SANTA ANNA, TEXAS | S.A. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT ORG. | SANTA ANNA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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| Name: | Janet Wristen (Zumkehr) |
| E-mail address: | jzumkehr60@clearwire.net |
| Comments: | I've have been looking for Wristen relatives and happened upon this site. My family came to California from Baird Texas. |
| Name: | Karen Kirk |
| E-mail address: | Karen2Kirk@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I've loved Santa Anna Texas since I was a child. My Aunt Helen Turner and her sisters Gay and Fay owned the Turner home as you come into town. They are buried there in Santa Anna. I plan on coming to Texas again this summer and going to Santa Anna is a part of the trip. My aunt also used to own the Pony Express home up against the hill. I was through there 2 years ago and the home (the Turner place)was for sale. We never heard back from the Realtor or the person we contacted to see about maintaining the structural integrity of the place. I still would like to know if it has been sold and if its been saved. I love that old town and hope its prosperous! |
| Name: | Betty Henderson |
| E-mail address: | rdhblh2gypsies@grandecom.net |
| Comments: | The SAHS class of 1953 is planning our 55th class reunion.
We will meet at First Baptist Church at 1 P.M. on Saturday, Oct. 18. All graduates, non graduates, friends and faculty are invited to attend. |
| Name: | Sharon Townsley Ingram |
| E-mail address: | sringram@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | We are having a Smith reunion in Santa Anna on May 31-
I have never met this side of my Dad's mother's family-My Dad was Ray Townsley-his mother was Georgia Stanley Townsley-Any info would be greatly appreciated. I know they lived in Coleman and Brownwood and all that area. |
| Name: | Christian Wells |
| E-mail address: | christian_evonne@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | wooh wooh!!
i'm famous!! =] |
| Name: | Tom Guthrie |
| E-mail address: | tguthrie@centex.net |
| Comments: | Always cool to read the history on Santa Anna. I think it is the most wonderful place on earth. I think my family has been there since around 1900 and there is hardly a day that goes by that I do not think about the opportunity to move back some day. I graduated in 1995 but go home often to visit. Thanks so much! |
| Name: | Sam Henderson |
| E-mail address: | navasotasam@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I worked for Santa Fe RR June 1953 until Dec 1954 I rented a room from Mrs Rosa Henderson and she had two sons still at home Roy Dale and Kenneth Wayne. Roy Dale married Betty Scott about 1954. Think Kenneth graduated about 1955. I remember the Santa Anna Silica Sand co very well and the Markhams that run it. after I left Santa Anna I moved to Austin and worked for the Missouri Pacific RR until I retired in 1996 (43 Years RR svc).if any one known the where abouts or address of Roy and Kenneth please let me lknow I would like to see them again. Kenneth and I spent alot of time on the Mountain there my initials are probable still carved in the rock there (STH) as well as Kenneths.
had a lot of fun times there. I was through there several years ago some changes. The old Depot was gone as well as grostore across street from it. Drug store was still on thecorner and Western auto sign and store was still there |
| Name: | Bobby Joe Densman |
| E-mail address: | Bobby.Sharon66@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I was born in Santa Anna in 1940, and attended all 12 years of school in Santa Anna, graduated from that wonderful old building that they have restored in tact for all of us to remember our roots. I retired for the Abilene Fire Department in 1994 after 28 great years serving the citizens of Abilene and Taylor County. In 1996, I joined the Texas Department of Public Safety as a Regional Liasion Officer in the Division of Emergency Management. In 2004, I retired again to the wonderful community of Buffalo Gap, Texas. Sharon and I were married in 1997. |
| Name: | Renee Stearns Means |
| E-mail address: | reneemeans@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Good web site, Daughter of Tack Stearns who is the son of Odell & Rena Stearns. Looking for any information.
Thanks |
| Name: | william hogue |
| E-mail address: | drbillhogue@aol.com |
| Comments: | please correct my e mail address to drbillhogue@aol.com |
| Name: | William Hogue |
| E-mail address: | drbillhogue |
| Comments: | I think my "uncle", Hobert Hogue, is buried in Santa Anna. He may have been my biological father. My biological mother may also be buried there. They were killed in an auto accident in the summer of 1951. I am planning on relocating with my family to West Texas in the lat fall of 07 or early Spring of 08. |
| Name: | Tommye Jane Mullis Wright |
| E-mail address: | tombow42@clearwire.net |
| Comments: | I was born at the Sealy Hospital on Nov. 7, 1942 to J.D. Mullis, originally of Trickham and Hazel Page Mullis, originally of Winchell. |
| Name: | David Neal |
| E-mail address: | azcajun@msn.com |
| Comments: | Spent a lot of fun dsys in Santa Anna, visting kin folks when I was a kid. |
| Name: | paulette chumley |
| E-mail address: | jollypolly451@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I have had the privilege of visiting your wonderful town twice. I came with my friend Dessa Rushing Mainor to her class reunion back in 2005 I believe it was and then again in April of 07. I have to tell you that you have such a remarkable place to visit and a town filled with such inviting people. We put the top down on Dessa's car and rode all around your area and she told me all of the stories of her childhood and as we passed the school and her home place I cold just see all of the tings she was telling me in my head. Dessa told me about her and her sister playing at the tank and all of the tings they would do for fun. It was a few days before I realized that a tank was what we in south Ga. call a pond. I was a little confused at first but we still have a good laugh about that. Hope to make the bison cook off sometime and no I didn't know what that was either!! You have done so much to bring your town back to life and from an outsider looking in you are a breath of fresh air. I may have Georgia in my heart but Texas is always on my mind. Can't wait to visit again and know that you have something special in your little town and you should be proud of it. |
| Name: | Aimee Wheller |
| E-mail address: | aimeedawnwheller@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I am looking to relocate my family and Santa Anna TX seems like a great please to live |
| Name: | Jamei Carter |
