Mexia, TX History Finds

Another moving picture gem on YouTube is the SoRelle family's home movies. It appears they hit it big in Mexia and then moved on from there (later sections have them in Louisana and Fort Worth.) But what a childhood, playing nurse on the front lawn, a treehouse in the shape of an oil rig, tea parties, guns, puppies, dolls, books, roller skates, Easter egg hunting, baseball, and a pony!

A few rare moving pictures made in Mexia in the 1920s were preserved long enough to be coverted to some other media that had survived into the age of YouTube. The Ellis/Henson Families in Mexia is a clip of a much longer film that may or may not still exist. The first minute is the Henson family in May 1926, with a few shots of their street Minute 1:00 - 3:28 is even more rare, as it was shot indoors, and is entitled Kindergarten Play: The King and Queen, with John Sanders as king and Christine Bond as queen   (the children in the play would be nearly 100 years old now) At 3:29 the title card is of Jim Threatt, the manager of the Mexia Country Club.  at 3:42 another family appears in the frames, not titled, perhaps the Ellis family? At 5:08 we move out to the oil fields and I can't quite work out the full name on the rig. Anyone? W.B. S...ser? et al The remainder of t...