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EAST TEXAS FAMILY RECORDS VOL.15, NO.4, WINTER 1991
Creation and Organization of Gregg County, Texas (continued)
Haden Edwards in 1843, by deed recorded in Book A, Page 313, Deed
Records of Rusk County, assigned to D. Woods a permit granted by the Republic
of Texas, to operate a public ferry between the banks of Sabine River,
at a point then known as Cotton Crossing and subsequently known as "Fredonia
Crossing" near the laid out townsite of Fredonia and, upon the expiration of
the period of time for which the license was granted to Haden Edwards, the
Legislature of Texas, by an Act approved April 13, 1871, Volume 6, Page 1278,
Gammels Laws of Texas, granted the authority to J. H. Jones and Henry Miller
to continue to operate the public ferry "across the Sabine River, from or
near to Fredonia, in the County of Rusk, and that they shall have the right
to make their landing on any point on the opposite bank of the said river in
Upshur County." J. H. Jones and Henry Miller assigned the right to operate
the public ferry to William Moore, who operated.the ferry known as Moore's
ferry until the County of Gregg, in May 1884, Book B, Page 193, Minutes of
the Commissioner's Court, contracted to build the public highway bridge
across the river near the ferry and adjoining the boundary line of the townsite
of Fredonia. The bridge was known as the "Fredonia Bridge". The town
of Fredonia was located about one-fourth of a mile in a Southerly direction
from the railway bridge across the Sabine River, which was built in 1874 by
the International & Great Northern Railroad Company, and was abandoned as an
uninhabited town when Longview, distant about five miles, was established in
1870.
The name "Fredonia", as given the town, was commonly understood as
adopted in the recognition to be accorded the Fredonian Declaration of Independence"
of December 21, 1826, which was signed by Haden Edwards, as a
member of the Committee of Independence. The Declaration of Independence
is copied in Volume 1, Pages 109,110, Gammels Laws of Texas.
DANVILLE
Danville was a community settlement, established as such about the year
1847, as tradition goes to fix the date, and located in the North part of
Rusk County which was afterwards included in the extension of the area of
Gregg County in April of the year 1874. There does not appear any record
proof of its being a platted townsite. There appears of record a deed to
two acres of land at "Old Danville" from Taylor Willey to Thomas Templeton,
M. Barbour, and Thomas M. Leach, wardens Masonic Lodge No. 101, recorded in
Volume "M", Page 512, Deed Records of Rusk County, Texas, of date May 31,
1856. A two. story building erected on the two-acre tract served as a
Masonic Hall, and in the lower story for the church and common school purposes.
A portion of the tract was used as a cemetery. A marker in the
cemetery records the interment as among the first early burials of "Reverend
John Becton, born July 9, 1806, died July 14, 1853." Other graves
appeared buried there after that date. Since that period of time additional
area has been added to the original cemetery tract.
An Act was passed by the Fifth Legislature of Texas, approved January
25, 1854, 4 Gammels Laws of Texas, Pages 27-29, incorporating the "New Danville
Masonic Female Academy," the Section 1 of the Act reading:
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