Winner of the 2016 Best Newsletter Award, National, …Program: Compatriot Garrett Glover John...

Winner of the 2016 Best Newsletter Award, National, Sons of Confederate Veterans

Winner of the 2017 Best Newsletter Award, Tex. Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans

Winner of the 2017 Best Newsletter Award, National, Sons of Confederate Veterans

COMMANDER’S

CORNER

by Larry “Joe” Reynolds

Summer’s almost gone, we have

our first Graveside Memorial this month and

October weekends are already full. I want each

of you to think about and plan on attending the

activities that we have planned for October 28th.

I’m working on having us a booth set up at the

Omaha Fall Festival. We’re also working on

having our Color Guard march in their Parade.

That evening, we will celebrate our 2nd Annual,

1st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Birthday

Celebration. I would like to see everyone attend,

so mark your calendars now.

If not before, then at our next meeting we will go

over the 5th Brigade’s Heritage Defense Manual

and assign Monuments and Markers to individual

so that they can keep an eye on them and report

any signs of Vandalism or Damage. Also, please

keep an eye on any cemetery that you see, they

have already started destroying Confederate

Headstones in our area.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, September 18th, 7:00 p.m.

Refreshments at 6:30 p.m.

Old Union Community Center

Hwy 67E, Mount Pleasant, Texas

Program: Compatriot Garrett Glover

John Hall's Military Breechloaders

Graveside Memorial Service

Saturday, September 30th, 10 a.m.

Piney Cemetery, Harlton, Texas

See www.5thbrigade.org for full details

DAVIDRREYNOLDS.ORG

This month the following changes have been made

to our web site: http://www.davidrreynolds.org

• I’ve updated our Events page to include all

known events by the Camp and its members.

Please let me know when you do anything for

the SCV, this includes attending other camp

meeting, public speaking, or even putting

flags on graves.

• I’ve updated our Calendar of Events page on

the 5th Brigade’s Web Site.

• I’ve update our main page, adding Command

in Chief Strain’s new Statement of Purpose.

• I’ve added a 2016 and 2017 Award Page to

our site

I’m still looking for biographies of your Confederate

Ancestor. Please try to come up with a short bio that

we can put on-line.

If you have any suggestions, recommendations or

comments you can send me an email to:

[email protected] and I promise to

give it my full consideration.

Vol. 3, No. 9 Copyright 2017 September 2017

http://www.5thbrigade.org/

http://www.davidrreynolds.org/

mailto:[email protected]

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Vol. 3 No. 9 Copyright 2107

BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES

& OTHER IMPORTANT DATES

September 02nd – Danny Kid Tillery

September 08th – William Harold Guy

September 21st – Seth Clayton Thomas Clark

September 23rd – Dennis Lloyd Gunn

September 26th – Robert Eugene Jones

September 28th – Marriann (Mrs. Buffalo)

Our Charge…

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we

will commit the vindication of the cause for

which we fought. To your strength will be

given the defense of the Confederate soldier's

good name, the guardianship of his history, the

emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of

those principles which he loved and which you

love also, and those ideals which made him

glorious and which you also cherish."

Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General,

United Confederate Veterans,

New Orleans, Louisiana April 25, 1906

Remember, it is your duty to see that the true

history of the South is presented to future

generations!

“Breathe there the man with soul so dead

Who never to himself has said,

This is my own, my native land!” Sir Walter Scott

Sons of Confederate Veterans

Statement of Purpose

We, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, having been

commissioned by the Confederate Veterans

themselves, retain our responsibility and right to

adhere to the founding principles of the United States

of America remembering the bravery, defending the

honor and protecting the memory of our beloved

Confederate Veterans, which includes their

memorials, images, symbols, monuments and

gravesites for ourselves and future generations.

NEW THEORY - WHERE IS THE

CONFEDERATE GOLD? by Dixie Heritage

(Continued from Last Month)

Laundering the gold

What would they have done with the gold once it

arrived?

"The Confederate Gold ... would have went to the

national banking system, and laundered into

currency," Dykstra said.

