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 COUNTY HISTORY With J.R. (Sonny) Sessions, Jr.
Freestone County Times, Nov. 15, 2004:  Mrs. Anderson’s Ledger #5

“Aunt Lucy”
  Aunt Lucy was a fortuneteller, claimed to be 135 years old when we knew her, 
and if we doubted it didn’t dare tell her so.  As for myself I never cared to see 
into the future just take life as it rolls by and try to make the best of it, 
then knew of some who did consult her and she uncannily told them things that 
did happen.  For a while she lived in our Negro rent house.  She would have run 
the cards for me any time if I had said so.  Coming home one afternoon I stepped 
into my room where one of my nieces and Mary, a neighbor girl who called me Aunt 
Frank as some of my nieces did, had Aunt Lucy sitting on a foot stool running 
the cards for Mary, she looked at me and said aunt Lucy says me and my fellow 
will never marry.  Well that is good news to me, now we didn’t approve because 
he was dissipated.  She tossed her head and laughed, then said oh we will marry 
in spite of you and Aunt Lucy, she got up and put the cards in her pocket and 
said you may marry a Johnson but it won’t be Thell because death will come 
between them.  Aunt Lucy then turned and walked out of the house leaving us 
stunned.  I flopped down in chair and changed the subject but that didn’t end it, 
a very short while afterwards our town was shocked to here that Thell had killed 
himself instantly with a pistol.  When the fall term of school opened the 
principal’s name was Johnson and at the close of school he and Mary were joined 
in marriage.
  My husband A.G. was County Judge and just defeated for the second term at the 
November election by Mr. Henderson a popular man and of course the next day we 
were feeling a little blue, at noon while we were in the dining room eating, Aunt 
Lucy came to the door and said Mr. Asa G. been running the cards and you are 
keeping yours.  Well I don’t see how now, I’ve been defeated at the polls.  Well 
I am telling you there will be a death but you won’t have anything to do with the 
death but will keep that office.  We did not question her and she said little 
more on that subject when she left us as knew she had told other things that had 
come to pass.  A.G.  remarked we won’t say anything about this.  I am going to 
arrange business matters and be ready to turn the office over when the time 
comes.  Along in December Mr. Henderson was taken very sick and lived only a few 
days.  The court met and appointed A.G. for the full term, he served two years 
then refused to run the third term and went into the law practice.  There is a 
destiny that shapes our lives regardless of what may be.