted meeting to be held at Heflin and Seburn's name was mentioned, it reminded me of the old times and old friends back in Cleburne county. I have just passed my 85th birthday and I think Seburn was about 18 when I was there. I remember his sister Fannie but don't know what ever became of her. From reading the Cleburne News of the meeting annoucement, I infer your father, Seburn Denson, has passed on. He was a singer back in his boyhood days. I left Cleburne county about 66 years ago, going to Gadsden. Came to Texas in 1897 when Fort Worth was the end of the railroad. After traveling over Texas for some time, went to Arkansas, from there, back to Alabama near Gadsden and married my sweetheart on Mar. 4, 1880. We lived in Little County, Arkansas for 27 years. Two doctors advised me my wife was suffering from asthma and suggested that I take her to the coast, in southwest Texas, which I did. She lived 19 years here. Sold my home here in June for $8,500; went back to every place I'd lived, spending three days to three months at each. Returned back home to the old Rio Grande Valley and have lived here since April 1907. I am a subscriber to The Cleburne News, published at Heflin and get it every Saturday morning and call it "like getting a letter from home." I taught the Editor (C.F. Dodson) his "letters". He came to school to me when he was only six years old. Very respectfully, Oscar R. Bell Additional Comments: Per letter of November 22, 1936, Oscar Bell was born in Cherokee Co., Georgia File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/cherokee/history/letters/bellosca663gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb