SOURCE #171

• Short Title	SOURCE #171
  Source ID	S364

  
  

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  Samuel Augustus Erwin has large gravestone marker in Honey Grove, TX, stating that: " Virginia-born Samuel Erwin was married in 1819 inTennessee to Sally Rodgers Crisp (1795-1860), in a ceremony perfo rmedby locall magistrate David Crockett. First settler in the HoneyGrove area, Erwin arrived here in 1837 and surveyed land grants forother pioneers. A surveyor by profession, he platted the townsit e forhis frient B.S.Wolcott in 1848. He was the town's first postmasterand one of Fannin County's earliest Justices of the Peace." Crockett Park Monument, same area, indicates that Honey Grove wasnamed by Crockett, but he died before it could become a town. Oldfriend, Sam Erwin, continued on and became the founder. Monument read sin part, that Crockett traveled by riverboat, horseback and on foot, entering Texas along the Red River, camping at a site half a milenortheast of this park, he found wild bees and honey in hollowtre es...and called the campsite a " Honey Grove." it is said that hetold his friends he would settle here later, but in a few weeks hedied in cause of freedom. at the Alamo. One of Crockett's old friends, Tennessee Surveyor Samuel A.Erwin..became the first settle here (1839( and first postmaster(1846)..Benjamin S. Wolcott, arriving in 1846, added land of his ownto his wif e's legacy from James Gilmer. With Erwin as co-founder, heplatted the town of Honey Grove on the Gilmer Grant..."