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10857 Ambrose Fitzgerald private cemetery near the Emory City Cemetery on N. Alexander St. (March 12, 1827 - June 15, 1893) A native of Missouri, Ambrose Fitzgerald settled near here in 1846 on land that was then part of Nacogdoches County. ...

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18006 County Line School County Line Baptist Church, 2 miles north of FM 275 and FM 515. In 1842, John Garrett, a farmer and rancher from Arkansas, moved his family to this area. It became known as "County Line Prairie" or "Garrett's ...

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10855 Dougherty Community Cemetery 4 mi. north of Emory on FM 275, then east on CR 4320 to cemetery James W. Dougherty and his wife Isabella brought their family to Texas from Kentucky in the late 1840s. Joining the colony of Charles Fenton Mercer, ... 10856 Dougherty Community Homeplace SH 275, 4 mi. north of Emory Robert Newberry Dougherty, son of Dougherty community founder James W. Dougherty, assumed management of his father's farm in the 1860s and by 1870 ...

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10861 Emory Rains Emory City Cemetery, N. Alexander St. (May 2, 1800 - Aug. 11, 1878) Texas pioneer Emory Rains served as an alcalde under Mexican rule and as a counselor in the East Texas Regulator-Moderator ... 18815 Emory United Methodist Church Emory United Methodist Church, E side N. Texas St. (SH 19) between North and College streets Dating back to 1867 originally in Springville in Wood County, Emory United Methodist Church has served its community for 150 years. The church’s ...

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10859 Isaac Newton Gresham CR 4525 in the Lone Star Cemetery 1 mi. NW of Point (Feb. 20, 1858 - April 10, 1906) In 1902 Alabama native Isaac Newton "Newt" Gresham was a Rains County farmer and newspaper editor. Wishing to help ...

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7803 Judge James Hooker Hooker Cemetery, FM 513 just north of E. Tawakoni and about 5 mi. south of Lone Oak Prominent Hunt County pioneer (1807-1865) Came to Texas 1840. Granted a 640-acre headright by Republic of Texas. Served as commissioner to organize ...

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10862 Near Offices of "Rains County Leader" across from Courthouse Only newspaper in county. Founded 1887 by H. W. Martin as "The Argus." By 1900 was renamed "Leader." Sold 1904 to Tom W. Hill, Sr., editor until ...

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10860 Rains County Quitman at Texas One of the earlier areas of Texas to be settled. J. H. Hooker, first known settler, built a grist mill on the Sabine River here in the 1840s. Emigrants ... 16076 Rains County Quitman Street near Alexander Street Rains County Formed from Wood, Hopkins, Hunt and Van Zandt counties Created June 9, 1870 Organized December 1, 1870 Named in honor of Emory Rains ... 13149 Rains County Courthouse Emory, 167 Quitman Street The community of Emory was once called Springville, part of Wood County. In 1870, the Texas Legislature created Rains County from portions of four ...

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10858 Site of Fraser Brick Company US 69, about 3 mi. SE of Emory, S side between FM 779 and CR 2250. Marker reported missing Sep. 2022. Here in 1905 Walter B. Fraser (1877-1968) built a pioneer Texas factory which produced bricks and hollow clay building tile. This was the first industrial ... 10863 Smyrna Union Church take SH 19 about 3 mi. to FM 2324, go west about 2.5 mil to cemetery rd., go north to church This house of worship is the site of the old school house in which, on Sept. 2, 1902, Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America (National ...

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10854 The Amis House Quitman at Ravine St. Built n 1910-1912, this residence features unusual cast-concrete block construction. James Alexander Amis (1872-1939) poured and cured the blocks ...