Freestone County, Texas History News of 1893 ================================================================== Dallas Morning News January 6, 1893 Burned to Death WORTHAM, Freestone Co., Tex., Jan 4 - [To The News] - Last night at the residence of Mr. J. C. Oliver, having about four miles from this place, after all the inmates of the house had retired, Mr. Oliver's mother got out of bed, went out in the yard, saturated her clothing with kerosene oil and set fire to them. She was terribly burned from the effects of which she died to-day. C. J. TURNER ================================================================== Dallas Morning News January 30, 1893 Miss Fanny Anderson of Fairfield, who ???ated her cousin, Miss Della Walker, has returned home. ================================================================== [This is William Hemphill McCreary.] Dallas Morning News February 7, 1893 Mortuary W. H. McCreary MEXIA, Tex., Feb. 6 - W. H. McCreary of Steward's mill, Freestone county, died suddenly Saturday while on his way home from Fairfield. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News February 11, 1893 The State Press What the Papers Throughout Texas Are Talking About The Fairfield Reporter says: It is said that Texas now has the best batch of church-going legislature that ever assembled in Austin. ================================================================== [This is William Archibald Huckaby Jr.] Dallas Morning News February 13, 1893 CEDAR FOR SALE - A fine body of cedar to be sold by March 15, 1893. For particulars apply to W. A. HUCKABY Fairfield, Tex. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News February 27, 1893 Page: 4 MORTUARY Jas. Dunn WORTHAM, Freestone Co., Tex., Feb. 26 - Mr. Jas. Dunn, aged 79 years, died to-day. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News March 5, 1893 Convictions at Fairfield Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tex., March 3 - The February term of the district court, after being in session four weeks, adjourned yesterday. The criminal docket was light. Levi Dames, colored, charged with arson, was given ten years in the pententiary. John Austin, charged with stealing a bale of cotton, was given three years in the pententiary. Will Moore, charged with stealing a bale of cotton was given two years in the pententiary. District Judge Hardy left this morning for his home in Corsicana. District Attorney Kimball left this morning for his home in Groesbeck. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News March 16, 1893 State Brevities Fairfield, Freestone county - J. S. Smith, wanted in Titus county, arrested and jailed. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News April 8, 1893 State Brevities Fairfield, Freestone county - No decrease in cotton acreage. It may change acreage will be larger. Grain doing well. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News June 2, 1893 N. C. Irwin turned the Commerical hotel over to Mr. Anderson of Fairfield to- day. Mr. Irwin will go to Demson. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News July 6, 1893 Confederate Veterans The Reunion at Birmingham, Ala., Postponed to Sept. 15 and 16. Headquarters Southeast Texas Division of the United Confederate Veterans, Fairfield, Tex., July 3 - Special order No. 15: The confederate veterans of this division are notified that owing to the distressed financial conditions and for other reasons deemed sufficient, Gen. John B. Gordon, commanding, has issued an order postponing to Sept. 15 and 16 the Birmingham general reunion that was to have been held July 19 and 20. All committees and all arrangements as to transportation, including Gen. Underwood's excursion to Chicago, stand as heretofore, the only change being as to date of meeting. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News July 22, 1893 Weather and Crops Fairfield, Freestone Co. - Good rain, crops greatly improved. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News July 23, 1893 Weather and Crops Fairfield, Freestone Co. - Good general rain, greatly benefiting crops. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News September 8, 1893 Weather and Crops Fairfield, Freestone Co. - The gathering of the cotton crop has sufficiently dvanced to show that the yield will fall far short of last year. Some estimate the crop at 50 per-cent and some at 50, but it may go a little above that with a late fall. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News September 14, 1893 Weather and Crops Fairfield, Freestone Co. - The cotton crop is unusually short in this county. Most of those who are able to do so will hold their cotton, hoping for better prices. The corn crop is also very light. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News September 27, 1893 Taken to Fairfield CORSICANA, Navarro Co., Tex., Sept 26 - Frank Ross, the negro brought here from Wortham yesterday charged with assaulting a young white woman, was taken through the country this morning to Fairfield, where he will be tried. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News September 29, 1893 Fairfield, Freestone Co. - Good six hours rain Monday. Cotton was injured but little. It was the first rain for nearly two months. ================================================================== Dallas Morning News November 7, 1893 Shot by a Negro WORTHAM, Freestone Co., Tex., Nov. 6 - This afternoon Oscar Golden, a white man, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by a negro. ================================================================== [The original is heavily faded on the right side of the column] Dallas Morning News November 8, 1893 Fairfield Full of Life A County Where Land Is Cheap and First-class FAIRFIELD, Freestone Co., Tex., Nov. 4 - The town, though off the railroad, aims to be a boom just now. We have had three ?????? business houses opened up within the last ????? prospects for more in the near ????? not a vacant dwelling home in town with ??? tracts ??? for some new ones and ????? demand. Freestone county has the best average ??? this year of any county in this ????? state. It has thousands of acres of ... ================================================================== Dallas Morning News December 16, 1893 Political DAVIS AT FARIFIELD FAIRFIELD, Freestone Co., Tex., Dec. 13 - Cyclone Davis spoke to about twenty populists, the same number of democrats and a few negroes at the courthouse here today. In his speech he used eight or ten ancient volumes of the Congressional Record in an attempt to prove that the populists' theory of government concerning natinal banks, alien ownership of land, etc., is identical with that of Thomas Jefferson.