Tales from Toadsuck Texas

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Humor and trivia author Bill Cannon discovered there really was a Toadsuck, Texas, and he has collected a series of delightfully funny stories about folks he imagined might have lived in a town with such a comical name. Although most are fictional, there are also some true stories associated with this small town and its native son William (Alfalfa Bill) Murray that are as amusing as the made-up ones. Originally called Toadsuck Saloon, according to the Grayson County Genealogical Society, the town later became part of Collinsville. Settlers arrived in the area in the late 1850s. In 1869 a town site was surveyed near the Toadsuck Saloon, and the town took the name. It may have been named by early settler John Jones, after the city of Toad Suck, Arkansas. Bill interviewed former patrons of Opal's Kurl Up and Dye Beauty Salon and the Toadsuck Domino Parlor and based these tales on what they remembered about the folks of rural Texas when life was less complicated.