Freestone County, Texas
Reflections




[SPECIAL THANKS to Linda Mullen for transcribing and Margaret Tolar for locating.]



Diary of Mrs. Frances “Fannie or Frankie” (Noland) Anderson
(Fannie was born in 1850.  She married Judge Asa Green Anderson on May 14, 1868 
 in Freestone County. )
 
Freestone—Past & Present By J.R. “Sonny” Sessions
The Teague Chronicle, Feb. 10, 2005:  Final article: Biography of Mrs. Fannie Anderson

  Mrs. Fannie Anderson who recorded the information in the last several weeks of 
the Freestone Co. and Fairfield history lived a long and interesting life, most 
of it in Fairfield.  Her family left Jackson, Mississippi in Early 1850 along 
with other families that decided to come to Texas.  They traveled until reaching 
Freestone Co. which just been formed, they stopped at a little village that became 
the County Seat and it was named Fairfield.  Fannie Noland Anderson was born 
here in June 1850.
  Fannie married A.G. Anderson who was a brother to Mr. Jess Anderson and uncle 
to Miss Mattie, Miss Nannie and Miss Lizzie Anderson who lived on a hill in what 
now the Anderson Addition and Jess Anderson who lived in the two story palatial 
house behind Awalt-Stephenson Drug.   A.G. and his brother Jess were both 
Confederate veterans of the Civil War.  A.G. returned from the War with a 
crippled arm.  A.G. served several times in elected Freestone Co. offices and 
very respected citizen.
  My great grandparents, Sheriff J.B. Rogers and wife Sallie were close friends 
of the Andersons being in their wedding and such.  My Mother told me when Mrs. 
Rogers died in 1915 she and my Daddy stayed with the Andersons in Fairfield 
while attending the funeral as they lived in Kirvin at the time.  At this time 
the Andersons lived in the two-story house on Reunion called the Hill house, it 
was in bad shape in later years when I knew it.
  A.G. Anderson died in 1920.  Mrs. Anderson moved to Teague and lived with 
family.  The following is from Bob Compton’s article in the Dallas News in 1976:
“On an August evening in 1942, Mrs. A.G. Anderson, having smoked her usual after-
dinner cigar while watching passerby’s from the front porch, lay down to finish 
reading a story in Ranch-Romances and died quietly.”