Each of the articles are dated and the name of the newspaper is noted, if known.
Articles designated as “Forney Happenings” are a collection of short articles that are labeled as Forney Notes, Locals, Forney Dots, Social Columns, etc. They can be very helpful, especially as a replacement for the 1890 census, to determine the location of family members.
Year | Title | Comments | |
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Read | 1875 | Picnic in Lawrence | Hosted by the Texas Colony Association |
Read | 1880 | Self-Protection at Forney | Citizen of Forney come together to protect their property from a band of thieves. |
Read | 1884 | Forney Happenings 1884 | Personals |
Read | 1884 | Doc Pigler | Doc Pigler shot his borther in law who owed him money. |
Read | 1885 | Forney Happenings 1885 | Personals |
Read | 1885 | Forney Hay | |
Read | 1885 | Retirement of C.P. Shands | |
Read | 1886 | A Singular Case | The hunt for a sexual assault suspect. |
Read | 1886 | Alliance Cotton Going to Forney | |
Read | 1886 | Forney Happenings 1886 | Personals |
Read | 1886 | James Henderson Arrested | |
Read | 1886 | Personating a Policeman | |
Read | 1887 | Forney from the Herald Traveler | Several names and businesses mentioned |
Read | 1887 | Forney Happenings 1887 | Personals |
Read | 1887 | Prohibition Meeting | |
Read | 1887 | Forney Has Gone Wet | Results of a prohibition election. |
Read | 1887 | Manning Residence Destroyed by Gale | |
Read | 1888 | Forney Happenings 1888 | Personals |
Read | 1888 | A Painful Accident | Personals |
Read | 1888 | In the Toils | Arrest of sexual assault suspect. |
Read | 1889 | Forney Happenings 1889 | Personals |
Read | 1889 | A Peculiar Criticism | Uncle Natt Stevens on raising ostriches. |
Read | 1889 | Annual Grange-Alliance Meeting | |
Read | 1889 | Forney as a Hay Town | |
Read | 1889 | Forney Construction Boom | |
Read | 1889 | Forney Has Politest Railroad Officials | |
Read | 1889 | Forney-Kaufman Rail Road | |
Read | 1889 | Freight's Shipments | |
Read | 1889 | G.W. Lee's Child Scalded | |
Read | 1889 | House Railroad Bill | |
Read | 1889 | Jessie Moore & Wife in Buggy Wreck | |
Read | 1889 | Lilley Lodge Election Meeting | |
Read | 1889 | National Bank Expected | |
Read | 1889 | Occupants of the County Jail | |
Read | 1889 | Passenger Train Wrecked | |
Read | 1889 | Peaches from Natt Stevens | |
Read | 1889 | Public Artesian Well | |
Read | 1889 | Railroad Meeting | |
Read | 1889 | Stockholders' Meeting | |
Read | 1889 | Surprise Party at Voiers Home | |
Read | 1889 | Tom Reed Hurt While Hunting | |
Read | 1889 | Whitecaps | Letter about J.M. Lewis and bribery, and his response. |
Read | 1890 | Forney Happenings 1890 | Personals |
Read | 1890 | Forney Co-op Store Robbed | |
Read | 1890 | Hay Making | |
Read | 1890 | J.P. Yates Accident | |
Read | 1890 | The News the Favorite | Personals |
Read | 1891 | Case of Spotted Fever | |
Read | 1891 | Literary Society Formed | |
Read | 1892 | Brooks Robbery | |
Read | 1892 | Wind and Water Damage | |
Read | 1893 | Called on His Relatives for Aid | J.E. Elder arrested in Shreveport for murder. |
Read | 1893 | Forney Happenings 1893 | Personals |
Read | 1893 | Forney Takes Action | Forney sends aid to people in Cisco, Texas |
