Freestone County, Texas
Communities


Old Ghost Towns - Never had a post office:

[Do not confuse with Pleasant Hill Church located in Navarro County north of 
  Winkler or with Pleasant Hills in Limestone County.]

[There are two places called Pleasant Hill in Freestone County. I have probably
 misattributed some facts to the wrong commmunity.]

Pleasant Hill #1 
 
The Pleasant Hill community was located near Wortham.  Featured a singing 
school in 1888.

School:
  Pleasant Hill School 
   
Church:
  Pleasant Hill Baptist Church 
   
Cemeteries:

Businesses:

Social Organizations:
  Pleasant Hill Farmers Alliance #1184 (exists in 1888, met at school house)
    The officers are E. H. Whitten, Secretary and W. Andrews, President
    both have Wortham as their post office.
     
Nearby Communities:

Known Past Residents:
Andrews, W.

Berry, Andrew Jackson

Jones, Thomas

Whitten, E.H. 
Williams, Mr.
Wright, J. A.

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Pleasant Hill #2 / Tabernacle

The Pleasant Hill community was located off Co Rd 930 near Ranch Rd 1386 north 
of modern Highway 84. Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church (first known as 
Missionary Baptist Church) was founded in the late 1870s as an African-American 
church located about a half mile east of the community of Simsboro, northwest of 
Teague.  Pleasant Hill Church appears on a 1918 map.  The Pleasant Hill Church 
was half a mile east of the Simsboro community on the road between Fairfield and 
Simsboro. The area is the headwaters of Cottonwood Creek.

Missionary Baptist Church started in the Tabernacle School building in 
Simsboro before land was purchased south of the school in the late 1870s.

A number of other churches were in the area.  Wesley Church was about a
quarter mile wast.  Hopewell Church was about a half mile south.

School:
Tabernacle school
  Was a free public school that F.G. Butler taught at in January 1872.
  55 African American pupils in 1887 
  67 African American pupils in 1891-2
  75 African American pupils in 1893-4
  A 1936 listing shows a 22 foot well at the "Tabernacle school" that was located 
"8 1/2 miles south" of Kirvin at location #100 on the map drilled in 1933. *1*
 
Church:
Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church (late 1870s-?)
   (first known as Missionary Baptist Church) 
   (the modern address for it is 741 County Road 930, Teague, TX)
   
Cemeteries:

Businesses:

Social Organizations:
     
Nearby Communities:

Known Past Residents:
Berry, A. J.
Busby, Rev. W.
Dunbar, Rev. J. D.
Irvin, Ike
Jones, Tom
Lewis, Rev. S.
Mickles, Brian
Smith, Richard
Williams, Mr.
Wright, J. A.

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Pleasant Hills (of Limestone County)

Cemeteries:
Lindley graveyard [located in Limestone County]

[located in Limestone County]
Fairfield Recorder - May 12, 1893 
Pleasant Hills Pennings - May 8, 1893
     Died April 5, Ralph Lindley (6 yrs old) (s/o Mrs. Ouie Cameron) obit - says 
he was interred in the Lindley graveyard, with Rev. H. Bounds officiating.


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Sources:
*1* = 1936 U.S. Geological Survey of Wells and Springs by Samuel F. Turner.