| E-mail address: | raven7714810@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hello all, i am looking for any information on a Morgan or his Son William French. They may be relatives of mine. Also, i would like to be contacted by any one who knew the French family with the names Clarence French, the father of Marvin W. French born 11/28/1921 and died on 5/6/1971. Marvin is my grand father. My phone number is 607-542-7496 and you can email me at the above adress. Also if anyone has pictures on this family i would like to see them. My address is:
Jamie Carter 57 Redwood Circle Painted Post, Ny 14870 tahnk Yoyu in advance fro any help. |
| Name: | Elizabeth Woods |
| E-mail address: | kelizabethwoods1968@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I am looking for any pictures of the Arthur and Alice Talley or Alice McMeans family from Santa Anna. Other family members took everything my grandmother had when she died and aren't willing to share so I have very few items to remember her or my grandfather by. Anything would be greatly appreciated and I would be more than happy to pay you for any copies that need to be made. Also, my father Luther James Talley had many pictures of his first wife, Nell Parks that should have been passed on to my older sister... they were taken too and I'd like to provide her with some. If any of you happen to remember my grandparents, father or Nell - I would love to hear from you. Thank You! |
| Name: | David Barstow |
| E-mail address: | jokerluv75@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://myspace.com/dfwdrag |
| Comments: | i really need to head back and see my family
i need to show off my new baby boy of 10 months myspace.com/dfwdrag for pics everyone |
| Name: | Tommy Stacy |
| E-mail address: | sold@tommystacy.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.tommystacy.com |
| Comments: | I had the privilege of spending summers in Trickham with my grandparents Walter & Carrie Stacy plus spending my sophomore year at Santa Anna High School. These special memories will always be close to my heart. This is a great town with fantastic people that I will always treasure.
Tommy |
| Name: | debra little(switzer) |
| E-mail address: | dlittle2022@aol.com |
| Comments: | hi!i am looking for information on the switzer family.my grandfathers name was arther.he died in 1980.my dads name was thomas.he died in 1989.we lived in whon from 1964 to 1969.my brother(ronnie)and i went to santa anna school.we lived on the gill ranch.my aunt lived in rockwood.her name is nell yancey.i miss the good times from back then.i would love to hear from some of my old classmates.if any has info on the switzers please feel free to e-mail me.debra little.dlittle2022@aol.com |
| Name: | debra little(switzer) |
| E-mail address: | dlittle2022@aol.com |
| Comments: | hi!i am looking for info on arthur switzer.he was my grandfather.he died in 1980.his children consisted of nell yancey,greta kline,marie stephans,edmund switzer,jane lovelady,otis switzer,ray switzer,thomas switzer(my father)a.e.switzer and ida lee(i dont remember her last name)any info would help.please respond. |
| Name: | sheila baker |
| E-mail address: | sheilabaker411@comcast.net |
| Name: | Six Years |
| E-mail address: | mama@idecome.com |
| Comments: | keep it uppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp |
| Name: | Billy Mac Brown |
| E-mail address: | bmbrown@grandecom.net |
| Comments: | My sister and I were born in Santa Anna at the Sealey Hospital, me in 1947 and my sister in 1948. My father was from a farm between Valera and Talpa and my mother had lived in Santa Anna with her mother and step father Roy and Thelma Phillips and younger 1/2 brother, Lee Roy Phillips. My maternal grandparents (W.C. and Ophelia Johnson McGrew)operated a cafe there during the 30's until the death of my great grandmother. During World War II, my grandmother operated a beauty shop in Santa Anna and my step grandfather farmed between Santa Anna and Trickham. My mother went to Santa Anna High School one or two years I believe.
My grandparents relocated to the Santa Anna area between there and Trickham from Ector County during World War II, but returned to Ector County around 1948 after the birth of my sister. My step grandfather is buried in the Cleveland Cemetery in a family plot. Great site. Billy Mac Brown |
| Name: | Anthony Jara |
| E-mail address: | avj1880@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Hi, I enjoyed the short History of your town. It is quite fascinating. I was able to get a Deer Lease this year near your town and look forward to a visit. Mr. Anthony Jara |
| Name: | Shanna Henderson -Huerta |
| E-mail address: | shannahuerta@gmail.com |
| Comments: | if any one knows about the Sheilds family i would like to hear from you |
| Name: | Shanna Henderson -Huerta |
| E-mail address: | shannahuerta@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://for ED Green |
| Comments: | alot of my family name was Sheilds |
| Name: | Shanna Henderson -Huerta |
| E-mail address: | shannahuerta@gmail.com |
| Comments: | this is for ED Green i lived in Santa Anna for many years my family name is Sheilds my Grandparents were Roy Sheilds and Eva Sheilds Leo Sheilds is my uncle i many cousins still there so if there is any info i can share with you please feel free to ask thanks |
| Name: | Shanna Henderson -Huerta |
| E-mail address: | shannahuerta@gmail.com |
| Comments: | well i will always miss the folks i went to school with so many have pasted on now but there memory will live on all my family sheila beal i miss her eva and roy sheilds i had a lot of fun in school but the one thing i will always think of the most moving away boy i,m glad i did haha but really i am glad. |
| Name: | Charles & JoAnn McClellan |
| E-mail address: | charles.jomac@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Great documentation for us "olf folk"
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| Name: | Jodie E. Wallace |
| E-mail address: | jogoldwallace@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I enjoy reading about Santa Anna where I was born in the Sealy Hospital in 1939. I remember the trains coming through & watching family (the Wallaces & Parish family) play baseball. |
| Name: | Benny Henderson Jr. |
| E-mail address: | BigDogMedia7@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.fighters-of-faith.com |
| Comments: | The best memory I have of Santa Anna...was moving! |
| Name: | Kaylyn Duke |
| E-mail address: | kaylyn@myway.com |
| Comments: | Well, this is a wonderful site. I was sent the link today from my mom. I have been visiting SA for many years to see my family, ( LeRoy and Laura Keeney Family). I attended school there in 1983 ( Ithink it was) I was in the 7th grade. I also attended there in my ke=indergarden and 1st grade years.
