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Thursday, May 1, 2008
All Things Historical
By Archie P. McDonald
Peter Ellis Bean
The American frontier produced many
colorful characters, including Peter Ellis
Bean.
Bean was born in Bean Station, Tennessee,
on June 8, 1783. As a youth of seventeen,
Bean joined Philip Nolan on expeditions to the
Texas central plains to capture mustang horses,
then drive them to the Mississippi River for
sale to a nation whose mobility depended on
horsepower. Nolan’s extra activities, whatever
they really where, attracted the attention of
Spanish authorities. Apparently they did not
mind his pilfering their wild horses so much
as his cozy talks with American General
James Wilkinson and other US government
authorities when back in the United States.
Spanish soldiers encountered Nolan—
and Bean—on their last expedition to Texas
on March 21, 1801, in an area that became
McLennan County. Nolan was killed and Bean
andnineothers captured,takentoNacogdoches,
and held in Antonio Gil Y’Barbo’s old stone
house (Old Stone Fort), before transferring
them to Mexico. The men were sentenced to
death but had their punishment reduced to
decimation. They threw dice to determine the
unlucky loser, and Ephraim Blackburn threw
the unlucky low dice and was executed. Bean
and other survivors were moved from town to
town until he talked his Royalist captors into
releasing him to help them fight a nationalist
movement led by Jose Maria Morelos y
Pavon. Soon after Bean began fighting for the
Royalists, he defected and joined Morelos and
the cause of Mexican nationalism.
Bean returned to the United States,
attempting to raise men and money for
Morelos’ independence movement, but he had
little success in the endeavor, but while there
he served under General Andrew Jackson in
the successful defense of New Orleans against
the British attack on January 8,1815. The next
month Bean returned to Mexico, where he
remained until Spanish forces finally captured
and executed Morelos. Bean returned to the
United States just in time to avoid similar
fate.
While fighting under Morelos, Bean
married Magdalena Falfan de los Godos.
Forced to leave her in Mexico, Bean
remarried—apparently without benefit of
divorce—Candace Midkiff, with whom
he produced three children. They lived in
Arkansas and also in East Texas, where
Bean served as an Indian agent for the now
independent government of Mexico and for
a time served in the Mexican army, but did
not have an active role during the Texas
Revolution for either side.
Eventually Bean returned to Mexico and to
hisfirstwife.ElediedinJalapaonOctober6,1846.
(The East Texas Historical Association
provides this column as a public service.
Archie P. McDonald is director of the
Association and author of more than 20 books
on Texas.)
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
Senator Bill Ratliff was
on hand when the new Cooper
Junior/Senior High School
was formally dedicated
Saturday, April 25, 1998 in
ceremonies at the new facility.
A crowd of approximately 200
people head from a variety of
speakers.
Twenty Years Ago
The CHS Dairy Science
team and the Ag Mechanics
team will compete in State
contests Saturday at A&M
University. Members of the
teams are Chad Oats, Rocky
Young, Gina Anderson,
Stephen Overstreet, J.D.
Bookout, Michael Overstreet,
Brad Veraska, and Shane
Oats.
Combined deposits in the
three banks in Delta County
continue to climb and were
at $55,280,000 at the end of
the first quarter, setting an all
time high record.
Thirty Years Ago
Delta County Judge
George Bolger reported that
damage to the Courthouse
boiler was extensive as a
result of an explosion last
Wednesday afternoon.
Representing Cooper
High in the District Track
Meet at Wolfe City were
Charles Guffey, Randy
Reynolds, David Moses, J>C.
Morris, Curtis Blagburn,
David James and William
Jackson.
Forty Years Ago
The results of ayears work
in constructing a livestock
pavilion will be up for public
inspection Friday evening
when the Delta County
Chamber of Commerce stages
a stew supper and dedication
ceremony.
Judy Woodall, a
sophomore speech student
at Cooper High School won
first place in prose reading in
the Regional Interscholastic
League contest held at North
Texas University at Denton.
Fifty Years Ago
Work on securing
easements for the channeling
and dredging work above
the proposed Cooper Dam
and Reservoir has been
moving along slowly due
to the weather and lack of
information according to a
member of the commissioners
court.
The Securities
Commission of Texas
approved the sale of stock
by prospects late last week
to the Cooper Development
Corporation.
Sixty Years Ago
More than 5,000 school
children and adults attended
the annual Delta County
School Parade here Friday
morning. In the afternoon and
Saturday, the schools of the
county entered Interscholastic
League Events.
Winners
announced
from
Business
Expo
The Business Expo had
several drawing winners. From
Kay’s Korner the winner of a
Hanging Basket was Katherine
Nesom, and can be picked up
at Kay’s Korner. The Cooper
Review gave away five one-
year subscriptions they were
won by: Patricia Baldwin,
Annie Patton, Jill Turrentine,
Janet Walker, and Pat Cooper.
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KEMP’S RIDLEY
Friday, April 25, Jean, Zack, and
I finished a couple of days fishing on the
coast with Carol and Junior. The fish didn’t
cooperate but we did catch a few. One unusual
kind was sheepshead. Got front teeth just
like a cow or sheep. After leaving Galveston
Island on the ferry we drove a few miles east
and turned down Magnolia Lane to the beach
and looked for a geocache. Right behind the
gated community of Biscayne Estates. Man,
there are some sights on the beach. Roseate
spoonbills, hermit crabs, pelicans, gulls, terns,
porpoises, big ships, shrimp boats, sea turtle
tracks............SEA TURTLE TRACKS????
