 The
settlement of Whitemound was formed with the arrival of Henry Lackey
and his family in 1849. The family included Henry Lackey, his
wife, nine children, inlaws and grandchildren and Mary Lackey, his
mother. Mary Lackey was 93 years old when she made the trip
from Missouri to Texas. It is believed that Mary Lackey was
the earliest born of all the white people who settled in Grayson
County. She lived to be 105 years old and her burial was the
first burial in the Whitemound Cemetery.
Joseph D. Lackey, a son of Henry Lackey, and his family had arrived in Texas in 1848 a few months prior to his father's trip. Joseph D. Lackey chose an appropriate location and named it Whitemound because of the two conical hills, or mounds, that had a particularly whitish color. The main part of the Lackey family arrived with several ox wagons and a number of slaves. The Lackey families constituted a sufficient population of the new community site and were soon joined by others. There businesses houses such as blacksmith shops, general merchandise stores, drugs stores and saloons. Alfred S. Lackey made a list of the boys he had known in the community before the Civil War in 1922. It included: John and William Scott; George and Layne Francis; Bud and Nib Shaw; James and Buck Lackey, Caleb, Pryor and Tom Fitch; Siah and George Andrews; Billy Burks and Frank Carr. Some of the doctors who had a practice in Whitemound were: E. A. Arnold, Dave Simmons, John Simmons, S. Mitchell, Dr. Hoard, J. W. Ritchie, R. D. King, John J. Devine and I. N. Devine. Alfred S. Lackey operated a grist mill. Bosworth's Academy opened under the instruction of Professor Huey. A cotton gin was owned by Dave Simmons, T. S. Bruce and Ed. Welch. Churches were organized and built. The leading one was the Christian Church of which the Lackeys attended. The Cotton Belt built a line to Sherman in 1887, by-passing the Whitemound community by three quarters of a mile. The new town of Tom Bean grew up around the railroad. The population of Whitemound migrated to Tom Bean; all of the churches moved to Tom Bean; and the school eventually was discontinued. Today there is a thin population in the once thriving community. source: An Illustrated history of Grayson County, Texas, 1960, pg34 Whitemound History Towns Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |