Historical Marker
Personville
Historical marker location:
FM 39, off FM 164, 10 mi. SE of Groesbeck, Groesbeck, Texas
( .5 mile N on FM 39 from Intersection of FM 39 and 164 10 miles SE of Groesbeck)
Marker installed: 1963
Behind this marker is town site of Personville, begun in 1854 by Benjamin D. Person, Sr. 1855 postmaster was Wm. Person.
Grayson Masonic Lodge 265, chartered 1861, demised 1889. Nelleva cut-off, built in 1906 was abandoned 1933. J. D. Hudson was first teacher in district school, 1908.
By 1915 had blacksmith shop, lumber yard, bank, hotel, 12 mercantiles, two drugstores, three doctors. Dr. G. H. Stephens was outstanding.
Fire razed town, October 1916. Rebuilt, it soon faded away. Post office was abolished 1952.