Read | 1893 | Shooting Near Kaufman | Davy Crockett arrested |
Read | 1894 | Forney Items 1894 | Personals |
Read | 1894 | Forney Election | New mayor, aldermen, and city marshal. |
Read | 1896 | Shedding His Skin | Man has strange disorder. |
Read | 1896 | Stockholders' Meeting | |
Read | 1896 | Tenant House Burns | |
Read | 1897 | A Small Collision | Freight train has minor accident |
Read | 1897 | Burglary at Forney Mercantile | |
Read | 1897 | Little Ora McReynolds Attacked | |
Read | 1898 | Burglary at Forney | Adams, Joyce |
Read | 1899 | First Automobile Trip in Texas | |
Read | 1901 | Stores Burned at Forney | |
Read | 1901 | Yates Residence Burns | |
Read | 1902 | Newspaper Changes Hands | The Forney Tribune is sold |
Read | 1902 | K. of P. Election at Forney | Williams, Pinson, Mantius, Pirtle, Yates, Rhea, Mounger, Lindsey, Tillery, Adams |
Read | 1902 | Texas Floods Still Raging | |
Read | 1902 | Texas Floods Subsiding | |
Read | 1904 | Forney Banks | |
Read | 1906 | Dr. William Garrett's Home Burglarized | |
Read | 1907 | Bounty on Weevils | |
Read | 1907 | Farmer Saves Her Life | |
Read | 1907 | Plan Tri-City Line | Interurban Train |
Read | 1909 | District Meeting of K. of P. | Walter Adams |
Read | 1909 | Auto Accident Near Forney | Newt Pinson, O.E. Griffin, Frank M. Adams Jr. |
Read | 1909 | Walker Harvest Party | |
Read | 1910 | Forney Commercial Club | Duke, McKellar, Adams, Moore |
Read | 1910 | Forney City Election | |
Read | 1910 | Forney Messenger Sold | |
Read | 1910 | Judges from A&M | |
Read | 1910 | Store Robbed of Clothing | |
Read | 1912 | Elections - Forney | Adams, Ball, Jones, Venner, Rhea, Crawford |
Read | 1912 | Forney Man Appointed on Board | Walter Adams |
Read | 1913 | Fights and Finance | Walter Adams |
Read | 1914 | Forney Happenings 1914 | Personals |
Read | 1914 | Motorcycle Trip of 200 Miles | |
Read | 1915 | Forney Business Men Active | Commercial Club, R.B. Elmore, Col. L.J. Wortham, O.E. Griffin, E.M. Riggs, Crisp McMeans, H.E. Gathle |
Read | 1919 | Prohibition Inspections | |
Read | 1920 | Forney Citizens to Help on Terrell Interurban | |
Read | 1920 | Train Crash at Forney | |
Read | 1920 | Woman Saves Boy's Life and Given Carnegie Medal | Hazel Riter Lyons |
Read | 1921 | Texas Postmasters are Nominated by President | |
Read | 1922 | Forney Mayor Installs Wireless Phone Plant | |
Read | 1922 | Forney Officer Promoted | |
Read | 1922 | River Threatening to Isolate Forney Again | |
Read | 1923 | Texhoma Company Annual Meeting | |
Read | 1924 | W.M. Pinson of Forney Named as President of Junior Class A.-M. College | |
Read | 1924 (1891) | Belle Shands | Dr. N.E. Shands and Family. |
Read | 1925 | Five Forney Men Hurt in Automobile Collision | Ralph Farmer, Turner Bannister, Nathan Bannister, Cleve Adams, Fred Newton, Sheriff Schuyler Marshall, Jr. |
Read | 1926 | My Folder dranetMEMBER Forney Lions' Club Has Its First Anniversary | |
Read | 1927 | Forney Gap Surfacing Work Promised Soon | |
Read | 1928 | Forney Gap Completion Soon Will Be Started | |
Read | 1928 | Forney Messenger Changes Hands | |
Read | 1929 | Preparing to Pave Forney Gap in Road | |
