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2 unusual facts about Limestone County


Limestone County, Texas

Don the Beachcomber (1907–1989) born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt in Limestone County.

and eight other men organized the Pilgrim Predestinarian Regular Baptist Church in Lamotte, Illinois.


William B. Murphy

Born in Mexia, a small city in Central Texas' Limestone County, William B. Murphy was 41 when his name first appeared in film credits as co-editor (with Richard Cahoon) of the independently-produced 1949 B-western, Massacre River, released by United Artists.


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James L. Collins

In the early 1920s, at the time of the discovery of Powell oil field in eastern Navarro County, Texas, and the nearby Mexia field in Limestone County, he formed a rewarding partnership with R.L. Wheelock in Corsicana, Texas.

Lee Wilder Thomas

The excitement of booming fields in three counties fostered crime and social problems that forced Governor Pat Morris Neff, on January 12, 1922, to order martial law for Justice Precinct No. 4 in Limestone County and No. 5 in Freestone County to deal with robberies, gambling, and alcohol sales.