Photograph of Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, TX. An intersection of dark paved roads occupies the bottom of the photo while a white car parks at the curb of a sidewalk running along the far side of the roads and around the edge of the courthouse. To the left of the sidewalk's corner is a yellow and red fire hydrant while to the right is a sign pointing to the right along with the text "One way". A person walks up the right half of the sidewalk towards the "One way" sign. The courthouse's yellow lawn is enclosed by a curb and is planted with short green bushes and two leafless trees that occupy the open corner of the lawn next to the sidewalk corner. In this part of the lawn, behind one of the trees, is a dark statue of a person standing on a tall white base with dark busts of other people above its bottom edge, one on each side of the base. Farther in the background, next to the second leafless tree, is a short stone slab with a dark rectangle, plus what may be an eagle motif, on its surface. The courthouse building itself is …

A transcript of a 1963 oral history with Martha Elizabeth Anglin (née Gibson), recalling her childhood in Alabama, her family's move to Texas in 1895, and her marriage and life on a farm in Commerce, Texas. Footnotes are provided to add context to the narrative.