Freestone County, Texas
History


News of 1875



The Dallas Weekly Herald
March 6, 1875
Page: 1

HOUSE-
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  Mr. Manning of Freestone, who had yesterday voted for the subsitute moved 
to consider, which motion was carried by a vote of 41 to 35.

[same issue, same page]

  Pending the call, Mr. Manning, by consent, called up the senate bill 
incorporating the Fairfield, Hillsboro and Cleburne railroad company.  Passed
under suspension of the rules.
  
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The Dallas Weekly Herald
May 1, 1875
Page: 1

Texas in Brief 

  We have been in correspondence with a young lady at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 
whom we requested to seek out the graves of the confederate dead of Freestone,
who sleep in the cemetery at that place.  Accompanied by the sexton, she 
examined the portion occupied by the loved ones of company G, 7th Texas 
infantry, (Colonel Gregg's) who fell by the hand of disease, and although it 
will afford no consolation to the surviving friends to know that the simple
head boards, rudely written by the hand of a comrade, have rotted to the ground,
so that their names could not be discerned, yet it is a pleasure to revert to
revert in memory to their last resting place.
  No silver-mounted coffins enclose their dear remains, no costly robes enwrap
the cherished forms.  They were laid away in their uniform, which had been worn
through toilsome service, perhaps, but, oh! how honored by their noble deeds! 
No mausoleum grand may ever rise to mark the spot where they have fallen, but
their names are graven on the hearts of a grateful people, who fought so long 
and so gallantly in defense of the "Lost Cause" - Freestone Herald