In 1840 John Henry Moore reported from the Upper Colorado River that among the Indians killed in October was a very old man who wore a “silver medal, about an eighth of an inch in thickness and two and a half inches in diameter, one side of which presents a profile, in relief, of James Madison, with the words ‘James Madison, President of the United States, 1809.’ The reverse presents clasped hands with the calumet and tomahawk, and the words ‘peace and friendship.'”

Malcolm McLean, (comp.) Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas: The Upper Colony, Vol. 5, Arlington: The University of Texas Press at Arlington, 1978.

William Whipple Johnson was born on October 11, 1843 in Ionia, Michigan. He lost almost everything in the Panic of 1873 and sought by more than 100 creditors, he and his brother Harvey decided to come to Texas. They began the first serious mining operations in the Strawn/Thurber area in 1886.

Robert Spoede, “W.W. Johnson and the Beginnings of Coal Mining in the Strawn/Thurber Vicinity, 1880-1888.” West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, 44 (October, 1968, 43-59.

In 1855, there was a surplus of oxen left over from the settler’s trek from Waco to the site of Stephenville, J. G. Yarbrough bought 100 yoke of these oxen from John and William Stephen. To prevent them from straying, a large post oak was cut from the NE corner of the square. The oxen dragged this tree to Kimball Bend, Bosque County, forming a rut that was followed for years afterword to Glen Rose. Eventually this path became the Glen Rose highway. Stphenville Tribune

In October of 1892, as a woman stood in front of her stove during a storm, lightning struck the flu, came out the open stove door, burned a hole in her apron and dress, struck her below the knee, and continued down to the floor, splitting her shoe on the way. Dublin Progress