Oletha, Texas
Oletha is an unincorporated community in Limestone County, Texas,[1] originally settled in the 1850s under the name Pottersville.[2][3][4] Texas State Highway 14 extends to Oletha via Farm to Market Road 1246.
Oletha was once described by a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as "an eye-blinker of a town in East Central Texas".[5] One notable person from Oletha is Gib Lewis, the first person to be elected five times as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.[5]
Another colorful native of the town was Forrest Gibson, a convicted murderer known as "Goodeye" because he "had lost an eye in a fight in which Gibson had bitten his opponent's ear off".[6]
References
- "Oletha". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
- PANUS, STEPHANIE A. (June 15, 2010). "OLETHA, TX". tshaonline.org.
- "Oletha, Texas - Updated November, 2019".
- Betty Dooley Awbrey, Claude Dooley, Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Historical Roadside Markers (2005), p. 510.
- Patrick L. Cox, Michael Phillips, The House Will Come To Order: How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics(2010), p. 136.
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice (2004), p. 33.
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