May 25, 1896

First meeting of Texas Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy

On this day in 1896, the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy met for the first time in Victoria. The United Daughters of the Confederacy was established in 1894 by the merger of (more...)

OAKTON, TX

OAKTON, TEXAS. Oakton was three miles northeast of Arnett in northwestern Coryell County. At one time it had a church, a school, and several residences. In 1904 the school had fifty-five students and one teacher, but by the 1950s it had been consolidated with the Levita school district. No population estimates for Oakton were available, and no evidence of the community appeared on county highway maps in the 1980s.

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Coryell County Genealogical Society, Coryell County, Texas, Families, 1854–1985 (Dallas: Taylor, 1986).

Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl

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Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl, "OAKTON, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hro32), accessed May 25, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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