William Joseph Caplinger was a carpenter by trade. After moving to Marion in 1900, he was very active as a carpenter and contractor, having built a large number of the better homes and buildings in Marion. Continue reading
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The following compilation consists of three articles describing Homer Butler and lastly, his obituary. Two articles were large, front page stories that were issued on the day of Homer’s death. The last article was composed by Pearl Roberts and printed in the 1989 Williamson County Sesquicentennial book commemorating the people, places and events of the county. Continue reading
Family members and colleagues remember Richard Darby as a solid journalist and a patient teacher. The retired managing editor of the Marion Daily Republican died this morning at Arlington Memorial Hospital in Arlington, Texas.
Darby, who passed away at 6:30 a.m., had been splitting time between his Marion home and the Dallas-Fort Worth area while undergoing treatment for lymphoma. He had been fighting cancer for almost five years. Continue reading
The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Collins lying in pools of their own blood with a gunshot thru the temple of each head was the sight that greeted two night policemen who entered the Collins home at 104 North Russell Street about two thirty o’clock Tuesday morning. Continue reading
Leroy A. Goddard was born in Marion, Illinois, June 22 1854, the son of James T. and Winifred (Spiller) Goddard. His grandparents from Virginia settled in 1832 near where Marion was afterwards located. Mr. Goddard’s father opened a general store in Bainbridge, near Marion, in 1841, and later moved to Marion and erected a three story brick building where the Marion State and Savings bank was located. Continue reading