Freestone County, Texas
Communities


Rocky Branch


Location:  In western Freestone County, east of Big Techuana Creek.  Located 
  1/2 mile north of the old Yeldell community at the intersection of FCR #971 
  and FCR #973 between Wortham and Kirvin.  Used to be a narrow bridge only 
  wide enough for a single lane of cars to cross that washed away in a storm, 
  never to be replaced.  Rocky Branch was an Africian-American community begun 
  during the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War.  Still existing 
  are an active church and a cemetery.  Another church existed at Rocky Branch 
  that practiced with snake handling whose congregation eventually decreased 
  till it was no more. Currently there is a single house of descendants that 
  returned to the original home place.
 
Post Office: Never had a post office


Buildings:
school
two churches
cemetery

Known Past Residents:
Alexander family
Banks family
Foreman, Foster and Lutisia