Soy de Duval

1969 Chrysler Imperial similar to Parr's car. POSTED BY:  CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM   MAY 24, 2018 On May 20, the Washington Post ran a story debunking the idea that Adolph Hitler had escaped alive and was living in the moon. About the same time, the Alice Echo-News Journal ran a story on the presentations made at the Jim Wells County District Courtroom on May 17 regarding George B. Parr and the Freedom Party. One reader commented on the newspaper’s Facebook Page that he was “not convinced Parr committed suicide. I think Parr was gonna roll over on LBJ and their involvement in JFK’s assassination in order to escape the tax evasion charges and LBJ just tied up some loose ends.” Or perhaps he was hiding out on the moon with Adolph. The fallacy of the comment is that LBJ would have had to do his shenanigans from the grave since he had been dead and buried for two years. Or maybe, he too was on the moon in a colony of political reprobates. This question also arose at the Q&A of ...

James O. Luby While doing research for a Civil War paper I am working on, I have been researching Nueces County Commissioner Court minutes to see how Tejanos were involved in the political life of their county during the conflict between the North and South. Duval County was not yet organized and was attached to Nueces County. Recently, I ran across a trove of names that will, no doubt, be a small mine for genealogists. What is also interesting, is that I was able to connect several of the names to other research I have done, which contributes to a more meaningful story rather than just names. In 1874, James Luby was the Justice of the Peace for Nueces County Precinct 3, which included San Diego and the surrounding area. First, I should point out that under state law during Reconstruction “police courts” oversaw county operations. Instead of a County Judge and Commissioners, five Justices of the Peace ran the county. At the court’s Jan. 31, 1874 meeting, N.G. Collins, E. A. Glover, and...