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| Name: | Dessa Rushing Mainer |
| E-mail address: | mainerp@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | I was in Santa Anna in April this year(2007) and I could not believe the changes there. It is so good to see the town come back to life. I was born and raised there, some memories can never be replaced and that is the way it seems Santa Anna is. Wish I could have spend more time there visiting but our present lives call us away. I visited the old drug store where I worked while in high school, of course it is a furniture store now, remember Doc Barkley? The bluebonnetts were beautiful, have not seen them in years and I soaked it all up until the next time that I can visit my home town and the great state of Texas. Thanks for the memories and I will keep check on the site, it is great.
Dessa |
| Name: | Joe England |
| E-mail address: | smmegm@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Several months ago while net-surfing and exploring writings in and about Coleman County I came across the site below:
http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Santa_Anna/santa_anna.htm I wrote an article about the rock carvings I had seen on the west mountain as a boy and which I supposed had been lost due to the later excavation of the mountain. When they published the letter, I contacted an old friend about it and he in turn related it to yet another old friend. The story then came back to me giving me the URL for this site. Lo and behold, I find that one of the carvings was saved! Reading further on this site, I find that many old acquaintances have visited and signed in. I too am pleased to find this site and will I’m sure spend many pleasant hours exploring and reading the comments of all and, answering some of them! By the way, I was born in the Sealy Hospital in 1933 and Dr. Sealy’s name is on my birth certificate. One of five children to George and Bessie England. My Very Best Wishes to All who read this, Joe England |
| Name: | Joe (Jodie) England |
| E-mail address: | smmegm@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Over the past year I had been remeniscing about Santa Anna and Coleman and found: <http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Santa_Anna/santa_anna.htm>
After reading everything I could, I wrote a piece about the Rock Carvings that I remembered from my childhood and how they had probably been destroyed. the piect was published at the above site and I later wrote to an old classmate of mine telling him about it. He, in turn wrote to another friend who had read on this site that some of the carvings had been returned. The Carving shown on the homepage of this site indeed is the one that I remember and the carving of the Eagle mentioned on the home page must have referred to the carving of "U.S.Marine Corps Emblem" that I spoke of which was a Globe with an Eagle on top and an Anchor on the bottom and the inscription "In Memory of my Buddie Ollie" . It pleases me greatly to hear that at least one of the carvings is there. I find it difficult to express my feelings upon reading all of the many comments below. Many of the people mentioned were friends and acquaintences of mine and my family's. The George T. England family lived in and around Santa Anna from the 1920's through the 1950's. My best wishes to all of our friends still in that part of the country. Joe England |
| Name: | Don Cendrick |
| E-mail address: | doncendrick@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | Found this site by accident. I was born in Santa Anna October 1944. Dad was a flight instructor in Brady for the Army Air Corp and we lived in Coleman. Remember my mother talking about me being born in a little hospital on the side of a mountain. Would like to visit some day. |
| Name: | John Henderson |
| E-mail address: | johnhenderson2007@msn.com |
| Comments: | loved the website thank you for helping keep one of histories greatest gifts a part of todays world. |
| Name: | Frank Williams |
| E-mail address: | ewilliams@dfwairport.com |
| Comments: | New email ad. |
| Name: | David R. Carroll |
| E-mail address: | dcarrollsr@verizon.net |
| Name: | Ronnie Westfall |
| E-mail address: | ronnie40@xanadoo.com |
| Comments: | I enjoyed reading your site.
I have ancestors who severed in the Confederacy at Camp Colorado a few miles north of Santa Anna.They severed under Col McCord. I have a cabin at Lake Coleman and really enjoy visiting with the wonderful people of Coleman county. |
| Name: | Dominga Rocha |
| E-mail address: | DRocha50@aol.com |
| Comments: | I don't know mu about Santa Anna because I was just there for a very short while back in 1961 and 1962. We were brought to Trickham by my father's boss and we(my older sister and I) went to school in Sant Anna for a very short while during my first grade and third grade. For some reason I hava never forgotten the few people we met from Santa Anna. One family in particular that I remember is the Trinidad family. And of course the one person that I will never forget is Mr. James Ferton Martin (to me he will always be "Felton" as my dad used to called him. The reason that I will always remember this man is because he was the one that believed in my dad and helped him bring all of us to Trickham from Mexico. I visted Santa Anna and Mr. Martin in Trickham in May 2004 after 42 years. I was glad that I visited the elementary school in Santa Anna and Trichham. I wish with all my heart that we had stayed in Santa Anna in 1962. |
| Name: | misty murphy |
| E-mail address: | mistymurphy228@netzero.net |
| Comments: | Went to school all my years except my senior year. Miss everyone.The people nearest and dearest to my heart have passed. Grandparents Roy and Eva Sheilds and my lovely Aunt Sheila Beal Jones. Will always remember the great friends i had.Marcie Puckett,Carrie Keeney,Doug and Terry Taylor,sylvia Castillo,and many others. I now live in kilgore, Tx.
