THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER

Names gleaned from selected issues of the The Fairfield Recorder, a newspaper published in Fairfield, Freestone Co., TX. It is inferred from ages that the people were ex-slaves.

Peter Darby – 8 Feb 1886 – remembered being brought from Africa – ex-slave of J. R. Mobley

Peter Nelms – 26 Aug 1887 – about 70 years old – known as “Uncle Peter”

Betty Cairo – 3 Feb 1888 – about 70 years old - burned to death in Anderson County

Jo Hunt – 11 May 1888 – died on 3 May 1888 – ex-slave of Mrs. Mary L. Bonner Gill

Robert Banks – 7 Mar 1890 – died 1 Mar 1890 aged about 38 - brought to Freestone County about 1855 from Greene County, Alabama by Thomas Price

Riley Hatcher – 29 Jun 1900 – Died near Fairfield on 24 Jun 1900 – Born in Rowan Co., NC 1 Apr 1818. Brought to Freestone Co., TX in 1849 by former owner Dr. R. J. Hatcher. A blacksmith by trade, he married twice: Mary Ann Riddell & Carrie Daniel

Rose Winters – 18 Nov 1901 –Aged 80 years - bought as a slave by Dr. P. W. Winters when she was 16 years old

Shedrack “Shed” Willis – 11 Sep 1903 –died at Waco - the pioneer blacksmith of his race in Central Texas.

Elizabeth Gabriel –Died 20 Oct 1905 – Age 88

Caroline Green Hill – 31 Jan 1908 – former slave of James M. Williamson

McAndrew Jones – 30 Nov 1908 – In Civil War with his master

Tom Cox – 2 Sep 1910 – died near Kirven 13 Aug 1910 – ex-slave of G. A. Sessions

Ned Burks – 9 Sep 1910 – died 2 Sep 1910 – described as “Uncle Ned Burks, an old-time darkey”

Kittie Bond – 4 Nov 1910 – died 29 Oct 1910 – described as “Aunt Kittie Bond, an aged negress”

Nick Blaine – b. Apr 1838 in Alabama – ex-slave of George Blaine – died after 1900 – Article on “Uncle Nick Blaine” in The Confederate Magazine