Part 2: Literary sisters from Wellington

In 1889, the Isbell family ventured to Collingsworth County from Mississippi and pitched a tent on the site where the current courthouse is located. The family met adversity after they relocated to Harris County when Judge J.M. Isbell, the first Judge of Collingsworth County, was shot and killed.A few years later, Newton Bonner, the father of Georgiana Isbell, the judge’s wife, met the same f...