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Marcia Smith

Marcia Smith

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Jan 26

Road Trip

While visiting family in Connecticut in the spring of 2014, I had the pleasure of strolling through the Francis Griswold Museum, charmingly…

Road Trip

Marcia Smith

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May 23, 2025

BATTALIONS

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. (Shakespeare)

BATTALIONS

Marcia Smith

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Apr 10, 2025

Rosa and Fritz

Having boarded the SS Chemnitz in Bremen, Germany more than 10 weeks earlier, Rosa Bachinger, 17, stepped off the boat in Galveston, Texas…

Rosa and Fritz

Marcia Smith

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Mar 22, 2025

Thelma

As a graveyard biographer, I write about people who die at all different stages of their lives. Most challenging is writing about someone…

Thelma

Marcia Smith

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Dec 24, 2024

James Charles “J.C.” Payne

When I was a kid, I enjoyed seeing my mother’s cousin J.C. park his car at the curb and, clutching a couple of greasy bags, transport his…

James Charles “J.C.” Payne

Marcia Smith

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Nov 21, 2024

Last month, I made a trip to Galen from my home in Dallas, Texas.

I grew up hearing stories about Galen — about my grandparents’ neighbors, my grandpa’s sawmill and small grocery store, my mother’s…

Last month, I made a trip to Galen from my home in Dallas, Texas.

Marcia Smith

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Nov 2, 2024

Dixie

It’s odd enough that the Tucker brothers, Dixie and Charles, were both born in 1893 — one of them in April, the other in December — but…

Dixie

Marcia Smith

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Sep 27, 2024

HANDSOME DEVILS

Robert E. Anderson (Photo courtesy of Leigh Anderson)

HANDSOME DEVILS

Marcia Smith

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Aug 6, 2024

Ila May’s Big Brother

In Dallas’ Oakland Cemetery lie a man and a woman whose tombstone elegies speak of everlasting love and an unbreakable bond.

Ila May’s Big Brother

Marcia Smith

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May 20, 2024

Out of Bounds

The Bounds family headstone in Dallas’s Oakland Cemetery tells a sad story: The small family — a mere trio at a time when families ran…

Out of Bounds

Marcia Smith

Marcia Smith

The former newspaper reporter and English teacher is the author of the book, The Woman in the Well and Other Ancestories.

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