ROLL CALL OF TEXAS HEROES – ERASTUS (DEAF) SMITH (1787-1837)
When I was a boy growing up in the Texas Panhandle, Hereford was known nationally as “the town without a toothache” due to the nearly perfect natural fluoridation of the water supply. The fact that it was the county seat of Deaf Smith county was not of general interest. All we school kids knew of…