Thanks to a friend of this column, Margie Callum, I’m sharing with you this week, an early history of Ennis as recorded in a little volume called The Ellis County Illustrated Annual for 1881, published in 1880 by the Ennis Saturday Review, one of the city’s earliest newspapers.
The publisher was S. M. Carleton and the editor was S. H. Sayer. Today’s article consists of an excerpt from the book conc…
