Freestone County, Texas
Towns





Jonesville
Abe Jones, a former slave, also owned over 1000 acres and had a cotton gin, 
grist mill, and store.  This area became known as Jonesville and many 
descendants such as the Brown and Cunningham families live there.

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Plum Creek

Plum Creek is located about halfway betwen Lanely and Butler about 6 1/2 miles 
east of Dew on what is now FM 489 in an area.  The John L. Johnson family owned 
much of the land that is now Plum Creek Ranch on the south side of FM 489.  The 
Johnson / Glazner Cemetery was inadvertently excavated and rediscovered by a 
gravel company in the 1960s. In the 1930s the community had a business, a 
couple churches, a school, a couple cemeteries, and a number of scattered 
dwellings.


School:  
Plum Creek School: 
  22 Anglo students in 1887. 

Trahan/Trahin School: 
  Started in 1891, Trahan School was just south of FM 489 on FCR 381 and was 
listed on the 1912 school list.  The pupils were transferred to Buffalo in about 
1968.  In 1899 forty-eight black and thirty-five white students were enrolled 
in separate Plum Creek schools. The  last common school district was Trahan, 
which operated into the 1970's in a small two-room schoolhouse, just to maintain 
the county school superintendents office and jobs.

Black Jack Grove College

Plum Creek College

Church:
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
Brown Chapel Church began as a log cabin school/church building on John L. 
Johnson's land about a mile from the present site.  Gabe Brown donated
the present site of the cemetery and church land. Brown Chapel started about 
1887.

Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church 
People believe Frank and Liza Hayes gave the land for the church and cemetery.

Plum Creek Baptist Church
  petitioned in 1887 to join the Prairie Grove Baptist Association
  23 members led by J.W. Wood in 1887  
  53 members led by J.W. Wood in 1889 with Butler post office
  listed in 1895, but no information given

Cemeteries:
Plum Creek Cemetery

Social Organizations:

Businesses:

Nearby Communities:

Nearby Cemeteries:
Brown Chapel Cemetery
Brooke Family Cemetery (1 mile northwest)
Willis Family Cemetery (1.7 miles north)

Known Former Residents:
Daniels, S.A.
Fogleman, A.
Starrett, Jack