 A sorrell horse exchanged hands
as the first payment for land where the town of Sadler now stands.
The first settler was A. J. Cross who came to Sadler in 1869
with his wife and six daughters. He built a log cabin on a
site near where the Sadler Methodist church now stands. Other
early settlers included Dr. Huff, Zeke Kinslow, John Hall, Captain
Hodges, Jim Beach and Clay Hall.
J. J. Sadler came to the area in 1887. Mr. Sadler donated land for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in 1890 and established the first store and postoffice. He named the place Talley. The town grew and soon a Methodist Church called Salem and a Baptist church called Jerusalem were built. A Christian church was erected in 1897. The oldest house in Sadler was built by Joe Cariker in 1892. When the first grocer store was established in Talley, the name was changed to Sadler in order to get a post office. In Sadler, at one time, there were three grocery stores, a postoffice, a barber shop, cafe, boarding house, hardware store, lumber yard, implement store, a bank, three gins, two dry goods stores, three cotton buyers, a public weigher, two doctors, two drug stores and a blacksmith shop. A frame school building was built before 1914 and another built in 1915. The Sadler schools consolidated with Southmayd with the high school located in Sadler and the elementary school located in Southmayd. A History of Grayson County Texas by Grayson County Frontier Village, c1979, p80-81  Sadler History Towns Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |