Freestone County, Texas Communities Old Ghost Towns: Blount/Blunt This community was originally called Blunt, but the spelling was changed to Blount in the 1930s when they changed the sound of vowels. Dr. Blunt's/Blount's family originally lived there and the community was named after Dr. Blunt/Blount who served as a state health officer in 1889. The community was located in eastern Freestone County about twelve miles northeast of Fairfield. Blount/Blunt was northwest of the contemporary, but very small community of Bowling, southwest of the old, early site of Troy, south of the contemporary Yerby, and northeast of older but still active Turlington. A soil survey map from 1918 shows Blunt community with the Spring Bank school to the southwest, Pilot Knob and Pilot Knob school to the south, and Tyus Bluff, which overlooked the Trinity River, to the east. Blount was located south and east of Big Brown Creek and northwest of Camp Branch. Now the location is near Big Brown coal plant and under the waters of Fairfield Lake. Blount had a post office from 1900 to 1908. The post office shared the building with a grocery store there. The one room wooden school building was moved from the Rocky Springs community to the Blount community in 1913. Previously it was only a six month school. The school remained small with a single teacher for all grades. Blount school eventually consolidated with the Fairfield Independent School District in 1939. When asked about the cemeteries in the area, Mrs. Avis Eisen (who went to school in Blount as a child) said that "Blount had graves outside the fenced area of the Hill Cemetery and at one time the area was pushed." Mr. Fred Hill (originally grew up in Blunt, later lived in Fairfield) gave jobs during the depression era to former slaves and poor whites in the eastern part of the county to clear land for $1/day. The jobs kept people staying in Freestone County during a tough time when many left for California. As a school girl, Avis Eisen buried Texas Centennial jar in 1936 capped with zinc lid filled old coins, crumpled up papers with names, and other assorted things there at school house at Blount. She mentioned it to the girls working on the survey. She heard about a Texas Centennial jar being found announced on the radio in July or August of 2010, but did not hear if it was hers. Mr. Ivy found a token for the saloon located at Blunt a few yards north of the old school house. Saloon gone prior to 1913. Some rock should still be there from saloon. Mr. Ivy sold the old Blount school and they purchasers hauled it off. Post Office: Blount Post Office (1900 to 1908) (the post office was located inside a grocery store) Post Masters: Lee, Joseph Eluid - 11 Jun 1900 Lee, Reuben A. - 24 Aug 1903 Richardson, James C. - 10 Mar 1906 School: Blount School - school building moved from Rocky Springs in 1913 12 pupils in 1927 Consolidated into Fairfield ISD in 1939 Cemeteries: Hill Cemetery #1 (at old home site of Fred E. Hill family) Nearby Cemeteries: old Alford Family Cemetery Tyus Cemetery Edwards Cemetery Troy Cemetery Nearby Churches: Spring Bank Baptist Church (in Spring Bank community) Trinity Chapel Baptist Church (in Trinity Chapel community) Antioch Baptist Church Nearby Schools: Rocky Springs School Titus Farm School (was in the Blount School District) Spring Bank School (was in the Blount School District) Flat Woods School Union School Nearby Communites: Antioch Brown's Creek Rocky Springs Titus Farms Trinity Chapel Troy Turlington Young Known Past Residents: Campbell, W. O. Carden, Boykin and Callie Carden, Isaiah and Anna Casey, Lemon and Hannah Chancellor, Mr. Cooper, Fred Cooper, Tilman Crouch, Bradford Davis, Frank Day, Hester Dickens, Sylvia Ingram, Charlie and Lula Ingram, John Andrew Hill, Fred E. Hill, Henry Suel (M.D.) Hill, Margaret Spear Ivy, Delbert Ivy, Everett Ivy, Lonnie Frank Ivy, Milborn Ivy, Milford Jackson, Rafe Lee, Ella Harrision Lee, Eugene & Jessie (settled at Blount in 1915) Lee, Gertie Perminty Lee, Joseph Eluid Lee, Price Lee, Reuben A. Lewis, Albert William Lewis, Archie Lewis, Emma Lewis, Eugene Sr. Lewis, Eugene Jr. Lewis, Laura Velma Lewis, McFadin "Pat" Lewis, Pearle Lewis, Woodrow Miles, Edgar Gaddis Myers, James Calvin & Mary Ellen (Pitcher) Porter, Ben & Della Presley, Neete Proctor, Frank Richard, Artie Richardson, Henry Mae Richardson, Jim Richardson, John Price Roberts, Steve Shields, John Strain, Amanda Thornton, Tom Watson, Offie Williams, Charlie Young, Joe