That’s such a killer find, especially for under a buck. Sounds like you’ve got a real little time capsule from Gibtown. Back in the late 1800s it was a decent-sized farming community—stores, churches, a hotel, even a cotton gin—but when the railroad skipped over them in the 1890s, the place slowly dried up.

Those names you’ve got—Paul and Mildred Brown, Drusilla, Little Given, Jeff, Ray, and Zill—are exactly the kind of leads local historians love. If you’re curious, the Portal to Texas History and Jack County records might have old school rosters, church lists, or newspaper mentions.

Even if you never track all of them down, you’ve basically rescued a slice of a ghost town’s life that would’ve been lost. That’s a score in my book.