Stories of Dawson and Western Navarro County
By. Carl W. "Tubby" Matthews Jr.

Robert Harve Matthews; Lies, Legends, and a Little Gospel Truth

• The Birthin
• Come to Texas
• Rangering on the Texas Frontier
• Francis Slaughter
• Dr. George Washington Hill
• Uncle Harve Got Married
• Uncle Harve and the Mexican Bandit
• The Funeral
• Will of Robert Harve Matthews

Western Navarro County

• Western Navarro County and its Relation to Richmond County Georgia
• Spring Hill Land Transactions
• Spring Hill Cemetery 
• The Dawson Family
• List of Families and individuals 1840-1940
• Tishomingo Co., MS, Gateway to Western Navarro County
• Miss Velma Taught School at Brushie Prairie
• The Price Family of Navarro County Texas
• Texas Lies, Legends, & a Little Gospel Truth

Stories From Dawson, Texas

Page 1

• The Purse
• "Crawfishing"
• And There Was Music in Dawson
• Sorghum Molasses
• Spring Hill Cemetery Celebrates 150th Anniversary
• I Remember Christmas 1928
• The Green Hut

Page 2

• The Gold Watch
• Why There Aint No Dogs in Spring Hill Texas
• Bycycle's Ride From Rodney
• Thurman "Flookem" Dickson
• The Birthin' of Sister

Page 3

• I Remember Dawson - Some Early History
• The Texas Association of Nashville
• The City of Dawson
• Western Navarro County Pioneers
• Richmond Co. Georgia & Western Navarro Co., TX
• I Remember Hubbard City Texas - The Professionals
• Dawson Remembered
• Dawson Churches
• The Dawson Water System
• The 1940 Ford Pickup

Page 4

• Subdivisions of Dawson
• The Black Community of Dawson
• Dawson Texas
• Matthews Bros. Market
• The Walkups of Dawson
• I Remember Hubbard, Texas - J. R. Penn, Blacksmith
• The Depression Years
• Dawson Personalities & "Characters"
  

Page 5

• The Class of '41
• The Coal Oil Lamp
• THE " BIRTHIN" of Robert Harve Matthews - 1814
• Bro. Butrell's Halloween
• Speedy's Date With Miss Elsie
• Jennie Follis 1869 - 1888 "A Love Story"
• Dawson Teachers - Were not always in the classroom
• Schwartz Dry Good Stores - Dawson, TX
• Thanksgiving 1932

• Dawson in World War I

• Land and Transactions at Spring Hill

• Shooting the Anvil

• MAURY CO TENNESSEE...and Dawson, Texas

• “THE BLACKLAND” and The Williams Eldorado Ranch - Dawson, Texas

The War Years

• 23rd Regiment, FOURTH Marine Division
• A Stop in Phoenix
• The War Years begin - The Recruiter
• Elk's Club Bond Drive - A Marine's 15 Seconds of Fame
• The Hashmark PFC
• Veterans Remember Veterans
• A Kiss for Your Mother - A Tribute to Claudette Colbert 1902-1996
• Wendell Nightengale

Homes of Dawson

• The House on Rabbit Hill
• Buckingham House

Other Items

• Harve Lee Matthews Biography
• Martha Patricia Matthews Biography
• Carl Matthews Biography
• Robert Harve Matthews Biography
• Mama I Killed a Yankee - Biography of Joseph Thompson Lawrence
• Abner Barnet Matthews
• Larkin Hill - Grand Master Spring Hill Masonic Lodge
• Cyrus Spence - Grand Master, Spring Hill Masonic Lodge
• Benjamin Jefferson C Hill - Grand Master, Spring Hill Lodge
• Henry Fullerton - Worshipful Master - Spring Hill Lodge
• Dawson Baptist Church
• Dawson First United Methodist Church
• Race Relations in Dawson Texas
• A Hanging in Dawson
• The Civil War & Spring Hill, Navarro Co. Texas
• The First Baptist Church in Navarro County - Society Hill Church
• Dawson Study Club
• Ab Dickson's Filling Station - Dawson, TX
• Spring Hill Map
• Story behind the Stone - Joseph A. Kirgan
• Story behind the Stone - Warren E. Sidwell - William Warren Turner - James Ramsey
• Recollection of the Frost Tornado
• A History of the Spring Hill Masonic Lodge #155
• The Wheelock  Family
• Margaret Catherine Berry, Dr. - Biography
• The Confederadoes & Navarro County Texas
• 1941 Dawson High School Class