Freestone County, Texas History News of 1891 ============================================= 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. ============================================= The Fairfield Recorder - Friday, January 30, 1891 Page: 3 See notice elsewhere of J. M. Hammett, Administrator of the estate of Capt. T. P. Whitt, deceased. --------------------- Administrator's Notice To whom it may concern: Know ye that the January term of the County Court of Freestone county, I was duly and legally appointed administrator of the estate of T. P. Whitt, deceased. All persons holding claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to me for settlement within the time prescribed by law. My Postoffice address is Oakwoods, Texas. J M. Hammett, Adm'r. ============================================= The Fairfield Recorder - Friday, February 20, 1891 Page: 3 Administrator's Notice To whom it may concern: Know ye that the January term of the County Court of Freestone county, I was duly and legally appointed administrator of the estate of T. P. Whitt, deceased. All persons holding claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to me for settlement within the time prescribed by law. My Postoffice address is Oakwoods, Texas. J M. Hammett, Adm'r. ============================================= The Fairfield Recorder - Friday, March 13, 1891 Page: 2 A Card of Thanks To Mr. Pat Martin ... Your Friends, W. L. Edwards Ernest Franklin R. P. Satterwhite Johnnie Lane W. C. Lane N. B. Franklin C. C. Whitt C. C. Cornwell Tobe O'Neal R. R. O'Neal G. W. Nesbitt ============================================= 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." -------------------------------------------- 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." ================================================ 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. ================================================ 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] ================================================ 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. ============================================= Fort Worth Gazette August 22, 1891 Stabbing Affray at Fairfield FAIRFIELD, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEX., Aug. 19 - A serious cutting affray occurred in Fairfield last night about 10 o'clock which it is thought will prove fatal. Jack Dies, a youth, a typo of the Fairfield Recorder, was stabbed by a negro man, the wound being made below the shoulder blade to the right of the backbone, penetrating the right lung. As near as your correspondent can learn, the following are the particulars: Several boys about town have been visiting at night a negro woman of bad repute, and last night Jack Dies, Jim Dunagan and Willis Newman, all youths, visited the woman, it is said by the sanction of the woman's reputed husband. When the boys started to leave they refused to pay the man (who was the door-keeper.) This infuriated the negro, and the boys ran and the negro gave them hot pursuit. Jim Dunagan escaped by taking a side street, and Jack Dies and Willis Newman hid and the negro passed them. They then started down the street and met the negro, who attacked them. Willis Newman stood him off by presenting a pistol and telling him he would kill him if he came nearer. The negro then attacked Jack Dies, with the above result. The negro gave himself up to Sheriff Childs and is now in jail. He is under indictment for adultery. ============================================= 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. ============================================= 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.