I will always remember mean ole BILLY MORRIS (the only father i knew for many years) |
| Name: | Chris C Childress |
| E-mail address: | justahorseman@cox.net |
| Comments: | Your site is great, my Great, Great Grandfather was H.M Childress who was a member of J.J. Callans Minute Men. |
| Name: | Tessa St. Pierre |
| E-mail address: | stpr52@aol.com |
| Comments: | cool website
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| Name: | Jack Purcell |
| E-mail address: | petrodactl@zianet.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.jackpurcellbooks.us/ |
| Comments: | I was doing a web search for my old friend, Dana Evans and came across this site because a lady mentioned his name. I haven't seen Dana in a number of years and we've lost track.
Dana was one of the members of the 1998 Lost Adams Diggings search in New Mexico. Fact is, there are even pictures of him on my website. I'm thankful the lady mentioned she was among the legions of the female gender to have a crush on him. Dana's (last I knew of him) re-captured a middling amount of his ancestral holdings in the Santa Anna/Trickham vicinity. Had more goats than most people aspire to. He and his wife built a beautiful home there and appeared to be thriving. Jack |
| Name: | Leona Higgs |
| E-mail address: | coolgramdma@webtv.net |
| Comments: | I lived in coleman and rockwood, great places like santa anna, my kids went to school there. one son played football for jr high. I have visted santa anna nearly all my life my aunt and`uncle use to live there both are deceased now. Have a cousin there now. Love texas and miss it, I live in missouri now. My parents are buried in Trickham. So my heart is there. I use to work at the hosptial in coleman. thanks for the great website. |
| Name: | Ralph Bartlett |
| E-mail address: | jebreb@cableone.net |
| Comments: | Many a summer day was spent with my grandparents, Mr.& Mrs. J. Ed Bartlett. He operated the Trickham and Santa Anna cotton gins, built several houses, and was manager of Burton Lingo Lumber Company for a short period of time. My grandmother was a teacher and principal of Santa Anna High School. Her sisters, Stella and Edna Mc Daniel were well known college educators in Texas and Oklahoma. |
| Name: | Ray Cook |
| E-mail address: | rcook@cooksys.com |
| Comments: | I visited Santa Anna on 11/22/06 while visiting my daughter in Talpa, Tx. I loved the little town and all the surroundings. As I stood out side of a furniture store on the side walk I could see myself there a 120 years ago and all that was happening at that time, and it was beautiful. Seeing how the west was won. Wagon trains headed west to California. Wish I knew people there, I will be back every year to visit the stores. By the way I am not 120 years old, just visualizing what I can see when I go back in time. I am glad I found this web page, it is so nice. Thank you so much for this. |
| Name: | Billy Cullins |
| E-mail address: | billy.david.cullins@us.army.mil |
| Comments: | I am searching for information about my fathers side of the family. I am not familiar with much about it. The last name is Cullins. My grandfather lives in Bangs, TX but I haven't spoken to or seen him in years.
Any information is appreciated. Billy Cullins Iraq |
| Name: | Ruth Keas |
| E-mail address: | ruth_flash@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I am not sure how I stumbled onto this site, but fould it interesting. I lived in Brownwood for years and my sister-in-law had family we visited with in Santa Anna during the 70s. I go through there on my way to visit my Mother north of Abilene. It is just like I remember it. Ruthie |
| Name: | Gene Furrow |
| E-mail address: | gfurrow@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Great site. I enjoyed viewing the small town where my late great-grandmother, Lola Crosby (maiden name) was born in 1896. Haven't visited since the late 1960's when I was a child living in Abilene. I definitely look forward to re-visiting my genealogical roots one day soon.
Thanks again! |
| Name: | betty(goen)maciel |
| E-mail address: | bruthbaciel@sbc.net |
| Comments: | I have found this web page through linda (moore)ropp and am so excited to read all the mail. also the neat picture post card of the sealy hospital where i was born when it was still fairly new. we lived on the brady highway behind the abernathy filling station that was on the highway, during the 40's and watched all the troop trucks go through our town.i still keep in touch with a lot of my school chums and love santa anna dearly. hope to move back to that area one of these days. |
| Name: | Tommy Hardy |
| E-mail address: | THardy1969@AOL.Com |
| Comments: | I remember very well living in Santa Anna back when I was young and that would be around 1962-1964. I was baptized at the First Baptist Church by a Rev. Jones. My family moved to Brownwood think it was in 1964. I really liked Santa Anna. WSell here it is many years later and I live in Los Angeles Area since 1977. I have thought what would it be like to relocate back to Santa Anna. What kind of jobs do they have there. I work for the VA Hospital since 1987. Centeral Suppy Tech. I wonder if there is anyone still there that would remember me. Go Mountainners. Oh yes I remember the 2 burger places across from the school. Bet they are long gone but they sure were good.
