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- Texan-born actress Charlotte Walker was the daughter of a wealthy cotton broker, who died when she was eleven. With her siblings she went on to live at a ranch owned by her mother's even more affluent family. In her mid-teens, Charlotte studied drama at Fort Edwards Collegiate Institute. She performed on the Broadway stage from 1901 and in silent pictures with the Lasky Organisation from 1915, subsequently working for Thanhouser from 1917 to 1919. Charlotte was considered a versatile actress, skilled in both comedy and dramatic parts. She was also exquisitely beautiful, and, though already well into middle age, able to command leading roles in several high profile productions. Her second marriage (1910-1930) was to the prolific Broadway playwright Eugene Walter and one of her biggest successes was a starring role in his 1913 stage dramatisation and subsequent cinematic version of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916), produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Her status began to decline with the advent of sound pictures. Indifferent reviews included a performance in Three Faces East (1930), described as overly 'theatrical' by the New York Times. Relegated to small supporting roles in several forgettable B-grade pictures, Charlotte retired from acting in 1941. She died in 1958 in her home state at the age of 81.
- Howard Negley was born on 16 April 1898 in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Kansas City Confidential (1952), The Trap (1946) and Canon City (1948). He was married to Lydia I Powell. He died on 7 November 1983 in Kerrville, Texas, USA.
- Larry Roquemore was born on 29 March 1938 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for West Side Story (1961). He was married to Betty. He died on 25 October 2016 in Kerrville, Texas, USA.
- Jesse Edward Grinstead was born on 16 October, 1866, at Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of William Grinstead (1825-1900) and Elizabeth Miranda Priest (1833-1940). His father had been a farmer in Missouri before returning to his home state of Kentucky during the American Civil War. At the time of his mother's death (at the age of 107) she was thought to have been the oldest woman in America.
Long before Jesse was born, his father had worked as a guard for Lt. John James Abert (1788 - 1863), of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers, during his survey of the American Southwest, made nine trips across the American Plains as a wagon-master to New Mexico and California, prospected for gold in California's Sacramento Valley, walked from San Juan del Sur on the Pacific Coast to Lake Nicaragua, transported supplies to the army under the command of Gen. Albert S. Johnston's (1803-1862) while they were stationed at Salt Lake City during the Utah War (1857-58) and conveyed the first threshing machine to Ft. Bridger in the Wyoming Territory
In the late 1860s Jesse's family relocated to Pettis County, Missouri, where his father had farmed before the outbreak of the Civil War. Around 1880 his family moved to Oakland, Indian Territory (now Marshall County, Oklahoma). Later when his family once again decided move on, this time to Texas, Jesse chose to stay behind. For the next few years he supported himself by building cabins, hauling logs, branding cattle, digging wells and even washing clothes. Eventually he found full time employment as a printer for a newspaper in the nearby town of Ardmore. Before devoting his energy fulltime to the newspaper business he had considered practicing law. A learned judge helped make up his mind when he told him: "Young man I think you are ruining a fairly good newspaperman by trying to be a damned poor lawyer".
In 1893 Jesse founded the Oakland News, a few years later he became owner and editor of the Mountain Sun in Kerrville, Texas. In 1903 Jesse was elected mayor of Kerrville and four years later as their representative in the state legislature. While serving in the legislature he was instrumental in the creation of the State Tubercular Sanatorium in Carlsbad.
Jesse's first wife died shortly after their move to Kerrville. The couple had two boys, Grady H. (1894-1874) and Doyle E. (1897-1951). Within a year he married Gertrude Wright (1868-1946), a widow who operated a boarding house in Kerrville. A daughter, Bessie G. (1903-1958) and two sons, Jesse H. (1901-1942) and Pam (1905-1974), soon followed.
After retiring from the newspaper business in 1917, Jesse began writing Western fiction. Of the some 30 novels, approximately 50 short stories and numerous articles he penned, "The Hill Country" (1923), "The Scourge of the Little C" (1925), "Master Squatter" (1927), "When Texans Ride" (1938), "Flaming Guns" (1938), "Round-Up At Tiger Gap" (1940), "The Flying Y Brand" (1940) and "Feud at Twin Mountain" (1942) were among his most popular. He was a frequent contributor to such popular magazines as Big-Book Western Magazine, Thrilling Ranch Stories and Western Romances. Jesse had also published works under the pseudonyms, Tex Janis, William Crump Rush and George Bowles. In 1921 he began publishing Grinstead's Graphic, a monthly magazine that expressed through his writings and poetry his thoughts, reflections and views about the area of Texas that he called the "Hill Country" (West of Austin and Northwest of San Antonio).
Jesse Edwards Grinstead passed away on 8 March, 1948 at Kerrville after an eight month illness. - Vinegar Bend Mizell was born on 13 August 1930 in Vinegar Bend, Washington County, Alabama, USA. He died on 21 February 1999 in Kerrville, Texas, USA.
- Tony Lorick was born on 25 May 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Number One (1969), The NFL on CBS (1956) and 1964 NFL Championship Game (1964). He died on 17 February 2013 in Kerrville, Texas, USA.
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Billy Joe Walker Jr. was born in 1953 in Midland, Texas, USA. He is known for Rock-A-Doodle (1991). He died on 25 July 2017 in Kerrville, Texas, USA.