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Electa (Sawyer) Newton Sheltman, who came to the East Fork neighborhood with her husband, Jacob G. Sheltman, in 1855, was visited by friendly Indians.

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Drawings by Patrick J. Costello, who collected the artifacts on the Costello farm in the Lone Elm neighborhood in the 1940s. Tentative identifications based on A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians, by Ellen Sue Turner and Thomas R. Hester, 2nd edition (Houston: Gulf Publishing Co., 1993).

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*Information for this article has been gleaned mostly from Flook’s Forney Country, still on sale at the Spellman Museum in person or on-line.* Anthropologists suggest that “humans” have lived in the Forney area for as long as 12,000 years, and many call this the “Indian” (aboriginal) period of occupation. 12,000 B. C.

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