George and Myra Wilson

Only about a year after meeting in 1880, George and Myra (Tuggle) Wilson married and helped transform their small town into a bustling city. George and his brother opened a brick plant and were hired to build prominent buildings including the City National Bank building, First Baptist Church, Cumby High School, Sulphur Springs City Hall, and the Freestone, Llano, and Titus County courthouses. Myra was a charter member of the Joseph Wheeler Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, served as president of the Ladies’ Cemetery Society for 43 years, and raised funding for a cemetery chapel. Both were involved with the public library. The Wilsons and others like them helped pave the way for cultural change in the once-frontier state of Texas.

Sulphur Springs, Texas · United States