Honey Grove, Texas
Honey Grove, TexasPublished in the Honey Grove Signal-Citizen about 1938
Written by H. P. Allen, assisted by W. J.
Erwin
Between 1855 and 1860 quite a number of families came from Georgia and settled near Honey Grove. Mr. James Williamson, deceased, was the first one we remember. He bought a farm about two and one-half miles northwest of town and soon built a mill on it. One of his daughters, Mrs. Bell Parrish, owns the farm at this time.
At a time later three brothers, Henderson, Perry and Ben Trout, came, and all acquired farms one and a half to two miles of town. Mr. Henderson Trout's family consisted of three daughters and one son, Tom Trout, who grew to manhood near Honey Grove, married a daughter of Thomas Craddock, and became the father of the Trout brothers who are in the grocery business in Honey Grove at this time. He also reared other children and acquired a large amount of good farm land. At present he lives in Dallas and is 89 years of age.
Perry Trout bought a farm about two and a half miles northwest of town where he resided the balance of his life. He reared a good sized family. a peace-loving, good man and lived to a good old age, and if my memory is correct, lost his oldest son in the Confederate Army.
Ben Trout, the younger brother, also acquired a farm near town; was also a good, honest man.
The late John Raiden was a Georgian. Came to Texas when he was a young man, and settled about four miles south of Honey Grove. He later married the daughter of John Martin, who was a Tennessean, but came to Texas before the Civil War. Mr. Raiden was a successful farmer, and a man of more intelligence than the average citizen. He represented Fannin county in the legislature at one time, reared a large family and acquired a large amount of good farm land.
There were other families from Georgia who came, some before the war and some afterward. As a class they all made good, useful citizens.
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