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Lockney is located in northwestern Floyd County at (34.122961, –101.443414 U.S. Route 70 passes through the town, leading southeast 12 miles (19 km) to Floydada, the county seat, and northwest 16 miles (26 km) to Plainview.
He was born in Lockney, Texas, where he was the eldest surviving child of a large farm family. He won a scholarship to attend Rice University , earning a BA with honors in 1926. He completed his graduate studies at the same institution, earning an MA in 1927 and being awarded his PhD in 1931.
Floyd County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,402. [1] The seat of the county is Floydada. [2] The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1890. [3]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1960 and 1964. During this period 29 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [1] [2] Joseph Johnson became the last person in Texas to be executed by the electric chair on July 30, 1964. [3]
Baker was born on March 12, 1912, in Lockney, Texas, [1] to France Baker and Lea Maud Watson. [1] He moved to Lubbock in 1919. [2] He graduated from Lubbock High School, and attended Texas Tech for three years, studying Business Administration. [2] In 1931, he began his business career working in the printing, office supply, and sporting goods ...
A number of states collect some form of death data from all their jails. In others, the reporting process is far from comprehensive. Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population.
The South Texas Historical Association is a regional organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of South Texas.It was founded in 1954 "to encourage the organization and to aid in the development of local historical societies and to discover, collect, preserve, and publish historical records and data relating to South Texas, and with special emphasis on the Tamaulipan background ...
All of the 248 people (246 males and 2 females) during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. [1] [2] The count is the most of any decade in Texas history, surpassing the 166 executions from the previous decade (1990–1999).