Freestone County, Texas
Communities


Hicks Springs

Located between Teague and Fairfield, about six miles south of Fairfield.  
Nearby communities were Pyburn and Mills.  

A primarily farming community producing cotton, corn and oats.  A Farmers 
Alliance existed in Hick Springs.

Hicks Springs had a church house where circuit preachers came by once a month 
in 1887. Excitement abounded when the Prairie Grove Association (Baptists) met 
in Hicks Springs in May 1887.  

Hicks Springs had 43 pupils in the 1887 scholastic enumeration.  The school 
teacher for the year was N. F. Davis.

Known Past Residents:
Beasley, J. F.
Davis, N. F.(teacher)
Daviss, Nat  (professor)
Driver, Mary
Driver, Sallie
Hays, John
Peevy, W. H.
Pyburn, A. J.
Pyburn, J. M.
Pyburn, Lyman E. (Sabbath school teacher) (died Aug 8, 1887)
Sheffield, Rufus
Sweeney, Reverend ?
Terry, David
Terry, Jack
Wood, Elder J. W.
Wylie, William A.

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