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Cottonwood
Baptist Church near Gray's Prairie
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, January 2006 |
History in a Pecan
Shell
Named for a family of settlers named Gray, who arrived in the
late 1850s, the community had been settled some years before near Peede. The family
patriarch, Nicholas H. Gray had received a 640 acre land grant.
Always
a small town of farmers, there were less than 100 people living there in 1900.
It dropped to only 20 during the Great Depression. It rebounded somewhat to 75
citizens in the 1960s and has since increased to just over 300 in 1990. |
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