I learned today that Jim Durham of Clarksville worked in Winnsboro (about 50 miles south of Clarksville). I was told he was driving to work in the rain and a car hydroplaned and hit him. I have driven the road to Winnsboro maybe only twice in my life. The last times was 2 or 3 months ago just to take a different route on my way to work in Pittsburg that day. I recall the road from Mt. Vernon on to Winnsboro being a 2-lane highway with no shoulders and a lot of up and down hills. By the way, the other time I drove to Winnsboro was to go to a local drag strip out in a cow pasture, back about 1959. Donald Chesshir went with me the night before. We slept in my car that night until a policeman woke us up the next morning. It was my car so I had Donald sleep in front seat with the steering wheel and me in the back seat. I had a drag race with Billy Rex Tosh in his 1953 DeSoto against my 1954 Plymouth. There were no others cars for that low class, so we knew one of us would come home with a trophy. I must admit I was disappointed when Billy Rex beat me. I had beat him the couple of times we had drag raced on Hwy 37, just out of Clarksville. That was our most popular place for local drag races. From the Hub advertising sign to the red line painted 1/4 mile up the hwy. Billy Rex was from Winnsboro but his family had moved to Clarksville for operate the feed store on east Main near Harvey Brother's Tractor & Supply. Billy Rex now lives near Winnsboro on (near) Lake Bob Sandlin and I have visited him 2 or 3 times this past year. Billy Rex is fighting cancer. Jim Giddens Paris, Tx ----- Original Message ----- From: <CD141@aol.com> To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 12:07 AM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Clarksville paper > Can someone tell me if the Clarksville newspaper is a daily or a weekly paper > and if it is online. We have a friend who was killed there in an auto > accident Friday morning and we would like more info on it. I think the > visitation will be Monday night and the funeral Tuesday. His name was Jim > Durham -- does anyone on the list know him? > Thanks for any and all info. > > Carol (Hamm) Harris > Longview, Gregg Co, TX > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >