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Update on three slain girls

Wed, 08/02/2023 - 4:00am

It has been one year since three sisters pulled from a pond off Texas Highway 77. Zi’Ariel Robinson-Oliver, 9, A’Miyah Hughes, 8, and Te’Mari Robinson-Oliver, 5, were found side by side on July 30, 2022. At the time there was no official release of foul play but was presumed by some to be an accidental drowning. That changed when on March 23 in a press release County Attorney Courtney Shelton issued a release that the case was being treated as a homicide. A balloon release was held in honor of the three missing sisters on Saturday, July 29.

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Why Settle for Less

Wed, 08/02/2023 - 4:00am

Why settle for less, when God has given us everything. God has given us everything when He gave us His son. If you only knew who you were in Christ Jesus, if you knew the power He has given to you.

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Some of the Joneses of Cass County

Wed, 08/02/2023 - 4:00am

CHARLES AND SALLIE (CHRISTIAN) JONES Charles, a Jones from Madison Co., Georgia whom the people tried to “keep up with,” was born 8 May 1808, died 4 April 1882, Cass County, Texas. His grandfather was Col. Russell Jones (1738-1814), who was a Revolutionary Soldier. He owned a huge plantation in Georgia. His son, Thomas, who married Margaret Connally, built a home near Ft. Lamar in 1816, which Charles lived as a young boy. The bricks on and around this home were made by slaves. (Great-Great-Great Grandchildren in Cass County and elsewhere are proud owners of some of these bricks. The old home still stands and is occupied today.

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