Tommy Hardy |
| Name: | Alice Watkins Cothron |
| E-mail address: | alicecothron@comcast.net |
| Comments: | My dad, Eugene "Gene" Watkins, was a Santa Anna native, and he and my mother, Christine Marshall Watkins, graduated from Santa Anna High in 1930. (She lived in Santa Anna w/her family during her high school years.) My sister, Beth, and I and our parents would visit our Watkins grandparents and other relatives on summer vacations and some Christmases. We visited the First Baptist Church with "Nana"(we pronounced her name as "Na-naw"),our Watkins grandmother. We loved playing on the front porch and along the rock fence in front of her house. |
| Name: | Debra Jacobsen Funk |
| E-mail address: | debrafunk@cox.net |
| Comments: | Been away from Santa Anna for about 10 years, sure was great to see this site. Boy, when your away from Texas for so long you really do miss it. Class of "1981" hope my former classmates are doing well...and would love to hear from you. |
| Name: | Bobby Densman |
| E-mail address: | Bobby.Sharon@Web-Runner.Com |
| Comments: | I wea borned in Santa Anna in 1940 went to School for 12 years> Movedto Abilene Tx. Sept.1966 to work for Abilene Fire Department, retired in 1994. Now live in Buffalo Gap Tx. I will always call Santa Anna Home and I love the little City.
B. Densman |
| Name: | Michael Healer |
| E-mail address: | dawhealer@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://360.yahoo.com/dawhealer |
| Comments: | I grew up in Brownwood, but my grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hefner lived in Santa Anna until they passed away in the early 1960s. Their house was the one just past the Gulf Station on the right as you drove in from Brownwood. My mother and aunts would visit there just about every Sunday and they'd take me with them. It was a great place for a kid to poke around. One of my big treats was to walk over to the Gulf station and get a Nehi Grape Soda on a hot summer day. They only cost a nickel then.
The last time I was there was on the way back to Austin from Abilene about three years ago and I didn't really have much time to look around. The Gulf station's gone now and so is my grandparents' house, but I have really great memories of visiting there. It's good to see what's going on with the town and that this website exists. Next time my wife and I are in Brownwood, we'll try to make more time for a trip back and for some exploring. Michael Healer Austin, Texas |
| Name: | Charlotte Garrett Tucker |
| E-mail address: | circletranch@web-access.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://santaannareunion.spaces.live.com |
| Comments: | We are planning a 1980-1990 class reunion. All friends, faculty, graduates and non-graduates are invited to attend. We are very excited at the response that we have had so far. Homecoming is September 29 and 30, 2006. The agenda for the reunion follows on this website: http://santaannareunion.spaces.live.com
If you have any questions you may email me. |
| Name: | Sharon Bell Thornton |
| E-mail address: | shaethornton@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | What a way to spend a Sunday- looking over this web site. Santa Anna has played a big part of my familie's life for over 100 years.
My Father, Joe Bell, My Aunts- Eva Lee Williams& Nell Bell Myers, my uncles- Tom Bell & Nowlin Myers and his family, my grandmother Dora Manda Bell and so many more all from Santa Anna. My aunt, Nell Myers left Santa Anna about 3 years ago and now lives here in Arlington,Texas. I know she misses her home town and her friends. I spent may summers visiting there many summers when I was growing up as did my daughter Robbie Eaves. Some of the stories about my dad, Joe Bell and his brother Tom and their friends growing up are interesting to say the least. I know my aunt Nell would love to hear any stories or info you might have about their family and yours. Love this wweb site. |
| Name: | Beth Luttrull |
| E-mail address: | bluttrull@mindspring.com |
| Comments: | My father, Eugene Watkins, grew up in Santa Anna, and we always enjoyed traveling from our home in Tennessee to visit my grandparents, Earl and Annie Mae Watkins at their home in Santa Anna. One Christmas we hiked the mountain to cut down a Christmas tree, and Santa put "Ricky, Jr." dolls under that tree for my sister and me. I have wonderful memories of "Santee Anna", as my dad always called it. |
| Name: | Kristina |
| E-mail address: | kristshawn@web-access.net |
| Comments: | We moved to Santa Anna January of 2005 and have been homeschooling but now have decided to send our children to public school. If anyone could please tell me when the first day of school is and when registration is, it would be greatly appreciated. |
| Name: | David Chappell |
| E-mail address: | dchap@awesomenet.net |
| Comments: | Have never been to Santa Anna.....Read a story in our local paper [Corpus Christi, Tx] by John Richards that ownes a Ranch close to Santa Anna and he and family always stay at the Ranger Motel since no house is on his ranch....Area sounds very interesting, and we just Love Small towns....Hope to visit this Fall............God Bless America, Dave & Elise |
| Name: | Charles Flint |
| E-mail address: | cflinttx@aol.com |
| Comments: | I am looking for any imformation about my grandfather. His name was Carl Flint.He resided in Santa Anna for some years.He died in the mid 60s.I would appreciate any imformation. |
| Name: | Billy J. Minatra |
| E-mail address: | bminatra@gvec.net |
| Comments: | Folks:
I was born and partly raised in a little cement plastered three room house maybe 300 yards south of Harmony Baptist Church and Brown Ranch School crossroads where I attended the first and part of the second grade, leaving there in 1945 and returning for about a year in 1954/5 batching with my grandfather, H. C. Rude, before entering the Navy in 1955, January. Spent many an hour looking at the Santa Anna Mountains from the front porch of that little house, which is bearly there to this day. Holy ground! I would like to make one obvious correction about the buffalo having crossed to this Country from Europe some 25,000 years ago. Folks, I don't think there was much of anything on the whole Earth that many years back. It has only been approximately 6,040 years since Adam was here, I respectfully submit. Oh, the Earth was here much longer than that, but "without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep." I submit my oldest sister's name as a reference, Betty "Minatra" Baber of Coleman, Texas. Billy J. Minatra 1235 Gander Slough Rd. Kingsbury, Texas 78638 |
| Name: | Charles S.Evans |
| E-mail address: | cse4@cox.net |
| Comments: | Hello San'y Anna! I have wonderful memories of San'y Anna. My mother is Elizabeth M. Pritchard. She grew up in Santa Anna.
