Freestone County, Texas
Towns



Post Oak #1 

[There is a second Post Oak community in Freestone County located southeast 
of Donie.]

Post Oak / Post Oak Grove 

The Post Oak community is still in existance.  Currently Post Oak is still an 
unincorporated farming community located in three miles south of Fairfield on 
Farm Road 1580.  Roughly identified as Post Oak starting about 1890.  Post Oak 
had a general store, a barber shop, a cotton gin, and a gristmill. The Post Oak 
black school had thirty-two students in 1893.  The area is drained by Big Creek.

A brief description of Post Oak was written in the July 27, 1888 edition of 
the Fairfield Recorder newspaper: "...situated about four miles southeast of
Fairfield, on the Fairfield and Buffalo road, whose towering heads and gnarled
trunks show that they have stood the blasts of many winters, stands the 
picturesque little church of Post Oak."


Schools:
The Post Oak school was here from at least 1914 to 1928.
14 pupils (spanning all grades) in 1914. Autry Smith taught the class in 1914.

Churches:
Post Oak Grove Baptist church  
      had 14 members led by J.W. Wood in 1878
      had 13 members led by J.D. Williams in 1879
      Post Oak Grove #1 had 33 members led by J.D. Williams in 1883
      had 39 members led by W.B. Childs in 1884
      had 41 members led by W.B. Childs in 1886
      had 40 members led by W.B. Childs in 1887
      had 49 members led by W.B. Childs in 1889
      (Had 48 members in 1895 with E.J. Brown as pastor, who also had Pleasant 
      Grove and Fairfield on his route.)
      Elder Chavers was one of the circuit preachers in 1889 with Post Oak on his route.
      
New Zion Baptist church   (see New Zion Church article under towns)

Cemeteries:
Post Oak cemetery
New Zion church cemetery  (see New Zion Church cemetery article under cemeteries)

Businesses:

Nearby Communities:

Known Past Residents of Post Oak:
Blount, O.C.
Cain, Erie M.
Chavers, Reverend James Austin
Dulaney, C. B.
Glazener, William Lee Jr.
Glazener, William Lee Sr.
Gray, Joe
Gray, Olive
Lambert, Elmo Joseph & Emma McNew
Leadbetter, Sterling Frith & Mary Caroline Lindsey (moved here abt 1897)
Lindsey, Elbert Charles & Jane Arminta Raiford Dulaney
Lindsey, James Elbert & Blanche Lorena Childs
Linsey, E.C.
Riley, W.W.
Taylor, P. B.
Vernon, L.B.