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Wadeville Community Navarro County, Texas |
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Wadeville, near Farm Road 309 three miles south of Kerens in southeastern
Navarro County, was among the earliest settlements in the county. Around
1848, J. T. Parsons established a store on the south bank of Rush Creek, and a
small community known as Parsons' Trading Post grew up. David Sherrill
built a gin there around 1856, and a post office was established in the store in
1861. After Parsons died in 1871 the post office was moved to a general
store run by Mack Wade, and the community was renamed Wadeville. At its height
around 1880, Wadeville had a school, gin, a drug store, a Masonic lodge, a
Presbyterian church, and a cotton gin.. The population in 1880 was 152.
When the St. Louis and Southwestern Railway was constructed through the area in
1881, it bypassed the town. The merchants and most of the residents moved
to the newly established town of Kerens on the railroad, and within a short time
Wadeville was a ghost town. In the early 1900s no trace of the former
community remained. Note:
- Early settlers there included the Wades, Sherrills, Smiths, and Daniels. The
"Jimmerson" cemetery, located here, was the burial
place for many early settlers of the area. Unfortunately, it is now overgrown in
weeds and brambles.
- Wadeville is also known as Jameson, Jimmerson, Owen, and White
Chapel. ...Bill Young
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Edward L. Williams & Barbara
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