Read | 1929 | Pharmacists Elect Him Vice President | Walter D. Adams |
Read | 1930 | Nurses Graduate at Forney | |
Read | 1931 | All Forney Dances as Town at Last is Pulled Out of Mud | |
Read | 1931 | Organize Little Theater at Forney | |
Read | 1935 | Forney Tornado of 1935 | |
Read | 1938 | Forney Woman Elected by U.S. Pharmacists | Mattie Self Adams |
Read | 1938 | Forney Clubwoman Views Scrapbook | |
Read | 1938 | Forney Girl Composes College Campus Song | |
Read | 1938 | Forney Resident Heads Mesquite Soil Board | |
Read | 1938 | Woman Named Editor of Forney Herald | |
Read | 1939 | Forney Post Office Lease Approved | Walter Adams |
Read | 1939 | 50-Year Forney Bank Run by Same Man Over Half Its Existence | Carl C. Senter |
Read | 1939 | Bank Building Saved in Big Fire of 1910 | |
Read | 1939 | Checks Go Hollywood | |
Read | 1939 | Deer Trail | John Cullom remembers Forney from 1877 |
Read | 1939 | Dinner is Given Forney Pioneer on His 76th Birthday | Allen McMahan |
Read | 1939 | Easter Party Given for Daughter | Lady Ann Lanham |
Read | 1939 | Farmers National to Observe 50th Anniversary | |
Read | 1939 | Forney to Celebrate Start of Road Project | |
Read | 1939 | Griffin Reunion | |
Read | 1939 | Mrs. Ghormley Gives Easter Party | |
Read | 1939 | Mrs. Susie Ballard Honored with Dinner on Birthday | |
Read | 1939 | Shipley Reunion | |
Read | 1940 | Forney Garden Club Names Its Officers | |
Read | 1945 | Dream of Home for Widows of Druggists to Be Realized | Mattie Self Adams |
Read | 1949 | Lithographs of Miss Spellman in National Exhibits | |
Read | 1950 | Clinic A-Building for Dr. Christine | |
Read | 1950 | Ole U ‘Tellem Says | Ole U 'Tellem remembers days of old in Forney. It is reported that Walter Adams was Ole U 'Tellum. |
Read | 1950 | Officers for Banks Elected at Forney | James K. Brooks, M.M. Layden, Carl C. Senter, Lynn Senter, Conway Senter, J.M. Hughes, B.G. Duke, Walter D. Adams, C.L. McCuiston, Florence Reagin, Mary L. Adams, Cleon S. Lewis, Guyton McKellar, O.W. Reagin |
Read | 1959 | Black Gold, Country Style | John Crenshaw |
Read | 1962 | Doctor, Editor, Banker, Merchant - All Women | Mae Mill, Virginia Yandell, Eva Lou Moore, Dr. Christine Walker, Florence Reagin, Cleo Hinton, Helen McCain, Margaret Mitchell, Nell Yates, Mrs. Feagin |
Read | 1965 | Fire Destroys $50,000 Worth of Cotton Bales | Sheffield, Adams, Roberson |
Read | 1965 | Fabric Shop Newest Forney Business | |
Read | 1966 | Forney Figures in Rail Origins | |
Read | 1970 | Cigar Smoking Kid Grows Up | |
Read | 1971 | Mrs. Yates has 98th Birthday | |
Read | 1972 | Restaurant Destroyed by Fire | |
Read | 1973 | Whole Hog Now - Owens Sausage Began as Sideline | |
Read | 1974 | Cleo Remembers When… | Cleo Hinton remembers days of old in Forney. |
Read | 1974 | Irish Ridge to Celebrate 100th Year | Irish Ridge is currently Talty. |
Read | 1976 | Woman Bitten, Looks for Dog | Coreen Spellman |
Read | 1977 | Forney Man Cashes In | P. Youngblood |
Read | 1977 | Sheriff's Department Veteran Officer Resigns | |
Read | 1989 | Bessie C. Grissom Honored on 91st Birthday | |
Read | 1989 | Fire Destroys Talty Landmark | |
Read | 2005 | Christmas Candlelight Tour of Historic Homes | |
Read | Forney Post Office Began in 1875 |