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Come search through our many resources – photographs, family history files, books (including the History of Freestone County Volume I and II, which are available for purchase), County Confederate pension records, a large newspaper microfilm collection (from Fairfield, Teague, and Wortham) and many school yearbooks some dating back to the 1940s!
The Fairfield Recorder donated their yearly newspaper volumes dating back to 1926 to the museum in September 2017. We also have several years of bound volumes of the Freestone County Times on loan from the Fairfield Library.
If you are doing Freestone County genealogical research and would like some help please give the museum a call to find a time to meet with our museum genealogist. It's always best to schedule an appointment in advance.
TELEPHONE: 903-389-3738
HELPFUL LINKS:
Freestone Co. Historic Newspapers Online
Freestone Co. Archives - TX GEN WEB
Fairfield Library Yearbook Collection
The Fairfield Chamber of Commerce
1880 Freestone County Mortality Schedule
Texas General Land Office Land Grant Search
Chronicling America Historic Newspaper Collection
National Parks Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Database
THE YEAR OF 1890 IN FREESTONE COUNTY
by Nancy Rula
This book will help fill in the gaps for the missing 1890 census and contains documentation such as tax and school records for the year of 1890 in Freestone County, along with newspaper articles. Also Masonic annual proceedings from all Freestone County communities for the entire decade of the 1890s have been included.
$75 + $10 S & H
FREESTONE PAST & PRESENT
BY J.R. "SONNY" SESSIONS, JR.
Complete works of Sessions' historical newspaper column, 456 pg. hardbound volume complete with illustrations and index; seven + years of weekly articles.
$75 + $10 S & H
FREESTONE CO. MUSEUM CELEBRATES 50 YEARS & BEYOND
by Linda Mullen - contains a detailed history of the founding years of the museum, current history, history of the buildings located on the grounds and their families, and also lists several of the more unique items on display.
$15.00 + $10 S & H
THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER OBITS BOOK 2
by Nancy Rula - contains Freestone County area obituaries from June through December of 1902 (which were previously missing) and March 1906 through December 1910
$25.00 + S & H
"THE BOLL WEEVIL" STORIES CONCERNING THE TRINITY & BRAZOS RAILWAY - Railroads, Employees, and Families from the Teague Chronicle 1906-1915 transcribed by N. Rula.
$25.00 + S & H
FAIRFIELD RECORDER 1900-1905 OBIT BOOK I by Nancy Rula - has been accepted at the Daughters of the American Revolution Nation Library in Washington D.C. This is a true honor for only books that are well researched and documented are accepted!
$20.00 + S & H