Dew School Reunion will be held Sat. 28 Oct. 2000 beginning at 10:00 am at Dew Methodist Church/Cem. Tabernacle. Anyone who attended Dew School or has family relations in Dew area is invited. Bring a covered dish and a lawn chair and join the fun! Ann Thomas Farnsworth Eighth grade class of 1964

Posted on: Freestone County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Freestone/467 Surname: Pierce, Rigsdale ------------------------- No Rigsdale or Pierce in the Freestone County History Book for Dew Cemetery. Next time I go there I'll walk the cemetery & check personally. My family lives in the Dew area. Jackye Penney

Goodmorning everyone. As ya'll can tell I am posting obits from the Fairfield Recorder. Mr. Joe Reavis, the owner, has given me permission to do this and I really do appreciate his help on this. I am starting with the earliest papers they have which is Jan. 2, 1925 and am working my way up as time permits. Please be patient with me as there are 75 years worth of obits to put up. I am putting everyone that I find on the Webpage. I am not just going thru picking them out in random, so if you have asked for an obit lookup please, please be patient with me and I will get around to it if it is in the paper. Thank you Catherine Web Page: http://web2.airmail.net/jcsimmon If researching family in Freestone Co. Texas please visit the GenWeb page: www.aisi.net/genweb/freestone/ Researching: SHEPPARD SERIGHT TALBOT MCMURRAY, CALHOUN JOHNSON SIMMONS CANTERBURY

I too have family from Freestone. I have a gg grandmother that was related to the Martins, she could have been a Martin, but her marriage certificate says, Mayberry or Mayloury. Her first name was Eliza. She was married to James S. Strickland. She died sometime before 1880 along with several of her Strickland children. Does anyone have any idea about them? We have not been able to locate her or her children? James remarried after Eliza's death. Her name was Nancy Laura Carter and after James death they moved down by Galvestin. What happened to Eliza and some of the Strickland children? Help!!! I too would be interested in any obits on these last names or anything on these guys. Thank you, Sharon Holland in Oklahoma ----- Original Message ----- From: Wanda R Tracy Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TXFREEST] Neva Pittman Catherine, Regarding your obit posts to the list, I keep looking , hoping I will see some of my Freestone relations. I had Kilborn, DeLoach, Lummus, & some Owens (s) in Freestone, maybe many others. so if you have time, please post the obits. Thanks Wanda ==== TXFREEST Mailing List ==== Support free genealogy on the Internet. Join Rootsweb.com today. http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2___________________________________________________________ Get more from your time online. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Catherine, Regarding your obit posts to the list, I keep looking , hoping I will see some of my Freestone relations. I had Kilborn, DeLoach, Lummus, & some Owens (s) in Freestone, maybe many others. so if you have time, please post the obits. Thanks Wanda

