Freestone County, Texas
History & News of 1860


Daily National Democrat (of Marysville, CA), 2 September 1860, Page 3

Three White Men and a Negro Hung.— The Fairfield (Texas) Pioneer extra of Aug. 
7th, has the following: Mr Teague, a printer in our office, has just arrived from 
Tennessee Colony, Anderson county, and brings the news that he witnessed the 
hanging of two white men in that place on Sunday the 6th of August, who were 
proven to be guilty of inciting insurrection among the slaves of that 
neighborhood. Their names were Antney Wyrick and his cousin, Alford Cable. They 
were engaged near the Colony at their trades of wagon making and blacksmithing, 
where they have been living for three or four years. Wyrick had been previously 
taken up for harboring and selling liquor to negroes. Negroes were found in 
possession of firearms and strychnine, furnished by these men. They were taken 
up and severely whipped, and made to divulge much in relation to the 
insurrectionary movements. Other white men are implicated, and their cases will 
be investigated and attended to as soon as practicable.