May 23, 2022 - It's not often that a talk on vegetable gardening leads to a discussion of political and economic headlines but that is what happened when Timpson's Ronnie Wolfe spoke to the May 18th meeting of the Timpson Area Genealogical and Heritage Society.

January 31, 2022 - Most people know what share-cropping was but few can talk about it from personal experience anymore. Former Timpson City Councilman and high school teacher Ronnie Wolfe can, though.

October 24, 2021 - Though he has never been a resident of Shelby County, Timpson Area Genealogical and Heritage Society member Charles Johnson's family has deep roots here, having arrived before 1850, and he has been researching county history for years. An event of particular interest to Johnson is the lynching of Joe Shields in 1892. “I first became really interested in the Shields case because in my genealogical research, I kept coming across mention of my second great-grandfather, Jesse Harris, being in jail in Center, charged with this lynching.”

August 23, 2021 - It isn't clear whether the Williams family or statehood came to Texas first, but both occurred in 1845. Speaking at the August monthly meeting of the Timpson Area Genealogy and Heritage Society, Tommy Lee Williams, a 1965 graduate of Timpson High School, related how his family came to Texas and their long history in Shelby County.

June 21, 2021 - Published author and San Augustine resident Neal Murphy spoke to the Timpson Area Genealogical and Heritage Society at their June monthly meeting last Wednesday about the historic 1919 San Augustine County Jail Museum. “I'm one of two docents at the museum and I work there three days a week. We give guided tours and I always ask visitors to sign our guest registry.