On Sunday, October 6, 1878, elders A.W. Elledge, O.W. Hughart, and D. Shipman began this fellowship with 17 charter members. Elder Elledge gets served as the first pastor, conducting services on one Saturday and Sunday of each month. Soon after . . . — — Map (db m248528) HM
Francis T. Duffau was among the early settlers who arrived in the late 1950s to farm in this community. The Duffau Post Office was authorized in 1860. Duffau became a thriving trade center but later declined after suffering several disastrous fires . . . — — Map (db m248533) HM
This schoolhouse was built by architect-contractor George Coleman of Stephenville in 1936 with the $4,700 insurance settlement received after an earlier school building burned. The simple one-story structure, built of brick veneer over frame . . . — — Map (db m248530) HM
A minister in the Primitive Baptist Church, the Rev. Henry Hurley came to Texas in 1844. His years in the state were spent organizing frontier churches and helping pioneers settle in new communities. He established churches in Hunt, Fannin and . . . — — Map (db m248536) HM