We used to visit Grandma Pritchard back in the 60's and I can remember many a day spent running up and down the mountain behind Grandma's house. We lost our Dear Mother this past October (2005) and going through some of the old pictures from that time really brought back some wondeful memories. I can remember Grandma's house being full of relatives and the smell of some good home cooking throughout the house. I am 48 now, but I remember those days like they were yesterday. God Bless you San'y Anna (that's how we said it then), and a big hello to any and all the Pritchard's from Santa Anna,Texas. |
| Name: | Victoria |
| E-mail address: | victoria_bernal022009@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Our town rocks! Hope to see everyone at funtiers's day :-) |
| Name: | Susan Savage |
| E-mail address: | savahome@charter.net |
| Comments: | While doing research on my Texas ancestors, I found that one branch of the Kegans family settled near Santa Anna. I've enjoyed reviewing your website and have placed Santa Anna on my list of "much visit" towns during my next genealogy roadtrip to Texas. Thanks so much for all the historical information. See you soon! |
| Name: | Ed Earl |
| E-mail address: | edeearl1955@msn.com |
| Comments: | Read about your town in Texas Highways and want to come to the Bison Cookoff Next month. |
| Name: | Paulina |
| E-mail address: | pcebula@vp.pl |
| Name: | pati perkins barton |
| E-mail address: | patipbarton@hotmail.com |
| Name: | Angel Jeanelle Williams Thomas |
| E-mail address: | jeanelle_2@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I have always heard about Sana Anna because I was born in your town. My twin sister and I. It was nice to see it for the first time in my life and I am 28 Years old now. I now live in McAlester, Ok and hope to see Santa Anna soon. Thank You with all my heart,
Jeanelle Thomas |
| Name: | Terry Taylor Sr. |
| E-mail address: | cowboy_angel65@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I'm home to stay. Good to see everyone in Santa Anna. |
| Name: | Scott Hamlin |
| E-mail address: | hamlin38@msn.com |
| Comments: | I'm so happy that there's an effort to record Santa Anna's history.
My mother is from Santa Anna, (which we still pronounce 'Sany Ana'). And one of my favorite uncle's still resides there. (Well, all my favorite uncle's, and aunt's from San'y Anna) When visiting Granny Clifton, we always knew when we were getting close, because we could see "Granny's Mountain." -Well, it wasn't hers, but it would signify that we were close to home. |
| Name: | Phillip Wristen |
| E-mail address: | pwris10@yahoomail.com |
| Comments: | Santa Anna will allways be home to . though I live in Mt.Pleasant now Santa Anna is the only place that will allways feel like home.
Dink Wristen-Grand father Marie Wristen-grand mother Ted Wristen-father Neil Hipp-great aunt Carmen Donahm-great grand mother |
| Name: | Odis Summers |
| E-mail address: | osummers@esc17.net |
| Comments: | My name is Odis Summers, and I was the Football and Basketball coach in Santa Anna in 1983-84. I found your site and was very impressed with the history of Santa Anna, as well as the progress that has been made there lately. Thank you for a delightful and informative website. |
| Name: | Stanley (Jack) Brown |
| E-mail address: | jackbrn@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | I grew over around Grosvenor. We did a lot of our shoping in Santa Anna It was a real busy town in the forties and fifties.I am back there when I canI am so glad to see that it seems to be looking up. A lot of folks are finding that big is not always better. Keep up the good work.
Jack |
| Name: | Jerrie Amos |
| E-mail address: | jerramos@aol.com |
| Comments: | Last Thursday, January 12, my friend and I were driving from Lubbock to Houston. As we drove through town on 84, I looked to my left and saw a beautiful old church that had been boarded up. I made a U turn and we went sightseeing through your lovely town. I only wish I had more time, I would have stayed longer. What a wonderful place. |
| Name: | Shauna Martin |
| E-mail address: | shalmart28@web-access.net |
| Comments: | Way To Go Mounties!!!!!!! |
| Name: | Pat White Cooley |
| E-mail address: | pat.cooley@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | While browsing Texas school district sites I ran across this site. After a visit to SA about 3 yrs ago, I was pleasantly surprised with SA's transformation and rebirth! My siblings, Eugene & Elaine White and I all grew up in SA. It was a simpler and nobler time. I've fond memories of my youth in SA. |
| Name: | Amber |
| E-mail address: | amber.r.waldrop.stt6@statefarm.com |
| Comments: | We were there this last weekend (Christmas weekend) and had a blast. The town is wonderful, beautiful with some of the best food around. The Opera House... those "beef" burgers - yum. Thank you to the sweet and kind people... Take care and we will be back next year! |
| Name: | Morris Mann |
| E-mail address: | mmann@web-access.net |
| Comments: | Have enjoyed looking through the history and local info
about our local neighbor that we have known a long time, but few of the details. Good luck for the future. Morris Mann |
| Name: | Morris Mann |
| E-mail address: | mmann@web-access.net |
| Comments: | Hav;e ;enjoyed looking through the history and local info
about our local neighbor that we have known a long time, but few of the details. Good luck for the future. Morris Mann |
| Name: | Philip Stringer |
| E-mail address: | philst@twpc.com |
| Comments: | I was passing through this past weekend (10/30/05) and got a good smell of BBQ so my friend and I made a u-turn and came back to find the best small town food at the Opera Theater Steakhouse, it was GREAT! with the old west appeal and not to overlook the cool bar in the next room. The people of the town that we met, who were eating in the Opera Theater, were some of the nicest people I have met in a very long time. It took me back decades when everyone was a friend and there were no strangers. I just wanted to let the town of Santa Anna know that it is a jewel in the heart of Texas and I will return time and time again, I just love your town. Thank you for the wonderful experience and a great memory..........Philip Stringer |
| Name: | Bobby Malaer |
| E-mail address: | bobby.malaer@gmail.com |
| Comments: | It's been a couple of years since I last said Hello. Well, Hello everyone. The site looks good as always. I go home about once a year, and wow has it changed. Lots of new stores and other things. Feel free to email me.
