Freestone County, Texas
Communities


Old Ghost Towns - Never had a post office:


Simsboro
   
Simsboro was located four miles northwest of Teague and three miles east of 
Cotton Gin. Simsboro was situated on the Trinity and Brazos Valley railroad.  
The community was known to have a school, church, store and most famously a 
excellent oil pump station. In modern times, Simsboro is located on FTM
Road 80 at the intersection of County Road 930.

The community was named for the Sims family who migrated from Georgia to 
Freestone County in 1852. Sterling Sims brought his slaves and purchased 490 
acres in the western section of the county. By the late 1850s the settlement 
of Simsboro was established. The Sims family, silversmiths by trade, became 
blacksmiths, ironsmiths, and builders in the region. Joseph Sims, the youngest 
son of Sterling, operated a general store in the town during the later 1800s 
until he sold the mercantile to Hugh Day about 1897. 

Churches in the area was Wesley Chapel about a quarter mile from the railroad
tracks east.  About another quarter mile east is the Pleasant Hill Trinity 
Baptist Church.  About a half a mile east from the center of Simsboro is the 
Hopewell Church.

In 1915, the Hopewell school district had 40 registered voters participate in
a special prohibition election.

Simsboro, was famous for its former resident, the African American musician 
Washington Phillips.


School:
Simsboro School

Churches:
Wesley Chapel
Pleasant Hill Trinity Baptist Church
Hopewell Church

Businesses:
Magnolia Petroleum Co.

Social Organizations:

Cemeteries:

Nearby Communities:
Cotton Gin (2.7 miles west)

Nearby Cemeteries:
Hopewell (1.5 miles southeast)
Antioch #2 (2.9 miles southeast)

Known Past Residents:

Ausley, Charlie 

Bell, Clyde
Bennett, B. G.
Bircher, Mary Jo Pool 
Black, S. P.
Blakely, Nell

Carroll, Ray

Dancer, Emma Lee "Sista"
DeVillier, Frank
DeVillier, Pat  
Dixon, Durden 

Gray, E. R.

Hickerson, Oscar
Horton, H. G. 
Horton, J. H.

Jackson, A.J. 
Johnson, Elder DeAndra
Jones, R. W.
Jones, Roosevelt 

Kirven, Lizzie 
Kirchner, H. P.

Loper, L. M.

Mahn, E. H. 
McAdams, Dorothy
McAdams, William Grady 

Nealy, Doris Foreman
Newell, Joseph 
Newell, John Sims 
Newell, Mary Catherine (Sims)

Perry, Rev. Derek 
Phillips, George Washington (musician)
Phillips, Sim 

Westbrook, Clyde
Williams, Irvie

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INTERESTING NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT SIMSBORO:

The Bartlett Tribune and News (of Bartlett, Texas) -  June 4, 1915 - Page: 1

Another Dry District

Teague, Texas, May 31 - In the local option election held in the Hopewell school 
district, just north of here Saturday, the district was voted dry by a vote of
35 to 5.  This district includes the village of Simsboro, three miles north of 
Teague, at which there is one saloon which was opened after the city of Teague 
voted prohibition.