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Williams was born on June 4, 1919, in Marshall, Texas's predominantly African American Sunny South neighborhood. [1] [3] He was the son of Milton Williams Sr., owner of the Peoples Funeral Home, a funeral establishment founded in 1923 and have been located across the street from the historically black college and university Bishop College.
Marshall was occupied by Union forces on June 17, 1865, two days before the force, made famous by Juneteenth, arrived at Galveston. During Reconstruction the city was home to an office of the Freedmen's Bureau and was the base for Union troops. In 1873 The Methodist Episcopal Church founded Wiley College to educate free men.
Marshall, Texas. Marshall is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. [4] It is the county seat of Harrison County and a cultural and educational center of the Ark-La-Tex region. At the 2020 U.S. census, the population of Marshall was 23,392. [5] The population of the Greater Marshall area, comprising all of Harrison County, was 65,631 in 2010 [6 ...
1964. Starr Family Home State Historic Site is a 3.1-acre (1.3 ha) historical site operated by the Texas Historical Commission in downtown Marshall, Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] The museum was made a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1986. [3] On January 1, 2008, the site was transferred from ...
Romeo M. Williams, prominent civil rights attorney who played a pivotal role in the desegregation of Marshall, Texas.; [1] also a U.S. Army Air Force officer and trained fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen [2] Bob Young, football player
December 31, 1974. Ginocchio Historic District, in Marshall, Texas is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district takes its name from the Ginocchio family who operated a hotel, The Ginocchio, in the district during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The district houses numerous historic buildings ...
1979. The James Turner House, a one-story Greek Revival style building located on 406 South Washington Avenue in Marshall, Texas, was built by a merchant, George Gammon Gregg [1][2] to be the home for him and his bride, Mary Ann Wilson, who were married in 1851. It was first located at the southeast corner of Crockett Street and Washington Avenue.
Peter Whetstone (c. late 18th century—1843) was an early pioneer leader in the Republic of Texas most remembered for founding the city of Marshall, Texas with Isaac Van Zandt. Whetstone married Dicey, or Dicy, Webster in 1816 in Arkansas. He may have left Arkansas for Texas in 1829, when he transferred land to a Charlton Thompson in Lovely ...