Photos Of or From Floyd County, Texas
Do you have a photo that you would like to post or need help identifying someone in Floyd County? If so, please email me your name, email address, information about the photo and the photo itself. Also, if you have photo’s of the town or postcards that you would like to share, please email me them and information about the photo or postcard.
Harmony School (near Lockney) – Photographs
Below are photos of the Harmony School near Lockney submitted by M. Kittman and these pictures are from Kittman’s grandmother & aunt. If anyone can recognize someone in the following picture’s, please contact M. Kittman. More information on the Harmony School can be found here through The Texas Handbook of Texas Online.
M. Kittman’s grandmother was Eva Lavenia Smith and her family lived in Lockney in the early 1900′s. Eva’s family groupsheet:
Henry L. Smith, b. 1853 m. Julia Francis Best, b. 1857
– John Elder, b. 1886 in Spurger, Texas
– Eva Lavenia, b. 1887 in Spurger, Texas
– Rachel Ellen, b. 1889 in Town Bluff, Texas
– Ednie Dora, b. 1891 in Town Bluff, Texas
– Frances Bessie, b. 1892 in Kountze, Texas
– Martha Mayme, b. 1898 in Tyler County, Texas
All of the children attended Harmony School.
Clarity Tunnel – Photographs
The Fort Worth & Denver Railroad constructed Clarity Tunnel on its track about 6 miles south of Briscoe County in 1928. That track is now the 64-mile Caprock Canyons State Park Trailway (rails-to-trails) from Estelline to South Plains. Submitted by Phil Barefield.
