Deep Roots in the Tall Pines: A History of Southeast Polk County, Texas
Norma Hammond McLoughlin grew up in Polk County, Texas,  and graduated from Big Sandy High School.  She received her RN degree from Scott and White Memorial Hospital School of   Nursing in Temple, Texas, and worked as a school nurse in a private school in New Orleans before returning to Texas to retire.  She also wrote Camp Ruby...A Place in Time, Sawdust Memories (a history of Camden),  Footsteps in the Sands of Time (a history of the Hammond family), Leggett Texas....Its history and People, and A Nursing School Diary.