Vicki Richardson, the Bowie Co. TxGenWeb Coordinator, was kind enough to give us permission to post to our website a link to their wonderful 1991 newspaper article about the Bowie County Poorhouse. To gain a more comprehensive historical perspective on the poorhouse system, we would like to invite you to visit our website, The POORHOUSE STORY (a clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses) at http://www.poorhousestory.com To visit our site, just click on the link above, then click on POORHOUSES BY STATE, then on OTHER STATES, then on TEXAS on the table of states. If you scroll down the page to the section for Local Notes, you will see your entry highlighted with a yellow NEW arrow. (If you have visited the site recently, you will need to click REFRESH on your browser to see the new material.) Some pages where you might gain additional insight into what poorhouses were like include (off the homepage)the HISTORY page or the LETTER TO GENEALOGISTS. Our site will only grow with the information and suggestions sent to us by readers. So let's see the TEXAS page grow! Hope you enjoy the site. Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady)