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Abeles is back

Longtime news reporter Neil Abeles will be returning to the Journal after about 30 years. Abeles has been covering Cass County news for the Texarkana Gazette but has recently decided to come back to the newspaper he got started with. Abeles has been a gentle voice in the community that blends in to capture this community’s special moments.

The Morrises of Cass County

Samuel Sudder Morris was born in Henry County, Ga. 29 Sept. 1826, the son of Alonzo Peoples and Elizabeth Kuglar Morris. On 1 Oct. 1846 he married Mary Ann Elizabeth James, daughter of David and Sarah Sanders James, a large planter in Henry County, Ga. , where Mary Ann was born on 4 March 1829. Mr. £ Mrs. Morris lived in Stockbridge, Ga. for two years after their marriage, but then decided to move to Texas and accompanied by 15 other families, they made the trip by horse and wagon.

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