Bobby |
| Name: | Cathy Jo Cullins |
| E-mail address: | sunnyincolo@aol.com |
| Comments: | Looking for any information about the Truett and Sula Hipsher family you may have? thanks! |
| Name: | Lanny G. Asepermy |
| E-mail address: | hondoriver@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Greetings,
The photo on your cover story is my great-grandfather - his name was (as the BIA spelled it) A-se-pemm-my, his english name was John Whiteman. He was born on the Brazos Reserve in 1858 and died on May 3, 1931. He is buried at the Cache Creek Indian Cemetery west of Apache, OK. The meaning of his name was "to look or see through Grey Eyes" or "Grey Eyes'. I have no problem with the photo being published if photo was idenified - most people probably think he was Santa Anna. Do us a favor and idenify the photo or remove it. Thanks PS Good article. |
| Name: | Gussie M Young |
| E-mail address: | gussieyoung@msn.com |
| Comments: | Trying to help my Daughter find her Grandmother's Heritage.All we know is that she was born in Santa Anna.Maiden name was Bearden.She was born in 1910 and passed away in 1997.By luck,I found this wonderful site.If anyone knows anything about the Beardens would you please e-mail me.Thank you so much. Gussie Young |
| Name: | Rebecca (Becky) Zabel-Merket |
| E-mail address: | ramerket@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Cool website! Neat to see what people are up to these days. I go back to Santa Anna every once in a while...missed the Class of '95 reunion but hope to see everyone another time. |
| Name: | William S. Watson |
| E-mail address: | hollas14@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I was searching for the Santa Anna news and when I ran across this I couldn't help but sign in. I grew up in Santa Anna and graduated Santa Anna High School in 1998. I still go back at least once a year to visit friends and family. If anyone sees this and would like to say hi don't hesitate to shoot me an email. |
| Name: | jennifer morris |
| E-mail address: | dreddyjen@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | reading this makes me want to come home more now than ever
i would have graduated in1995 but my mom and i moved to massachusetts my mom (jackie morris) worked at phillips drug my grandparents had a farm near home creek where my father lives now my brother jeff currently lives in brownwood it's true what they say you can take the girl out of texas but you can't take texas out of the girl hi mr. guthrie |
| Name: | Lou Ann Dean |
| E-mail address: | katzchen99@aol.com |
| Comments: | I enjoyed attending and judging the 2005 Bison Cook-off. Happy trails to you all! |
| Name: | Chanda Simmons Rice |
| E-mail address: | jlcdrice@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Great site. I Love reading any history about Santa Anna. Keep up the good Work!!! |
| Name: | Sharon Cox |
| E-mail address: | pecosriverpeso@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | certainly miss 'home'...got you set as homepage...I really enjoy the chuckles!!! Keep up the good work. |
| Name: | Marko |
| Homepage URL: | http://fayngz.com |
| Comments: | I'm glad that Texas exists. People there very friendly. Thank you Texas, for just being Texas. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAA.
Sincerely, Marko fayngz.com |
| Name: | Kimberly Elizabeth Woods nee Talley |
| E-mail address: | texastornado1968@peoplepc.com |
| Comments: | I forgot to add that my grandfather owned a gas station in town once - if anyone knows anything about it could you email me please - and my sister Nell was born in Sealy Hospital in November 1956. |
| Name: | Kimberly Elizabeth Woods nee Talley |
| E-mail address: | texastornado1968@peoplepc.com |
| Comments: | I couldn't believe my luck running up on this site. Although I have never 'officially' lived in Santa Anna, I consider it my home. My grandmother and grandfather - Arthur and Alice Talley had a home there for many many years, until my grandmother died and the family sold it off (how I wish I could buy it back now) My father, Luther James Talley went to SAHS as did his brother Arthur Dean and his two sisters Allene and Mary Frances. I remember sitting on my grandmother's front porch shelling peas and going out in the garden behind her house that my Uncle Ernest Roberts kept looking for horned toads - walking the dirt streets back around her area to pick up fresh eggs from one of her neighbors, waiting for the milk man to come, and putting the red flag up on her mail box so the mailman would know we had out going mail. I haven't been back since my Aunt Frances died back in 1998. There isn't anyone left really for me to go see and just making the trek out to visit the cemetary is just too sad most times because I can still close my eyes and remember all the wonderful times I spent out there and the most wonderful person in my life - my grandma Talley. |
| Name: | Mike Vowell |
| E-mail address: | mikevowl@aol.com |
| Comments: | Again... My Grandmother; Arvella Bentley Vowell; attended nursing school in Santa Anna; about 1915. She had traveled there via wagon train from Arkansas. My father went to elementary school in Doole or Santa Anna. I enjoyed reading the guestbook. |
| Name: | Mike Vowell |
| E-mail address: | mikevowl@aol.com |
| Comments: | I haven't been to Santa Anna yet. Pretty soon though. |
| Name: | JIM |
| E-mail address: | hotdodge@web-access.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://owl-drug.com |
| Comments: | NEVER LIVED IN SANTA ANNA, BUT MARRIED THE FORMER LINDA
