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During the years following the Civil War, T. W. Pierce, who was
president of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad,
bought and sold many parcels of land from Fayetteville to Flatonia
and Schulenburg. Many of these transactions were conducted through
agents, as Pierce lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and the records
of their powers of attorney in the Fayette County deed records are
numerous. It was from this same T. W. Pierce that Henry and Augustine
Forres bought the property on which the Spacek House now stands.
The house is not mentioned as such in the deed records, so it is
uncertain whether the Forres built the structure or not. At any
rate, the elder Forres sold the property to relatives, Otto and
Laura Forres, probably brother and sister-in-law, two years later,
in May of 1883.4 The elder Forres' graves are in the Fayetteville
Cemetary and indicate that they were both born in Germany, Henry in
1843 and Augustine in 1849. Otto and Laura Schiller Forres' headstones
give the dates of their births as 1850 and 1858, respectively.5
The Spacek House was probably built as only half the present size and
the rest added later, as indicated by the fact that the ceiling joists
on one side of the house are two inches lower than the other side and
the floor boards are 12" wide on the north half and 8-10" wide on the
south.
Sometime in the 1920's, the saloon located next to the house on the
corner of the square burned down. The fire spread to the Spacek
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Deed Records of Fayette County, Vol. 19, p. 162.
5Fayetteville Cemetary