Arkansas isn’t the only state with a link to the Jot 'Em Down Store, made famous by the Lum and Abner radio show in the l930s and 1940s. A small town in Delta County, Texas, was once known as Jot ’Em Down.
 

Pee Dee, a community which once stood in Madison County, was named for a Georgia family, Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Pee Dee, who settled there around 1830. The name also belongs to the Pee Dee Indians of South
Carolina.
 

Yallo Busha, a community in Camp County, is an old Indian word
meaning “Beautiful Stream.” Only Yallo Busha Cemetery remains in the
community.
 

Fort Teran, a vanished fort community on the Neches River in Tyler
County, was named for General Manuel de Mier y Teran, a friend of Peter
Ellis Bean, who built the fort.
 

Buena Vista, an settlement in Shelby County, was originally called
Buck Snort, supposed for a deer who snorted at an old woman. The town
was later named for Buena Vista, a town in Mexico where a townsman had
fought a battle.  The name means “a beautiful view.”
 

Barnum, a sawmill ghost town in Polk County, was supposedly named for
circus man P.T. Barnum by the town’s builder, W.T. Carter. Another
story says the town got its name from a Carter friend who also owned a
sawmill.
 

Ninevah. in Leon County, was named for the Biblical city. The
community was known for its gunfights, fist fights and political feuds.
 

Palmetto, a forgotten town in San Jacinto County, was named for the
Palmetto Lumber Company, which operated a sawmill there. Only a
cemetery remains in the community.

 

(Excerpted from “The Forgotten Towns of East Texas, Volume I,” by Bob & Doris Bowman)