WHOA NELLIE!!!! I backed up and sure
nuff; a set of tracks straddled the wide mark
made by a turtle’s dragging belly. One set of
tracks went from the surf to the edge of the
sand dunes. A few feet over showed tracks
going back to the surf.
Just two days before, a biologist on
turtle patrol drove a four wheeler by us as
we fished near San Luis Pass and gave us a
card with a toll free number to call if we saw
turtle tracks. Today, we walked up to the sand
dune and found the nest. Quickly I called the
hotline at 10:13. Although I used my GPS to
give the coordinates, all they needed was the
number of the nearest trash barrel. Seventy
yards west of barrel eighteen. As we guarded
the nest for the next two hours, a small group
of people assembled and we waited anxiously
for the biologists to arrive. Sometime a little
after noon, A&M Masters student Christi
Hughes and Dr. Andre Landry drove up
with two Styrofoam ice chests and high tech
instruments. Dr. Landry is the Director of
Sea Turtles and Fisheries Ecology Research
Laboratory at Texas A&M University at
Galveston. They cautiously dug in the sand
with their hands and found ninety six, golf
ball size eggs that were carefully placed in the
containers. Also placed inside was a sensor to
record and transmit temperature and embryo
activity.
They were so excited about us finding the
first nest of the year in the area from Galveston
to the Louisiana line. After Christi measured
the width of the tracks she announced the sea
turtle to have been one of the most rare in North
America and possibly the world—Kemp’s
ridley. As they packed the eggs I held one
of our large beach umbrellas to block direct
sunlight from the eggs. The average number is
about a hundred eggs. These amazing animals
will repeat the egg laying in about ten days.
The bottom of the nest was fifteen inches deep
and about the same in diameter.
Some of the on lookers told us a man
had used a tractor and “raked” the beach about
8:30 that morning. The turtle tracks were
made on top of the raked sand. That meant the
turtle crawled the fifty yards or so from the
surf to the sand dune, dug the hole, laid the
eggs, covered them up, and raced back to the
surf, all between 8:30 and 10:15. This species
is the only sea turtle that nests during daylight
hours. Probably several people passed by
without looking toward the busy turtle. Others
attending the egg withdrawal were Mickey
Hollis from Houston, Bradley and Robin
Rinehart from Pennsylvania, Terry Teale and
Nita Rinehart from Washington State, and
Teacup, Pomeranian extraordinaire. Zack
and Teacup were too busy playing to worry
about something like rare turtle eggs. To be
continued.
Nan and Ronnie Beeler, and Nan’s
sister, Jeannie Yant, while watching birds in
the yard at Pecan Gap recently were surprised
to see a bird a little far from its regular territory.
Our two kinds of buntings are the indigo and
painted. Nan and crew got a good look and
made a positive identification of a male lazuli
bunting which normally stays west of the 100th
meridian in far west Texas. As male cardinals
sometimes do, the lazuli knocked himself
out by crashing into a window, thinking his
reflection was a rival male. Thanks, Nan.
Fun time in Ft. Worth: May 1-4. You may
want to attend the annual Mayfest at Trinity
Park beside University Avenue. Family style
fun with six stages of entertainment, twenty
five food booths, and approximately 500,000
people over the four days. 817 332 1055.
Jean and I have decided we are in the
lower income/upper outgo bracket.
So called experts are finding out that trying
to straighten out the economy is like trying to
put socks on an octopus.
You can tell the old timer in a nudist
colony because he is the one that brings a
television.
An optimist is someone that marries his
secretary and thinks he can still be her boss.
A man went to the police department and
asked to talk to the burglar that was arrested
for robbing his house the night before. The
jailer asked why and the man said, “I want to
ask him how he got out of our house without
waking my wife. I been trying for twenty years
to do that.”
A good ole country cop from down
south stopped a speeder and asked him where
he was from. The speeder told him Cincinnati
and the cop said, “Don’t you lie to me. I see
that Ohio license plate.”
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That Wonderful Year 1951
According to the Friday,
April 27, 1951 issue of the
Cooper Review.
A complete overhauling
of the Cooper water tower got
underway over the weekend
with the interior of the tank
being descaled before all
joints of the tank are welded.
Contracting the work is
the Water Tank Service
Co. of Dallas. Crewmen
will completely descale the
interior of the tank and the
legs to complete the job.
The present water tower was
erected in 1917 and 1918
when a water system was
installed in Cooper. This
is the first time a full scale
overhauling of the tank as
Where's the
Klondike
News?
Editors Note: Due to
illness, there is not a Klondike
News column this week.
Elizabeth Hopkins had a
severe case of bronchitis and
laryngitis and she was unable
to make any calls. She says
she should be back on track by
next week.
been attempted. Cost for the
job will be approximately
$3,500 with over $2,000
going for the welding, and the
rest for painting and cleaning.
A guarantee of 10 years has
been given.
Entry blanks for the
Delta County Chamber of
Commerce Cotton Production
Contest are being distributed
this week, according to an
announcement by Marvin
Hagemeier, manager of
the DCCC. Acreage under
consideration will be a five
acre plot. The contest is open
to all Delta County farmers
so long as their cotton contest
plot is located in the county.
First prize in the contest will
be $200, second will be $100
and third prize will be $50.
Money for the contest has
been put up by Delta County
businessmen.
Cooper students took
regional honors at the Texas
Interscholastic meet in Kilgore
Saturday, April 21, with Linda
Lancaster and Jeff White
carrying off honors in debate
and Jack McVay winning the
880 yard run in the track and
field events. Other winners in
the meet at Kilgore were John
Ed Adair who placed fourth in
the discus throw and the relay
team placed fourth in the mile
relay. Billy Huie advanced
to the finals in the 220 yard
dash.
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