Memories of Ennis - Miss Katie’s hair ribbons

Few Ennis residents are left who remember Katie Daffan, once a famous literary figure in Texas during the early 1900s who lived her final years in Ennis. “Miss Katie,” as she was affectionately known, was born in Brenham but grew up in Ennis. She later moved to Austin and Houston where she spent the bulk of her most successful years. Daffan was not only an author and journalist — she was the first…