Grayson County TXGenWeb
Good Days & Bad Days in Grayson County


Remember the Good Ole Days and Visit
Frontier Village Museum in Loy lake Park
Black Friday- May 15, 1896 ~ Cyclone!
whole book oline and indexed.
1896 Putnam County, Tennessee News

(Dekalb County) [Date 5/7/1896, Vol. IX, No. 29, Page 1]

MONTGOMERY, WIFE AND CHILDREN OF LUKE: A terrific cyclone swept over Sherman Texas and other adjacent territory last Friday, ailing and wounding may people. Luke Montgomery's wife and children, formerly a citizen of Putnam county were all killed. The death roll is appalling and wounded sums up into the hundreds.

Riot at the Courthouse
Newspaper Article about that day

Report from the Texas Rangers to the Texas Governor,
May 13, 1930

Red River Bridge War

Red River Bridge War II

Weather disasters ~ Grayson County since 1950




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