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The history of Egypt dates as far back as the 1800s. That's old—for Texas.
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009, 12:27 am
shari tinsley says:
I was born in Nacogcoches, Texas (home of Stephen F Austin college) I went home in 2005 (the yr of Katrina)to show my dtr, my birth place (Nac), we travelled to New Orleans and ran into Katrina fortunately, we got out in time. My mother, her sister and brother were raised in Egypt, Texas. I visited Egypt Texas in the seventies, I wanted to take my dtr, but time got away from us after Katrina. My mother’s grandparents were settled in Egypt, He was a hartsfield, I don’t know my grt grandmother’s last name. I remember going to my grandmodther’s sister funeral who they called sister Minnie’s n out there in 1971 or 1972 (her children were Tutt’s. I went to my grt grandfather’s brother’s funeral out there, his name was Henry Hartfsfield back in 1972, I believe. He was 105 yrs old when he died. The graveyard was right outside the church. Aunt Jane, (uncle Henry’s wife was still living and still cooked in the fireplace in the living room. They had a shotgun house and the bathroom was in the chicken yard. my grt grdfthr& his bro’s married sisters in Egypt. I have been told every Hartsfield in east Texas is related and found out the hard way also. Every so often I have to touch and see that red clay dirt., In 2005 when I went home, it was amazing to me how things had changed. The old Piggly Wiggly bldg was still there on Shawnee&Main. The green highways coming in from Rusk, Marshall via interstate 20. Highway 59, boy oh boy. I must go to Egypt again to capture it’s authenticy. Thank you for sharing your visit, I can not wait to go again. I want to research the Hartsfield history as much as I can.
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