Pritchard, Hackley and William M. Ferry's brother

Edward P. Ferry were involved in or founded banks

during 1870 and 1871 and those banks and others

would have been used to launder the gold, he said.

Around 1874-75, a new building was completed for

Muskegon National Bank, of which Hackley was a

director. It was re-chartered as Hackley National

Bank in 1890. Multiple publications and

advertisements say the bank had five vaults.

Dykstra said he believes the vaults were needed to

store the Confederate Gold treasure.

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First National Bank of Allegan was founded by

Pritchard in 1871.

At that time, banks would ship gold bullion to the

U.S. Treasury Department, and receive paper

currency with the bank name in return, Dykstra said.

"Most national banks, during their lifetime, would

print less than $250,000 worth of currency. If a

national bank got to $500,000 worth of currency, that

was considered excessive," he said.

Muskegon National Bank printed $295,000 from

1870-1890, according to Antique Money. Hackley

National Bank printed $4,666,000 from 1890-1935.

First National Bank of Allegan printed $797,000

from 1871-1927.

By comparison, First National Bank of Grand Rapids

printed $516,000 from 1864-1883 while First

National Bank of Ann Arbor printed $367,000 from

1863-1882.

According to advertisements found by Dykstra,

Hackley was a stockholder in 14 banks, which he

says could have also been used to launder the

treasure.

"They were in the banks because that's how they

laundered the gold, but they felt that their duty as

citizens of the United States was to promote in a

positive way," Dykstra said.

Tribute to the Confederacy?

The intersection of West Webster Avenue and Third

Street downtown Muskegon is a gathering of

Hackley gifts: Hackley Park, Hackley

Administration Building and Hackley Public

Library. Other large donations include Hackley

Hospital and the former Hackley Art Gallery, now

Muskegon Museum of Art. Hackley and his wife

Julia Hackley also donated multiple endowment

funds.

Dykstra and Richards believe there's proof hiding in

plain sight that Hackley Park was made possible by

Confederate money. They also point to clues in a

speech Hackley wrote for the park statues' dedication

in 1900.

Looking back at Hackley Park, a gift to the city in the

late 1800s

Hackley Park was gifted to Muskegon by Charles H.

Hackley in 1890.

The park features five large monuments and a layout

of curved and diagonal sidewalks.

"How did Charles Hackley pay tribute the

Confederacy? Because he would have -- he would

have almost felt duty-bound to do it," Dykstra said.

"But he would do it in such a way that people

wouldn't pick up on it, unless they knew to look for

it."

An aerial view of the park gave it away, he said. Its

diagonal crossed sidewalks could be seen as an

outline of the Confederate Flag.

The curved sidewalks are a bit trickier, but Dykstra

has an explanation: "It's a Bible. That's why the

sidewalks were rounded."

In their presentation, Dykstra and Richards show a

video that transforms an aerial view of the park into

a Confederate Flag and an open Bible.

Hackley Park's design is nod to Confederacy,

researchers say

The theory is that Charles Hackley paid tribute to the

Confederacy with park's layout.

"Within your sight stands a library built and endowed

by part of that same fortune, which the donor regards

as a trust for the people with whom he has been

associated for more than 40 years," reads a speech

written by Hackley for the dedication of the statues.

"If mistakes have been made in appropriating the

money generously tendered to the public, those

mistakes have been mistakes of the head, not of the

heart," reads another portion of the speech.

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Dykstra says the way Hackley refers to the money

and donations suggests he doesn't view them as his

own.

There are also clues in the Haight biography, which

was published in 1949, they said. Haight received

notes from Hackley in 1899, and was told the book

could be published 10 years after his death.

The book states that Hackley made $375,000 -- or

$7.2 million in today's dollars -- in one day during

1872, the time that Dykstra and Richards believe the

gold was moving. "Make no mistake, this is a

confession from Hackley," Dykstra said.

"When you have a secret, and you think you can be

caught at any time, you think one little clue will just

tell everybody everything," Richards said. "He's

giving huge clues, but only if you can figure that

out."

More presentations planned

Richards and Dykstra have presented the theory to

the public twice at Calvary Christian Schools, and

plan to do so again at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April

22.

