Pictorial review of the city of Paris and Lamar county, Texas .. . s, and having no persona]»rest in, or former acquaintance with, the city of Paris, there IV PREFACE. can be no possible reason why the writers should stoop to ex-aggeration or untruth. Errors and impenections, however, have, no doubt, enteredinto the work, but they may be charged, in a degree, to thesource from whence much of the data, concerning the earlieievents, were obtained, for in many instances the verbal statementsof early settlers (whose memory may not have served themfaithfully, in every particular,) was often the onl
Pictorial review of the city of Paris and Lamar county, Texas .. . s, and having no persona]»rest in, or former acquaintance with, the city of Paris, there IV PREFACE. can be no possible reason why the writers should stoop to ex-aggeration or untruth. Errors and impenections, however, have, no doubt, enteredinto the work, but they may be charged, in a degree, to thesource from whence much of the data, concerning the earlieievents, were obtained, for in many instances the verbal statementsof early settlers (whose memory may not have served themfaithfully, in every particular,) was often the only medium oinformation, owing to the destruction of a large portion of thewritten records of the city and county, prior to 1877, in thegreat fire of that year. In various ways, however, most 0the verbal statements have been substantiated, and it is there-fore believed and hoped that the inaccuracies are few and ominor import, and that they may be more than counterbalancedby whatever of good may result from the careful research ancearnest endeavors of THE AUTHORS. PARIS AND LAMAR COUNTY.
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