Jim, I am truly sorry that I did not post at the top of the obit that I had no relation to this family. I started it then I got kinda tired of typing it but I guess I will have to. I am doing this in my spare time to help people like you and hope someone will make a connection. I am really sorry avbout this. All of the obits that I have posted in the last couple of days are no relation to me. Catherine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Cooper" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 8:01 PM Subject: [TXFREEST] Neva Pittman > Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/49 > > Surname: PITTMAN, COOK, WILLIAMS > ------------------------- > > Thanks for posting this obit on Neva Pittman. I show her to be a daughter > of Dallas Duncan Pittman and Ann E. "Lida" Williams Measles. In the 1920 > census, she is shown living in Harris County, Magnolia Park, 6701 Ave. > L with her Father, D. D. Pittman, and his wife, Anna M. ?, who was his > fourth wife. She is listed as Neva I. Pittman, age 24. > > I show that she had two full brothers, whose names I read on the 1910 census > as Shaver and Osier. I'm sure that's probably wrong, but that's the best > I could decipher. Shaver appears to have been born in 1886, Osier in 1889. > > These three siblings had a half-sibling from D. D. Pittman's first marriage > to Mary M. Cook Hobbs. Her name was Annie Letha Pittman, born in 1883 in > Fairfield. She married William Clayton Sumner and died in Austin in 1972. > She is the grandmother of my late first wife. Annie Pittman Sumner's daughter, > Hazel Arlene Sumner Sauls, the mother of my late wife, is living in Austin, > and I share my genealogical research on her family with her. I would be > glad to share what else I have on this family if you are interested. I > would be very interested in seeing what you have in return. > > By the way, the two cousins listed in the obituary are the children of > D. D. Pittman's oldest brother, Felix Houston Pittman. Felix is profiled > in the Freestone County History Book. > > > > > ==== TXFREEST Mailing List ==== > Never post virus alerts to the list. > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/49 Surname: PITTMAN, COOK, WILLIAMS ------------------------- Thanks for posting this obit on Neva Pittman. I show her to be a daughter of Dallas Duncan Pittman and Ann E. "Lida" Williams Measles. In the 1920 census, she is shown living in Harris County, Magnolia Park, 6701 Ave. L with her Father, D. D. Pittman, and his wife, Anna M. ?, who was his fourth wife. She is listed as Neva I. Pittman, age 24. I show that she had two full brothers, whose names I read on the 1910 census as Shaver and Osier. I'm sure that's probably wrong, but that's the best I could decipher. Shaver appears to have been born in 1886, Osier in 1889. These three siblings had a half-sibling from D. D. Pittman's first marriage to Mary M. Cook Hobbs. Her name was Annie Letha Pittman, born in 1883 in Fairfield. She married William Clayton Sumner and died in Austin in 1972. She is the grandmother of my late first wife. Annie Pittman Sumner's daughter, Hazel Arlene Sumner Sauls, the mother of my late wife, is living in Austin, and I share my genealogical research on her family with her. I would be glad to share what else I have on this family if you are interested. I would be very interested in seeing what you have in return. By the way, the two cousins listed in the obituary are the children of D. D. Pittman's oldest brother, Felix Houston Pittman. Felix is profiled in the Freestone County History Book.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/46 Surname: Pittman, Parker ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder Fairfield Texas Friday, Feb. 13, 1925 RELATIVE OF FAIRFIELD PEOPLE DIES IN HOUSTON This has been recieved here of the deth of Miss Neva Pittman, aged 28, which occured last Saturday Afternoon at her home in Houston. She was a cousin of Mrs. W. A. Parker and R.R. Pittman of this place.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/45 Surname: King ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder Fairfield Texas Friday, Feb. 6, 1925 ANOTHER PIONEER ANSWERS TO LAST CALL Mr. Austin King , age 75 , died at his home in Mexia last Thursday. Mr. King was father of Claud and Zeno King. Two well known buisness men of Mexia and the brother of L. C. and Gordon King of Teague. He had been a resident of Freestone and Limestone Counties nearly all of his life.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/44 Surname: Alexander ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield Texas Friday, Jan. 30, 1925 BUISNESS MAN AND FORMER MAYOR OF TEAGUE DIES. T. J. Alexander, formely a well known buisness man and Mayor of Teague died in his home in that city last Tuesday night. He had been in ill health quite awhile.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/43 Surname: Draper, Baldree ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder Fairfield Texas Friday, Jan. 30, 1925 IN MEMORY OF MRS. J. G. DRAPER Mrs. J. G. Draper died at her home near Cotton Gin Texas, Novemeber 14, 1924. Miss Mattie Baldree was born April 22, 1855, was married J. G. Draper, on July 19, 1894. Mrs. Draper always read and newly preserved her church papers. The church and its institution were ver dear to her. She loved gods day, gods house and gods servants and was faithful in attending the ordinance of the church as long as she was able. Mrs. Draper died leaving only her husband to strive thru the rest of his life, which we hope to be many more years. She was loved by everybody and had many a friend who regreted to hear of her death.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/42 Surname: Bowers ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder Fairfield Texas Friday, Jan. 30, 1925 WELL KNOWN MINISTER DIES AT HOME EAST OF FAIRFIELD It is with sincere regret and sadness that we cronical the passing of that old soldier of the cross. Eld. I. W. Bowers at his home 7 miles east of Fairfield last Monday Night after a long period of illness. Bro. Bowers was a minister of the Primitive Baptist Faith and no more truer or better man ever lived. He was consistent in his religious belief and thoroughly reliable and dependable in every respect. He was about 72 years of age and had lived for many years in this county and formed and preached to congregations in this and Leon Counties until failing health caused him to cease active duties.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/41 Surname: Groover, Connell ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder Fairfield, Texas Friday, Jan. 30, 1925 DEATH OF PIONEER CITIZEN OF FREESTONE COUNTY Just as we go to press we learn of the death of Mr. Frank Groover, Which occured Wendesday night at home of his son-in-law, Mr. Ben Connell in Teague. Burial will be in Gotton Gin Cemetery Friday. Mr. Groover was a pioneer citizen of the County having come here in his early days.