Freestone County, Texas Towns Personville Personville is located in modern day Limestone County. Personville was an early community existing by 1858. Old references incorrectly place it in the southwestern part of Freestone County. *1* ========================================================== SOURCES: *1* = State Gazette (of Austin, Texas) - July 3, 1858 edition - Page: 3 FREESTONE - The Pioneer thus speaks of Fairfield, the county seat: "Fairfield deserves a more extended notices for it we are to believe the report of travelers, we have one of the handsomest towns in the interior. Our Court-house of Brick is a large imposing building, costing at its erection some $10,000. Our Jail is made of brick, and for strength and durability, is perhaps unsurpassed in our State -- One huge and commodious church, erected chiefly by the Cumberland Presbyterians, is seen as you pass along main street. A famed Male Academy and large Masonic Hall, bespeak a liberality towards public edifices which are wanting in many elder towns. Three Hotels, offer to the weary traveler a comfortable place for repose and refreshment. Various Mechanic shops strike the traveler’s attention as soon as he looks at our villages: Wagon, Carriage and Blacksmith shops abound." There are also several villages in Freestone, Butler in the East; Troy or Pine Bluff on the Trinity; Cotton Gin in the West; and Personville situated near the Southwestern part of the county. ----------------------------------- *2* = The Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - Feb 11, 1897 – Page: 1 Postoffice Orders Postoffices established: Beene, Freestone county, special from Mills, route 50,601. Personville, four and half miles southwest; Luna, six miles northeast. ----------------------------------- *3* = Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - September 5, 1901 Killed by the Explosion Special to The News Mexia, Tex., Sept. 4 - Yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock the gin of Savage & Williams, about four miles east of Personville, in Freestone County, was completely wrecked by the boiler exploding. J. M. Williams, one of the owners, was instantly killed, and Mr. John Beasley, the fireman, was so badly scalded and bruised that he is not expected to live. The accident occurred while the gin was running.