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HISTORY OF DENTON COUNTY 351
Hickory Creek, six miles south of Denton. A. P. Lloyd was
county clerk and S. A. Venters, county judge, and C. A. Williams
was deputy assessor and collector.
"There was no grist mill in Denton County at that time.
There were some mills of the tread-wheel variety in Grayson,
Collin, and Dallas counties. We made occasional visits to them
in wagons, and often remained several days before our turn
could be reached. The sacks were all numbered and ground ac-
cording to numbers if you remained and insisted on your rights.
To wait our turn then was the common lot of us all and it was
nearly always a wait and sometimes for days as we had to have
meal.
"I knew of no church building in the county at that time.
There was occasionally preaching in private houses, and under
brush arbors. I once heard Uncle John Lovejoy say that the
first sermon preached in Denton County was to some rangers in
a camp on Long Prairie in the southern part of the county by
John B. Denton. Uncle John was present and was a member of
Denton's company. This was before there were any settlers in
the county.
"There was a campmeeting held in 1854 at the John House
Spring about one and one-fourth miles east of the town of Little
Elm. Rev. W. E. Bates, Rev. Jerry Horn, and Rev. John Moore
were in charge of the preaching.
"In the year 1857 the town of Denton was put upon the
map and Rev. William E. Bates organized a Methodist church
there. The people met in private houses as they had no church
houses then.
"There was a Methodist church built at Zion in the east
part of the county in 1858.
"The Peters Colony troubles had been in the main settled
before I came. Mr. Oliver Hedgecoke was in charge of the office.
At Office Branch, sometimes called Stewartsville, he had a con-
siderable number of surveyors, William Twitty and Archie White
and others, and also a settlers' store. This was probably two
miles west of the present town of Hebron, and just west of the
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Bates, Ed. F. History and Reminiscences of Denton County, book, 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61103/m1/371/?q=lovejoy: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .