[Centennial banquet occurred Thrusday night May 14, 1936.  Clipping did not show
newspaper date, but assume Friday, May 15.  Included here because of the 
Freestone County diginities.  Leon County is adjacent to Freestone County.]


The Leon County News newspaper
May 15?, 1936 edition

OLD TIMERS STAY UP LATE AND RECALL EARLY TIMES 
AT COUNTY CENTENNIAL BANQUET THRUSDAY

More than 250 present-day citizens and old timers who trace their ancestry back 
to the beginning of the Texas Republic gathered at Hotel Sullivan in Centerville
last Thrusday night for the Leon County Centennial banquet and were regaled by
impromptu reminicenses of Col. Marcus Palmer of Newby, oldest living white man
in the county, who helped engineer an incompleted rebellion against the Union
soldiers in Centerville during Reconstruction days and who says "he knows where
there's a Yankee buried on the court house square here,"  and Col. Bill Brady
of Normangee, who lacks two months of being as old as Col. Palmer and who says
all Confederate soldiers were alike when they were hungry and were next to a
potato patch.

Whimsical recollections were mixed with more serious ones as prominent Judges,
Civil War veterans, and descendants of the first families of Leon