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YOWELL, TEXAS

Delta County, North Central Texas / East Texas

33.345, -95.86

On the Delta / Hunt County Line
FM 904 aka “County Line Road” and FM 2068
5 Miles W of Klondike
7 Miles NE of Commerce
21 Miles NE of Greenville - Hunt County seat
W of Cooper - Delta county seat
Population: 15 (2000, 1990)

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Yowell, TX, Hunt / Delta County,  1954 postmark info
Yowell, TX, Hunt / Delta County,  1954 postmark
Cover canceled with Yowell 1954 postmark
Courtesy The John J. Germann Collection

A note on the location from John J. Germann:
“Yowell is usually identified with Hunt County. [The post office] was born there and died there, and it spent more time there. The postmaster in Delta County in 1923 was the same as the postmaster previously in Hunt County, and he stayed postmaster until 1934; most likely he moved across the county line. After several additional postmasters in Delta County, a new one was appointed in 1943. That was the same year that it moved back to Hunt County.”

History in a Pecan Shell

In the 1880s, one J.W. Yowell opened a store alongside the road leading from Pecan Gap to Commerce. Evidently the community that grew alongside the store adopted the name.

In 1900 the Yowell Methodist Episcopal Church South was established. Although the community was comprised of only fifteen people in 1915, it had the rudimental businesses, including a drugstore and a school.

The post office wasn’t opened until the 1920s and by the middle of that decade, Yowell’s population had risen to a respectable 150 residents.

By 1940 rhe population had declined to seventy. Three businesses were in operation and Yowell had two churches. After the war the two businesses closed. Schoolchildren attended classes in Cooper by 1970 and for the 1990 census the population was a mere fifteen people. That figure was used again in 2000.



Historical Marker: FM 1528 and 2068, about 8 miles SW of Cooper

Old Union Cemetery

(0.75 mi. S)
This graveyard served the farm and ranch communities of Gough, Yowell, and Antioch. The earliest recorded burial is that of W. H. Henderson in 1859. The cemetery contains more than 90 marked graves mostly arranged in family plots. Buried here are many of the area's earliest settlers and their descendants and at least three veterans of the Civil War: T. J. Hollon, Hiram G. Wynn, and T. J. Craig. The last recorded burial was that of Georgia Missouri Hollon in 1946. A cemetery association was established in 1947 to maintain and improve the grounds.
1994

TX 1920s Delta County map
Delta County 1920s map showing Yowell on Hunt/Delta County line
Courtesy Texas General Land Office

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Yowell, Texas Nearby Towns:
Greenville - Hunt County seat
Cooper - Delta county seat

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