RILEY; WE LIVE IN COLEMAN, TX, HAVE 3 KIDS; JOE RILEY LIVES IN BROWNWOOD, TX, AND MARRIED THE FORMER SUSIE WISE. |
| Name: | Whitney Straw |
| E-mail address: | whitneyshae@msn.com |
| Comments: | I have always loved Santa Anna and its beautiful historical church and homes while only passing through. I have been reading some history of the Coleman county area and think that it is very interesting. I have also been to several websites to see photographs of buildings in the area. I would LOVE to see more and even visit the town. I am only a few hours away in San Angelo going to ASU and would love to have an excuse to come roam the streets and backroads! |
| Name: | MJ Laughlin |
| E-mail address: | tis_herself@highstream.net |
| Comments: | I enjoyed reading this Santa Anna website. My great-aunt Minnie Wilson ran the post office in Trickham for many years. I visited her when I was little but since her death I have not been back to the area. This website brought back happy memories of the good ol' days. |
| Name: | BEVERLY SAPCUT |
| E-mail address: | COMANCHEMOON@PLDI.NET |
| Comments: | I JUST PULLED UP ALL THE INFORMATION I JUST ASKED FOR ON YOUR SITE, I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED BEFORE I LEAPED, BUT THE LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE WERE SO INTERESTING I JUST KEPT READING. I STILL WANT TO VISIT THE PEAK, I HOPE IT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
UH-DAH (THANK YOU IN COMANCHE!) |
| Name: | BEVERLY SAPCUT |
| E-mail address: | COMANCHEMOON@PLDI.NET |
| Comments: | I JUST PULLED UP ALL THE INFORMATION I JUST ASKED FOR ON YOUR SITE, I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED BEFORE I LEAPED, BUT THE LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE WERE SO INTERESTING I JUST KEPT READING. I STILL WANT TO VISIT THE PEAK, I HOPE IT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
UH-DAH (THANK YOU IN COMANCHE!) |
| Name: | BEVERLY SAPCUT |
| E-mail address: | COMANCHEMOON@PLDI.NET |
| Comments: | I AM A MEMBER OF THE COMANCHE NATION OF OK. I AM TRYING TO LEARN ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT MY HERITAGE, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE BANDS OF COMANCHES USED SANTA ANNA AS A MEETING PLACE AND THAT ALL TRAILS IN TEXAS (WITH ONE EXCEPTION) LED TO CONAS. THIS WAS THE WINTER CAMP FOR COMANCHE CHIEF SANTA ANNA A MEMBER OF THE PENATEKA BAND.
I CAME ACROSS THIS SITE AND AS I READ, ITS VERY INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE EVEN MENTION THE FACT THAT THE COMANCHES ONCE LIVED AT SANTA ANNA. I WOULD LOVE TO VISIT YOUR TOWN. AND SEE THE MOUNTAINS THAT MY ANCESTORS ONCE ROAMED. I WOULD JUST LOVE IT. DO YOU HAVE ANY HISTORY OF THIS IN YOUR CITY HALL OR LIBRARY? WHAT IS THE POPULATION? FROM WHAT I READ, THERE IS A LOT OF HISTORY FROM THE CAUCASION POPULATION, ARE THERE ANY INDIANS LIVING THERE AT THIS TIME? I GUESS I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE CELEBRATIONS THAT OUR TRIBE HAD THERE. ARE THEY ONGOING? |
| Name: | Linda Gail Rountree Porter |
| E-mail address: | porterlinda_@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | According to family legend, the Rountrees arrived in the Santa Anna area in the mid 1800s by covered wagon. My father, Reuben Thomason Rountree, was a member of the Santa Anna football team when he was in high school.
I would be interested in communicating with anyone who might know about the Rountrees and the Fultons. AND, I would be most interested in communicating with other Comanche descendants who will be going to the D.C. Pow WOW in August 2005. Feel free to email me! |
| Name: | Wade Brooks |
| E-mail address: | greendragonslair@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello All
I used to live in Trickham Texas, and went to school in Santa Anna from 5th to 8th grades no one liked the dairy hands son back then and I went on to help feed this great nation of ours as a ranch hand. So think back on historical quotes and you may find that farm and ranch hands arent such bad folk after all. "For am army travels on thier stomachs." also please remember that our children can not learn without a healthy diet. And though some of you did not like me I am sorry that I bothered you hope that you now understand because I'm not sure that I do but I keep trying. Blessed Be Wade Brooks aka Talen GreenDragon PS And yes my family moved to Bangs, so I became a bangs Dragon but that is not where the greendragon come from. The dragon can be found through out the world and usualy means great knowledge and power,and prosperity. It is this that I hope for each of the Santa Anna Mountainiers. With great Love Blessed Be. Wade Brooks aka Talen Greendragon |
| Name: | Jill Weathers Alvarez |
| E-mail address: | jill_d_alvarez@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I haven't been "home" (Santa Anna) in about 8 years, and finding this website with the wonderful pictures and history of my hometown literally brought tears to my eyes. It's so ironic that as young people, we just can't wait to get out of town, and years later we long to go back. Thanks for putting this site together!! |
| Name: | ella fowler |
| E-mail address: | ellamsl@sbcglobal.net |
| Comments: | My grandfathe, C. Bivens was an early settler in Santa Anna, and my mother was born there in 1901. I have many memories of climbing the hill on my uncle's farm Otis Bivens, and looking for arrowheads. They are beautiful childhood memories. |
| Name: | Rhonda Rhoades |
| E-mail address: | rrhoades1@woh.rr.com |
| Comments: | Great idea & website. Actually my sister Cindy found it first and told me abo |