1887 - 1980 Loyal Wendell 1889 - 1982 Loyal Lee WINDLE signed the WWI Draft and gave his POB as Nobility (NOBILITY,
TEXAS). Nobility is on State Highway 78 sixteen miles southwest of Bonham in
extreme southwestern Fannin County. The area was settled about 1858 and was
originally called Gentry, after early settler William Gentry. When the
community secured a post office in 1881, another Gentry community already
existed in Texas, so the name Nobility was selected as synonymous. By the
early 1890s Nobility had a population of seventy-five, with four businesses,
including a cotton gin and a gristmill. It also had a school and two
churches. From 1936 through the mid-1960s it gave an estimated population of
eighty-three; it reported four businesses in 1936 but none by 1966. From the
late 1970s to 2000 the population of Nobility was estimated as twenty-one. 1940 Census Loyal, Lillian, Jr. and mother Laura Edna living in JPct #3 Grayson County, TX T624 4044 680 (2B) ED 91-40 1942 Loyal Lee signed the 1942 Old man Draft and spelling his Surname as WENDELL   Bethel Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
