Texas History
by Bartee Haile
“White Lightning” climbed to the top of the country music chart on May 10, 1959 giving George Jones the first of ten Number One hits in a phenomenal career that spanned six decades.
George Glenn Jones was born in 1931 on the southern edge of the Big Thicket at a wide spot in the road called Saratoga. He would grow up in an even smaller community, Colmesneil in Tyler County north of Woodville, with his brother and five sisters.
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