Posted By:	Tom Vaughn
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	Subject:	Re: T F Cogburn
	Post Date:	July 27, 2003 at 21:25:04
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	Forum:	Rusk County, TX Genealogy Forum
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You may find the following information about Athens, Tx from "The Handbook of Texas Online" to be of interest. It mentions a Levi S. Cogburn, potter, 1857. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/hea5.html ...The early years witnessed a pottery (Levi S. Cogburn, 1857), a brick plant (H. M. Morrison, 1882), a cotton gin, a cottonseed oil mill, a compress, a newspaper (1873), the arrival of the Cotton Belt (1880) and Texas and New Orleans (1900) railroads, a bank (1887), and a telephone company (1901).