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Rhea Mills
The Rhea's Mill post office was opened on January 27, 1876 with James C. Rhea as postmaster. The name was changed to Rhea Mills on March 10, 1892. It was discontinued May 31, 1907.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM FIELD MAN.
McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette, June 6, 1912
Our first transaction last Monday was at the home of Grandma Brock, three miles northwest from the city. She came from Kentucky nearly forty years ago with her husband, the late James Brock, who died in March 1908. Out of a family of nine children there were six girls and strange to say, the three boys are all dead. Five of the girls are married and one, Miss Jennie, lives with her mother. The land under tillage is worked by tenants and the pasture is filled with stock from which a neat revenue is derived during the summer. A good orchard, garden and poultry with the revenues of the farm enable them to live in ease and comfort. Grandma's eyes are failing but she had her daughter to read the Democrat-Gazette to her regularly. We thank Miss Jennie for cash on renewal.
J. T. Brock, the genial and jolly blacksmith at Rhea Mills, was on the anxious seat when we arrived and rather than have the steam roller come down the pike, flung a dollar into our jeans and got a receipt for the best weekly newspaper published in Collin county, the Democrat-Gazette.
J. C. Fletcher, farmer and merchant of Rhea Mills left Virginia over forty years ago and came to Texas in a wagon pulled by a team of mules and exactly nine weeks on the road. Married in 1878 Miss Cornelia Helm, daughter of Little Jake Helm. In 1872 bought flour out of the same building which he now owns and sells goods for $7.00 per hundred pounds. Five years of confinement after an outdoor life impaired his health, and placing his son, Molly, in the store he answered the slogan "back to the farm," regained his health after a couple of years, but prefers to remain where he can commune with Nature. For many years a reader of the Democrat-Gazette, he cannot do without it now. His father, G. R. Fletcher, who resided many years in Collin county is ninety-three years of age and lives in Pilot Point, Denton county.
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INTERESTING NEWS FROM FIELD MAN.
McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette, June 6, 1912
Our first transaction last Monday was at the home of Grandma Brock, three miles northwest from the city. She came from Kentucky nearly forty years ago with her husband, the late James Brock, who died in March 1908. Out of a family of nine children there were six girls and strange to say, the three boys are all dead. Five of the girls are married and one, Miss Jennie, lives with her mother. The land under tillage is worked by tenants and the pasture is filled with stock from which a neat revenue is derived during the summer. A good orchard, garden and poultry with the revenues of the farm enable them to live in ease and comfort. Grandma's eyes are failing but she had her daughter to read the Democrat-Gazette to her regularly. We thank Miss Jennie for cash on renewal.
J. T. Brock, the genial and jolly blacksmith at Rhea Mills, was on the anxious seat when we arrived and rather than have the steam roller come down the pike, flung a dollar into our jeans and got a receipt for the best weekly newspaper published in Collin county, the Democrat-Gazette.
J. C. Fletcher, farmer and merchant of Rhea Mills left Virginia over forty years ago and came to Texas in a wagon pulled by a team of mules and exactly nine weeks on the road. Married in 1878 Miss Cornelia Helm, daughter of Little Jake Helm. In 1872 bought flour out of the same building which he now owns and sells goods for $7.00 per hundred pounds. Five years of confinement after an outdoor life impaired his health, and placing his son, Molly, in the store he answered the slogan "back to the farm," regained his health after a couple of years, but prefers to remain where he can commune with Nature. For many years a reader of the Democrat-Gazette, he cannot do without it now. His father, G. R. Fletcher, who resided many years in Collin county is ninety-three years of age and lives in Pilot Point, Denton county.
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