Freestone County, Texas
History - 1800s


Dallas Morning News newspaper - Thursday, Feb 4, 1897 edition

Bitten by a Mad Dog 
Corsicana, Tex, Feb 3 
Monday afternoon, Mrs. Herring of Freestone County was in the city with her son
looking for a madstone to apply to a wound caused by a watchdog biting the
young man on the foot a few days previously.  They were referred to Dr. W. J.
W. Kerr, who has a madstone.  On application, the stone adhered to the wound
for 3 hours.