From Fayette County, Her History and Her People by F. Lotto, 1902:
Muldoon is a railroad station on the Waco branch of the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad, midway between Flatonia and West Point. In its neighborhood are the large rock quarries of Hon A. B. Kerr, from which rock was shipped to Galveston for the construction of the jetties. The surrounding country is mostly postoak. The Buckner's Creek bottom in its neighborhood is very fertile. Muldoon is a postoffice and a voting precinct of the county. It consists of one general merchandise store, conducted by Kerr Bros., one saloon, one hotel, one blacksmith shop. In Dr. H. H. Mitchell, who has been a resident physician of Muldoon since 1891, the writer found a pleasant gentleman, a physician of fine standing among the people with whom he lives.
The Muldoon country was settled in the thirties. It was named after Rev. Father Miguel Muldoon, a resident Catholic priest of Mexico, to whom the Mexican government had granted four leagues of land in Fayette county. On one of these leagues the town of Muldoon is situated. It was built in 1886. The population of town and neighborhood is mostly American, with a sprinkling of Germans and Bohemians. Among the old settlers may be mentioned Alex. St. Clair, H. Leitenberg, Chas. Luck, Jesse Parker, W. P. Ivey, Jesse Blackwell, J. J. Sullivan, Herm. Loessin, Bennett Ray, J. M. Ray, H. Harkins.
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Photographs of mail carrier William Thomas Jones at work. |
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married January 12, 1892
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School house is to the right. |
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 Thomas Hubert Allison, Ivy Allison, and Margaret Ruth Allison, children of James Robert Allison and Etta Francis IvyContributed by Mandy Allen |
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Related Links
Burleson - McClure CemeteryBoehnke Cemetery
Henson Cemetery
Pitman Cemetery
The Murder of Constable Charles Hendrickson Null
Footprints of Fayette Article with photos of C. H. Null and Tom Burge
Testimony Given in the State of Texas v. Tom Burge
At Burge Family Web Site
"Few Questions Were Asked of a Stranger," True West, June 1980
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An article written by Joe and Terry Cole about cattle rustling and murder around Muldoon in the late 1800's. Lucretia Morales scanned the article, which appeared in True West magazineand gained permission from the publishers to post it at this site. Names mentioned in the article include Antley, Bennett, Birge [Burge], Buttrell, Byler, Chaplin, Cole, Crane, Dalton, Darby, Dunn, Emerson, English, Faison, Findley, Fleming, Gillam, Gray, Harrel, Hart, Ivy, Jerome, Kerr, Lietenberg, Loessin, Mitchell, Moore, Muldoon, Nite, Null, Primm, Quincy, Ragsdale, Ramsch, Ray, Richards, Robbins, Sanders, Smith, Stagner, Taylor, Tuttle, Wallace, Whitley, Williams, and Wilson.
