Lometa Bank receives historic plaque commemorating 1915 shootout
Historical commission member Tom Welch helps mount the plaque at the bank. mason hines | dispatch reacord
Mason hines | dispatch reacord Local historians gathered last week to present the commemorative plaque and mounted it at the Cadence Bank building in Lometa. Left to right are Boyce Cabaniss, Clydell Wallace, Janie Potts, Peggy Wolfe and Tom Welch.
Lometa’s Cadence Bank is now home to a new commemorative plaque provided by the Lampasas County Historical Commission. The plaque tells the events of a 1915 shootout at that location, which resulted in the death of J.J. Connell, famous for being a one-armed constable.
The assailant was F.W. Bader, who had been suspected of using a forged “chopper’s check” to pay workers at the local cedar yard.
