During the night of February 9, 1899, someone slipped into W.E. Gregg’s lot and painted his beautiful buggy horse a deep Diamond dye green. “Such works as this is a dastardly outrage and the miscreants should hunted down and punished to the full extent of the law.” Erath Appeal

In February, 1897, a fire in one of Thurber’s coal mines suffocated eleven mules.

Mary Jane Gentry, The Life and Death of a Texas Town, Master’s thesis, University of Texas, 1946.