Freestone County, Texas
Communities


Old Ghost Towns - Never had a post office:



NOTE - There are three Hopewell Churches in Freestone county!




Hopewell (Teague)

Hopewell was located about a half mile northwest of the Teague.  
Hopewell Church appears on a 1918 map.

A number of other churches were in the area.  Pleasant Hill Church was about a
quarter mile east.  Wesley Chapel was about a half mile north.  

Hopewell School District covered the area between Wortham and Kirvin.

School:
Hopewell School
  35 students in 1887
  24 pupils in 1893-94 
  Consolidated with Teague in 1927

Churches:
Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church 

Cemeteries:
Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery


Social Organizations:
Literary Society

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Past Known Residents:
Armstrong, Mr. (returned to Pyburn in 1907) 
Armstrong, Myrtle
Armstrong, Nora
Armstrong, Rhenbe

Beauchamp, Arthur

Chavers, Ed
Connell, Mr.

Davis, Shep

Fogleman, Alice
Fogleman, Earnest
Fogleman, Estella
Fogleman, Jim

Glanton, Fannie
Glanton, Sue
Groover, F. H.
Groover, S. H.

Jones, Dalton
Jones, Gillie
Jones, J. M.
Jones, Leveret
Jones, Lewis Calloway
Jones, Velia
Jones, Wash

King, Ethel
King, Pearl
King, Zack

McNutt, Will
Meador, Lance
Meredith, J. W.
Meredith, Phoebe
Meredith, Viola
Meredith, Wesley

Norman, Edd

Pickett, J. L.
Pickett, Nannie
Pickett, Tomie

Scott, Mr.

Terry, Frank
Thomas, Earnest

Wilson, Eugene

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Hopewell (Fairfield)

Hopewell was located about a half mile west of the Fairfield on the road
towards Kirvin.  Hopewell Church appears on a 1918 map.  The area is the 
headwaters of Cottonwood and Walnut Creeks.


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Hope Well (Big Brown Creek area)


Hope Well was an African American community located in the Big Brown Creek
area after Emacipation.  The Brown's Creek or Titus Farm Community was aroung Big 
Brown Creek, where the Hope Well Methodist Episcopal Church, Hope Well 
Cemetery, Titus Farm School, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Heroines of Jericho, 
and F.A. and A.M. Masons were established.  

School:
Hopewell School
  not in 1887 school list
  121 African American students in 1893-94 

Churches:  
Hope Well Methodist Episcopal Church (1874-1968)

  The Hope Well M.E. Church was organized in 1874 in a log cabin on land given 
  by Ned and Chloe Titus.  J.A. and F.E. Hill later donated an acre of land to 
  the Northern Texas Methodist Episcopal Conference for Hope Well Methodist 
  Church on January 29, 1881.  On July 28, 1968, Hope Well Methodist Church 
  merged with Jones Chapel United Methodist Church in Fairfield.

Cemeteries:
Hope Well Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery
   (Henry and Susan Titus on July 7, 1888, gave the land for the cemetery, 
where their son, Arthur, was buried.  The cemetery has been in use ever 
since.)

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