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/40 Surname: Casey, Coates, Thompson, Giles ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder Fairfield, Texas Friday, Jan. 30, 1925 A CITIZEN OF YOUNG DIES SUDDENLY I. N. Casey, age 72, dies suddenly while at work on his job near Young last Thursday afternoon. He had been in ill health for months, but death came quickly and suddenly. His remains were interened in Rehoboth Cemetery, services being held by McKissick and Keys. He is survived by his wife and the following children, W. J. Casey, Mrs. Barney Coates, Mrs. Walter Thompson, Mrs. Arthur Giles, Bob Casey and Mrs. Eula Tolbert Casey. Mr. Casey had been a resident of Freestone County 69 years. He had long been a member of the Baptist Church and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/39 Surname: Marshall ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder Fairfield Texas Friday, Jan. 23, 1925 Pg. 1 NEGRO FALLS DEAD ON SIDE WALK About 3:30 Thursday afternoon, Irvan Marshall, Col., about 30, and his home was near the Blum Farm, died suddenly on the Casey Barber Shop corner. The negro had been a sufferer from heart trouble for some time and had just returned from Teague. He was sitting on a bench when he toppled over, expiring instantly.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/38 Surname: Driver ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder Fairfield Texas Friday, Jan 23, 1925 Pg. 1 The little four-weeks-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. John Driver, east of town, was buried here the fifteenth. Mrs. Driver has been in a serious condition for some time and for a while it was not thought that she would recover.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/37 Surname: Farris, Thompson ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder Fairfield Texas Friday, Jan. 16, 1925 AGED WOMAN DIES IN LUNA COMMUNITY It is with the broken heart that we realize the death angel has been in our community again and called home another old soldier of the cross, Aunt Mary Farris, as everyone knew her. Mother of J. C. and A. W. Thompson. To know her was to love her. She always meet you with a smile. How sad the hearts of her children, but Their loss is her eternal gain for she is asleep in Jesus, We would say weep not for her for she spent nearly four score years and ten on this sinful earth, now she is resting in peace. May we all be prepared to meet Aunt Mary in a home not made with hands. May the lord comfort the bereaved is our prayer.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/36 Surname: Ethridge, Gardner, Kirven ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield, Texas Friday Jan. 9, 1925 Pg. 1 F. M. Ethridge, one of the ablest and best known attorneys of the state, died suddenly last Sunday at his home in Dallas. Mr Ethridge moved from Fairfield to Dallas about 37 years ago. Mr. Ethridge practiced law here and was a partner of Judge B. H. Gardner, now of Palestine, and the late Judge O. C. Kirven.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/35 Surname: Beauchamp, Fryer, Johnson, Watson ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield Texas Friday, Jan. 2, 1925 TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF AGED WOMAN Mrs. "Bettie" Beauchamp, after an extended period of sickness covering seven or eight months, died Thursday morning, November 13th, 1924, about 10 o'clock, at the home of her son, Mr. E. H. Beauchamp, in Fairfield. She was buried Friday afternoon, about 3 o'clock, in the family lot in the Fairfield cemetery. Margaret Elizabeth (Fryer) Beauchamp was born at Clayton, Barbour County, Alabama, March 27, 1846. She was the daughterof George Washington Fryer and Matilda Johnson Fryer, of Alabama, both of whom died and were buried in Fairfield. In a family of five sons and three daughters, "Bettie" was the sixth child. Her childhood and young womanhood were spent at her home in Alabama, but she came to Texas, together with others of the family, in January, 1869, and settled in Freestone County, living two years at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fryer at Fryer's Springs. In the fall of 1871, our subject was united in marriage to William Hamille Beauchamp. To this union were born two sons and three daughters, none of whom survived the mother except one son, Mr. E. H. Beauchamp, of Fairfield Texas. Mr and Mrs. Beauchamp lived at many different locations in the County, but were living at Dew in the fall of 1908 when they broke up house-keeping and went to live at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Watson, near Stewards Mill. On July 18, 1913, Mr. Beauchamp died; one month less than three years later, the daughter, Mrs. E. M. Watson, died, --she having been preceded by a younger brother and sister by several years. Mrs. Beauchamp then moved to the home of her other daughter, Mrs. C. H. Watson. But upon the death of the latter, some two years later, she came to live at the home of her son in Fairfield. She had been a member of the Methodist Church since a child, and enjoyed the peculiar blessings and happiness of a consistent Christian life. During her fifty-five years sojourn in Freestone County, Mrs. Beauchamp saw many changes take place; saw this young County pass through the throes of Reconstruction and come out into half a century of varying fortunes of progress and retardation. She saw the passing of a host of acquaintances and loved ones, and grieved; yet she never allowed the gloom of despondency to overtake her. By the calender she grew old in years but never in spirit and her outlook on life. With her eyes ever to the future, she lived a life of beautiful and implicit faith in Eternal Justice and the righteousness and ultimate blessedness of the Divine Plan. To her conquering life was added, in the closing years, a chaplet. This wreath contained interwoven attentions and love from the hands and hearts of her near neighbors, friends, relatives, and lovely grandchildren. Her contributions to life contained none of the spectacular, but the remarkable gift of a long term of unstinted, unselfish, helpful service. Like every other pioneer woman, she was acquainted with the joys and sorrows and the very hard work of the years which preceded the present days of convenience and luxury. And she lived beautifully through it with the satisfaction of having given good measure, and that running over, as a wife, mother, grandmother, and neighbor. One who knew her best expressed well a tribute to her when he said, "She was a remarkable woman." Contributed by P. D. B.

Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/34 Surname: Huckaby ------------------------- Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield Texas Friday, Jan. 2, 1925 WELL KNOWN CITIZEN OF FAIRFIELD DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Our entire citizenship was shocked Thursday morning to learn that Mr. W. A. Huckaby had died suddenly during the night at his home in Fairfield. Mr. Huckaby, in company with some friends spent Wednesday afternoon hunting returning about 8 o'clock in the evening. He sat down to a late supper, but before eating complained of being ill and left the table. A physician was called, but he survived only about 15 minutes, it being supposed he had acute indigestion. Deceased was 63 years old and was reared here. He had never married, making his home with his mother, Aunt Kid Huckaby, until her death a few months ago at the family residence in Fairfield. Mr. Huckaby was quiet and unassuming in his manners, of strict integrity and moral character, courtly and courteous in his intercourse with his fellow man. His passing is deplored by many relatives and friends.