So far, audiences seem convinced and hungry for

more, the duo agreed.

The April presentation will include more research,

Dykstra said.

"They have good evidence," said Dr. Thomas

Watkins, Calvary Christian Schools board president,

who was among the first to hear the theory during

November in a private presentation. "I believe what

they are telling me. It's too much information that

would all be happenstance for it not to be true."

Larry Houseman, of Norton Shores, listened to one

of the presentations and said he is anxious to hear

more.

"It's an interesting concept - I guess that's all it is right

now," he said.

Jaime Christenson, of Muskegon, was even more

convinced after hearing of the presentations.

"Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's

probable," Christenson said. "I don't believe in

coincidences."

Dykstra believes the theory is "bullet proof" and

reveals the true story of Charles Hackley and the

missing Confederate Gold.

"I don't want to seem overconfident," he said, "but I

know what I know."

Local historians remain skeptical.

"We don't feel there are a lot of facts in there cited

from primary literature," Soler said. "They're going

to have fun with it ... I'm sure it will bring up a lot of

interest. It's very speculative, a lot of conjecture tying

a lot of loose pieces together.

"We are not believers that the story has merit as of

yet."

The Col. Richard B. Hubbard Chapter #261

Military Order of the Stars and Bars

We are looking for new members. Of you have an ancestor who

was an officer or served in the

Confederate Government, contact

Dennis Brand [email protected]

about membership

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11th TEXAS CAVALRY

The Eleventh Texas Cavalry Regiment was

organized on October 2, 1861, at Camp Reeves,

Grayson County, Texas, by the energies of its

original colonel—William C. Young, a Mexican

War veteran, former U.S. marshal and lawyer, and,

in 1860, the wealthiest planter in Cooke County,

Texas. The companies that formed the regiment were

from Northeast Texas—Cooke, Grayson, Hopkins,

Red River, Fannin, Collin, Hunt, Titus, and Bowie

counties.

Young's field officers were Lt. Col. James J.

Diamond, who had been a member of the Democratic

National Convention in Charleston in 1860 and had

stormed out at the nomination of Douglas. The

regimental major was John W. Mayrant, a farmer

from Grayson County. Most of the company

commanders were planters, farmers, or lawyers, with

the exception of L. G. Harman, of Company D, who

was a surveyor, and Joseph M. Bounds, of Company

G, who was a hotelier.

Following its organization, the regiment was sent to

the Indian Nations, where it was engaged at

Chustenahlah on December 26, 1861. The initial

engagement of the Eleventh Texas Cavalry proved to

be a victorious one for the regiment. One man was

killed, one died of his wound, and four others were

less seriously wounded. One of the wounded was

Capt. James D. Young, Colonel Young's son, of

Company A. He suffered a painful but not serious

wound to the thigh. After the battle, the regiment was

dispatched into Arkansas for the winter.

On March 6–7, 1862, the regiment was engaged at

the battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn Tavern, Arkansas.

During the battle, Capt. Andrew J. Nicholson of

Company F was shot through the wrist. His horse got

away from him and broke for the Union lines, but a

Yankee slapped the horse on the rear, sending

Captain Nicholson safely back to Confederate lines.

Afterwards, the Eleventh Texas Cavalry served as

part of the rear guard for the army.

Disease proved to be a much tougher adversary

initially than Yankees to the Eleventh Texas Cavalry,

as typhoid, pneumonia, and measles thinned the

ranks of Young's regiment. After a tough winter with

many deaths and discharges due to disease, the

regiment was dismounted at Jacksonport, Arkansas,

and placed in the Texas Brigade under Joseph Hogg.

Hogg also succumbed to disease, and Colonel T. H.

McCray assumed command. The brigade contained

the Tenth, Eleventh, Fourteenth, and Thirty-second

Texas Cavalry regiments, dismounted, McCray's

Arkansas Regiment, and Douglas's Texas Battery. In

April, soon after the battle of Shiloh, the regiment

was sent to Corinth, Mississippi.

