Freestone County, Texas
Communities


Old Ghost Towns - with former Post office:



Pyburn

Pyburn community was located about half way between Teague and Fairfield.  A 
soil map of Freestone County in 1918 shows "Pyburn School" with two structures
that could be schools and/or churches and a cemetery.  Probably named after 
Andrew Jackson Pyburn who arrived settled what was to become Pyburn in 1895.
Pyburn was located about half a mile southeast of the old Driver community.  
The Pyburn area is drained by the Keechi Creek.  To the south about a half mile 
is "Jordan Chapel".

Cemeteries:
Driver/Pyburn Cemetery

Post Office:
  Pyburn had a post office between Aug. 6th, 1895 and Feb 21, 1907. The Valosta 
post office closed and used Pyburn as its post office in 1903 after only being
open for a year.

School:
  Pyburn School taught children from about 1896 to Sept. 21, 1948 (when it was 
consolidated with Teague Independent School District). In 1902 when the school 
building at Hicks Springs (between Teague and Fairfield, closer to Fairfield) 
burned, the children were sent to finish their education at the Pyburn Community 
school.  One of the teachers of the many over the years who taught at Pyburn was 
Grace Henderson Grayson.  

Church:

Social Organizations:

Farmers Union
    Pyburn organizes a Farmers Union in Dec. 1903 according to page 1 of the 
Fairfield Recorder Jan. 8, 1904 issue.

Other Buildings:
Cotton Gin and 2 stores

Old Communities in the area:
Driver
Valosta


Known Past Residents:

Butler, Chester Whitney 
Butler, Melinda (Anglin)
Butler, William Pinkney

Davis, E.
Davis, Miss Elpha
Deborde, Sylba Meirine 

Garth, D. T. (attorney)
Gilbert, Frank 
Glanton, C.T.
Grayson, Grace Henderson

Hardin, Mattie 
Hays, Lillie
Henderson, J. C.
Henderson, J. D.
Henderson, Rachel 
Hood, Grace Bernice Pyburn 
Huckaby, George 
Hullum, Lola
Hullum, Texas

Inderman, Olan

Johnson, Fannie 
Johnson, J. D.

Kelly, Thomas

Lancaster, Doris Margaret (Pyburn) 
Love, Lelah 

McAdams, Kenneth "Yoat"

Newell, John & Sallie

Peevy, D. D.
Peevy, L. E. 
Pickett, Asa Willis
Pickett, Eula Mae
Pickett, Robert Asa
Pickett, T. B.
Pickett, William Thomas
Pyburn, Andrew Jackson
Pyburn, George & Zula
Pyburn, Oscar Eugene and Edna (Davis)
Pyburn, Sarah Amanda 

Rickard, Cox

Smith, Annie Grace Virden 

Terry, George Thomas & Lucy Irene (Perry)
Terry, Vivian 

Walthall, W. C.