Freestone County, Texas Obituaries The Denison Press Friday, February 20, 1948 L. C. Kirgan passed away recently. He was a home town editor for half a century and never once [missed a] issue of the Fairfield Recorder, regardless of storms, fire or sickness. A tribute to his memory, in the Recorder, closed with these beautiful words, "One of our editor's great pleasures was a leisurely driver each autummn through the woods of East Texas when the sumacs were a scarlet flame and the hickories and the sweet gums had changed to golden pyrmids. That time has now come, the season of the return of the leaf to the good earth." "In such an hour, our editor has written '30' and closed the story."