On May 8, 1862, in response to the new Confederate

Conscription Act, the regiment was reorganized.

Colonel Young had resigned his commission on

April 16, 1862, and Lieutenant Colonel Diamond

was appointed colonel. Diamond, however, was not

reelected, nor was Maj. John W. Mayrant. The new

field officers of the Eleventh Texas Cavalry were

John C. Burks as colonel, Andrew J. Nicholson as

lieutenant colonel, and H.Y. Bone as major.

John C. Burks was a fine choice as colonel. Burks, a

twenty-seven-year old lawyer born in Georgia and

practicing law in Red River County, had the

confidence of the men and appeared to have a fine

future in front of him. Nicholson never served in his

new office. He had to resign due to his Pea Ridge

wound. Neither did Bone, as he was rejected as an

officer by the Examining Board. Bone later served as

chaplain of the regiment but resigned in July 1862.

To take their places, Captain Bounds of Company G

was appointed lieutenant colonel in July 1862, and

Otis M. Messick was named major on May 25, 1862.

In mid-summer 1862, the newly-christened Army of

Tennessee, under the command of Gen. Braxton

Bragg, commenced a forward movement into

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Tennessee and then into Kentucky. On August 30,

1862, the brigade, still under the command of

Colonel McCray, fought at Richmond, Kentucky.

Desperately outnumbered, McCray's Texans and

Arkansans nearly destroyed the Federal army,

leaving the ground strewn with dead and wounded.

The Southern army, styled the Army of Kentucky

under the command of Edmund Kirby Smith,

captured 4,303 of the enemy and numerous weapons

and other supplies.

The regiment suffered an unknown number of

casualties at Richmond, however. At least three were

killed, seven wounded, and nineteen became

prisoners of war. Afterwards, the regiment withdrew

into Tennessee.

(Continued Next Month)

Dr. John Cunningham

Captain

Co. G, 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry -

Medical Corp.

** Service Record**

CSA (Confederate States of America) - enlisted at

Camp Burnett, Tennessee, with ninety other men

from Trigg County, Kentucky. Company G, 4th KY

Regiment., 1st KY Brigade - appointed 1st Lt. on

9/13/1861 - fought at Shiloh, resigned in June 1862

in order to transfer from the Infantry to the Medical

Corps - at the Battle of Shiloh he was in command of

a company of men serving under General Albert

Sidney Johnson - he was stationed at Lookout

Mountain as a surgeon, where he was captured by the

enemy and kept a prisoner for a time at Camp Chase

in Ohio.

** Obituary**

Dr. John Cunningham died suddenly about, five 0'

clock this morning. When the War Between the

States broke out, he volunteered and served

throughout the bloody conflict. At the battle of

Shiloh, he was in command of a company under

General Albert Sidney Johnston. He also served as a

surgeon in the Confederate Army and was stationed

at Lookout Mountain. He was captured by the

Federals and kept a prisoner for a time at Camp

Chase in Ohio. He moved to Fannin County, Texas,

in 1867.

** Newspaper Notes**

1895

Dr. John Cunningham, of Ravenna, Texas has the

thanks of the editor for a present of a beautiful pair

of eight-inch jack rabbit ears from the head of the

native Texas Mollie Cottontail jumper, of masculine

gender. Resembling a splendid pair of donkey

auricles, we think the gift an eminently appropriate

one for an editor, and after having tanned and framed

the pair, they now hang pendent on the highest

altitude of our sanctum sanctorum. Some more of

your curiosities, Doctor, but of a different character,

Dr. you know too many of us are already flop-eared.

(Trigg County Historical Clippings, Vol 2)

March 15, 1895

Dr. Cunningham In The Sixties - His Location In

Texas and What He had to Undergo -

An Interesting letter

Editor Telephone:

In your issue of the 29th of November, 1894, you

printed my second letter, and spread on more soft

soap and compliments, which was duly appreciated

and all proper allowances made for errors in the same

requesting me, with Mr. Cyrus Thompson and

several others to write again at pleasure or sooner,

and commit the same overt act of folly and nonsense

I suppose. Hence, here I am again, at 10 o'clock at

night after a hard day’s work doing nothing, ready to

get up another voluminous epistle of airy nothings. I

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am surprised that you print such ribaldry and

balderdash in so respectable a journal as the Phone in

the enlightened age; but then it has been said a

thousand times o'er. That where ignorance is bliss

“tis folly to be wise.” No dig at the editor or good

people of Trigg, but the people love things to fly

from the sublime to the ridiculous, but as I cannot

aspire to the sublime, I can only try to pet my part in

my own peculiar kind of way .

