Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



The Galveston Daily News (of Galveston, Tex.) - Tuesday, March 27, 1883 issue, 
Page 4

     FREESTONE
  Fairfield Recorder:  A negro child, about three years old, living on Mr. J. P.
Robinson's place, was burned to death Friday morning. The child's mother, Malinda
Ward, left it sitting in a chair, near the stove, and went down to Mr. Robinson,
who was returning from town, saw the hogs dragging somthing about her door, and 
went to see what it was. It seemed, from appearances, that the child's clothes
had caught from the stove, and it ran to the door and fell out, where it was
burned to death. The hogs had torn it in a fearful manner, eating all the flesh
from its face.