It Happened in Coppell: by Shaun Jex​

• A Community of Faith
• A Grand Celebration at Grapevine Springs
• A Labor of Love
• A Light in the Darkness
• A Visit from St. Nicholas
• An Executive Order
• Baptist in the Outfield
• Bonnie & Clyde
• Boy's Ranch Battles a "Blue Norther"
• Crush Davis and the Coppell Copperheads
• Death in the Sanctuary
• Eyes With Pride
• First Airplane Lands
• Hail to the Chief
• Huckster and Charlatans
• Jamestown - The City that Wasn't
• ​Little Girl Lost
• Medlin Kills Last Buffalo
• Old Soldiers Never Die
• Parrish Battles Polio
• Prater Makes "Firey" Jump From Dam
• Roughing It in the Public Library
• Santa Claus Comes to Town
• Some Gave All
• Stoney and the Money Belt
• The Adentures of Starman and Flasher
• The Bells of St. Ann
• The Church Pianist
• The Cowboy Mafia
• The Forgotten Champions
• The Henley Family Farm
• The Legend of Julia Bullock
• The Origins of the Carrollton Dam
• The Pinkerton Christmas Spectacular
• The Rodeo Comes To Town
• ​The Thanksgiving Fire of 1949
• The Tragedy of T. Bryan McGee
• The Trail of the Octopus
• The Troop Trains
• The Woodmen of the World

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Coppell has produced a wealth of personalities that could have leapt from the pages of a novel. The town's early days brought John and Sarah Stringfellow, who helped found the town's oldest church, and Josiah and John Record, a father-and-son duo who were victims of lynching. The coming of the Cottonbelt Railroad created the mystery of town namesake George Coppell. The town was home to farmers like domino-loving Buren Ledbetter and sharecropper W.A. Ottinger. It had its own "Floyd the Barber" (Floyd Harwell), as well as Jo Jackson, the librarian known to most as the "Bird Lady of Coppell." The town has produced a wealth of heroes like Carroll Kirkland, who was killed in World War II, and Jacob Schick, a decorated veteran of the Iraq War. It is also a town that has turned tragedy into triumph through stories like Todd and Tara Storch, who transformed the pain of their daughter Taylor's death into the life-giving charity Taylor's Gift. Together their stories tell the story of Coppell, a place that at its heart will always be a small town.

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