Well after the great way between the States that tried

men's souls of '61 and '65 everything was turned

topsy-turby, not only in grand old Kentucky, but the

entire Southland, and I wanted to go to Texas a€" to

fresher fields and greener pastures, but brother

William (who was always kinder good and home-

like) heard of my intentions. He took me aside and

gave ma a long talk on Texas and her extravaganzas.

He told me in a confidential undertone that Texas

was filled with race-riders, drunkards, gamblers,

dare-devils, robbers, cut throats, murderers, and

vagabonds. I admitted his arguments (such being the

common understanding -

Captain John Cunningham is the Great Great

Grandfather of Compatriot Jerry Lester.

LAST CAMP MEETING

We had a very nice meeting last month, lots of

visitors, including 5th Brigade Commander Sam

Mercer and his wife Christy, 2nd Lt. Commander

George Linton, 5th Brigade, Camp Commander Phil

Davis and Frank Smith from the Upshur County

Patriots and of course our Guest Speaker, Army of

Trans-Mississippi Commander Johnnie Holley and

his wife Norma.

Commander Holley gave an informative and very

interesting speech on “The Outlaw Josey Wales”

ATM Commander Johnnie Holley talks about the Outlaw

Josey Wales

Commander Joe Reynolds updated everyone on the

National Reunion in Memphis, where the 1st Lt.

David Richard Reynolds Camp won 1st Place for

Best Newsletter in the SCV and won the Superior

Camp award for the Best Camp in the Army of the

Trans-Mississippi and the second best in the Sons of

Confederate Veterans.

1st Lt. Commander Rex McGee was presented with a

SCV Commendation Medal that he won at the

National Convention and Commander Holley and

Mercer swore in our two newest members, Dave

Davey and Jerry Lester.

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OUR PLEDGES

PLEDGE TO THE U.S.

FLAG:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag

of the United States of

America, And to the republic for which it

stands, One nation, under God, indivisible, With

liberty and justice for all.

PLEDGE TO THE TEXAS

FLAG:

Honor the Texas Flag; I pledge

allegiance to thee Texas, one state under God,

one and indivisible.

SALUTE TO THE

CONFEDERATE FLAG:

I salute the Confederate Flag

With affection, reverence, and

Undying devotion to the cause for which it

stands.

BATTLES FOUGHT DURING THE

MONTH OF SEPTEMBER

Battle of Chantilly - Chantilly Virginia

1 September 1862 - General Thomas J. "Stonewall"

Jackson verses Generals Stevens and Kearny.

Casualties: 800 Confederate, 1300 Union!

Battle of Cheat Mountain - Cheat Mountain

Western Virginia

10-15 September 1861 - General Robert E. Lee

verses General Joseph J. Reynolds. Casualties: 120

Confederate, 81 Union!

Harper's Ferry Western Virginia - Harper's

Ferry Western Virginia

12-15 September 1862 - General Thomas J.

"Stonewall" Jackson verses D.S. Miles. Casualties:

500 Confederate, 11,783 Union!

Battle of South Mountain - South Mountain South

Carolina

14 September 1862 - General Robert E. Lee verses

General George B. McClellan. Casualties: 2685


Battle of Turner's Gap and Crampton's Gap -

Turner's Gap and Crampton's Gap Maryland


Generals Burnside and Franklin. Casualties: 4343


Battle of Munfordville - Munfordville Kentucky

14-17 September 1862 - General Braxton Bragg

verses General J.T. Wilder. Casualties: 288


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Battle of Luka - Luka Mississippi

19 September 1862 - General Sterling Price verses

General William S. Rosecrans. Casualties: 1516


Battle of Chickamauga - Chickamauga Georgia

19-21 September 1863 - General Braxton Bragg

verses Generals Thomas and Rosecrans. Casualties:

18,454 Confederate, 16,170 Union!

