Freestone County, Texas
Towns


Yerby

  Yerby was located south of Young, east of Ward Prairie, west of Blount/Blunt,
and a number of miles northeast of Fairfield.  Yerby really only existed around
the "turn of the 1900s".


Post Office: 16 Sep 1897 to 30 Nov 1901 to Fairfield
 (temporarily got Young mail routed to Yerby in Nov 1899 until Dec 1900)


School:  
Yerby School 
  (not unheard of that kids in Young went to school at Yerby)
  (the school district consolidated to Young prior to 1912)
  
Churches:

  
Cemeteries:
Lake Chapel cemetery was nearby

Social Organizations:


Businesses:


Communities in the Area:


Past Known Residents:
Davis, T. F.
Fail, Lyman
Moore, James Berry "Jim"
Moore, Sallie (Brown)
Powers, Wm. F.
Slaughter, Mrs. Willie Powers
Weaver, E.



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SOURCES:



*1* = Dallas Morning News - March 6, 1898

Postmasters Commissioned

... Wm. F. Powers, Yerby, Freestone county; ...

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*2* =  Dallas Morning News - October 20, 1899

National Capital News

The following post offices have been ordered discontinued after Oct. 3:

Texas - ...Young, Freestone county, mail to Yerby. ...



*3* = Dallas Morning News - October 27 & 28, 1899

FARMS AND RANCHES FOR SALE

FOR SALE - Small, well improved farm for sale cheap or trade for land in eastern
Texas; situated near Fairfield, Freestone county. Address: Tim Lake.  Yerby,
Freestone county.


*4* = Fairfield Recorder - Friday, June 15, 1900 edition
 
YERBY LOCALS, June 11, 1900:  Sunday morning near the 10th hour, 
people began to gather at the church, and in few minutes Bro. Holt, 
pronounced Mr. Jim Moore and Miss Sallie Brown man and wife.