Freestone County, Texas
History & News of 1922
Lynchings



San Francisco Call, Volume 111, Number 105, 8 May 1922, front page

Troops Rushed to Quell Uprising of Negroes in Texas By Associated Press

AUSTIN, Tex. May 8. —Governor Neff Today ordered two detachments of state rangers 
to be sent immediately to Fairfield, county seat of Freestone County, to prevent 
an uprising of negroes which Sheriff W. M. Mayo of Freestone County said was 
imminent. The sheriff said the negroes of the county are threatening to avenge 
the death of the three negroes who were burned at Kirvin Saturday morning. The 
situation in Freestone County is becoming critical, according to the information 
given Adjutant General Barton in a telephone message this afternoon from a deputy 
sheriff there. General Barton replied that a sufficient force of rangers to handle 
the situation is departing for Fairfield.