Third Battle of Winchester or Opequon -

Winchester Virginia

19 September 1864 - General Jubal A. Early verses

General Philip H. Sheridan. Casualties: 3921


Battle Fisher Hill - Fisher Hill Virginia

22 September 1864 - General Jubal A. Early verses

General Philip H. Sheridan. Casualties: 1235


Battle of Athens - Athens Georgia

23-24 September 1864 - General Nathan B. Forrest

verses General George H. Thomas. Casualties: 30


Battle of Poplar Springs or Peeble's Farm -

Poplar Springs Virginia


General Ulysses S. Grant. Casualties: 900


SICKNESS & DISTRESS

August 14th – Get Well Card sent to Compatriot Dr.

Larry Pepples, Red Diamond Camp #2193.

Compatriot Pepples had a stroke and fell, hitting his

head and causing bleeding on the brain.

GUARDIAN NEWS By 1Lt Commander Rex McGee

Last month I wrote about some possible damage that

the Anarchist was threatening as it related to

Confederate Cemeteries and Confederate graves.

This month we have had several instances of the

Ultra Left Anarchists applying their acts of

destruction to cemeteries, graves and monuments.

We also hear of them marching on schools to change

school names and on cities to get them to change the

names of streets and public buildings. This madness

is being perpetrated by a bunch of groups that have

little to do except find things to demonstrate about.

Hopefully, law enforcement and the general public

will get tired of this civil unrest and destruction and

put an end to it through laws that are on the books

and through sheer power of the public to castigate,

alienate, embarrass and throw negative publicity

upon them as individuals until they are properly

identified as the little thugs they have become. We

need to pray that the political correctness frenzy that

is destroying the history of this country will subside

before it is too late.

This has been a long hot & wet summer. I spent last

month cleaning up around my Confederate Heroes

graves, washing tombstones and the like. I noticed

that the summer had been hard on the flags due to the

hot sun and rain I mentioned earlier. I took down the

flags as I do not want soiled or discolored flags at our

Heroes graves. Please take the time to prepare your

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graves for the coming fall and winter and remove any

flags that are no longer serviceable and replace them

with new ones. If you do not have replacement flags

please insure the discolored & soiled flags are

removed from the graves and remember to properly

dispose of them as they had previously marked the

grave of a Confederate Hero.

As usual, I’ll leave you with the question that Phil

Davis, Upshur Patriots CDR and Chairman of both

the National and Texas Division Guardian Program

always asks,

“Are you a Guardian? If not, why not?”

Lincoln, when asked, “Why not let the South go in

peace”? replied; “I can’t let them go. Who would pay

for the government”? “And, what then will become

of my tariff”?

Abraham Lincoln to Virginia Compromise

Delegation March 1861

NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Larry “Joe” Reynolds

1007 Stone Shore Street

Mount Pleasant, TX 75455-7487

(903) 717-8608

[email protected]

Opinions expressed by individual writers are their own and do

not necessarily reflect official positions of the

1st Lt. David Richard Reynolds Camp #2270.

Letters and articles may be submitted to:

[email protected]

(Cutoff for articles is 15th of the month)

Camp Leadership

1st Lt. David Richard Reynolds

Camp #2270

Mount Pleasant, Texas

Commander

Larry “Joe” Reynolds

(903) 717-8608

[email protected]

1Lt. Commander

Alvin “Rex” McGee

(903) 577-3233

[email protected]

2Lt. Commander

Robert Eugene Jones

(903) 573-5349

[email protected]

Adjutant

Vacant

Chaplain

John “Michael” Mars

(903) 379-3321

[email protected]

Sergeant-at-Arms

Kenneth Roy Phillips, Jr.

(903) 575-8200

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Quartermaster

O. M. Adams

(903) 577-2627

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Web Master / Newsletter Editor

Joe Reynolds

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