Freestone County, Texas History Dallas Morning News Sept. 16, 1900 Page 20 Little Men and Women CORA A. McCARTHY, Trinity, Tex. -- Dear Mr. Big Hat: Will you allow me to come in a few moments? I know it has not been long since I wrote. This time I'll send you "that better picture" that I promised last winter. I'm sure that it will give Peggy and Piggy such a fright they'll never stop running, but don't think that anything would frighten Billy. There is not much to say about myself; sufficient to say, I am the eldest daughter of Jerry M. and Cora E. McCarthy, nee Harrington. I was born at Keechi, Leon County, Texas, Feb. 18, 1880. Lived in Limestone and Freestone and also Navarro Counties till I was 8 years old. I've lived all over Texas but never was outside of the Lone Star State. I wish to make a short statement through the Cozy Corner for the benefit of a number of the cousins. It appears that they've got my name mixed up with the name of another person by the same name. That is, they have mistook the other person for me and vice versa. The amusing part of it is that we are both the same person. It came about this wayt, when I first wrote to the Cozy Corner I wrote under my full name, and second time I just used a part of my name, "Abbie," the last time I wrote my name as I've written it this time. I wish to say that C. Abbie and Cora A. McCarthy are one and the same person, and there is no other Miss McCarthy at Trinity. In fact, I'm the only cousin writing from Trinity County. All of you come again, especially Abbie Thomas and Abbie Bingham. ---------------------------------------- Dallas Morning News Dec. 20, 1900 Page 20 Little Men and Women NELLIE HOWELL (age 12 years), Donie, Freestone Co., Tex. -- Mr. Big Hat and Cousins, I would like to join the Cozy Corner. I am very glad the cousins are helping the Galveston orphans. Cousins, do any of you live close to any place of historical importance? I live close to the place where Cynthia Ann Parker was captured. I have read the Pilgrim's Progress, Guests of the Heart, Titus, A Child's History of England and the History the Nineteenth Century. I will try to describe a bug which lives here. They are black and white-striped. Their head and legs are yellow and they eat the tender leaves of the Irish potato plant. Their eggs are yellow and deposited upon the leaves of the plant. They stay hre only while the Irish potato grows. Can some one tell me where they stay the rest of the year? I will ask some question: What is the difference between a fractional unit and a unit of a fraction? By whom and from where was the Irish potato introduced into Great Britian? Who was the Black Prince and why was he so called?