Nov 22, 2024 | From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Where were you? What were you doing when you first heard? My father told me he was watching a movie in a theater in California when the projectionist stopped the film, the lights came up in the movie house, and someone notified everyone there that the...
Nov 1, 2024 | Events, From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Two-time Oscar winning screenwriter Horton Foote writes about his childhood in his 1999 autobiography Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood where he recalls with fondness the annual summer visits he would spend with relatives in East Columbia. Foote,...
Oct 29, 2024 | Events, From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton He was born in West Virginia and was a resident of West Columbia at the end of his life. Dr. Robert Louis Queen, a local optometrist for many years, will be among five doctors being featured in this year’s Meet Your Ancestors program at historic...
Oct 26, 2024 | Events, From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Longtime West Columbia veterinarian Burch Loggins served as president of the Columbia-Brazoria school board during my senior year at Columbia High School. It was 49 years ago so my memory is a bit cloudy as to who handed me my diploma when I walked...
Oct 24, 2024 | Events, From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Just a few years after Texas won its independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto in April of 1836, a young doctor from Delaware took the daughter of the founder of both East Columbia and West Columbia for his bride. James Wilson Copes will be...
Oct 19, 2024 | Events, From The Vault of Texas History
By Tracy Gupton Sandy Weems, a descendant of the four doctors interred in the Weems family’s section of Old Columbia Cemetery in West Columbia, has agreed to participate in this year’s “Meet Your Ancestors” event slated for November 2nd at the...
