OAK GROVE, TEXAS

Jones County, Texas Panhandle / West Texas

5 miles SE of Anson the county seat
Population: Unknown

TX - Jones County, Oak Grove School Class 1903

Oak Grove School, Class 1903
Photo courtesy Nancy Dixon Bailey

Oak Grove, Jones County, Texas Forum:

Subject: Oak Grove, Jones County

"My brother and I grew up in a rural area of Jones County that is known as Oak Grove. The problem is as we grow older few people even around this area know that Oak Grove was a community with a school and church, now gone.

Could someone share their memories of Oak Grove in pioneer Jones County? I would really appreciate any memories .......... pictures, etc. Thank you." - Nancy Dixon Bailey, August 10, 2014

Subject: Oak Grove School in Jones County

To assist in confirming the existence of "Oak Grove community and school", I can affirm that my family moved to the community in 1939 and I attended grades 1-5 at the Oak Grove school.

The Oak Grove school was closed and consolidated with the Anson Independent School District at the close of the school year in 1945. - Charles Eugene Steel , August 30, 2020

Oak Grove District No. 7

"... Its area is a little more than seven square miles. This building is located six miles southeast of Anson.

Oak Grove, five miles Southeast of Anson is one of the oldest schools in the county. It was founded by Mr. W. H. Abbott in the year eighteen hundred and ninety eight. Before this time Mr. Abbott was in the Phantom Hill district and was twenty miles from the schoolhouse. Rather than transfer to Antelope, the nearest school, he decide to organize a new district....."

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Photo courtesy Nancy Dixon Bailey

Oak Grove School
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Photo courtesy Nancy Dixon Bailey

Editor:
Although there are / were communities by this name in Bowie, Colorado, Ellis, Freestone, Grayson. Hopkins, Navarro, Tarrant, Titus, and Wood Counties, we have received the above request for information on the Qak Grove in Jones County.

The Jones County Oak Grove does not appear on the maps we use and the Handbook of Texas doesn’t have a listing either. Anyone with information, photos or memories of Oak Grove, Texas in Jones County, please write to history@texasescapes.com

1882 map showing Jones County with Truby & Phantom Hill
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

Jones County 1907 postal map showing Anson and Stamford
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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Texas Panhandle | West Texas

Oak Grove, Texas Nearby Towns:
Anson the county seat
Stamford

See Jones County

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