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    Cuero (/ˈkwɛəroʊ/ KWAIR-oh) is a city in and the county seat of DeWitt County, Texas, United States. Its population was 8,128 at the 2020 census. The city...
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    county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 19,824. The county seat is Cuero. The county was founded in 1846 and...
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  • Jordan Whittington (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns. Whittington grew up in Cuero, Texas and attended Cuero High School where he lettered in football...
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    Roy Benavidez (category People from DeWitt County, Texas)
    Benavidez was born in Lindenau near Cuero, Texas, in DeWitt County. He is a descendant of the founders of Benavides, Texas, and was the son of a Mexican farmer...
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    Jo Morrow (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    Island and Doctor Death, she retired again in 1976. Morrow was born in Cuero, Texas. She won the 1958 Miss Pasadena (California) title and represented the...
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  • Trooper Taylor (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    primarily in the Southeastern and Big 12 conferences. Taylor grew up in Cuero, Texas, and was raised in a family of 16. He earned his bachelor's degree from...
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    Cuero, Texas, holds a turkey trot every November where hundreds of turkeys parade through the town (1912)....
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    The Cuero Commercial Historic District in Cuero, Texas is a 21-acre (8.5 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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  • Lewis Wade Jones (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    1910 – September 1979) was a sociologist and teacher. He was born in Cuero, Texas, the son of Wade E. and Lucynthia McDade Jones. A member of the Omega...
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    17 miles (27 km) to Hallettsville and southwest 16 miles (26 km) to Cuero. Texas State Highway 111 passes through the center of Yoakum, leading southeast...
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    Cuero High School is a public high school located in Cuero, Texas, United States and classified as a 4A school by the University Interscholastic League...
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    Leo Frank (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    mass aggression, hysteria, and prejudice. Leo Max Frank was born in Cuero, Texas on April 17, 1884, to Rudolph Frank and Rachel "Rae" Jacobs. The family...
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    John Wesley Hardin (category Deaths by firearm in Texas)
    1875, the leader of the Suttons, ex-Cuero, Texas, town marshal Reuben Brown was shot and killed by five men in Cuero along with a negro named Tom Freeman...
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    Cuero, Texas. It was built in 1890 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. National Register of Historic Places portal Texas portal...
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  • Huck resumed business after the war and opened branches in Cuero, Texas, and Victoria, Texas. The business suffered damage in the Gulf Coast hurricanes...
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  • Robert Strait (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    considered one of the best high-school football players in Texas history. While playing at Cuero High School from 1985 to 1988, Strait rushed for 8,411 yards...
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    Grace Episcopal Church is a historic church at 401 N. Esplanade in Cuero, Texas. It was built in 1889 and added to the National Register of Historic Places...
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    The October 1998 Texas Flooding was a flood event that occurred across parts of South Texas and Southeast Texas on the weekend of October 17 and October...
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  • Aurora Estrada Orozco (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    Austin before marrying Primitivo Orozco Vega in 1950. They moved to Cuero, Texas. She had six children and was active with her local Parent-Teacher Association...
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    Sutton–Taylor feud (category Feuds in Texas)
    Sutton-Taylor feud occurred two days later, in a July 18, 1873, gunfight in Cuero, Texas. Hardin killed DeWitt County Deputy Sheriff J.B. Morgan. Hardin played...
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    legend August 31, 2007 MSNBC Article of Similar Animals Found in 2007[dead link] August 12, 2008 sighting in Cuero, Texas caught on tape by local deputy....
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  • Barr McClellan (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    (class president, graduation speaker), then enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin where he won the O. Henry and William Jennings Bryan literary...
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  • Charles Howerton (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    Born Charles Cabaness Howerton III (1938-06-24) June 24, 1938 (age 86) Cuero, Texas, U.S. Occupation Actor Years active 1965–present Spouses Susan Howard...
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    Leonard Roy Harmon (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    warship, the USS Harmon (DE-678), named after him. Harmon was born in Cuero, Texas, on January 21, 1917. He attended the segregated all-black Daule High...
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    Cuero, Texas. It was built in 1886 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. National Register of Historic Places portal Texas portal...
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    Case Keenum (category People from Brownwood, Texas)
    in the game-winning drive for a 17–14 victory over Cuero High School of Cuero, Texas in the Texas Class 3A Division I Championship. Keenum earned varsity...
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    Mier expedition (category Texas border disputes)
    the Cuero Star, Cuero, Texas (1883) and present in the Valentine Bennet Scrapbook by Miles S. Bennet, Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin)...
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    Amy Eliza. Analysis of Twenty-Five Years of Heavy Rainfall Events in the Texas Hill Country. University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. pp. 74. Markowski,...
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    Chisholm Trail (category Historic trails and roads in Texas)
    visiting. The Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum Texas cowboy and Longhorn cattle drive history - Cuero, Texas On the Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum Chisholm...
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    Sam Neely (category People from Cuero, Texas)
    and performer. Born in Cuero, Texas, Neely began playing guitar at age ten. After moving with his family to Corpus Christi, Texas, he began playing in bands...
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