Jones County, Texas from 1850 to 1950 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers Anson, Avoca, Hamlin, Hawley, Lueders and Stamford Texas.  This was life in Texas as our parents, grandparents and ancestors saw it.

In 1949 Jessie Myers of Hamilin Texas was featured in this article that included a plug for Wheaties Cereal. "Been riding since I was thirteen," says cowgirl Jessie Myers. Most of her prizes are won in girls' events---barrel race, flag race, goat tying, cow milking contests..." read more in the article

New Anson Hotel in Anson Texas in early 1950s

Period cars in front of the Jones County Courthouse in Anson Texas in 1940s

Sometime in the early 1900s hundreds of men on horses and on foot gathered in downtown Anson Texas

Very nice aerial view of Anson Texas as the pilot buzzes the courthouse, probably in 1940s

Early equipment, cars and trucks are tested in this road building project in Jones County Texas in the 1920

Oran Dean's Jewelry Store in 1940s Anson Texas

Margaret Letzkus shared this huge highly-detailed photo of Oran Dean's Jewelry Store in Anson Texas in 1940s. Oran is on the right and her uncle Ivy Dean is on the left.
 

In this huge 1924 class photo of the Anson Texas Elementary contributed by Margaret Letzkus three well dressed girls and six boys are pictured with their teacher. Margaret's dad, Clyde Dean, is just to the left of the teacher.

In 1928 this huge highly detailed photograph of the Anson Texas Tigers High School Basketball Team was captured by an unknown photographer. Photograph courtesy of Margaret Letzkus whose father, Clyde Dean,  is pictured on the top row second from left

In 1914 a huge crowd gathered  in front of the drug store. on the dirt street in  downtown Hamlin

Sometime in the 1940s an unknown photographer stood in the middle of the street in downtown  Anson Texas to take this huge wide-angle shot

Here's a detailed view of the interior workings of a telephone switchboard in Hamlin Texas in 1918 with five women plugging and re-plugging cables to connect callers

Three men in the Mayes Store in Hamlin Texas with a nice selection of ornate wood burning stoves in the early 1900s. Anyone know what the sausage shaped things are hanging from the ceiling?

In 1910, ten horses pulled 40 bales of cotton on a wagon train through downtown Anson Texas

In 1908 the Nugent Family posed with a large watermelon and their dog in front of their home in Jones County Texas

In 1909 pedestrians, horses, buggies and freight wagons filled Central Avenue in Hamlin Texas

Amazing photo of Anson's Town Square in 1890 shows horses, buggies and people near the Palace Barber Shop and the Anson Post Office

Twenty-eight men, one woman and a dog posed for this large photo of the cotton compress in Jones County Texas in 1910

Jones County Courthouse in Anson in 1906

A lone horse waits for his rider to return at Jones County Courthouse on January 10, 1906

Men's Sunday School class at the First Baptist Church in Anson Texas in the 1930s

1st Methodist Church in Anson Texas as seen in the 1900s on the dirt street of the north side

In the 1930s thirty-four women, one man and a child posed for this photo of a women's Sunday school class in Anson Texas

Resources:

West Texas History & Memories (Face Book Group)

Early Life in Texas County by County

Books about Texas People and Places

Famous People from Texas County by County