Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 96, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 2, 1990 Page: 3 of 38
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THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, SUNDAY DECEMBER I, lMtPAGK JA
Celebration starts Friday
LIVINGSTON - Everyone is in-
vited to Join in the festivities during
the second annual Christmas on the
Lake Festival at Lakeside RV &
Resort In Onalaska, Friday through
Sunday.
There will be a lighted boat
parade, carolers, luminaries and
decorated Christinas trees, in addi-
tion to arts and crafts booths, food
and beverage booths and contests.
Prises will be awarded in the
following categories: boat decora-
tion, Christinas tree decoration,
wreath decoration, Christinas art.
pet show, Christmas bake-off and
Christmas candy, Christmas stock-
ings mid a Christinas card contest.
Students from On*i«»Va *"d Uv-
ingston schools will be involved in
the activities, with contests for
Christmas poetry, stories and color-
ing contests.
There will be a contest for residen-
tial and commercial decorations, as
well as a Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus
contest.
In addition, the Piney Woods
Players will be on hand, dressed as
characters from the Charles
Dickens era.
Everyone is welcome to par-
ticipate and can do so by contacting
Lynn Badgerow at 646-3824, Kay
Swann at 646-LAKE or Bill Webb at
594-6482 for entry forms or more in-
formation.
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By DON HENDRIX
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Coverage areas of book broadened
Prison name being sought
LIVINGSTON - The deadline for
submitting names for the new prison
unit to the Polk County Chamber of
Commerce office is 5 pm. Wednes-
day.
The Texas Board of Criminal
Justice will soon begin reviewing
names for the unit and has extended
the opportunity to Polk County
residents to submit information
regarding individuals they would
like to be considered.
A brief description of the in-
dividual and the reasons why he
should be considered should be sub-
mitted to the chamber office at 516
W. Church by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
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A change that has been made in
the editorial plans for the upcoming
Polk County family history book
will provide the opportunity for
more families to be included.
Originally, the book (planned by
Curtia-Media Publishing, Inc.) was
to be limited to families who lived in
southern Polk County, with the
dividing line roughly along U.S. 190,
but that has changed, according to
Jim Bell, who is heading up the pro-
ject.
The new area to be covered, said
Bell, will be the boundaries of
original Polk County.
That will include all of Polk Coun-
ty except a northern section that was
annexed from Trinity County in 1875
(where Corrigan is located), and
will also take in much of San Jacinto
County, which broke off from Polk
County in 1870. Bell said families in
San Jacinto County to be included
will be confined to those who lived
there as part of Polk County prior to
1870.
Personally, I think that this area
in present San Jacinto County is an
important part of Polk County
history because most of the major
players in the organisation and
growth of Polk County were well-to-
do planters who settled along both
sides of the Trlnty River. Many of
those who settled on the west bank
were vital participants in Polk Coun-
ty’s development, and should not be
left out merely because of present
boundary lines.
Persons interested in contributing
histories of their family may get
more information by calling Bell at
(408) 9874198 or writing him at 4815
Indian Hills, Livingston, TX 77851.
That address is also where editorial
contributions should be sent
FINDING LOST FAMILIES
Many of tits county’s early set-
tiers, after a few years of pioneering
Polk County, struck out for greener
pastures never to see this area
again, and left no chain of local
descendants to submit their story to
this family history to be published.
But many of those descendants,
through researching their family
tree, have re-discovered Polk Coun-
ty, and quite a fow of them have
eventually been referred to me.
When I’ve informed them of the
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preparation of this family history
publication, they’ve been elated to
have the opportunity to find a place
for the results of all their work, a
place to show off their family roots.
Just this past Thursday, for exam-
ple, a Houston man called me hoping
to find a newspaper obituary for his
great-great-grandfather, who died
about 1870.1 couldn’t help him as far
as an obituary is concerned, but I
was happy to discover that he is a
descendant of the man who is believ-
ed to be the first Anglo settler in
what is now Polk County: Samuel C.
Hirams, who began survey work
here about 1883 and established what
became the community of
Smithfield, the county’s first
“town.”
The Hirams family moved to
Houston County after the Civil War
and up to this week, I had found no
descendant. The man who called me
has been researching the family for
five years, and was happy to hear
that we welcomed his editorial con-
tribution to the upcoming family
history.
Unfortunately, such discoveries of
faraway descendants are hit-or-miss
events; there must be tens of
thousands of such lost descendants
of one time Polk County pioneers
who have no Interest in their family
background, so we may never learn
of them.
BERGMAN SANITARIUM
To bring to a close the continuing
saga of the county’s first hospital...
Jewel Harrison Matthews did as
she promised: to find out whatever
happened to the old Bergman
Sanitarium.
She called me Wednesday to say
that Ray Marsh of Livingston bought
tlw building for the lumbar, of which
there was enough to build three rent
homes and have lumber left over,
which he also sold.
The beveled-glass front door of the
old hospital, says Matthews, sur-
vives today as the front door of Con-
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Budget Hair Care) on toe corner of
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 96, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 2, 1990, newspaper, December 2, 1990; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth781867/m1/3/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.