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    Mexia (/məˈheɪə/ mə-HAY-ə) is a city in Limestone County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,893 at the 2020 census. The city's motto, based on...
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  • Mexia High School is a public high school in Mexia, Texas, United States. It is part of the Mexia Independent School District and classified as a 4A school...
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    Anna Nicole Smith (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    1967, in Houston, Texas, the only daughter of Virgie Arthur (née Tabers), (1951–2018) and Donald Hogan (1947–2009). Smith attended Mexia High School, but...
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    Association "Mexia, Texas". Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC. Retrieved May 1, 2010. Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC. "Camp Mexia". Guðmundur...
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    Allen Stanford (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    rejected in October 2015. Stanford grew up in Mexia, Texas. His father, James Stanford (1927–2021), was mayor of Mexia and a member of the Board of Directors...
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    José Antonio Mexía Hernández (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse anˈtonjo meˈxi.a eɾˈnandes]; c. 31 December 1800 – 3 May 1839) was a 19th-century Mexican...
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  • Braxton Harris (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    Harris attended Mexia High School where he was an all-district quarterback and led his team to the regional semifinals as a junior. At Mexia, he played under...
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  • KEKR (category Radio stations in Waco, Texas)
    translator, broadcasting a classic country radio format. Licensed to Mexia, Texas, the station serves the Waco metropolitan area. The station is currently...
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    Quentin Durward Corley (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    Corley, Sr. (January 21, 1884 - April 22, 1980) was a Texas circuit judge. He was born in Mexia, Texas on January 21, 1884, to Daniel Jacob Corley (1852–1948)...
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  • Cindy Walker (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame in March 2011. Cindy Walker was born on July 20, 1917, on her grandparents' farm near Mart, Texas (near Mexia...
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  • Ray Rhodes (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    assistant for the Cleveland Browns. Born and raised in Mexia, Texas, Rhodes graduated from Mexia High School in 1969, and was a letterman in football,...
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    Kelvin Beachum (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    June 8, 1989 (age 35) Mexia, Texas, U.S. Height: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Weight: 308 lb (140 kg) Career information High school: Mexia (TX) College: SMU NFL...
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  • Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company (HOWCO) was prospering from the Mexia, Texas oil boom, having cemented its 500th well in late summer. In 1924, the...
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  • Les Baxter (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    information Birth name Leslie Thompson Baxter Born (1922-03-14)March 14, 1922 Mexia, Texas, U.S. Died January 15, 1996(1996-01-15) (aged 73) Newport Beach, California...
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    Michael Brown (writer) (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    lyricist, writer, director, producer, and performer. He was born in Mexia, Texas. His musical career began in New York cabaret, performing first at Le...
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    community: Brownsville) Knox (Largest city: Munday) Limestone (Largest city: Mexia) Stonewall (Largest city: Aspermont) Trinity (Largest city: Trinity) Jefferson...
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    Tex-Mex (category Texan cuisine)
    of Tex-Mex". HISTORY. Retrieved 4 October 2019. "Tex-Mex". Mexia Evening News. Mexia, Texas. 23 May 1922. Oxford English Dictionary entry for Tex-Mex:...
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  • The Mexia Gassers were a minor league baseball franchise based in Mexia, Texas. From 1915 to 1917, the Gassers played exclusively as members of the Class...
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    Alfonso Steele (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    the floor of the Texas Senate. Two years later, on July 8, 1911, he died aged 94. He is buried in the Mexia City Cemetery in Mexia. Upon his death, William...
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  • KBHT (category Radio stations in Waco, Texas)
    west of Mexia, Texas. The station was assigned the call sign KYCX on February 28, 1983, and was originally licensed to serve Mexia, Texas. Branded as...
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  • Justin Ford Kimball (category Businesspeople from Texas)
    Mexia, Texas, then Navasota, Texas, where he found jobs as a teacher until 1895, when he became principal in the small school system of Temple, Texas...
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  • The Mexia News is an afternoon newspaper published in Mexia, Texas. In January 2009 it changed its name from The Mexia Daily News and converted its publication...
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  • Bill Crider (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    North Texas, in Denton. Later, he taught English at Howard Payne University for twelve years, before earning a Ph.D. degree at the University of Texas at...
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    State Park is a state park near the City of Mexia in Limestone County, Texas, United States. The city of Mexia and three local landowners donated the land...
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    Rutersville, Texas, Robert S. Munger invented additional system ginning techniques. Robert and his wife, Mary Collett, later moved to Mexia, Texas, built a...
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    (16 km) to Fairfield, the county seat, and northwest 13 miles (21 km) to Mexia. Texas State Highway 179 (Main Street) leads east 9 miles (14 km) to Dew. According...
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  • Lee Wilder Thomas (category People from Mexia, Texas)
    business and oil man. L.W. Thomas was among the lucky land owners in the Mexia, Texas, oil field. In the early 1930s, he partnered with Jake Simmons, Jr.,...
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  • capital Mexia, Alabama, unincorporated community in Monroe County, southern Alabama, U.S. Mexia, town in limestone County, central Texas, U.S. Mexia High...
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  • Diedrick Brackens (category Textile artists from Texas)
    Diedrick Brackens (born 1989 in Mexia, Texas; lives and works in Los Angeles) is an American artist and weaver. Brackens is well known for his woven tapestries...
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    Texas is a state located in the Southern United States. As of the 2020 census, 29,145,505 (95.55%) of the 30,503,301 residents of Texas lived in a municipality...
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