Freestone County, Texas
History



News of 1891



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Dallas Morning News 
Jan. 19, 1891 edition
Page 6 [right side, middle]

A Rather Quiet Week 

Mexia

Capt. Peck and family of Fairfield were in the city last Sunday.

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The Fort Worth Gazette newspaper (of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas)
April 1891 newspapers with news about Freestone County.


April 2, 1891 edition

ALTAR AND TOMB column
"Mr. Joseph I. Hendricks and Mrs. Nettie Sterling, Fairfield, March 15."

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April 20, 1891 edition

"Fairfield, April 17,  The Baptist church has been completed and services held
several times, yet the church had not been dedicated: but will be as soon as
all indebtedness is paid off."

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Dallas Morning News 
May 9, 1891 edition

Overdose of Laudanum

  MEXIA, Tex., May 8 - B. L. H. Lindsey, an old and highly rspected citizen of
Freestone county, who lives at Brewer Prairie twelve miles southeast of here,
took an ounce and a half of laudanum this morning and is now in a dying 
condition.  His mind has been affected for some time.

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Fort Worth Gazette
May 30, 1891

Rabid Dogs at Fairfield. 

Correspondence of the Gazette

  FAIRFIELD, Tex., May 26 - A rabid dog was killed in town about three miles... 
[original is very hard to read]  
  
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Dallas Morning News 
June 17, 1891 edition
Page: 6

Accidentally Killed 

  FAIRFIELD, Freestone Co., Tex., June 14.  -- About midnight a colored woman 
shot herself with a pistol, from the effects of which she died in a few hours.
In her dying statement she relates that she and a visitor of the other sex were
handling his pistol, when she accidentally dropped  it on the floor, causing it
to fire and shoot her through the body.  She stoutly refused to give the name
of the unknown party.  Her sister was in the same room with her, but claims to
have been asleep and knew nothing of the matter till she was awakened by the
cries of the wounded woman and the other part and the pistol had disappeared.

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Dallas Morning News
September 13, 1891

Died from His Injuries

  FAIRFIELD, Tex., Sept. 11 - S. J. Howell, living about eighteen miles from 
town, was caught in a gin on last Wednesday and so badly injured that he died 
in a few hours.

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Dallas Morning News
December 26, 1891

Civic Officers Elect

Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., Dec. 23 - 
  The Fairfield lodge K. of H., No. 2406, has elected the following officers for
the ensuing year:  Tom Drumwright, dictator; R. N. Compton, vice dictator; D. P.
Winfree, assistant dictator; L. G. Sandifer, treasurer; J. D. Childs, reporter;
T. J. Sims, financial reporter; Dr. W. M. Griffith, chaplain; S. V.  Mosely,
guide; J. J. Cullison, guardian; D. V. Carroll, sentinel; Dr. W. N. Sneed, 
medical examiner; R. N. Compton, W. N. Sneed and J. J. Cullison, trustees.