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The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 The First Waco Horror:The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP Clive Weldon Timmons, my paternal grandfather, was born on November 11, 1906 in Prairie Hill, Limestone County, Texas. His parents, Joseph and Elizabeth Timmons, hailed from Georgia—not too […]https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/about-the-texas-observer.jpg740402