November 13, 2015 - In the 1920s through the 1950s, Timpson had an annual Memorial Day program that was attended by thousands of people from the surrounding counties of Deep East Texas. Most years there would be over 5,000 people in SoSo Park for this event. The reason for Timpson being the center of this activity was the fact that Timpson had a military unit here. At first it was the Texas Volunteer Guard and then later became the Texas National Guard. Many young men from the surrounding counties who joined these units came to Timpson to do their training.