| History: | Research by Kevin Ladd of Liberty County reveals that a W. F. Daniels Company operated a sawmill in 1914 at Felicia, just east of Devers. The information, based upon a Liberty Vindicator article of 24 April 1914 noted that the sawmill plant included a commissary and a tram road into the Big Thicket. This is the W. F. Daniel Lumber Company sawmilling previously in Nacogdoches and Hardin counties. Family lore had it that W. F. Daniel sawmilled at Nome, several miles east of Felicia, on the Texas & New Orleans. The company was still running the sawmill two miles of Kountze, Hardin County, at this time. owned a sawmill two miles west of Kountze, in neighboring Hardin County, during this time period.
Mr. Ladd's notes includes the following: “see also interview notes, Liberty County Historical Commission, W. D. “Dode” Partelow 4/11/1972.” |