Old Emma, then the county seat of Crosby County, Texas, boasted a population of about 250 citizens. In the county at that time there were 22 qualified voters and one bathtub, the latter 16 miles away.
On this Christmas Day R. R. Travis and his wife, with their son, and two daughters, migrated to Crosby County and settled upon a large tract of land lying immediately west of the village. A couple of months later W. E. McLaughlin, with his wife,…
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