Freestone County, Texas
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[This is Andrew Samuel Bonner]

The Sunday Delta newspaper
published in Louisana
July 12, 1857 edition
page: 2

Texas Items

 The Texas Pioneer, (Freestone County,) of the 27th ult., says Mr. Andrew S.
Bonner sent us, on Monday last, a cotton blossom plucked from his plantation.
He says there were blossoms in his field on Saturday previous.  Mr. Bonner is
ahead of all the planters, in this county in this respect, so far as we have
heard. 
 Since the above was written we have received from a friend another cotton
blossom, taken from the field of Mr. John R. Henry of Limestone County. It was
plucked the same day as Mr. Bonner's.  Our correspondent say that the cotton
in Mr. H's field looks very fine, being about two feet high from the bed on
which it grows, and frequently having from twenty to forty squares on a stalk.