Family legacies and the state s Jim Crow past underlie a fight over mineral rights on a stretch of South Texas scrubland – The Gilmer Mirror gilmermirror.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gilmermirror.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Descendants of a prominent white family and a formerly enslaved couple are fighting over ownership — and the oil and gas royalties that would come with it — of an 147.5-acre tract that has bound and divided generations of their families.