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Litwalton is found imprinted on the 1907 postal map. We will publish
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Origin
of Litwalton, Texas
Dan E. Cockrum,
September 17, 2018:
According to information contained in "Wagon Wheels, A History of
Garza County" on page 44 about the Joe McMahon Family written by Oliver
McMahon, who settled in the area in the early 1900s:
"We had not lived here (Garza
County) very long until we discovered we had an old man, Ed Bolden,
for a neighbor, and soon J.I. Wilbourn moved his family from Gail
near us, about two miles, then we discovered a Newt Graham lived in
Cooper's Canyon, and a Mr. Justice, about one mile southwest of him.
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Mr. Wilbourn, Mr. Justice, and my father decided we needed a post
office near, so we made application and received permission to have
a post office. Mr. Justice made the application for the job as postmaster,
and he got the job, also permission to name it, and he gave it the
name of Litwalton. I believe from where he came in Denton
County there was a postoffice (sic) by that name and he liked
it, Litwalton it was. My father got the job of carrying the mail from
Litwalton to Lynn, a place about eight miles north of where Tahoka
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(I seriously
doubt the postal authorities would allow two post offices with the
same name unless the one in Denton
County was being closed. - DC)
While I was growing up in Post,
Cooper's Canyon was a popular picnic area with a dependable spring
year round. I remember the remains of a dugout above the spring-fed
creek on the north side of the canyon and faint traces of a road that
ran past the dugout and up the Caprock westward toward Lynn
County. My Grandmother, Willie Etta Marable, spoke of a post office
being in that general area when she and her family were living and
working on the U lazy S Slaughter Ranch in that area of Garza
County at the same time period as that described in the above
narrative.
If you have access to a copy of Wagon Wheels, A History of Garza County,
a narrative about my Grandparents F.E. (Bud) and Willie Marable's
family begins on page 45.
- Dan E. Cockrum, September 17, 2018 |
Litwalton,
Texas
Holly Hilpert,
December 05, 2011:
Texas Handbook Online does not give any information on Litwalton.
I looked at the Texas Genweb site for Garza
County, and don't recall seeing anything on the town. However,
according to Jim Wheat's Post Masters and Post Offices of Texas, Litwalton
had a post office on May 2, 1903, with Charles W. Justis the first
postmaster. Later Mary V. Gates took over (Oct. 18, 1906) and then
the post office was discontinued July 31, 1907, when the mail went
to Tahoka in
Lynn County. Apparently
Litwalton did not survive." - Holly Hilpert, December 05, 2011 |
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